Special Schools and Museums Toolkit
This is a practical guide on how to create accessible and inclusive museum experiences for special schools and SEND families.
Categories: Accessibility, External resources
Resources for audience SEND
Engaging deaf and disabled young people with heritage
This toolkit from the History of Place project is a 'how to' for organisations wanting to engage deaf and disabled young people.
Categories: Accessibility, External resources
Audience: SEND, Young people
Takeover Day Case Study: Poole Museum
This case study explores how the museum’s Takeover Days with different groups of young people, including those with SEND, have evolved over a six-year period and how it has changed the way the organisation works with this audience.
Categories: Takeover Day Case Studies
Audience: SEND
Takeover Day Case Study: Shrewsbury Museum & Art Gallery
This museum worked with primary and secondary pupils with additional needs over several months in the lead up to Takeover Day.
Categories: Takeover Day Case Studies
Audience: Primary school, Secondary school, SEND
Takeover Day Case Study: Swansea Museum and Dylan Thomas Centre
These two museums worked collaboratively on a Takeover Day with a SEN school.
Categories: Takeover Day Case Studies
Audience: SEND
Takeover Day Case Study: National Slate Museum
This Takeover Day invited a group of Year 9s with a range of learning disabilities or emotional and behavioural difficulties to help with the Christmas Fayre.
Categories: Takeover Day Case Studies
Audience: Secondary school, SEND
Takeover Day Case Study: Dinefwr Park & Castle
This Carmarthenshire museum worked with pupils aged 16-19 from a local special educational needs school and set them a challenge to design and build a grotto for Santa.
Categories: Takeover Day Case Studies
Audience: Secondary school, SEND
Takeover Day Case Study: Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh
Looking to hold a Takeover Day outdoors? In Edinburgh, young people from primary and secondary schools, including people with learning disabilities, took on a variety of roles from park rangers to gardeners.
Categories: Takeover Day Case Studies
Audience: Primary school, Secondary school, SEND
All you need to know about Takeover Day
A brief overview of what Takeover Day is and how Kids in Museums can support you.
Categories: Takeover Day
Audience: Children, Primary school, Secondary school, SEND, Under 5s, Uniformed group, Young people
Step-by-step guide to Takeover Day
A month-by-month action plan to help you to plan Takeover Day in your organisation.
Categories: Takeover Day
Audience: Children, Primary school, Secondary school, SEND, Under 5s, Uniformed group, Young people