Derby Museums KS1/2 school sessions 2015/16

Bill Hindmarsh, Schools Programmer

“We work closely with our teachers to help meet National curriculum requirements and to provide an enriching and memorable experience for our children.”

Museum & Art Gallery

Adventures in the Stone Age

Museum & Art Gallery

Not just looking at art!

Pickford’s House

WW2: Children at war

Museum & Art Gallery

WW1: Bert and Agatha

Pickford’s House

Victorian voyage

Handling objects from the collection Getting close up to and studying the world’s largest collection of Joseph Wright’s paintings Costumed character Costumed characters based on real Derby people Costumed character The session is delivered by a real astrophysicist

Joseph Wright and the orrery Museum & Art Gallery Museum & Art Gallery

Vikings!

Museum & Art Gallery

Roman Derby

Museum & Art Gallery

Secrets of the mummies

Description

Key Stage 2

Pickford’s House

Houses and homes

Pickford’s House

Time travel toys

Description

Key Stage 1 Sessions

A Derby story A Derby story with a costumed character

✓

Costumed character Maths

English

Maths

English

Science

Geography

Design and Languages Technology

Art and Design

Geography

Design and Languages Technology

Art and Design

History

Music

PE

Features A Derby story with a costumed character Handling old and new objects

Science

History

Music

PE

Features

National curriculum

LEARN WITH DERBY MUSEUMS! BOOKING INFORMATION

LEARN WITH DERBY MUSEUMS!

TEACHERS We work closely with our teachers to help them meet national curriculum requirements and to provide an enriching and memorable experience for their students. If you would like to work with us at Derby Museums to help with planning and delivery of projects and themes, we’re more • than happy to talk, and we can often tailor our sessions to meet the needs of different age groups. You can speak to us via telephone and email – but we really like • to meet our teachers face-to-face!

Key Stages 1 and 2 school sessions 2015/16

SESSION COSTS

For more information on working with Derby Museums, please contact our Schools Programmer, Bill Hindmarsh on bill@derbymuseums.org / 01332 642236

1.5 hour session at £3.50 per pupil costs £87.50 for 25 pupils (minimum)/ £122.50 for 35 pupils (maximum).

2 hour session (includes Make & Take) at £4.50 per pupil costs £112.50 for 25 pupils (minimum)/ £157.50 for 35 pupils (maximum).

BOOKINGS AND GENERAL ENQUIRIES Bookings can be made via our Business Hub on 01332 641901.

Museum & Art Gallery The Strand Derby DE1 1BS www.derbymuseums.org

You can sign up to our schools email list to be sent regular news and offers on upcoming and new sessions, by contacting us on info@derbymuseums.org

“The trip was inspirational and absolutely amazing.

I also made my own shabti!”

Morton Primary School

HOUSES & HOMES PICKFORD’S HOUSE

KEY STAGE 1

WELCOME

TIME TRAVEL TOYS

Welcome to Learn with Derby Museums! We hope you find this planner and the information in it helpful for the coming school year.

PICKFORD’S HOUSE

Derby Museums offers a wealth of school sessions across our city centre sites, helping you to both cover your National curriculum needs and engage in memorable experiences with your pupils - in inspirational learning spaces!

We are also introducing fantastic new sessions that are mapped against the National curriculum, and ensuring that even more of Derby’s collections and heritage stories are revealed through our in-gallery activities. These include ‘Espionage and intrigue: the early years of The Silk Mill’ (KS2 History) and ‘Notice Nature Feel Joy’, with activities inspired by our new nature gallery at the Museum & Art Gallery.

Please visit our website: www.derbymuseums.org/schools

KEY STAGE 2

SECRETS OF THE MUMMIES

Sheet and learn how to use objects to find out information about a person’s life and status.

Children will write a postcard using Viking runes for their classmates to decipher.

You will be met by our costumed High Priestess, Aziza. Her Highness will lead you into the gallery to describe life in Ancient Egypt and share some fascinating stories about objects in the Museum. All pupils will have the opportunity to dress as ancient Egyptians. The class will be split into 2 groups. Half will discover the process of mummification using replica objects and a willing volunteer, whilst the others visit our Mummies and the Egyptian collection. The class will all participate to ensure the dead will live for eternity in the Egyptian afterlife!

OPTIONAL MAKE AND TAKE Each pupil will have the opportunity to make their own Hammer of Thor pendant to take away.

OPTIONAL MAKE AND TAKE Each pupil will have the opportunity to make their own clay shabti to take away.

