About Us

The Forum was created in 2010 for schools that have a museum and/or archive or wish to start one. It is aimed at Individuals, whether professionals, teachers, school staff or volunteers who are responsible for the historical records of their school Realising that this is an area which requires specialist knowledge, the Forum attempts to seek practical Read More ...

Events

UPCOMING EVENTS & WORKSHOPS Cape Town Branch Meeting – Thursday 11th August 2016 The Cape Town Branch will be holding their next meeting in the 3rd Quarter, to be hosted by the Herschel Girls School. More details to follow. KZN Branch Workshop – 24th August 2016 Maritzburg Girls High (GHS) will be hosting the 3rd Quarter meeting of Read More ...

How do I join?

Membership to the forum is encouraged and welcomed amongst school archives and museums. It is a place to be amongst colleagues working in the same niche area of heritage – that of, restoring and making accessible school records and images. Kindly complete the membership form at the back of the below Flyer and return to Read More ...

KZN Cataloguing Workshop: August 2015

Posted onAugust 24, 2015August 25, 2015

National Archivist Judith Hawley from the Pietermaritzburg Archive Repository gave an informative, interactive talk about Cataloguing – who would have thought that sorting and deciding about the relevance of documents could evoke so much debate ? Delegates from 13 KZN member schools attended together with a guest from a Gauteng school . It would appear Read More …

Cape Town Information Session

Posted onAugust 24, 2015

On Friday 31st July 2015, Bishops College in Cape Town kindly hosted our next Information Session for the Western Cape Schools wishing to find out more. We had a good turnout, with some great discussion and interaction happening already. Once again, the wealth of expertise residing in this province sets it up to be a Read More …

Gauteng Information Session

Posted onJuly 27, 2015

On Wednesday 17th June 2015, we hosted a Information Session on the FSMA to a group of Gauteng based schools, as an exercise in extending the support framework to the Gauteng Province, as well as to put these schools in touch with one another. We were very kindly hosted by SAHETI School and the discussion Read More …

FSMA Meeting June 2015 Vicky Crookes, (Epworth Marketing) AlisonAscough (St Annes (FSMA Committee), Lynne Nielson (DGC Marketing)

FSMA KZN Workshop: Using your Heritage and Archive to market your school

Posted onJune 2, 2015June 13, 2015

The FSMA 2nd Term Workshop was held at Durban Girls College on Thursday 11th June 2015. Our speaker for the event was Ms Lynne Neilson – the Marketing Manager for DGC as well as an active member of ISMA – The Independant Schools Marketing Association. L-R: Vicky Crookes (Epworth Marketing) , Alison Ascough (St Anne’s Read More …

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