{"id":1596,"date":"2026-03-04T09:04:18","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T09:04:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.cardiff.ac.uk\/share-with-schools\/?p=1596"},"modified":"2026-03-04T09:04:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T09:04:18","slug":"my-share-with-schools-experience-volunteer-blog-post-lily-brown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sites.cardiff.ac.uk\/share-with-schools\/my-share-with-schools-experience-volunteer-blog-post-lily-brown\/","title":{"rendered":"My SHARE with Schools Experience: Volunteer Blog Post &#8211; Lily Brown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The\u00a0very best\u00a0thing about \u2018SHARE with Schools\u2019 is the wonder-filled faces of\u00a0the\u00a0young children with whom we\u00a0demonstrate\u00a0artefacts and ideas\u00a0of\u00a0the past.\u00a0Along with a group of like-minded, enthusiastic volunteers,\u00a0I spent two hours on a stand at Cardiff Science Festival displaying historical objects\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0ranging\u00a0from bones and coins\u00a0to a beer tap and hand axe! Our demographic was\u00a0young children,\u00a0who were able to engage with objects in a way which\u00a0broadened their understanding of topics currently being focused on in schools \u2013 like Roman Britain \u2013 and\u00a0gave them an insight into handling artefacts. Many were introduced to the concept of archaeology for the very first time!<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">This was my first ever \u2018SHARE with Schools\u2019 event.\u00a0I came away\u00a0all the more\u00a0inspired to immerse myself in the plethora of historical knowledge my studies at Cardiff University\u00a0make available.\u00a0Throughout the two hours, the \u2018SHARE with Schools\u2019 coordinators supported us in filling gaps in our knowledge and made us feel comfortable in taking a step back when\u00a0it was\u00a0needed.\u00a0As a result, I felt more confident in imparting my own knowledge and\u00a0pushed myself to be more vocal and engaging.\u00a0Undoubtedly,\u00a0the experience\u00a0benefitted\u00a0me as much as it did the young children attending Cardiff Science Festival; I look forward in anticipation to\u00a0our\u00a0next event!\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">&#x1f60a;<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The\u00a0very best\u00a0thing about \u2018SHARE with Schools\u2019 is the wonder-filled faces of\u00a0the\u00a0young children with whom we\u00a0demonstrate\u00a0artefacts and ideas\u00a0of\u00a0the past.\u00a0Along with a group of like-minded, enthusiastic volunteers,\u00a0I spent two hours on a [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":8591,"featured_media":1598,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,174,1,175,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","category-student-blog","category-uncategorized","category-volunteer-blog","category-volunteers"],"meta_box":{"featured_image":"","lead_text":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sites.cardiff.ac.uk\/share-with-schools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sites.cardiff.ac.uk\/share-with-schools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sites.cardiff.ac.uk\/share-with-schools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sites.cardiff.ac.uk\/share-with-schools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8591"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sites.cardiff.ac.uk\/share-with-schools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1596"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/sites.cardiff.ac.uk\/share-with-schools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1599,"href":"http:\/\/sites.cardiff.ac.uk\/share-with-schools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1596\/revisions\/1599"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sites.cardiff.ac.uk\/share-with-schools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sites.cardiff.ac.uk\/share-with-schools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sites.cardiff.ac.uk\/share-with-schools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sites.cardiff.ac.uk\/share-with-schools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}