Information for school visits and outreach programmes

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Stockport’s rich heritage provides an Nothing can quite match the excitement For information on excellent learning resource for schools of visiting a museum or heritage site, but a particular site, Stockport Air Raid Shelters 1-2 and offers a wide programme designed Outreach is the next best thing. including the cost The largest purpose built civilian WWII undeground shelters to meet the needs of every group. The programme covers aspects of all of Together our sites cover a period of the sites and can be adapted to meet your of a visit, history that stretches from the Iron Age specifi c requirements. Sessions can be half please contact 3-5 to the Tudors, the Victorians to World or full day, and we can deliver to more than the Education Team Magnifi cent black and white timber-framed Tudor manor house War II - and much in between! one class in a day. at the site you are

interested in. 6 We can cater for all Key Stages and GCSE Outreach doesn’t have to be an Chadkirk and post 16 educational groups. We can alternative to visiting a site – it can be used Restored 14th century chapel tailor a visit to meet your specifi c needs to help prepare your class for a site visit, and are continually assessing and or to recap and consolidate what was revising our sessions based on feedback learnt on site? 7-9 from teachers and pupils. We believe that The UK’s only museum dedicated to the hatting industry, hats Let us come to you before or after your we offer a value for money service of a high and headwear visit to help you get the most learning quality - the high number of repeat visits from the site. is testimony to this. Stockport Story Museum 10 Three of Stockport’s heritage sites are INSET Days New museum exploring Stockport’s history over the last 10,000 years! holders of the prestigious “Sandford Award We can offer a whole school or for Heritage Education” - a national award department INSET Day, covering aspects which recognises excellent provision for of all of Stockport’s heritage sites, including

Staircase House 11-12 school groups at museums and heritage textiles, history, drama and role play. sites. This can be done in school or at one of Restored medieval town house offering a hands-on time travelling our sites. We can also help you to experience from 1460 to WWII Outreach Programme prepare for taking your group to a museum or heritage site, so that you are able to We know that sometimes the cost of taking

get the best out of the visit. Mellor 13-14 a group out to a museum or heritage site Please contact the Formal Learning can be prohibitive. At Stockport Museums’ Manager on 0161 488 4286 to talk through New! ????????????? Service we want as many pupils as your requirements and plan a day. possible to benefi t from our extensive programme of learning activities, so we

Education Structure 15-16 have developed an - Outreach programme - we bring the site to you! Information for schools ??????????? Bookings and information: 0161 474 1940

At almost a mile long Stockport’s World War II Living History Days Shelters Experience Wartime Britain for Wartime Britain for Air Raid Shelters are the largest purpose built It’s 1940 and your school Spend the morning in Key Stage 2 Key Stage 3 underground shelters in the UK. Carved into has been evacuated to the Shelters and fi nd out This session explores Life As previous but with a the natural sandstone cliffs beneath the town Stockport for safety! about Life on the Home on the Home Front in WWII greater depth and Pupils play the role of Front in WWII as well as from today’s perspective, emphasis on the use of centre, they were used extensively between 1940 an evacuee and will meet discovering more abut the and 1943, and have now been imaginatively allowing comparisons with primary sources. There is characters from the past tunnels themselves. and discussions about life in also the opportunity for restored using primary sources. as they learn how to cope This fl exible session can be modern wartime. Pupils will pupils to talk to, and with life in war torn Britain. adapted to meet the needs experience a range of hands question, a 1940s character Sessions are available for Key Stage 2 and 3 and A very hands-on day which of any group and is an on activities, including Air in our “Hot Seat”. our fl exible, hands-on approach ensures that every includes Air Raid excellent way of enhancing Raid Precautions, Rationing Suitable for Years 7, 8 and 9 visit is tailored to your specifi c needs. Precautions, Rationing and classroom work. Key Stage and Make Do and Mend. Monday - Friday 10 – 2.30 Make do and Mend – and 3 and 4 groups may chose A memorable learning For further information and to discuss your group’s visit plenty of singing! to explore some of the unlit experience. KS3 History, Unit 18: Hot War, contact the Education team on tunnels. Cold War – why did the major Suitable for Years 3, 4, 5 and 6 Suitable for Years 3, 4, 5 and 6 20th Century confl icts affect so 0161 474 4449 Monday – Friday, 10 – 2.30 Suitable for Years 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, Monday – Friday 10 – 2.30 many people? or 8, 9 and above QCA Links: KS2 History, QCA Links: Ks2 History, Unit 9: E-mail: [email protected] Monday - Friday 10am - 12pm Unit 9: What was it like for What was it like for children in children in the Second World QCA Links: Ks2 History, Unit 9: the Second World War? AR War? What was it like for children in Literacy Strands 1 – 3 Literacy Strands 1 – 4 the Second World War? KS1&2 Art & Design, Unit 2c: KS1&2 Art & Design, Unit 2c: Literacy Strands 1– 3 BH Can Buildings speak?; Unit 9: Can buildings speak?; KS1&2 Art & Design, Unit 2c: Visiting a museum, gallery or Unit 9 Visiting a museum, Can Buildings speak?; Unit 9: site. KS3 History, Unit 18: Hot gallery or site CH Visiting a museum, gallery War, Cold War – why did the or site. KS3 History, Unit 18: major 20th Century confl icts Hot War, Cold War – why did the affect so many people? HW major 20th Century confl icts affect so many people?

