City classes - LeuvenChildren visiting for two days the

middle ages in a town with history

Leuven / Louvain

• Medieval city• Capital of the former duchy of Brabant

Leuven / Louvain

2006: start of city classes

New concept of school visits :

• 2 days with the entiry classgroup

• In a city, not at sea or in the countryside

• With an historic theme: middle ages

• On # exceptionel locations in Leuven

• In cooperation with several heritage organisations

program

• A cyclus of 5 workshops:

1. to feast with style (costumes)

2. a city game (monuments)

3. listening to wispering paper (city archives)

4. the legend of ‘fiere Margriet’ (music)

5. medieval people in Museum M (art)

programA medieval dinner

(In cooperation with the students of the hotel school)

A night walk with torches

(sleeping in the youth hostel)

Some pictures

Some pictures

Some pictures

Some pictures

evaluation

• Very postive: each year over 10 classes

• Risk of the much ‘customers’

• Nice formula to generate visibility in schools

• stopped in 2011 (to much routine)

Movie impression

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SaJz36xfrtI