Education and Group Visits

Key Stage 1

Borrow our Loan Boxes :

Use our handling collections in the comfort of your own classroom.
Create  your own museum or improve your role-play area:

• Explore Victorians Rich and Poor
• Traditional Toys

Available @ £30 per week.

Invite our Learning Team to visit you:

Let us introduce lives long ago with a costumed presentation including topics of your choice:

• Health and Wellbeing
• Food and Cooking
• Clothes
• Traditional Toys

Available @ £20 per hour

Visit the Workhouse for a living history experience:

Be transported back 150 years to our Victorian home. Come in costume and bring a Victorian style packed lunch and choose a selection of ½ hour activities from:

• Self led or guided tour
• Polly’s kitchen - investigate Polly’s kitchen to find out how kitchens worked without electricity, plan a meal for the family and sample some tasty treats
• The Laundry - find out from the laundry maid how much hard work was involved in keeping clean: have a go at possing, mangling and ironing the clothes, beating the carpets and sweeping floors.
• Victorian school room – how different was the classroom long ago? The school mistress will show you around and teach you the ‘3 Rs’ the old fashioned way
• Rag-rugging – find out about Victorian thrift and recycling and bring home a square of rag rug
• Traditional Toys – what did poor children play with? What were toys made of before plastic and electricity? Have a tea party and play with our traditional toys
• Explore and Draw Rich and Poor – self led exploration of our collection of objects from the lives of Victorian children.

For a whole day of guided activities, the price is £7 per pupil (teachers and other adult supervisors free). The price for half a day is £4. Pre-visits from teachers (strongly advised) are free of charge.

Please download our KS1 Visit Pack from this page for further details and give Sue Mackay or Wendy Hunwick-Brown a ring to discuss your needs and book on 01765 690799.