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1 Stockport Air Raid Shelters, Chestergate, Stockport SK1 1NE WEBSITE: www.airraidshelters.org.uk E-MAIL: [email protected] 2 Bookings and information: 0845 833 0974

Living History Days Experience Sessions Touching the Past Bramall Hall is a magnifi cent example of a black What were people’s homes Choose from a Tudor or Pupils learn about life in the and white timber framed building. It is big enough like over 100 years ago? Victorian day and give your Hall through a tour delivered to be awe inspiring but small enough to give a In this session children can pupils an unforgettable by our trained staff. Using look at the similarities and sense of belonging. Built over many centuries, and insight into the lives of the a mixture of question and differences between their added to greatly in the late 19th century, Bramall is people who lived at Bramall answer sessions and hands and that of a child a fi ne combination of Tudor and Victorian Hall in the past. Pupils meet on activities pupils are fully living at the end of the 19th various members of the engaged and work in small architecture and life – something that is refl ected in century. This interactive tour household and will groups to ensure maximum the programmes on offer. offers plenty of hands-on experience life in an benefi t. For a Tudor experiences, including the appropriate manner, Experience there are nine chance for all the children Sessions are available for Key Stage 1, 2 and 3, and according to the time activities to choose from, to play with some Victorian can be adapted to meet the needs of GCSE and and their status – subject to availability, each toys. They will learn what it post-16 groups. We also cater for Early Years accompanying adults designed to give pupils was like to do the washing are too! an insight into life in Foundation Stage groups and for pupils with Special with a dolly tub and wash Tudor times, and specifi cally Educational Needs. Suitable for Year 4 and above board, and fi nd out what the lives of the Davenport Available Monday and Tuesday rich Victorians carried in household. For a Victorian For further information and to discuss your group’s visit, only 10am-2.30pm their suitcases. Experience pupils learn contact Amanda Phillipson or Caroline Davenport on QCA Links: KS2 History, Unit 8: AR about life “above and below Suitable for Reception and 0161 488 4286. What were the differences stairs”, looking at the work Years 1 and 2 between the lives of rich and of the servants and the Available Wednesday - Friday

BH poor people in Tudor times? leisure time of rich children. 10am – 12pm (October – Unit 11: What was it like for December, April – July) Suitable for Year 3 and above children living in Victorian and 12.30pm – 2.30pm Available Wednesday – Friday CH Britain? (January – March only) 10am – 12pm (October – KS2 Citizenship, Unit 2: Choices December, April – July) QCA Links: KS1 History, Unit 1: Literacy Strands: 1 - 4 HW and 12.30pm – 2.30pm How are our toys different from (January – March only) those in the past? Unit 2: What were homes like a QCA Links: KS1 & 2 History, STOR long time ago? Unit 8: What were the differences Unit 11: What was it like for between the lives of rich and children living in Victorian SC poor people in Tudor times? Britain? Unit 11: What was it like for Literacy Strands: 1 - 3 children living in Victorian Britain? Literacy Strands: 1 - 3

