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Sugar World helps teachers make learning fun
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Sugar World helps teachers make learning fun
“Strengthening the partnership between schools and Sugar World”. This was the main objective of the recent workshops organised by Sugar World on13th and 18th April. About 270 head teachers and deputy head teachers from primary schools throughout the island came for a whole day visit to the Sugar World.The ultimate aim : to attract even more pupils to the premises.
One of the main targets of Sugar World in Beau-Plan is the world of students. Each year, 20,000 pupils from the pre-primary to the secondary level, go and visit the museum and spend a pleasant time at Sugar World. But the latter wants to go even further in increasing the interest of the education sector in its activities. “Each year, we try and innovate to bring more students in. The aim is to awaken children to their national heritage and history and make them better informed adults in the future,” comments Caroline Martial, head of communication at Sugar World.
A visit of the domain was of course part of the whole day of activities. Special emphasis was laid on the pedagogical tools available at the museum. It also included the organisation of a more general workshop on the different tools and media that can be used by teachers to make a play-visit become educational.
Teachers also had the opportunity of using the pedagogical pamphlet – distributed to all pupils since 2006 – entitled “On the ways to sugar”. The pamphlet is actually intended to initiate pupils, through fun activities, to learn how to do research, how to observe and how to gradually become independent learners. “The response was really good, as teachers really appreciated being invited into our premises – the more so as we tried to provide them with key an, tools and respond to their questions and apprehensions,” says Caroline Martial.
The whole objective was obviously to attract more visitors to Sugar World but it may have been a way for teachers to reflect on making exchanges between pupils and teachers more regular to arouse a sense of questioning and reflection on the part of pupils and show them that they can learn and have fun at the same time.
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