School activities 2007
Conditions for tours
Special care must be taken with children at Fort Carré due to the special environment. For this reason, each group of children must not exceed seven. Tours cancelled if weather is wet. Most of the tours are out of doors.
Discovery workshops
Tuesday and Thursday 9.30 to 11.00
And 14.00 to 15.45
Friday 9.30 to 11.00
Students explore Fort Carré and learn about its functions and architecture, its history and special atmosphere. Courses include a visit to the site where students look at particular aspects according to the theme of the workshop.
The following themes may be used in Discovery Workshops:
Seeing and understanding Fort Carré
Advised levels : CP to CM2
In this course students better understand the role played by the Fort and its architecture, then use what they have learnedto make drawings of aspects which interest them.
Games at Fort Carré
Were soldiers at the Fort ever bored? Did they sometimes play games? Games played in ancient times followed by a workshop.
Writing about Fort Carré: using imagination and historic records
Advised levels : CE2 to CM2
Drawing on the history of the Fort, each student writes an essay and chooses the narrator: a soldier, governor, journalist or person of their choice.
Who lived in Fort Carré?
Advised levels : CP to CM2
Surveillance, defence, survival of sieges, what everyday life was like for soldiers in the garrison and how they lived. Students get an idea of this by observation of the Fort and using their imagination in this structure where the very stones are full of the memories of those who walked on them.
Drawing chosen areas may help ideas.
Coats of arms, historic and personal symbols
Advised levels : CE2 to CM2
After exploring the Fort, students work from records to learn about heraldic symbols, then make their own coat of arms.
Plants at Fort Carré
Advised levels : CP to CM2
In the period April and May
Students look at the wild flora in the park around the Fort, learn to identify plants and make a plant collection.
Around the museums
These inter-museum projects must be noted on the enrolment form.
Some themes may be further improved by looking at collections in different museums.
Military themes (a soldiers’s life, military strategy, uniforms) can be further studied at the Napoleonic Museum which has a large collection of weapons, many model armed soldiers and uniforms which would have been seen at Fort Carré.
Secondary and further education 2007
Conditions for tours
Special care must be taken with children at Fort Carré due to the special environment. For this reason, each group of children must not exceed seven. Tours cancelled if weather is wet. Most of the tours are out of doors.
Tour-workshops
Students explore Fort Carré and learn about its functions and architecture, its history and special atmosphere. Courses include a visit to the site where students look at particular aspects according to the theme of the workshop.
The following themes may be used in Tour-Workshops:
Seeing and understanding Fort Carré
Advised levels : CP to CM2
In this course students better understand the role played by the Fort and its architecture, then use what they have learnedto make drawings of aspects which interest them.
Writing about Fort Carré: using imagination and historic records
Drawing on the history of the Fort, each student writes an essay and chooses the narrator: a soldier, governor, journalist or person of their choice.
Who lived in Fort Carré?
Surveillance, defence, survival of sieges, what everyday life was like for soldiers in the garrison and how they lived. Students get an idea of this by observation of the Fort and using their imagination in this structure where the very stones are full of the memories of those who walked on them.
Drawing may help ideas. The tour could be combined with one of the Napoleonic Museum, with its large collection of armed model soldiers in uniform as they would have appeared at Fort Carré.
Guided tours with active participation
Detailed tours tell students of the role and structure of the Fort, as well as how people lived there. The architecture is studied on site with maps to better understand the special environment of the fort.
Projects
Very detailed projects can be planned in collaboration with teachers. Certain aspects of the tours can be developed and may be in conjunction with other venues in Antibes:
The Archaeology Museum, one of the defence bastionsof Antibes, where items from the ancient history of the town are on display. The Napoleonic Museum is also a military building which has many items that recall life at Fort Carré and its role as strategic defence point.
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