3 Bramall Hall, Bramall Park, Bramall, Stockport SK7 3NX WEBSITE: www.bramallhall.org.uk 4 Stories Old and New Who ate all my Tudor Life Chadkirk Chapel (text to follow) Using the Hall as a porridge? Pupils are taken on a tour backdrop, children will listen Children follow the story of of the Hall to help them to to, and become a part of Goldilocks and the Three consolidate their school some well known stories - Bears as they explore work on the Tudors. There and some unusual ones Bramall Hall looking for are seven options to choose - as they travel round the the characters from the from, each designed to building. Lead by a story, sing songs and learn refl ect a different aspect of facilitator in costume this rhymes. There is plenty of Tudor life, be it dance, food, is a great way to introduce repetition and chances to music or building houses. children to the idea of get involved, and all the This session can be run visiting an historic house. children will make a small with the Hall staff playing the roles of members of the Suitable for Reception and herb bag to take home. Davenport household, and AR Years 1 and 2 Suitable for Foundation Early is also available as a full day Available Wednesday – Friday Years up to age 4 session from January until 10am – 11.30am (October BH Available Wednesday – Friday March. – December, April – July) 10am – 11.30am (October and 1pm – 2.30pm – December, April – July) Suitable for Years 7 and 8 CH (January – March only) and 1pm – 2.30pm Available Wednesday – Friday 10am – 12pm (October – Literacy Strands: 1 - 4 (January – March only) December, April – July) HW 10am – 2.30 (January – March only) QCA Links: KS3 History, STOR Unit 5: – how

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5 TELEPHONE: 0845 833 0974 WEBSITE: www.bramall.org.uk TELEPHONE: 0161 480 1460 WEBSITE: www.chadkirkchapel.org.uk 6 Bookings and information: 0845 833 0975

All About Hats! Available Monday – Friday, 10 Unit 12: How did life change in On the Factory Floor Hat Works is the UK’s only museum dedicated to the am -12 pm our locality in Victorian times? Children have lots of fun hat making industry and all things connected QCA Links: KS1 History, KS1 & 2 Art & Design, Unit 5c: Pupils step back in time as in this hands-on to hats. The museum offers two fl oors of Unit 2: What was it like to live Talking Textiles. they experience life as an session All About Hats! here in the past? Literacy Strands: 1– 3 apprentice at Ward’s hat exhibits taking you on a journey through the history They visit our exciting gallery KS1 & 2 Art & Design, Unit 5c: factory in 1897. Dressed in of Stockport’s once thriving industry. and listen to stories about Talking Textiles our costume, pupils people and their hats, try on Get ahead get a Hat Sessions are available for Key Stage 1, 2 and 3 as Literacy Strands: 1 - 3 attend the schoolroom different hats and work out well as GCSE and post-16 groups, and cover a range Create a hat in a day! where they meet the who might wear them and fearsome teacher and learn of curriculum areas from History to Design and Pupils explore the gallery to even get to make their own Where Did You Get get inspiration from the hat the 3 Rs – discipline will be Technology. We also cater for Early Years hat to take home. That Hat collection and then use their strict. They will fi nd out what Foundation Stage groups, and all of our session artistic skills to make their an Outworker did, as they AR Suitable for Early Years In this session pupils will visit one in her cottage and can be adapted for pupils with Special Educational Foundation up to age 4 learn about the hat making own unique hat, which help with her many chores, Needs. Available every day process as they visit the they can take away. BH as well as making a test 10am – 11am Factory Floor and feel the All materials are supplied For further information or to book a visit. piece of felt for inspection. power of the 19th century along with expert guidance. Please contact the Education Team on: After a look at the factory industrial machinery. They Suitable for Years 4, 5, 6 and 7 CH Head Start fl oor, pupils are asked to 0161 355 7775 will fi nd out how Stockport Available Monday – Friday, A half day session in which sign an indenture to become became so famous for its 10am – 2pm pupils learn how hats have an apprentice for the next HW hats and discover how wool seven years. been made since the very turns into felt as they make QCA Links: KS2 Art & design, Unit 6b: What a performance. fi rst person put one on their own piece to take Suitable for Years 4, 5 and 6 their head! They will tour Unit 9: Visiting a museum, STOR away. Available every day 10am gallery or site. the Factory Floor to see – 2pm the working machinery, try Additional activities available Literacy Strands: 1 - 3 SC on lots of hats and feel the to create a full day session KS3 Art & Design, Unit 9b: QCA Links: KS2 History, Unit different materials used to – please contact us for details. Change your style. 11: What was it like for children make them, as well as Unit 10: Visiting a museum, living in Victorian Britain? making their own piece of Suitable for Years 4, 5 and 6 gallery or site. Unit 12: How did life change in felt to take away. Available Monday – Friday, our locality in Victorian times? 10 – 12 Literacy Strands: 1 - 4 Additional activities available QCA Links: KS2 History, to create a full day session Unit 11: What was it like for – please contact us for details. children living in Victorian Suitable for Reception, Years 1, Britain? 2 and 3

