Keystone Heritage

Lorna has been working within museums and learning for over fourteen years. She has a history degree and a Masters in Museum Studies with a focus on learning and community engagement. Lorna has worked with school groups of all ages and has seen first-hand the impact handling real objects and becoming history detectives has had on learning about the past. She has dedicated large amounts of her time to look for ways to reach harder to reach audiences including local families who do not think museums are for them. Lorna champions heritage and its uses and has worked with a number of well-being groups including Flintshire Mind, young carers, Arthritis Care and those with anxiety and depression. She is passionate about engaging everyone with their local heritage through real objects, and believes bringing history to life is the best way of learning and inspiring people whislt having a positive impact on improving well-being.

Sarah has always had a passion for history and archaeology even as a child and was always trying to dig up the garden in search of ancient treasures. With teacher parents who encouraged her to pursue a career in archaeology, she gained a degree in archaeology from Liverpool University in 2002 and promptly began digging up the North West of England. Over the next six years Sarah excavated and surveyed varying historic sites including prehistoric and Roman settlements as well as an 18th century dock underneath the Liverpool Echo Arena. Drawn by the wealth of history to North Wales, she began a two year post as Community Archaeologist of North East Wales, delivering and developing history workshops for schools and historic sites. With a breadth of experience in various periods of history and archaeology, Sarah took up the role of Assistant Curator at Greenfield Valley Museum where she helped redevelop the education offer in cooperation with the Volunteer Co-ordinator Lorna Kernahan, where they struck up a winning team of heritage educators.

The aim of this project is to work with Primary School children to raise aspirations of pupils when thinking about their career path and to show them the opportunities within the museum and heritage sector. The session aims to increase confidence in pupils and develop their speaking and listening, enquiry and observation skills.

This will be achieved by using hands on activities using real and replica objects to experience and learning about the roles of an archaeologist, education officer, event’s organiser and marketing manager and curator and researcher. Pupils will also have the opportunity to question two heritage professionals.

The aim of this project is to link in with schools to explore the history of North East Wales through hands on, engaging activities which focus on the North East Wales 100 objects exhibition. Pupils will develop historical and enquiry skills; asking questions, analysing and investigating sources.