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Schools' services
History workshops
Outreach options
Science workshops
Secondary schools
Science interactives in the classroom
Underground sleepovers
Cost of workshops
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History workshops
| Local History Workshop for KS2 |
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 This workshop covers aspects of history and geography. Pupils discover how local history can be gathered from maps, photographs and interviews with local people as well as from buildings, books and museum collections. The session includes either a walk from the museum, along an ancient footpath over the neighbouring field, to St Levan Church or a model making activity in the museum depending on the weather. |
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| Brunel and the Great Eastern Steamship |
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| Who was Isambard Kingdom Brunel? What did he do? What were his links to Cornwall? How big was the Great Eastern? Who built her? What happened to her? What was she used for? Pupils can dress up in Victorian costume and investigate the roots of the Victorian Empire through this workshop. This workshop crosses science, geography, citizenship and history curricula. |
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| Old and New |
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| A Key Stage 1 workshop designed to develop history skills in younger children. They look at the way objects have changed through the ages - design, materials, uses and technology. They think about how and why we preserve and collect things. Pupils make a 'Treasure Box' of their own to take home so they can start their own small collection of interesting things. |
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| Tunnels and telegrams |
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Life in Porthcurno during WWII was greatly affected by the number of people coming into the area. Evacuees, telegraph operators, miners digging secret tunnels, military personnel and many other people all descended on this quiet corner of Cornwall.
Porthcurno was an important communications centre because cables could not be intercepted like radio signals so the cables which came ashore at Porthcurno carried some of the most important messages of the war.
This workshop explores these subjects through archive material, artefacts, activity sessions and a Museum trail. Activities include operating an air-raid siren, tasting a war-time recipe, typing names in code on an original wartime machine and going up the escape stairs onto the hilltop above the valley.
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| Electrifying Victorians |
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There was an explosion of scientific and technological development during the Victorian era. In early times there was no electricity available - even for the wealthiest families, but by the turn of the century the introduction of electrical inventions had affected the whole population through communication technology, medical instruments, domestic items, lighting etc.
This workshop looks at some of the inventors and inventions of the Victorian world with particular reference to local connections like Davy, Brunel and Marconi and covers many aspects of science in their historical context.
Pupils will think about how life changed as a result of electricity and how dependent we are on this form of power today and what life would be like without it.
Activities allow pupils to generate their own electricity with a replica Wimshurst machine, handle and draw Victorian artefacts and play with some fascinating gadgets which illustrate the basics of electricity.
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