7 Hat Works, Wellington Mill, Wellington Road South, Stockport SK3 0EU WEBSITE: www.hatworks.org.uk 8 Christmas Past “a Textiles at Hat Works Stockport’s newest museum takes you through the Local History Victorian Christmas Pupils experiment with felt, AR evolution of the town from the Palaeolithic period to Combination Experience” batik, screen printing and the present day. Primary sources and artefacts are The fl exibility of both the tie dying to create a piece content and timings of a Pupils arrive at the factory in BH on display, offering the evidence needed to create of work that can be used Local History session allows the year 1897 to assist with the full story of Stockport. in an existing project, form you to plan a visit that truly the Christmas the inspiration for a new CH meets your needs and preparations. They will meet one, or just be a chance Sessions for schools are based on the local develops the perspective Mrs Franklin-Ward, the to have a go with different history element of the National Curriculum and can from which you are factory owner’s wife and HW techniques. Our extensive be linked to and the site at Mellor. approaching Local History. Mistress Hardcastle, the hat collection can be used Head Trimmer and fi nd out for ideas, as the session can ‘Hands on’ activities with STOR what Christmas was like in be combined with a tour of trained, knowledgeable a 19th century hat factory. the gallery. facilitators use a variety They will make decorations, of learning skills (with the SC help to make a Christmas Suitable for Years 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 option of a Town Trail) to pudding, play with Victorian and GCSE and post-16. provide your class with a toys and make one Available every day 10am memorable visit. – 12pm, or 10am – 2pm themselves to take away. Contact the Museum to The session culminates with QCA Links: KS3 Art & Design, discuss and plan your visit. the singing of a carol around Unit 7C: Recreating landscapes; the tree. Unit 8C: Shared view; Unit 7A: Suitable for Years 3, 4, 5 and 6 Self-image Available term time only 10 Suitable for Years 3, 4, 5 and 6 – 12 or 10 – 2.30 Available November and Unit 10gen: Visiting a museum, December only – early book- gallery or site QCA Links: KS1 & 2 History, Unit ing advisable as this is a very KS3 Design & Technology, Unit 18: What was it like to live here popular session. 07aiii: Understanding materials in the past? Focus: textiles; Unit 07biii: KS1 & 2 Geography, Unit 6: QCA Links: KS2 History, Unit Designing and making for Investigating our local area. 11: What was it like for children yourself Focus: textiles Literacy Strands: 1 - 3 living in Victorian Britain? Unit 12: How did life change in our locality in Victorian times? KS1 History, Unit 1: How are toys different from those in the past? Literacy Strands: 1 - 4

9 TELEPHONE: 0845 833 0975 WEBSITE: www.hatworks.org.uk TELEPHONE: 0161 480 1460 WEBSITE: www.stockportstory.org.uk 10 Bookings and information: 0161 480 1460

