With the printed resources (copies are available from
Scarborough Museums Trust) and the Artefact Investigation Suitcases all shipped
off (to Whitby Museum and Pannett Art Gallery, Scarborough Museums, Scarborough
Maritime Heritage Centre and Beck Isle Museum), I took the Remember Scarborough
Resources on tour in November. I visited Scalby School for their immersion day
and with Esther Graham of Scarborough Museums Trust led 4 sessions to over 120
Year 8s using photographic, newspaper, film, map and propaganda posters as
sources of evidence to determine what they could tell us about the bombardment
and how reliable they were. We had a great time and the students were really
engaged with plenty of questions for us to keep us on our toes.
I’ll be sad not to be making the trip up to Scarborough for
a while (although I nearly took off in the wind on the footbridge a few weeks ago!),
but Esther and I already thinking of ways we can work together in the future.
