Pre-School & Reception
Handling History Workshops
In these 60 minute long workshops students are encouraged to engage in their own active enquiry and will be inspired with real artefacts and specimens. We aim to fulfill National Curriculum objectives in all 'Handling History Workshops'.
Toys - a Change Through Time
The session leader will show children old and new toys to illustrate how they have evolved through new materials and initiatives. All children will get the chance to demonstrate a toy to the group.
Recommended for:
Pre-School & Reception - Toys topic & play
Victorian Washday
The session leader will demonstrate how the Victorians did their washing using real dolly tubs, equipment and carbolic soap. The children then split into three groups with artefacts to have a go at doing some Victorian style washing.
Recommended for:
Pre-School & Reception - Victorian child role play
Victorian Childhood
Session leader will tell the class about the lives of the rich and poor children in Victorian times using real artefacts(30 minutes). For the second part of the session half will be spent dressing up and writing like Victorian school children and then playing with Victorian childrens' toys.
Recommended for:
Pre-School & Reception - Victorian child role play
Science Enquiry Sessions
Mini Beast Mania
Children will learn in the session what makes a mini beast by handling real specimens from crabs and starfish to bugs and beasties. This session includes a real mini beast hunt outside and then children will come back and identify what they have found using identification sheets. The children will finish by drawing a picture of the mini beast they found.
Recommended for:
Pre-school and Reception - Mini-beast topic.
Dinosaurs & Fossils
Using real specimens from millions of years ago, children are taught about how a fossil is made and what we can learn about what life was like when dinosaurs walked the Earth. In the second half of this interactive workshop children will have the chance to hold real dinosaur bones and fossil and make observational drawings and rubbings to take away with them.
Recommended for:
Pre-school and Reception - Life processes
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- Education Service Feedback Form106kb
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