“Pupils should be taught about…the Viking and Anglo-Saxon struggle for the Kingdom of England to the time of Edward the Confessor (including) Viking raids and invasion”.

MUSEUM & ART GALLERY

From the National curriculum Key Stage 2: History aims to ensure that pupils: “Know and understand significant aspects of the wider world: the nature of ancient civilisations: the expansion and dissolution of empires: characteristics of non-European societies; achievements and follies of mankind.

“Pupils should be taught about the achievements of the earliest civilisations”, (including Ancient Egypt).

ROMAN DERBY MUSEUM & ART GALLERY

The session begins with costumed guide, Senilis the Roman Potter, meeting the children. He shares tales about his life as a soldier in the fort of Derventio using the objects on display at the Museum to illustrate his story. Derby is well-known for its large Roman cemetery and pupils will take part in recreating the elaborate customs of a Roman funeral.

OPTIONAL MAKE AND TAKE Each pupil will have the opportunity to make their own replica Derbyshire-ware pot to take away From the National curriculum Key Stage 2: History aims to ensure that pupils: “Know and understand significant aspects of the wider world: the nature of ancient civilisations: the expansion and dissolution of empires; achievements and follies of mankind.

“At Key stage 2, pupils should be taught about:The Roman Empire and its impact on Britain. This could include…’Romanisation’ of Britain: sites such as Caerwent* and the impact of technology, culture and beliefs. (* in this case Derventio – the Roman name for Derby)

VIKINGS!

MUSEUM & ART GALLERY

The session begins with an exploration of the Viking settlement of Britain with particular reference to Derby. Pupils will examine a replica Viking burial, complete a Skeleton Recording

From the National curriculum Key Stage 2: History aims to ensure that all pupils: “Know and understand the history of these islands as a coherent, chronological narrative, from the earliest times to the present day: how people’s lives have shaped this nation and how has influenced and been influenced by the wider world.

VICTORIAN VOYAGE PICKFORD’S HOUSE

Your class will be welcomed to the house by a costumed Victorian lady or gentleman. They will then adopt the role of prospective applicants for a new servant post of the house and try on replica Victorian clothing. The class will be split into smaller groups to engage in washing day activities and will use our handling collection to investigate mysterious objects using our ‘Become a Museum Curator’ worksheet.

OPTIONAL MAKE AND TAKE Each pupil will have the opportunity to make a peg doll to take away.

From the National curriculum Key Stage 2: History “Pupils should continue to develop a chronologically secure knowledge and understanding of British, local and world history, establishing clear narratives within and across the periods they study*. They should note connections, contrasts and trends over time and develop the appropriate use of historical terms. (*Having previously been taught, “the lives of significant individuals in the past who have contributed to national and international achievements. Some should be used to compare aspects of life in different periods (for example Queen Victoria)” – Key stage 1).

WW1: BERT AND AGATHA MUSEUM & ART GALLERY

Inspired by actual postcards written by a soldier at the front to his family in Derby, this session explores the changing lives of both men and women during WW1, and the impact of the war upon the nation. Using Museum artefacts and objects, Bert, a soldier, and Agatha, a nurse, bring their stories to life. Pupils will have the opportunity to handle original and replica objects.

OPTIONAL MAKE AND TAKE Using postcards from our collection as

Pupils must ‘discover’ the Toy Chest. They will think about life before electricity and batteries and have the opportunity to play with a range of moving toys that do not need batteries to find out how they work. Pupils will identify what ‘forces’ are involved. A modern Toy Chest is also available containing a selection of modern equivalents. Pupils must match them up and try both versions, making comparisons and deciding which they like best and why.

OPTIONAL MAKE AND TAKE Your pupils will have the opportunity to make a traditional toy to take away.

inspiration, each pupil will have the opportunity to create their own postcard to take away.

From the National curriculum Key Stage 2: History “Pupils should continue to develop a chronologically secure knowledge and understanding of British, local and world history, establishing clear narratives within and across the periods they study. They should note connections, contrasts and trends over time and develop the appropriate use of historical terms.

“Pupils should be taught about a significant turning point in British history, for example the first railways or the Battle of Britain”.

CHILDREN AT WAR PICKFORD’S HOUSE

Your pupils will experience what it was like to shelter in the Pickford’s House cellar during a World War II air raid attack. Our costumed ARP Warden will train your pupils to deal with gas attacks and incendiary bombs. There will also be the chance to explore the causes and effects of rationing on people’s lives during WWII. After WWII, Britain would never be the same again!

