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For 2012 our Learning Team are have added a fantastic selection of new activities to our existing programme to enhance your school visit to the Museum for only a little extra cost. Read all about it below:

• Tudors at Beamish
• I'm an Edwardian Scout - Get Me Out of Here!
• Medicine Through Time – The Georgian Years
• Florence Nightingale's Nurse
• Mrs Scroggins’ Washday (Available from April 2012)
• Who's Going to Mind the Bairn?

Call our Bookings Officer on 0191 3704026 for more information or to book your class in for these exciting activities.

Tudors at Beamish

Come to Pockerley Old Hall and be transported back to 1569. Meet the Hedley family – the ‘Lords of the Manor’, and experience everyday life in a Tudor household. But be prepared for trouble! The Tudor Northeast was a dangerous place of political intrigue, and border raids were rife.

Suitable for Key Stage 2 pupils - Cost: £60* per 1½ hour session - admission fee not included.

‘I’m an Edwardian Scout – Get Me Out of Here!’

Spend a day at our Edwardian Scout Camp and have a real adventure! Form your patrol, set up camp, learn woodcraft and complete challenges – dare you try the camp stew?

Suitable for participants aged 6 years and over - Cost: £30* per full day session (first year introductory price offer) - admission fee not included.

Medicine Through Time – The Georgian Years

Revision was never so much fun – come to Pockerley Old Hall and try to figure out why the master of the house lies dead in his bed. Explore the theme of vaccination and Georgian living standards through solving the mystery. Meet some Georgian characters – a Quack Doctor, a Woman Healer or a Physician, and help them make some real Georgian remedies – but are you doing more harm than good?

Suitable for GCSE Medicine through Time students - Cost: £30* per 1½ hour session (first year introductory price offer) - admission fee not included.

Florence Nightingale’s Nurse

The daughter of the house at Pockerley Old Hall is preparing to join Florence Nightingale in the Crimea as one of her nurses. Help her practice her skills by making up herbal remedies, perfecting bandaging and visiting the sick neighbour next door – who lives in a dirty, gloomy house. Can Florence Nightingale’s ideas about cleanliness help?

Suitable for Key Stage 1 pupils - Cost: £30* per 1 hour session (first year introductory price offer) - admission fee not included.

Mrs Scroggins’ Washday (Available from April 2012)

Listen to the story of Mrs Scroggins’ busy washday, and help her do all the housework she needs to do around her house. Sweep the floors, beat the carpets, do the washing, and polish the pans. And what’s that under the bed…?

Suitable for nursery/reception age pupils - Cost: £35* per 45 minute session (max 20 children per session, under 5’s come in free) - admission fee not included.

Who’s Going to Mind the Bairn?

This innovative session allows students to explore a range of issues and attitudes surrounding sex and pregnancy. Students will explore these issues through role-play, investigating the story of a teenage mother and her abandoned baby at the end of the 19th century. Students will take the role of investigators, collecting clues and interviewing characters to determine what has happened to make the mother abandon her child.

Students will also decide the fate of the child, determining what should happen. This session ties into the KS3 curriculum around relationships and encourages students to use investigatory, team work and analytical skills.

Pre-visit and post-visit resources are available with this session.

Suitable for KS3 and KS4. Cost: £60* for 1 hour session - admission fee not included.

Call our Bookings Officer on 0191 3704026 for more information or to book your class in for these exciting activities.

* PLEASE NOTE: Entrance fees are not included in this price. Click here for more information on school visits.