Learning Activities

Inspired by drawings and paintings by Norman Cornish this activity will deliver Part A Discover and Part B Find Out of the Arts Award Discover Level.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Enjoy all the fun of the fabulous Frost Fair, with the real ice rink, steam gallopers, sideshow and a warming hot chocolate.

Father Christmas will be visiting Beamish Museum this year. Bring your class for a magical trip to his fireside grotto.

Help to bake some Christmas treats and make your own gift to take home for your loved one. Play old fashioned parlour games, listen to stories and sing songs by the fireside.

Inspired by the toy theatres popular in Victorian and Edwardian times, children will bring traditional tales to life as they perform their own pantomime.

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.