city classes - leuven children visiting for two days the middle ages in a town with history
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City classes - LeuvenChildren visiting for two days the
middle ages in a town with history
Leuven / Louvain
• Medieval city• Capital of the former duchy of Brabant
Leuven / Louvain
2006: start of city classes
New concept of school visits :
• 2 days with the entiry classgroup
• In a city, not at sea or in the countryside
• With an historic theme: middle ages
• On # exceptionel locations in Leuven
• In cooperation with several heritage organisations
program
• A cyclus of 5 workshops:
1. to feast with style (costumes)
2. a city game (monuments)
3. listening to wispering paper (city archives)
4. the legend of ‘fiere Margriet’ (music)
5. medieval people in Museum M (art)
programA medieval dinner
(In cooperation with the students of the hotel school)
A night walk with torches
(sleeping in the youth hostel)
Some pictures
Some pictures
Some pictures
Some pictures
evaluation
• Very postive: each year over 10 classes
• Risk of the much ‘customers’
• Nice formula to generate visibility in schools
• stopped in 2011 (to much routine)
Movie impression
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SaJz36xfrtI