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Stamps in Schools – a free BPMA sponsored outreach service
Hello, I’m Sally, the new Schools Learning Officer. It’s my job to develop our formal learning programme for students of all ages. I’m currently trialing workshops for Primary schools in London. You...
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A trainee teacher shares his experience of being on placement with us
Hello, I’m Tommy, a postgraduate student at London South Bank University where I’m training to be a primary school teacher. As part of this course, I recently spent a week on placement at the British...
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Marvellous Magic at Camden Family Fun Day
Coram’s Fields is once again playing host to the Camden Family Fun Day on Saturday 15 June. The theme is ‘Marvellous Magic’, but what magic do BPMA have up their sleeves…. Over the years people have...
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Stamps in Schools success
Yesterday, in an award ceremony held at the British Museum, our volunteer Stamps in Schools co-ordinator Erene Grieve became joint national winner of the Marsh Christian Trust “Volunteers for Museum...
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Mail Rail part of Our Bloomsbury
Here at the British Postal Museum and Archive, we’re always keen to engage our younger audiences with the story of the postal service – this is why we welcomed a group of local children to the archive...
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“Communicating Conflict” Bronze Arts Award project with Haverstock School,...
As its National Poetry day I thought it was the perfect time to tell you about our poetry inspired Bronze Arts Award school project. Earlier this year we were lucky enough to receive Partnership for...
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A Bloomsbury Tale
Since August we’ve been working with local communities as part of a project for the Bloomsbury Festival. Our recent work with children from the 1A Arts Centre has been filmed and will be part of A...
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Arts Award students perform their own First World War poems
Congratulations to our twenty five ‘Communicating Conflict’ Bronze Arts Award students from Haverstock School in Camden. Last week they all successfully achieved their Arts Award certificate. The...
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Post People from the Past with St Luke’s primary school
Last term we worked in partnership with St Luke’s Primary school in Islington and Big Wheel Theatre Company to deliver an exciting literacy focused project. Post People from the Past took a class of...
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Primary and secondary teachers needed for First World War focus group
First World War Teacher focus group. Thursday 19 June. 5.30-7pm. We’re looking for teachers to take part in a focus group to consult on the development of a new digital First World War learning...
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Students from the Worcester Polytechnic Institute Massachusetts visit the BPMA
We are a group of four students from Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) in Worcester, Massachusetts, USA. At the beginning of the summer, from May 12th to June 28th, we had the privilege of working...
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Pop-Up Author event with Elizabeth Garrett Anderson school
Yesterday we were delighted to host a Pop-Up Education Author Event. Pop Up Education connect authors with schools through inspirational educational programmes. We welcomed Cathy Brett, author and...
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COMING SOON: New FREE downloadable First World War learning resource
From next Friday (22 August) you will be able to download a FREE First World War learning resource from postalheritage.org.uk/fwwlearning. Here is a look at what is inside… In Last Post, war time...
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Teachers! Review our First World War learning resource to win free copies for...
We’re looking for Primary and Secondary teachers to review our new FREE First World War learning resource for Key Stages 1 – 3. In return for your time we’ll enter you into a prize draw to win copies...
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Behind the scenes at the Pop-Up Field Post Office
For the next two weeks we’re busy working with Big Wheel Theatre Company to deliver a First World War project for schools and visitors at the Coalbrookdale Museum of Iron. This week over 300 school...
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Censorship and Propaganda in the First World War
Here at the BPMA we welcome students of any age to explore our collections. In this post year 9 student Olivia talks about how our collections helped with her project on censorship in the First World...
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Paints and post boxes: engaging families through exhibitions
As we move into the final design stages for The Postal Museum and Mail Rail, a new family friendly attraction opening in central London in 2016, we’ve been asking ourselves the question, how do...
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Work experience: Abi at the Postal Museum
Hi, my name’s Abi, over the past week I have been doing work experience with the BPMA, gaining an insight, not only into the work of the organisation, but also the world of work in general. I have...
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BPMA objects displayed in student-curated Time Tunnel exhibition
We recently loaned The Langley Academy in Slough a selection of objects from our First World War handling collection for a special Time Tunnel exhibition. The Langley Academy is the UK’s first school...
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New FREE Learning Resource for Key Stages 1-3
It has been 175 years since the invention of the world’s first postage stamp – the Penny Black. Pop It In the Post is a new FREE downloadable learning package that reveals how this little piece of...
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