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Education accolade for Culzean Castle and Country Park
02/03/2010
Staff at the National Trust for Scotland’s Culzean Castle and Country Park have just received a prestigious award in recognition of 25 years of successful education work.
Staff at the National Trust for Scotland’s Culzean Castle and Country Park have just received a prestigious award in recognition of 25 years of successful education work.
The team found out in July 2009 that they would receive the Sandford Award for Heritage Education for a sixth time.
Culzean Ranger Katie Walker from Prince Edward at a recent ceremony in Windsor Castle.
Culzean won its first award in 1984 and has consistently been deemed deserving of an award every five years since. Judges look at all aspects of educational visits from pre-booking information and administration to facilities, from educational content and curricular relevance to development of new programmes, and, of course, quality of delivery on site.
In the last five years the Culzean education staff have introduced new programmes on Victorian life (“Schoolroom to Scullery”), World War II, pollution indicators, conservation for biodiversity, growing plants, heritage conservation and have also revised the existing programmes in light of the new Curriculum for Excellence.
Culzean’s Property Manager Paul Pomfret said:
“To achieve one Sandford Award is cause for celebration in itself, but to achieve 6 consecutive awards over 25 years shows the long term commitment we have placed on education as a property. These decades of success are a testament to the hard work and dedication of everyone involved.”
The team found out in July 2009 that they would receive the Sandford Award for Heritage Education for a sixth time.
Culzean Ranger Katie Walker from Prince Edward at a recent ceremony in Windsor Castle.
Culzean won its first award in 1984 and has consistently been deemed deserving of an award every five years since. Judges look at all aspects of educational visits from pre-booking information and administration to facilities, from educational content and curricular relevance to development of new programmes, and, of course, quality of delivery on site.
In the last five years the Culzean education staff have introduced new programmes on Victorian life (“Schoolroom to Scullery”), World War II, pollution indicators, conservation for biodiversity, growing plants, heritage conservation and have also revised the existing programmes in light of the new Curriculum for Excellence.
Culzean’s Property Manager Paul Pomfret said:
“To achieve one Sandford Award is cause for celebration in itself, but to achieve 6 consecutive awards over 25 years shows the long term commitment we have placed on education as a property. These decades of success are a testament to the hard work and dedication of everyone involved.”
