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Y O Rkshire Museum Design> BOOKING & GENERAL INFORMATION MUSEUM YORKSHIRE CLIFTON York MuseumsTrust CASTLE MUSEUM YORK LO RD inchpunch.co.uk BOOTHAM M EXHIBITION A TE YO GA SQUARE GILLYGATE R K S N O E W M C A A L L K E T P YORK MINSTER A G S Y D R A R M A N O E E L T A MUSEUM GARDENS T PE S TE G RG M T A A F S T R E O D M S U O S E O S G W I U O S M B P E L AR N A LIA TO D M S N A E HE N T D O C T S R O S F N T O N R R E S O O I O Y S T U G A S TA S P G T A D I IC T E C E R A D S C T IL T A S L E C T Y E L L I E R F G T E F A AT T W S G O AL R E M LE G N K D AT C E E I S S K T E M E U L Q T D O E W R G E A R T S E T N UN NE ST RY E T T S D LA GA PARAGON N P A E O F O H I R S S I H B N E A R C I G B A T R E A B York Castle Museum Workshop Prices The Eye of York Prices depend on the length of the York YO1 9RY workshop, there is no minimum number Opening times: of pupils required. 9.30am – 5pm daily 1 hour workshop:....................................................£60 (10am, Fridays in term time) 1.5 hour workshop:...............................................£70 Admission prices: 2 hour workshop:....................................................£80 School Adult:............................................................£6.50 Please note group rates don't apply School Child .............................................................£4.00 for parties of less than ten. Yorkshire Museum & Gardens Museum Gardens York YO1 7FR Opening times: 10.00am – 5pm daily Follow us on Twitter for Become a fan of the Yorkshire Museum, updates on Admission prices: learning activities York Art Gallery and York Castle Museum and projects To make a booking please call 01904 650333 School Adult:............................................................£5.50 on Facebook and Twitter. @YMT_Learning School Child .............................................................£3.50 Information correct at time of print. www.yorkmuseumstrust.org.uk York Museums Trust Charity number: 1092466 Contents Booking Information York Castle Museum BOOKING & GENERAL INFORMATION BOOKING & Contact our Bookings Line on Home to the world famous recreated Victorian Street, Kirkgate, York Castle GENERAL 01904 650333 or email Museum makes an exciting and educational day out. You can also see INFORMATION Period Rooms, a brand new Toy Stories exhibition, a groovy Sixties Gallery 02 – 03 [email protected] and the interactive Prison Experience. It is the perfect venue to explore and understand how people have lived over the past 300 years. YORKSHIRE Please have the following information ready: FREE Downloadable trails and resources for self-led visits are available on MUSEUM 3 Name of workshop the school pages of our website, including; 04 – 10 3 Preferred date and time of visit KS1 | KS2 Literacy and Numeracy Trails YORK CASTLE 3 School contact details KS1 Toys and Homes Trails MUSEUM 3 Number and ages of students 11 – 15 KS2 Victorian Childhood and Rich and Poor Trails 3 Number of adults, please have KS2 Kirkgate Maths Quiz the correct ratio of children / adults. KS2 Prison History Trail Nursery & Reception: One adult per four children. Yorkshire Museum Key Stage 1 & 2: The Yorkshire Museum has exciting and vibrant exhibitions on Roman and One adult per six children. Medieval York as well as the science of Extinctions. With dedicated learning labs and lunch spaces it is an un-missable venue for a school visit. Cancellations FREE Downloadable trails and resources for self-led visits are available on We require a minimum of 48 hours notice for the school pages of our website, including; cancellation of sessions for payment to be refunded. KS1 | KS2 Literacy and Numeracy Trails We reserve the right to cancel workshops in the Dinosaur Detectives Trail event of excessive lateness. KS2 KS2 Exploring Eboracum Roman Trail Accessibility KS2 Star Trail You will find our ‘Learning Admission is free to wheelchair users and their Journey’ resources, designed helpers but please note that the upper floors of the to support your visit, on the York Art Gallery York Museums Trust pages at York Castle Museum are not accessible to wheelchair www.mylearning.org users. Each site has disabled access toilets. The Gallery is closed for a major refurbishment and due to reopen in 2015. Art workshops are now available at York Castle Museum and the Yorkshire Lunch Rooms Museum. The Yorkshire Museum has a bookable lunch space, ‘The Diner-Saurus’. Spaces may be available at the Scan the QR codes for a preview of the museums. York Castle Museum upon request. All our sites have been York