June 2009

What's your favourite place?

Engaging Places promotes buildings and spaces that can be used in teaching and learning. Send us details of your favourite place for students to visit - the best nominations will feature on the site and win an award.

Mathematics in a cathedral

A visit to a local cathedral convinces primary students that maths is everywhere – even in stained glass windows and gravestones.

Inspiring learners through sacred space

How can you use sacred spaces to inspire your pupils? Lat Blaylock, religious eduction advisor and editor of RE Today magazine, offers some suggestions.

Revealing Brighton

History teacher Kate Forbes has redeveloped the year 7 local history project at her Brighton school and turned it into a real investigation. Find out about similar projects through the Engaging Places network.

Theatres: dramatic places to learn

A visit to a local theatre can provide opportunities for creative learning across the curriculum. We reveal the clues theatres can provide about technology, history and social values.

New on Engaging Places

Teaching and learning

• Religion and place in Tower Hamlets
• Learning maths outside the classroom

Visits

• Visiting a sacred space
• Ideas to get out of school and down the street

Resources

• Resource box – reversible and irreversible changes in building materials, by Chiltern Open Air Museum
• How did they do that? Deconstruct buildings and furnish the masonic hall – online resource by Beamish Museum
• Shape up, by Salisbury Cathedral

List your resources and events

Get your organisation's resources and venue information listed for free on the Engaging Places website.