Outreach options

Communications

How do we communicate? Do other living things communicate? What about machines? Why is communication important? Are some methods more efficient than others or better in certain circumstances? Could we survive without communication?
These questions and many others are asked as starting points for project work across the curriculum from English and literacy to maths and science.
An animated talk using lots of artefacts from the museum collection that invites the pupils to get involved in activities and discussions and which stimulates their imaginations.
Artefacts include bells, buzzers, flags, cannonballs and more!

Literacy

For this session a collection of interesting and unusual artefacts will be brought out for the children to handle and discuss. None of them will be recognisable, so to be able to describe them accurately pupils will have to develop their vocabulary and broaden their descriptive talents!
Pupils will be provided with writing frames, with space for sketches, and questions that encourage them to think about texture, colour, shape and materials. They are then invite to guess a possible use.
The session concludes with an explanation of each object drawing from the observational experiences of the pupils.
A popular and useful way to enliven your literacy curriculum.

Light Fantastic

This workshop is suitable for all ages and can be done in school or at the museum. It uses interactives, artefacts and images to investigate what light is, how it works, how we see things and some of the tricks that light can play. A fun workshop but also packed full of interesting facts and information that supports the science and DT curricula.

Electrifying Victorians

This workshop covers history and science in an exciting and fun way. It investigates how the use of electricity developed and impacted on the Victorian world. See 'History workshops' for more details.

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