I did my new museum outreach workshop "A Visit from Florence Nightingale" at a village school in mid Lincolnshire today. It went amazingly well for a first attempt, aided by a teacher who was really interested and a beautifully behaved year 2 class.
The premise is that Florence Nightingale has travelled through time to visit them. She talks about her childhood and her struggle to be allowed to train as a nurse. Then the children do a role-play of the hospital at Scutari, followed by questions and answers based of Florence's trunk of souvenirs.
I'm doing it another 3 times at 2 schools this week and then it's properly part of the museum syllabus of workshops and will stop being mine alone as I teach it to my colleagues. Let's hope it proves popular.
lizdavies
She looks just like you. Having survived the skirmish, will you also now retire to your bed for 30 years?