The Fire of London Houses and Homes Rhymes around the This beautifully restored town house on Stockport’s An interactive session which AR historic market place takes you on a 500 year enables pupils to re-enact Travel over the Magic Bridge House! journey from it’s medieval origins to the captivating the events of the Fire of and meet Mistress Travel around the House 17th century, and beyond to the 1940s. London. Pupils will learn Katherine to discover how and fi nd a rhyme in every BH houses and homes have The cruck-framed building dates from 1460 and why the fi re might have room! Hear the tale of the started, why it spread, and changed through time. Three Little Pigs and make has been restored with both authentic and replica Pupils use the rooms in CH how we know about the a shadow puppet to take artefacts which allows a unique hands-on learning event. Hands on activities the house to compare and home. environment for Key Stage 1, 2 and 3. will further enhance pupils’ contract homes from a long time ago with those that Suitable for Early Years HW understanding of the topic. Foundation, Reception and For further information or to book a visit. they now live in. Additional activities can turn This session includes an Year 1. Please contact the Education Team on: this into a full day session STOR opportunity for pupils to Monday – Friday 10 – 11.30 – please ask for details. 0161 474 4449 make a piece of wattle and QCA Links: KS1 Science, Suitable for Years 1 and 2 daub panel to take away. Unit 3F: Light and Shadows. SC Monday – Friday 10 – 11.30 Suitable for Reception, Years Literacy Strands: 1 - 3 QCA Links: KS1 History, Unit 5: 1 and 2 How do we know about the Monday – Friday 10 – 11.30 Great Fire of London? QCA Links: KS1 History, Unit 2: Literacy Strands 1- 3 What were homes like a long time ago? Literacy Strands 1 – 3 KS1 & 2 Geography, Unit 1: Around our school – the local area; Unit 6: Investiagting our local area KS1 & 2 Art & Design, Unit 2c: Can buildings speak? Unit 9: Visiting a museum, gallery or site.

11 Staircase House, 30 Market Place, Stockport SK1 1ES WEBSITE: www.staircasehouse.org.uk 12 Mellor (LOGO) Bookings and information: 0161 427 1149

Living History Days Footprints KS1 & 2 Geography, Unit 6: The hill top at Mellor hides 10,000 years of history Investigating our local area. and now you have the chance to uncover some of What have the Romans ever These two workshops allow Unit 9: Village settlers its secrets in a new programme of sessions for done for us? pupils to discover how we KS1 & 2 Citizenship, Unit 5: The year is AD 86 and the know what happened in the Living in a diverse world. schools. People have lived here since the Iron Age, Celtic inhabitants of Mellor past, and to learn about but there is evidence of life from Mesolithic times Literacy Strands: 1 – 3 are coming to terms with the different sources of KS3 History, Unit 1: What’s it all through to the later medieval period. the new, Roman way of life. historical information. Book about? Pupils will meet two villagers both workshops to create KS3 Geography, Unit 1: Making Due to Heritage Lottery Funding this exciting site as they travel back in time a full day session, or chose connections. Unit 5: Exploring is now available for your pupils to visit and explore to become a 1st century one for a half day visit. England. inhabitant, and fi nd out what with the help of our Learning Team. The programme life was like as they help out “Tools of the Trade” will offer Living History Days, storytelling in the around the Round House. pupils have the opportunity reconstructed Round House and the opportunity to The afternoon session to pick up a trowel and try includes a debate on the be an archaeologist at our special schools dig site. their hand at digging as pros and cons of the Roman A comprehensive programme of Outreach covering they learn how an way of life. all aspects of the site will be available. archaeologist discovers Suitable for Years 3 and 4 pieces of the past. Sessions are available for Key Stages 1, 2 and 3. Monday - Friday 10 – 2.00 “If Walls could Speak” All sessions can be adapted to meet the specifi c QCA Links: KS1 & 2 History, needs of your pupils. Unit 6A: Why have people pupils follow clues to invaded and settles in Britain in discover the layers of history For further information or to book a visit. the past? A Roman case study. hidden within the buildings Please contact the Education Team on: Unit 18: What was it like to live and structures around the here in the past? Mellor hill top. 07866 999 672 KS1 & 2 Geography, Unit 9: Suitable for Years 1 – 6 and 7 Village Settlers Available Monday – Friday 10 KS1 & 2 Citizenship, Unit 5: – 12, 12.30 – 2.30 (Tools of the Living in a diverse world SYMBOLS ?????????????????????? Trade) and 10 – 11.30, 1.00 Literacy Strands: 1 - 4 – 2.30 (If Walls could Speak) QCA Links: KS1 & 2 History, Unit 2: What were homes like in the past? Unit 18: What was it like to live here in the past?

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