This week, we have been looking at a multiskilled task again. This time it is a cooking activity. Cooking is a great way to strengthen mathematical skills, reading skills and comprehension skills, all whilst having fun and with a potentially tasty treat at the end! Allow the children to weigh the ingredients, read the recipe and mix the […]
This week, we have been looking at a crafty activity that again is nice and easy to do from home and engaging with an element of thrift and research to hit some skills also. The activity is making cardboard people and decorating them. To start off you need to pick a character or role from […]
This week, we have been looking at a role play style activity that’s easy to execute at home and very beneficial. To start off with pick an event from history or a story perhaps (we shall provide some examples below). Then dependent on age (parentally guided for younger years and self-research for older children) research […]
CREATIVE COLLABORATION IN CARDIFF We’re thrilled to report back on a consultation meeting that took place at Firing Line Museum at Cardiff Castle.The Salt of the Sarkar project shared their plans for 2019 and beyond with an enthusiastic group from South Wales. They represented a wide sweep of cultural organisations, venues, projects, communities, schools and those with a serious interest in the […]
On Friday 8th June 2018, the Firing Line Museum was delighted to host Dr Nadine Muller from Liverpool John Moore’s University. Nadine is the Project Manager and Researcher on the ‘War Widows’ Stories’ project. In collaboration with The War Widows Association, the event took place to remember War’s Forgotten Women, taking the form of an In-Conversation […]
Ahead of International Women’s Day, Firing Line Museum Assistant Hannah Searle is our guest blogger and tells us why she thinks International Women’s Day is so important. “With 2018 being a hundred years since some women first gained the vote in the UK, this International Women’s Day is a particularly good opportunity to remember the […]
Remembering Passchendaele and Pilckem Ridge Our new temporary exhibition looks back at the Battles of Paschendaele and Pilckem Ridge. Particularly ferocious for those soldiers participating, it is noted down in history for the sheer amount of casualties as a result of this fighting. During this battle, the Western Front experienced its heaviest rain for thirty years […]
Remembering Passchendaele and Pilckem Ridge Our new temporary exhibition looks back at the Battles of Paschendaele and Pilckem Ridge. Particularly ferocious for those soldiers participating, it is noted down in history for the sheer amount of casualties as a result of this fighting During this battle, the Western Front experienced its heaviest rain for thirty […]
I’m so excited to write this blog to announce that this week we finally have installed the art exhibition ‘Heroes’, which opens to the public Saturday 1st October 2016. The exhibition has been a year in the making and was a new opportunity for us to try out something new as part of our exhibitions […]
A mixed media exhibition by Patricia Mears I’m so excited to write this blog to announce that this week we finally have installed the art exhibition ‘Heroes’, which opens to the public Saturday 1st October 2016. The exhibition has been a year in the making and was a new opportunity for us to try out something […]