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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 , updates on Admission prices: learning activities and 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 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 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

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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 YORKSHIRE MUSEUM

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. He is now struggling to this interactive workshop. The first Egyptologist who is investigating survive in the lanes of Tudor York decision is to decide which God they the mysterious tomb of Kemmet. and needs the help of your want to represent them. They are To discover the lost statue of Anubis group of beggars to help him assisted in this by a proud, retired pupils must work through a series find three important Greek athlete who helps the children of challenges including the objects which he can take discover more about everyday life in mummification and embalming to the new Queen Ancient Greece, through handling process using our specially Elizabeth. These objects genuine museum artefacts. Pupils constructed mummy, wrapping will help him gain back his take part in a circus of hands-on a mummy and making their own lost lands and wealth. activities including rehearsing a play amulet. Pupils also handle genuine telling the story of Perseus, practising Egyptian artefacts to explore Handle objects from the long jump for the celebration Egyptian beliefs about death and the merchants, traders, knights games, making a peplos and dressing afterlife. If they can decipher the final and monks to find out more for the festival. hieroglyphic message of Kemmet and about the life of people in Tudor apply their knowledge of the York. Learn about illuminated Egyptian Way of Death they may manuscripts and dining etiquette in discover where the statue is hidden. Tudor times.

06 BOOK NOW on 01904 650333 or Email [email protected] Workshops are for a maximum of 30 pupils. 07 Science Science YORKSHIRE MUSEUM

VOLCANOES! FORENSIC SCIENCE: SPECIAL SPACE DAYS IN DECEMBER AND JANUARY KS2 WHO WERE YOU? Book the Space or Telescopes workshop, Cosmodome session and the 1 hour 30 minutes Observatory tours for a full space day for your class! Includes Star trails KS2 and a special dressing up box. In this session pupils become 1 hour 30 minutes £130 for the day volcanologists and learn all about A skeleton has been found in the how and why Volcanoes occur. York Museum Gardens. The pupils They begin to understand the forces become forensic scientists to at work, deep underground, which investigate the evidence to find out cause volcanoes to erupt as well as who that person was: a Roman child, YORKSHIRE MUSEUM YORKSHIRE the chemical reactions that take a Viking warrior or a Medieval monk? place during an eruption. They will TELESCOPES learn to name different parts of a The groups will undertake a number KS2 volcano before making their own of scientific and archaeological 1 hour 30 minutes model version, causing it to erupt. investigations to determine the This session complements a tour of the Observatory and explores gender, age and means what stars are and how they have been used throughout history; DINOSAUR DESIGNS of death of the skeleton. as navigation and as a source of superstition and stories. Pupils KS1 Look out for the Red will look at Victorian telescopes and explore how telescopes work. 1 hour Herrings too! All pupils will have chance to make their own to take home. Pupils wear white coats and become Pupils have the chance £80 scientists to discover what fossils are to handle real artefacts and what we know about dinosaurs and examine human COSMODOME by studying them. They will handle remains. KS1 | KS2 fossils and dinosaur bones – and there is chance to see and hold 30 minutes fossilised dino poo! Pupils will make OBSERVATORY TOURS Groups of 30 their own fossil casts and design 20 minutes Take a trip through space inside their own camouflaged dinosaur to Groups of 15 our inflatable Cosmodome and take home. Housed in the Observatory learn more about the planets that nestles in the York and their moons that make up DINOSAUR DETECTIVES Museum Gardens, children our solar system. After which KS2 have the opportunity to get up the class can see what to look 1 hour 30 minutes close to the working telescope for in the night sky and also made in 1850 to understand how to find it! The museum needs help to identify a box of mystery how it works and moves. This £40 session is for small groups, dinosaur fossil bones. Pupils Available to book for which allows better access to become assistant curators in December and January the telescope and also includes this interactive investigation; a fun and informative video. handling dinosaur fossils and For a class the other half can taking part in five mini do a Star trail inside the investigations to uncover clues museum, this will be sent out to the identity of the mystery with the booking information. dinosaur. The investigations will use problem solving and maths skills. £20

08 BOOK NOW on 01904 650333 or Email [email protected] Workshops are for a maximum of 30 pupils. 09 YORKSHIRE MUSEUM

YORKSHIRE MUSEUM Art Working Scientifically 10 plastic. own portrait coinonshrinkable Museum displays anddesigntheir Pupils willsearch for faces inthe tell usaboutthepeoplethey portray. we carryportraits and what they can collection, pupilswillconsiderwhy coins from the Yorkshire museum’s York Gallery’scollectionand Art newts, seaweed andthe‘doctorfish’. spirit collections; including gastropods, with examples from themuseum slime for theirsurvival andwhy, discover whichanimalsrely on flow rate ofslime. Pupilswill investigating viscosityandthe carry outtheirown experiment In groups they willdesignand involveswhich makingslime! investigation onstatesofmatter, KS1 KS2 YOUR POCKET Looking atminiature portraits from 1 hour30minutes PORTRAITS IN This isafunbutpractical 1 hour30minutes SLIME! | KS2