OPTIONAL MAKE AND TAKE Your pupils will have the opportunity to make a model of an Anderson Shelter to take away.

Relevant to the National curriculum Key Stage 2: History “Pupils should continue to develop a chronologically secure knowledge and understanding of British, local and world history, establishing clear narratives within and across the periods they study. They should note connections, contrasts and trends over time and develop the appropriate use of historical terms.

“Pupils should be taught about a significant turning point in British history, for example the first railways or the Battle of Britain”.

JOSEPH WRIGHT AND THE ORRERY MUSEUM & ART GALLERY

This fun and interactive schools session uses Joseph Wright’s famous painting, ‘A philosopher giving a lecture on the orrery’, as a starting point to examine how an orrery – a mechanical representation of the solar system – explains to us the relative positions of the planets around the sun, and of the moons around the planets.

By creating a human orrery with the children themselves, they can then explore space, distance and gravity, and then investigate the phases of the moon. And other space mysteries!

OPTIONAL MAKE AND TAKE Each pupil will make their own tallurian – a mini version of the orrery representing the sun, the earth and the moon.

A member of the 18th Century Pickford family will welcome your pupils to the house encouraging them to notice and discuss the similarities and differences between this house and their own. The group will have a guided tour around the house. Upon visiting the upper floor, they will be tasked with matching dolls of master/mistress and servants to their appropriate rooms through Q&A sessions. They will then use the House’s handling collection to investigate mystery household objects using the ‘Become a Museum Curator’ worksheet.

OPTIONAL MAKE AND TAKE Each pupil will have the opportunity to make a clay house plaque to take away.

The National curriculum Key Stage 1: History aims to ensure that all pupils: “understand historical concepts such as continuity and change, cause and consequence, similarity, difference and significance, and use them to make connections, draw contrasts, analyse trends, (and) frame historically-valid questions”.

The session meets requirements of the National curriculum Key Stage 2: science – ‘Earth and space’, and has been developed by a real astrophysicist!!

NOT JUST LOOKING AT ART MUSEUM & ART GALLERY

Pupils will be introduced to alternative ways of experiencing art through activities which encourage active participation, such as ‘performing’ artworks as a human orchestra.

The activities, in the renowned Joseph Wright gallery, are designed to enrich pupils’ interpretations of the works on display and recognise that an encounter with art is a multi-sensory experience.

OPTIONAL MAKE AND TAKE Each pupil will have the opportunity to try their hand at portraiture.

From the National curriculum Key Stage 2: Art and Design Purpose of study “As pupils progress, they should be able to think critically and develop a more rigorous understanding of art and design.

“The National curriculum for art and design aims to ensure that all pupils: – Evaluate and analyse creative works using the language of art, craft and design – Know about great artists, craft makers and designers, and understand the historical and cultural development of their art forms”.

Pupils should be taught, “about great artists, architects and designers in history”.

ADVENTURES IN THE STONE AGE MUSEUM & ART GALLERY

What kind of world did we live in 40,000 years ago? How did we survive towards the end of an ice age, with technologies based upon stone, wood, antlers, bones and fire – and upon human ingenuity! This interactive and hands-on session examines the time frame of the Palaeolithic era and considers climate, geography and lifestyles – before history began!

OPTIONAL MAKE AND TAKE Each pupil will have the opportunity to create their own piece of prehistoric art.

This session supports pupils being taught about ‘changes in Britain from the Stone Age to the Iron Age’ (National curriculum Key Stage 2: History), by examining the timespans of prehistory (Palaeolithic and Neolithic) in relation to the historical periods studied in the curriculum.

Bill Hindmarsh, Schools Programmer

“We work closely with our teachers to help meet National curriculum requirements and to provide an enriching and memorable experience for our children.”

Museum & Art Gallery

Adventures in the Stone Age

Museum & Art Gallery

Not just looking at art!

Pickford’s House

WW2: Children at war

Museum & Art Gallery

WW1: Bert and Agatha

Pickford’s House

Victorian voyage

Handling objects from the collection Getting close up to and studying the world’s largest collection of Joseph Wright’s paintings Costumed character Costumed characters based on real Derby people Costumed character The session is delivered by a real astrophysicist

Joseph Wright and the orrery Museum & Art Gallery Museum & Art Gallery

Vikings!

