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 These lucky Hackney school students had the chance to go behind the scenes and work at some of London's top museums - places that are stuffed with stories about our heritage ...
Seven different museums and archives welcomed with open arms these Hackney students doing their work placements - as well as some who just felt like working as volunteers during their holidays.
Cardinal Pole students became Explorers to help the National Maritime Museum design a student-friendly website, while BSix 6th Form College students worked nearer to home at the Hackney Museum.
.jpg "Image") Lea Chaudat and Paradise Kenneally from Haggerston School got the chance to do their work placements in two places. They were at the Design Museum for one week, and spent another week at the Museum of London Docklands - inventing and performing a puppet show for the lucky under-5s visitors to the museum.
.jpg "Image") When Matilda Ibini, from Cardinal Pole School, went to work as a volunteer at the V & A Museum of Childhood in Bethnal Green in her half term holidays she found herself helping with an audio trail of the museum. So when visitors go to the museum in the future they can follow the trail that Matilda and her team invented, and it has just been launched at the museum ready for the summer.
And Matilda was such a star working with the MLA's Youth Programme during this year that she was awarded the very special Active Citizenship in Schools certificate.
All of this was down to MLA London, teachers and students from Hackney Schools - and the museums and archives of course. This is what the MLA said about it:
"Funded through MLA London’s Strategic Commissioning programme, young people from Hackney have created new resources, encouraged new audiences and brought new energy into seven museums and archives across the capital.
For the second year running, young people in the borough volunteered their own time during February Half Term Week to create new resources at the London Metropolitan Archives, Old Operating Theatre Museum and the V & A Museum of Childhood.
During the Spring and Summer Terms, students of the new Creative & Media Diploma based at Haggerston, Cardinal Pole and BSix 6th Form College had placements at the Hackney Museum, Design Museum, Museum of London Docklands and National Maritime Museum.
Audio and paper trails, films and information booklets, as well as a children’s show and a family event were all created by these talented young people."
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