BAILIFFGATE MUSEUM

Schools

About Your Visit

The Museum is an ideal place for a class visit and we have a range of resources and activities that can be used to support the teaching of many topics and curriculum areas.

Teachers’ Pack

We have a new teachers’ information pack which will tell you all you need to know about a visit to the Museum, including curriculum links, hazard identification and pre and post visit ideas.

Activity Sheets: Key Stage 1 and 2

Activity Sheets: Key Stage 3 and 4

Curriculum Links

We offer many different activities for schools, including history workshops, outreach visits, object handling sessions, town walks, art activities and loan boxes.

School visits to the Museum are free of charge and must be booked in advance.

There is a classroom area for school parties and resources currently include:

  • Activity sheets (Looking at the Past, Victorian Britain and Britain since 1930)
  • Loan boxes and handling collections
  • Victorian costume wardrobe
  • Victorian classroom
  • Alnwick Town Trail
  • An ‘Art Cart’ offering art and craft sessions for younger children linked to our temporary Exhibitions.

The Museum is particularly relevant to the study of History, Geography, Art and English.

We are always very happy to discuss your requirements with you, and visits can be tailored to your group’s needs.

Teachers’ preview visits to the Museum are free of charge and information sessions can be arranged either at the Museum or in school.

Workshops

We currently offer the following workshops for schools:

  • Toys through Time
  • The Home Front
  • The Border Reivers/Tudors
  • Victorian Life

These workshops last a full day and are free of charge. Each workshop involves object handling and drama activities and can accommodate a class of approximately 30 children. Workshops can take place either in the Museum or at school, and can be adapted to suit your needs.

Victorian schoolday activities are also available.
 
We also work with a local education specialist, Peter Brown of Cadenza, to offer drama and music workshops on a variety of historical themes including Victorians and World War Two. These workshops last a full day and there is a small cost per child.
 

Object Handling

Object handling sessions on a variety of topics can be arranged and take place either at school or as part of a Museum visit. These sessions are free of charge.

Current topics include:

  • Homes in the Past
  • The Home Front
  • Britain Since 1930
  • Toys through Time
  • Tudor Life
  • Washday
  • Victorians

Outreach

We offer most of our school activities as outreach sessions brought to your school. 
 
Loan Boxes
 
Loan boxes can be used to enhance the teaching of many subjects, including history, art and design, science and drama.

We have a range of loan boxes containing real and replica artefacts and documents which can be borrowed free of charge for up to two weeks. The boxes come with an activity pack giving ideas on the use of the objects.

Boxes currently available are:

  • Domestic Life
  • The War at Home
  • Women at War
  • A Wartime Childhood
  • Toys and Games
  • Washday
  • Post War Life
  • Victorian Schoolday
  • Tudor Lives
  • Upstairs/Downstairs
  • Childhood Memories
  • Glamour and Beauty
  • Toys through Time
  • Victorian Lives

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