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INVESTIGATING Imagination and Brings the Past Vividly to Life A military stronghold and a magnificent Renaissance palace, Stirling Castle captures learners’ INVESTIGATING imagination and brings the past vividly to life. STIRLING CASTLE AND PALACE Information for teachers LEARNING INVESTIGATING HISTORIC SITES: SITES 2 STIRLING CASTLE AND PALACE Welcome to Stirling Castle and Palace Contents Perched on a rocky outcrop and Booking your visit commanding a view for many miles All group visits to Stirling Castle must P2 around, Stirling Castle is one of Welcome to Stirling be booked in advance. Please contact Scotland’s most impressive castles. It Castle and Palace Historic Scotland Learning Services: was built as an almost impregnable P4 Tel: 0131 652 8155/8156 fortification and saw lots of violent Supporting learning Email: [email protected] military action, particularly during the and teaching Website: www.historic-scotland.gov. Wars of Independence in the 1300s. P6 uk/learning Integrating a visit with Within the castle walls lies a royal palace, Cost classroom studies once the luxurious home of the Stewart P10 kings and queens. Today you can visit All booked, teacher-led educational Timeline: the story the ‘re-presented’ rooms of the Palace, visits to Stirling Castle are FREE from of Stirling Castle and recreated to show the splendour of the September to April. Teacher-led tours Palace Scottish royal court in the mid-16th may not take place during May and P12 century, when the Palace was new. June, because the castle is very busy. Stirling Castle and There is a small charge for any special Using this resource Palace: a historical activities (see below). overview This resource is designed for teachers Special activities for schools P19 planning to visit Stirling Castle with their Suggested tours learners. It aims to help teachers make Throughout the year, many exciting P20 the most of their time on-site, and to activities for schools take place at Tour 1: Attackers and link the visit with work in the classroom. Stirling Castle. These include storytelling defenders It is most suitable for lower to middle with puppets for early years groups, P29 primary classes. discovery sessions, and art activities Tour 2: The Wars of based on decoration in the castle. Please note that the material in this Independence resource is intended for teacher/group Visit the Historic Scotland website P38 leader use. It is not designed to be www.historic-scotland.gov.uk/ Tour 3: Palace for the learning to download the current Stewart monarchs copied and distributed to learners, though elements may be suitable for Schools Programme with full details P54 more able learners. of all special activities. There is a small The Stirling Heads charge for these. P56 Planning your visit Travel subsidy scheme The Stirling Sculptures The castle’s own website P57 www.stirlingcastle.gov.uk contains Did you know that the Scottish Other places to visit a wealth of historical and practical Government can contribute to your P58 information to help you plan and enjoy travel costs? Schools can apply for Other resources your visit, background information a travel subsidy to visit any Historic about the castle and palace, Scotland site. Contact 0131 652 8154 educational activities, special events, an for more details, or download an interactive map, and online games. application form from our website. investigating historic sites: sites STIRLING CASTLE AND PALACE 3 Resources From September to April, the independent Regimental Museum of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, based within the castle, offers resource boxes for learner use free of charge. These boxes contain objects relating to: • World War I • World War II and the Home Front For further details and to book contact 01786 475165. Audio tours Audio tours are available for groups. Teachers are advised to try these out on a pre-visit to assess their suitability for their group. Please discuss when booking. Risk assessment Risk assessment of the site is the responsibility of the teacher in charge of the group. To assist with this, download Hazard Information sheets from the Historic Scotland website, or contact the site for more information. FREE planning visit Learners have fun with replica medieval weapons. We strongly encourage teachers to make a free planning visit themselves before bringing a class. This gives them the chance to carry out a risk assessment, try out material, meet staff and become familiar with the site. How to get to Stirling Castle Please discuss this when booking. Stirling town centre is easily reached by car via the Access M9, leaving at Junction 9 or Junction 10. There are also regular buses and trains. Stirling Castle sits at the top Most of the castle is accessible to wheelchair users, of the historic old town, 15 minutes’ walk from the but the following areas are currently inaccessible: bus or railway station. Simply follow Mar Place up to the Elphinstone Tower, the Great Kitchens, and the Castlehill. Museum of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders. The Palace and the Stirling