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Schools Service
Warrington Museum provides a rich and unique learning environment! Learning is different out of the classroom and our varied collections provide the stimulus to inspire work across the curriculum. Our service brings "learning to life" by enabling children to handle and explore interesting artefacts.
We offer a programme of taught sessions, which reflects most areas of the curriculum and supports all Key Stages from Foundation Stage to Key Stage 2. Many teachers from Key Stage 3 and above have utilised the resources of the museum for their own self –guided groups.
Museum Sessions for Foundation Stage
For Foundation Stage pupils in maintained settings we offer the following sessions lasting one and a half-hours:
“Percy the Park Keeper”: meet and compare the animals from the stories and go on an Animal Trail around the Museum.
“The Tiger Child”: using a folk tale from India as a starting point for exploring patterns and artefacts from India.
“Teddy Edward’s Toys”: meet our old teddy and his favourite toys and play with traditional wooden toys.
“A Day with the Dinosaurs”: look at a collection of fossils and casts of dinosaur parts and meet Tichinosuchus who used to roam around Warrington!
Museum Sessions for Key Stage 1
Toys from the Past
Play with traditional wooden toys, make a traditional toy and have a look at our nursery corner display crammed with delightful toys such as a rocking horse. Compare old and new toys such as teddy bears, moneyboxes and dolls.
Fascinating Forces
A focused study of tin toys and wooden toys where the science of forces and movement are explored. There is the option of handling our wonderful collection of rod, string and shadow puppets from Asia.
Museum Sessions for Key Stage 2
Become history detectives and handle a wealth of artefacts, some original pieces over 3,000 years old! Explore our fascinating display of artefacts and unravel the signs and symbols on the coffin case. Includes the opportunity to draw on papyrus and to try on our scribe and pharaoh costumes. For full day visits children make a shabti figure from clay.
Discover why the Romans settled in Warrington and what evidence they left behind! Handle and sort pottery fragments and become Bricos, a Romano-British potter and make an oil lamp from clay.
Open original artefacts wrapped as presents and there will be the opportunity for one boy and one girl to dress up in a reproduction outfit. Investigate artefacts from the Victorian kitchen and the sorts of toys children played with. Learn the art of quilling to create a Christmas decoration.
New Science Sessions for Summer 2008 suitable for Key Stage 1 or 2
- "Let’s Rock": a session designed to show pupils various types of rocks and their special properties.
- "Bite and Grind": studying skulls and natural history specimens to focus on teeth and eating.
- "Noah’s Ark": using specimens to focus on the variety of life and classification of animals.
"Funny Bones": comparing skeletons and looking at animals with exoskeletons.
This sounds brilliant, but what does it cost?
All teaching sessions at Warrington Museum are FREE for Warrington LEA schools and maintained nursery settings
For non-Warrington LEA schools the cost for a half-day session is £2.50 per pupil and for a full day £3.50 per pupil.
Outreach Sessions
All sessions involve active participation from the children with role-play, music and dance as well as opportunities to handle and explore artefacts. Each session is up to two hours long and costs £50.00 per session for Warrington LEA schools and £60.00 for non-Warrington Schools.
For Reception and Key Stage 1 (up to 90 minutes)
“Wash Days and Play Days”: have a go at chores from the past. When the work is done it’s time to play with toys.
"Seaside Holidays in the Past”; explore a collection of artefacts and costumes to compare holidays now and then.
“Old and New Treasure Box”: investigate artefacts from homes in the past and make comparisons with modern objects.
“Victorian School”: experience what it would be like at school by role-playing lessons and writing on slates.
For Key Stage 2 (up to 2 hours)
"Tudor Experience": a child is turned into Queen Elizabeth 1 with our superb reproduction costume. Handle household artefacts, write with quill pens and learn a Tudor dance!
"Victorian History Mystery": become a History Detective and develop investigative skills while exploring a variety of artefacts from 100 years ago.
"Wartime Woes": learn about the impact of World War 2 on family Life and aspects of the Home Front.
Loans Service
Each box or collection contains a wealth of either replica or original material suitable for careful handling and investigation in the classroom.
Our loan resources provide support for all Key Stages including Key Stage 3 and to students in Higher Education.
Our Loans Service charges are £20.00 per collection for two weeks.
The collection:
Ancient Egypt Africa
The Ancient Greeks
Creepy Crawlies
Aztecs Rocks and Minerals
Traditional Toys in Grandma’s Kitchen
Puppets from Asia and Aboriginal Artworks
Masks from Around the World
Nature’s Fruits
India
Woodland Animals
Our contact details
For more information on all our services or to make a booking please contact the Education Officers on 01925 442395 or email kmelville@warrington.gov.uk and amoore@warrington.gov.uk