Learning Activities

Bring to life the exciting world of pantomime and perform Cinderella on our beautiful scaled up toy theatre.

Welcome to the rope factory! Children will experience piece work, working together under strict factory conditions to earn their wages before using their mathematical skills to turn their earnings into a meal for a family of seven.

Children are swept into a story of highway robbery. As they unravel the evidence they will task themselves with putting pen to paper to make all well in this session that inspires writing back in the classroom.

Visit a fairy tale world full of elements from nursery rhymes and traditional tales to support understanding of the genre by bringing the settings, characters and objects to life.

What was school like if you were 5 or 6 years old in the past? Discover the games of the playground and try out an infant lesson in the kindergarten.

A customer at the chemist’s shop is complaining of an ailment. Pupils are tasked with experimenting until they find a cure!

Put together a parcel for a soldier, draw a picture or write a letter with news from home and go shopping for treats.

Discover different attitudes towards the war and consider what may have driven a 15 year old underage soldier to enlist in 1914.

The Museum offers the opportunity for schools and youth groups to camp overnight.

Children will explore the changing faces of childhood through the ages as they visit three different time periods; 1820s, 1890s and 1940s.

Children will take part in a range of activities covering topics such as the black out, rationing, dig for victory, the black market, war time cookery and the Home Guard.

The Squire lies dead in his bed and no one knows why! Students are tasked to find out what has happened.