Heads Gallery are accessible Additional facilities via lifts. • Toilets The Access Gallery in the Palace Vaults enables visitors • Café serving a varied menu of hot and cold food and with mobility difficulties to experience areas of the drinks castle and palace which are inaccessible to them. In • Picnic area addition to images, interactives and tactile objects, • Covered packed lunch area: please book on arrival at the displays include information on the crafts used to the castle recreate the interior of the Palace. Braille information boards are on display and a Braille guidebook is • Parking for buses and cars available from the shop. • Shop with books and souvenirs for all ages investigating historic sites: sites 4 STIRLING CASTLE AND PALACE Supporting learning and teaching Curriculum for Excellence Learning in Social Studies A visit to Stirling Castle and Palace and use of any Most teachers will be visiting Stirling Castle and Palace supporting material can help support the development to support ongoing work in achieving outcomes in of the four capacities of Curriculum for Excellence, as Social Studies: People, Past Events and Societies at Levels outlined below. 1 and 2. A focused site visit will help learners work towards the following broad outcomes: Develop successful learners by • develop an understanding of how Scotland has developed as a • Exploring places, investigating artefacts and nation, resulting in an appreciation of their local and national discussing the past heritage within the global community by considering the • Encouraging learners to think critically about the impact of the castle on their local environment nature of historical evidence and arrive at their • broaden their understanding of the world by learning own conclusions about human activities and achievements in the past and • Making links between current and previous present by finding out how people lived in the past knowledge in their local area through investigating places and researching objects • Providing a real context for learning which helps • develop their understanding of their own values, beliefs to bring the past to life and cultures and those of others by comparing society Develop confident individuals by in the past with how we live now • Providing opportunities for learners to share and • learn how to locate, explore and link periods, people present their learning to others using a range of and events in time and place by focusing on a series of media events which took place in the past • Giving learners opportunities to communicate • learn how to locate, explore and link features and places their own views on historical events and issues locally and further afield by using maps to plot the location raised during the visit of a castle, and considering the reason for its location Develop responsible citizens by • establish firm foundations for lifelong learning and for • Encouraging learners to have greater further specialised study and careers by developing life understanding of and respect for their own skills such as photography and understanding more historic and built environment about jobs in conservation and heritage • Allowing learners to experience examples of the work of historians, archaeologists and conservationists and helping them to understand why this is important Develop effective contributors by • Encouraging learners to record and express their observations following on-site investigations • Providing learners with the opportunity to develop life skills such as photography during their visit Learners proudly show off helmets they made themselves. investigating historic sites: sites STIRLING CASTLE AND PALACE 5 Interdisciplinary learning • Using ICT to promote learning Curriculum for Excellence actively promotes learning This resource provides opportunities for utilising beyond subject boundaries. A site visit offers obvious technology to motivate and challenge learners. Key learning opportunities across many curricular areas in examples are: addition to Social Studies. Key areas are: • Learners can become familiar with how to use database websites such as www.scran.ac.uk to • Literacy stimulate questioning and provide background Activities on-site will promote listening and talking in information before and after a visit. groups. There are opportunities for reading as learners • Learners can photograph the site using digital research the society and events of the time and for cameras. At a lower level, these can be used to design producing functional, personal and imaginative writing postcards which can be sold as part of an enterprise for a range of audiences. project. At a higher level, these can be developed • Numeracy into a PowerPoint-type presentation about their visit Learners will have authentic, contextualised or as evidence to support their research findings. opportunities to develop skills and confidence in Learners can learn how to embed photographs within numeracy. A visit provides opportunities to count, documents as part of a school newsletter, or on a estimate, measure and plot; to collect, handle and school website.
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