Castle Museum Yorkshire Museum awarded the Learning Outside Parking the Classroom Quality Badge. Parking information can be found on the City of York Council website: www.york.gov.uk/transport/ Parking/Coach_parking/ Telephone: 01904 551309. Risk Assessments Risk Assessments for each workshop are sent out York Art Gallery, York Castle Museum with the Teachers Pack and can also be downloaded and the Yorkshire Museum & Gardens from our website. Teachers are offered a free site visit have all been awarded the Sandford Award for Heritage Education in in advance to plan their own Risk Assessments. recognition of our high quality educational services and facilities. Guidance is included in the Planning Your Visit guide. www.yorkmuseumstrust.org.uk 02 03 Early Years Foundation Stage Romans MUSEUM YORKSHIRE THE REAL ROMANS A LEGIONARY’S LIFE KS1 KS2 1 hour 1 hour 30 minutes Pupils will meet a well-to-do Roman Pupils discover what it was like being citizen and find out about their life in a soldier in the Roman army and Eboracum (Roman York) and what living in the Fortress of Eboracum possessions they owned. Pupils will (Roman York). Pupils will explore handle real artefacts from the Roman military artefacts and learn collection. Then the pupils dress as about soldier’s equipment, armour, YORKSHIRE MUSEUM YORKSHIRE Romans and take on the work of battle formations and weapons slaves; including using a quern stone, before being put through their paces designing a mosaic and writing in a drill session. roman numerals. FOR £20 ADD: EXPLORING EBORACUM FIRE AWAY! KS2 30 minutes 1 hour 30 minutes In groups, pupils design and build Pupils meet the Censor for their own model catapult to discover Eboracum, who needs their help to who has the most fire power! complete his records and correctly This is a special session that can DISCOVERY HAMPERS ROMAN LIFE identify the citizens from the slaves. be added onto A Legionary's Life. Discovery Hampers are available FS Pupils dress as Romans and then for use with early years groups 1 hour through handling real artefacts and on the museum galleries. These taking part in hands-on activities Children will discover what life the pupils investigate the lives are FREE to use but must be was like in Roman times booked. Hampers contain books, of six characters who lived in through handling Roman Roman York. The activities puppets, soft or plastic props, objects, dressing up as a Roman magnifying glasses, song sheets include using a quern soldier and doing Roman jobs. stone, creating roman and activity ideas. Options are They will take part in activities Animals or Dinosaurs & Fossils. hairstyles, building a including being put through roman arch and trying their paces in a drill session, on replica roman DINOSAUR DIG making a mosaic and using a FS armour. The session quern stone. brings to life how both 1 hour the rich and poor lived Children will dig for fossils and and involves pupils in identify the fossils they find. teamwork and problem There is chance to handle real solving. dinosaur fossils and discover how fossils are made. Activities include making a fossil cast to take home, designing their own camouflaged dinosaur and doing the dinosaur walk! 04 BOOK NOW on 01904 650333 or Email [email protected] Workshops are for a maximum of 30 pupils. 05 Vikings The Classical World MUSEUM YORKSHIRE VIKING VOYAGES JORVIK LIFE KS1 | KS2 KS2 1 hour 1 hour 30 minutes Pupils are prompted to imagine that Who were the Vikings? When did they have travelled back 1000 years they come to York and how did they in time to experience Viking life first live? In this workshop, the class are hand. Costumes and Viking names introduced to a family of six help to set the scene of a Viking characters and explore everyday life village in Denmark whose in Jorvik, from food and clothes to YORKSHIRE MUSEUM YORKSHIRE inhabitants have to vote on whether playing and working. Hands-on or not to set sail in a longboat for a activities include grinding grain on a new life, and decide what to take. quern, playing trip trap troll, weaving The class act out a saga of a perilous and writing; children will also handle voyage to Jorvik and on arrival make genuine objects. some leather belts to sell. Tudors PRINCE & PAUPERS: LIFE IN TUDOR YORK THE ANCIENT GREEKS THE EGYPTIAN KS2 KS2 WAY OF DEATH 1 hour 30 minutes 1 hour 30 minutes KS2 Explore the life of Brother Thomas, former Pupils have to plan a festival of 1 hour 30 minutes soldier and monk during the time of celebration for their new city state in The group meet a Victorian Henry VIII.
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