94 year 7 and 8 students from Arrowtown visited the Lakes District Museum & Gallery in term 1 to learn about the design and concept processes for setting up museum exhibitions.

We covered a lot of information - as I outlined to the students professional expectations for museum displays that would be applied to their own research projects based on Peace and Conflict.

Here are some of the key ideas I shared with students about creating effective museum exhibition displays:

• Make your displays image rich - use lots of pictures
• Use headings, bylines, and make your first and most important paragraph a larger size than the rest of your text
• Think of what colours, fonts, and other styles can contribute to the theme of the information you are displaying (e.g. red for poppies, white for the white crosses, or dark grey and blue colours to help create a sombre effect)
• Your information must be written in your own words and be simple, respectful, and informative
• Make the size of your text a large size, as most of your audience will be standing when they read it

Now it is term 2  - and the year 7 and 8 Arrowtown students have finished their research projects, and have put them on display in their school hall. The quality of the research and the presentation of the information was astounding. David the Museum Director, and I visited the exhibition to check out all of the fantastic work.

Well done Arrowtown School - we were both very impressed by the work you have put into these projects which have made them very worthy of exhibiting to your parents and the rest of the school!

What did you most enjoy about these projects? Researching? or Presenting the information?

Are you proud of the work you have achieved?

What are some interesting facts about WWI that you have learned during this process?

Answer my questions and comment about your research projects below.