Kate Noble

Education Officer, The Fitzwilliam Museum


Kate works on the schools programme at The Fitzwilliam Museum. She leads a teacher training programme which encourages creative teaching and learning using objects and images and works with teachers and school groups to help them to make the most out of their visit to the museum.

Learning to Teach in the Museum

by and | 26.11.18

Find out about our cultural placement programme with the University of Cambridge Faculty of Education which gives trainee teachers the opportunity to spend a week finding out about creative and cross-curricular learning in museums and galleries. Each year, a group of trainee teachers from the Primary PGCE course at University of Cambridge Faculty of Education spend time at the National… Read full article

Creativity & Experimentation: Digital Making

by and | 19.10.18

The University of Cambridge Museums Digital Maker Residency ran between January and March 2018. In this blog post we give an overview of the project and consider what we found out about the creative potential of digital making in museums. The University of Cambridge Museums (UCM) Digital Maker Residency ran between January and March 2018. Over the course of the… Read full article

Reflecting on the findings of the UCM Nursery in Residence Project

by , , and | 25.07.18

After six months of reflection and writing about the University of Cambridge Museums Nursery in Residence, we are excited to be able to share the findings of our collaborative, practitioner-led research project. ‘Stand aside for a while and leave room for learning, observe what children do, and then, if you have understood it well, perhaps teaching will be different from… Read full article

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