Museum & Art Gallery

Roman Derby

Museum & Art Gallery

Secrets of the mummies

Description

Key Stage 2

Pickford’s House

Houses and homes

Pickford’s House

Time travel toys

Description

Key Stage 1 Sessions

A Derby story A Derby story with a costumed character

✓

Costumed character Maths

English

Maths

English

Science

Geography

Design and Languages Technology

Art and Design

Geography

Design and Languages Technology

Art and Design

History

Music

PE

Features A Derby story with a costumed character Handling old and new objects

Science

History

Music

PE

Features

National curriculum

LEARN WITH DERBY MUSEUMS! BOOKING INFORMATION

LEARN WITH DERBY MUSEUMS!

TEACHERS We work closely with our teachers to help them meet national curriculum requirements and to provide an enriching and memorable experience for their students. If you would like to work with us at Derby Museums to help with planning and delivery of projects and themes, we’re more • than happy to talk, and we can often tailor our sessions to meet the needs of different age groups. You can speak to us via telephone and email – but we really like • to meet our teachers face-to-face!

Key Stages 1 and 2 school sessions 2015/16

SESSION COSTS

For more information on working with Derby Museums, please contact our Schools Programmer, Bill Hindmarsh on bill@derbymuseums.org / 01332 642236

1.5 hour session at £3.50 per pupil costs £87.50 for 25 pupils (minimum)/ £122.50 for 35 pupils (maximum).

2 hour session (includes Make & Take) at £4.50 per pupil costs £112.50 for 25 pupils (minimum)/ £157.50 for 35 pupils (maximum).

BOOKINGS AND GENERAL ENQUIRIES Bookings can be made via our Business Hub on 01332 641901.

Museum & Art Gallery The Strand Derby DE1 1BS www.derbymuseums.org

You can sign up to our schools email list to be sent regular news and offers on upcoming and new sessions, by contacting us on info@derbymuseums.org

“The trip was inspirational and absolutely amazing.

I also made my own shabti!”

Morton Primary School

Bill Hindmarsh, Schools Programmer

“We work closely with our teachers to help meet National curriculum requirements and to provide an enriching and memorable experience for our children.”

Joseph Wright and the orrery Museum & Art Gallery

The session is delivered by a real astrophysicist

Victorian voyage

Pickford’s House

Costumed character

WW1: Bert and Agatha

Museum & Art Gallery

Costumed characters based on real Derby people

WW2: Children at war

Pickford’s House

Costumed character

Not just looking at art!

Museum & Art Gallery

Getting close up to and studying the world’s largest collection of Joseph Wright’s paintings

Adventures in the Stone Age

Museum & Art Gallery

Handling objects from the collection

Key Stage 1

Description

Time travel toys

Pickford’s House

Handling old and new objects

Houses and homes

Pickford’s House

A Derby story with a costumed character

Key Stage 2

Description

Secrets of the mummies

Museum & Art Gallery

Roman Derby

Museum & Art Gallery

Vikings!

Museum & Art Gallery

Sessions

English English

Maths Maths

Science Science

Art and Design Art and Design

A Derby story ✓

A Derby story with a costumed character Costumed character

Design and Languages Technology Design and Languages Technology

Geography Geography

History History

Music Music

PE PE

Features Features

National curriculum

LEARN WITH DERBY MUSEUMS! BOOKING INFORMATION

LEARN WITH DERBY MUSEUMS!

TEACHERS We work closely with our teachers to help them meet national curriculum requirements and to provide an enriching and memorable experience for their students. If you would like to work with us at Derby Museums to help with planning and delivery of projects and themes, we’re more • 1.5 hour session at £3.50 per pupil than happy to talk, and we can often tailor costs £87.50 for 25 pupils (minimum)/ our sessions to meet the needs of different £122.50 for 35 pupils (maximum). age groups. You can speak to us via telephone and email – but we really like to meet our teachers face-to-face!

Key Stages 1 and 2 school sessions 2015/16

SESSION COSTS

• 2 hour session (includes Make & Take) at £4.50 per pupil costs £112.50 for 25 pupils (minimum)/ £157.50 for 35 pupils (maximum).

For more information on working with Derby Museums, please contact our Schools Programmer, Bill Hindmarsh on bill@derbymuseums.org / 01332 642236

BOOKINGS AND GENERAL ENQUIRIES

“The trip was inspirational and absolutely amazing.

I also made my own shabti!”

Bookings can be made via our Business Hub on 01332 641901.

Museum & Art Gallery The Strand Derby DE1 1BS www.derbymuseums.org

You can sign up to our schools email list to be sent regular news and offers on upcoming and new sessions, by contacting us on info@derbymuseums.org

Morton Primary School