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12-08-2010 | The Mair Dynasty
One sunny day in August, The Mair Education team expanded. Soon to be Communications student, eighteen year old Katy Mair, joined Sara at her York offices. Katy assumed the role of youth advisor, helping Sara with projects including Woolsthorpe Manor e-learning materials and the West Lancs LGBT youth project. Writing summaries aimed at younger audiences, creating content for the Clued up in Hull website and researching key issues in ‘tween’ relationships were challenging tasks which Katy attacked with typical Mair vigour, applying the modern youth’s lingo. Surprisingly, these tasks proved to be a light relief from getting to grips with the high-tech editing system of the Mair Education website. A case of role reversal we think, who said that youth were good with computers?!
Katy said:
“I’ve had such a good time working with Sara at Mair Education. There is never a dull moment here, every project is very interesting and unique, meaning the work differs from one day to the next. Sara is a woman of many talents, not only is she funny, hard working and great to be around, she also makes brilliant sandwiches!!!”
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09-07-2010 | Graphites Resources win award for education outreach provision
Sue Coulson, Education Manager for Graphite Resources was recently honoured for the contribution she has made to raising awareness of sustainability and environmental issues in local schools. Sue, who has recently worked closely with Sara to develop the learning programme at Graphite Resources’ Derwenthaugh EcoParc site won the award at the Gateshead Council 2010 Environmental Awards. Sue had this to say about working with Sara:
“Working with Sara has been a refreshing and enjoyable experience. Sara is totally driven and very professional, however you cannot help becoming her friend by the end of the project! Sara took me back to basics when mapping the National Curriculum and really helped me to understand how we can link education into what we are doing on our site here at Derwenthaugh Eco Parc. The programmes she has put together are not only fun to deliver but really help the children understand about the processes we use here. Sara really got to know our business and the good thing is she doesn’t just write the programmes she assists in the early stages to make sure they run smoothly. Sara also introduced us to the excellent Splinter Design who produced videos of our staff for our web site.”
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06-05-2010 | Naseby Battlefield Restricted Sight Project
Following the success of Mair Education’s collaboration with Naseby Battlefield Trust (www.naseby.com/) to create the Sound of Battle audio tour, Sara is once again working with the Trust to produce another audio guide. This time, for people with visual impairments.
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06-05-2010 | Go! TravelWise Primary Resources launch
Sara recently joined Rachael Boden, of Splinter Design, at the TravelWise Group/Merseytravel’s Sustaining the Journey to School event to launch the Go! schools resources. Have a look at the website here www.gotravelwise.com/.
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16-06-2009 | www.cluedupinhull.co.uk wins top Gold award at the national Local Government Association Awards
The Clued up in Hull website (www.cluedupinhull.co.uk) won the top honour in the 2009 digital media category, awarded for best enhancing the reputation of the local authority. Mair Education worked with Splinter Design and the children and young people of Hull to research, create the content and design the Clued Up in Hull website.
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04-12-2008 | Local pupils in the dock
As part of a feasibility study for Kirklees Culture & Leisure Services, Sara organised a visit for Year 7 pupils to Dewsbury Town Hall Old Court Room to capture their responses to this formidable and evocative Victorian venue.
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04-12-2008 | Mair Education and Splinter win Merseyside TravelWise contract
Following the production of digital resources for secondary schools Mair Education is working with Splinter Design to create primary resources for Merseytravel’s TravelWise partnership.
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04-12-2008 | Another award for the Naseby Battlefield Project
Naseby Battlefield Project (NBP) chairman Richard Putt recently collected the award in the ‘Work with Children and Young People’ class of the 2010 Northamptonshire Heritage Awards. The winning project was the creation of a series of audio downloads to allow battlefield visitors to become ‘ear-witnesses’ to the events of Saturday 14 June 1645, listening in to Fairfax and Cromwell discussing where to deploy the New Model Army, for example.
The ten tracks, entitled The Sound of Battle: Naseby 14 June 1645, are each individually crafted to be relevant to a specific battlefield location.The tracks were scripted, cast and performed by students of Abbeyfield Performing Arts Specialist School, working with the professional sound engineers of The Lodge Recording Studios in Northampton and the historians of the Naseby Battlefield Project.
The narrative sections were spoken by the famed actor, Robert Hardy who gave his services as a donation to the enterprise and worked with the students as a colleague to produce a product of originality and quality. The work as a whole was managed by Sara for The Museums, Libraries and Archives Council’s Renaissance East Midlands.
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09-11-2007 | Mair Education & Erskine assist Leicester Libraries Service to win £1.49 million lottery grant
Congratulations to Leicester City Council’s Libraries Service who have been awarded a £1.49 million Lottery grant to establish a brand new flagship library and community learning centre in the heart of the New Parks area!
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