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| Description | Collection of correspondence and lecture notes relating to primary schools:
Correspondence and notes relating to a talk given by David and Mary Medd to students on the Certificate of Education course at the University of Sussex firstly on 14 May 1965 and then later on 8 Mar 1968
Lecture notes and correspondence regarding a meeting of the North West Building Consortium, Preston, 9 Apr 1968, at which David and Mary Medd spoke on 'The Planning of Primary Schools' and then David Medd later spoke on 'The Furnishing of Primary Schools' - also included is a programme for a one-day conference on 'The Architecture of Schools' held at Magee University College, Londonderry, 6 May 1967, and a newspaper cutting on 'Sir Percy Lord: Comprehensive Education in Lancashire'
Lecture notes and programme for a Cheshire Education Committee residential conference on 'The Needs of the Primary Child' held at Llandudno, 11-14 Nov 1968, at which David and Mary Medd (or Crowley as she was then) spoke on 'School design - The New Trends' - also included is a newspaper TES article copy on 'Chance of a Real Childhood'
Thank you letters for talks given by Mary and David Medd, from the Oxfordshire Education Committee dated 12 May 1969, and, Cheshire County Council Education Department regarding the Llandudno conference of 5-8 May 1969 (plus a programme for this conference at which David and Mary Medd (or Crowley as she was then) spoke on 'School design - The New Trends', and lecture notes) dated 13 May 1969
Lecture notes and programme for a 'Northumberland Teachers' Course' held in Ponteland, 17-20 Dec 1968, at which David and Mary Medd spoke on 'Buildings'
Correspondence, lecture notes and programme for a Shropshire Education Committee 'Junior Workshop' series which ran from Sep 1968-Jul 1969 and featured David and Mary Medd taking a Jan session on 'Developments in Primary School Buildings and Furniture'
Correspondence, lecture notes and programme for an Institute of Education course on 'Nurseries and the First School' held at Furzedown College, 9-16 Apr 1969, for which David and Mary Medd were lecturers
Lecture notes and newsletter (written by Len Marsh) for the Postgraduate Primary Department of Goldsmith's College, Nov 1969
Correspondence and notes regarding a visit to schools in Dundee, Nov 1969
Correspondence, notes and a programme outline for an 'Infant Education Course' held at Devizes, 13-16 Apr 1970
Correspondence, notes and programme details for a DES course in the 'Education of Young Children' held at Worcester College of Education, 2-11 Sep 1970, at which David and Mary Medd talked on 'School Design'
Correspondence and notes regarding a talk given by David Medd at the University of Cambridge School of Architecture, on 20 Oct 1970
Correspondence and notes regarding a talk given by David Medd at the Institute of Education on 5 Nov 1970, for students of the Diploma Course in Child Development
Invitation letter to Mary Medd, asking her to talk on recent DES building projects as part of a course in Eversley, Kent, 29-31 Jan 1971, (the letter is dated 22 Sep 1970)
Correspondence and notes regarding a course on 'Practical Implications for the Primary Teacher of Recent Developments in Educational Thought' run by the University of Durham and with which David and Mary Medd helped, Nov 1970
Letter from the Kirby Fields College of Education, Liverpool, to the Planning Department (DES) asking for Mary Medd to talk to students on the 'Infant Education' course, n.d.
Slide notes for a talk given by David and Mary Medd on 'Designing for New Ways of Teaching' at St John's, York, 27 Jan 1970 |