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Museum
of Richmond Old Town Hall, Whittaker Avenue, Richmond-upon-Thames, Surrey TW9 1TP Tel: 020 8332 1141  Email: museumofrichmond@btconnect.com
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Education Service The Museum offers sessions for all ages, from early years to continuing professional development: 1. Museum Teaching Sessions for Schools 2. Discovery Box Loan Service 3. Talks (outreach) for special schools 4. INSET Sessions for PGCE students, NQTs and History Co-ordinators 5. Gallery Talks 6. Specialist Handling Sessions Sessions for Schools: Cost: Group Visits to the Museum: £2.50 +VAT per child LBRuT schools, £3.50 +VAT non-LBRuT. Outreach sessions: £3.00 +VAT for borough schools only. INSET for borough schools only is free. Time: Most sessions start between 9.30 and 10.00am (to allow for free travel on public transport) and last for 1 hour 15 minutes. Booking: To book a discovery box please ring 8332 1141. To book an education session please email the education officer on mor.education@btconnect.com giving details of when you want to come and which session you would like. Leave a contact number, and she will get back to you as soon as possible. Subject Areas The following QCA recommended subject areas are taught in the museum and some can be made available as outreach. Discovery Boxes from the museum loan service (£10.00 + VAT per week for borough schools, £15.00 +VAT per week for others) are available to support most of the sessions. Y1 How are our toys different from those in the past? This is a very flexible session that begins with grandparent’s toys and moves back to Victorian toys. (It can extend to Tudor and even Roman toys.) Movement and small group work are built into the session. Y1 What were homes like long ago? The museum holds a diverse collection of household objects from ‘Baby Daisy’ (an early hand operated vacuum cleaner) and Ewbank (a carpet sweeper) to a selection of objects from the scullery. There are lots of hands-on and role-play opportunities. Back in school, the Laundry Discovery Box can be used to set up a scullery in the home corner and the Victorian/Edwardian Household Box used for What can we find out about Victorian or Edwardian times from looking at household objects? Y1/2 How are our clothes different from those in the past? This session looks at clothes from the Roman, Tudor, Victorian and 1940s periods. The children will learn how the rich and poor dressed differently and about different fabrics and how clothes have been made. There will be a lot of wearing of the clothes, so make sure to bring a camera! What are we remembering on Remembrance Day? The WW1 poem ‘In Flanders’ Fields’ and sometimes current British legion posters of young families provide starting points for the session. Today there are wars going on in many parts of the world and many children are affected. Small group activities allow handing of some wartime objects. The session usually takes place during November. The chiming of the Old Town Hall clock at 11.00am and the war memorial outside the Old Town Hall building can be included in the session. It can be extended with a visit to the nearby Poppy factory. KS2 sessions are listed according to the age ranges suggested by the Standards site. Many schools adapt the subject matter to year groups other than those suggested or may devise a combined history/geography study. Museum sessions can be similarly adapted. Why have people invaded and settled in Britain in the past? A Roman case study Beginning with the three rules for Roman children, the session includes costume and original Roman objects found in London. Small group work allows handling of Roman pot sherds and replica Roman objects. A Resource Book and a Discovery Box are available for further work in school. An Introduction to Tudor Life This will include finding out about the differences between the lives of rich and poor in Tudor times and what it was like in a Tudor schoolroom. Costume and object handling form a large part of this session. A tour of the site of Richmond Palace can be arranged to take place before or after coming in to the museum and is run by a Richmond Heritage Guide. This will cost an extra £1 per pupil. What was it like for children in the Second World War? The strength of these sessions for borough schools lies in the link to the locality of the school. Each session includes some objects from that part of the borough and refers to bomb damage, specific incidents and shelters in the area. Rationing, 'make-do and mend' and wartime objects are used for small group work. Sessions can also be linked to oral history. The supporting WWII Discovery Box consists mainly of locally sourced original wartime objects. What was it like to live here in the past? A general session based on Richmond Green forms the basis of the Y3/4 study. The time line of houses round the Green extends from the 16th century to 20th century (1560s, 1760s, 1860s, 1960s). The session includes costume (to bring to life the early development of the Green) and architectural artefacts. It takes place both inside and outside the museum with house photographs for each child inside the museum (Old Town Hall) and the buildings themselves outside on the Green. How has life changed in our locality? A combined Museum and Local Studies session These sessions are run in partnership with Local Studies (the doors to Local studies and the museum are adjacent) and take place on Tuesdays mornings. Sessions are individually linked to the locality of each borough school and are aimed at Y6. Information from maps, census returns and trade directories are consulted in Local Studies, while the museum supports the researched information with paintings, prints and particularly with objects. What was it like for children living in Victorian Britain? The museum has an extensive reserve collection of Victorian objects and a handling collection. This session will cover Victorian domestic life, life at school for a Victorian child and, if required, some time on Richmond Green learning about aspects of Victorian architecture. There is an accompanying Victorian Schoolroom Discovery Box. Return to top |