BOOK NOW NEW on 01904 650333 or [email protected] gardens have changed over time. photographs toconsiderhow the KS2 groups willalsousehistoric consider how thegardens change. different seasonswillallow pupilsto come prepared for wet weather. flower ofthegarden. orpart Please paint awatercolour oftheir favourite their touronasensorymapandthen textures allaround. Pupilswillrecord discover thesounds, smellsand Gardens usingallyour sensesand KS1 Photographs ofthegardens during Take atourofthe York Museum 1 hour30minutes GARDENS SENSING THE | KS2 Early Years cardboard helmet. the smellsofcastleandmakinga mail,chain holding areal sword, smelling replica helmet, feeling the weight of objects. Activities includetryingona years ago andhandlesomereal medieval life was like in York Castlehundreds of works toproduce flour tomake bread. by AA Milneandexploring how themill storytelling with‘The King’sBreakfast’ setting oldandnew breakfast tables, to enjoy later!). Otheractivitiesinclude bread infine weather (ortake ithome churn, toeatitwith withthechance their own butterusingareplica butter equipment from thepastbefore making Children willhandlebuttermaking practical sessionintherestored Mill. the past. and investigate wash day objectsfrom out clothes, upalltheoddsocks match They alsohave topeg theopportunity White withtheweekly wash. of Victorian domesticlife helpingDolly tubs, are children settowork for ataste FS In thishands-onworkshop discover what 1 hour FS KNIGHTS ATCASTLE THE Available Spring andSummerterms. It’s timetomake breakfast inthis 1 hour30minutes FS BUTTER BREAD AND Using original possers, dolly pegsand 1 hour WASH DAY Foundation Stage package china carefullypackage shop. china inourchina jigsaw platestogether andlearn how to make aplaydough cup, ‘china’ piecethe their own paperplate, setateatable, McAllaster Weaver, pupilscandecorate workshop, basedonthestoryby Katie broken rules andbroken teacups!Inthis collect china, andhisfriends inastoryof and lotsmore. rhyme, sequencefamiliar nursery rhymes themwiththe collection andmatch and props, discover objectsfrom our totake clock home,dock’ userole play rhymes. They willmake a‘hickory-dickory recognise andhave funwithtraditional workshop encourages to children some Nursery Rhyme fun. This active materials from they which are made. between toys, how they work, andthe to discussthesimilarities anddifferences hands-on exploration they are encouraged to discover toys from thepast. Through FS FS Join Bill, afriendly bullwho loves to 1 hour FS BILL IN A CHINASHOP Come alongto York CastleMuseumfor 1 hour NURSERY RHYME TIME Pupils take apeepintoouroldtoy chest 1 hour TOYS THROUGH TIME Workshops are for a maximum of30pupils.

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VICTORIAN DAY VICTORIAN THIS DECEMBER MEANS CHRISTMAS AT THE YORK Choose between our suggested CLASSROOM NEW themed days: ‘Victorian childhood’ CASTLE MUSEUM SO BOOK A FESTIVE WORKSHOP KS1 | KS2 for or ‘Victorians: rich and poor’. KS1 TO GET INTO THE SPIRIT OF THE SEASON! 1 hour Whichever theme you choose, your Pupils will discover what it felt like to go to MERRY CHRISTMAS CHRISTMAS AT THE school will be provided with waistcoats, caps and neckerchiefs for the boys and school in Victorian times and might be glad BLUE KANGAROO TOY MUSEUM aprons for the girls to wear throughout to get back to your classroom after an hour FS KS1 your visit. You will also receive a with our Victorian school teacher! During 1 hour 1 hour suggested itinerary including one the lesson, which is set in our Victorian workshop, several self-led activities and schoolroom, pupils will use the abacus and

YORK CASTLE MUSEUM YORK Get in a Christmassy mood and investigate Find inspiration at Christmas from try some simple mental arithmetic, practise old and new decorations, make a Christmas our toy gallery and Kirkgate and, after even suggestions for a Victorian packed their handwriting, apply their reading skills card, roll out gingerbread men from investigating old and new cards and lunch to make your day as authentic and and take part in drill helping them to feel playdough, make a paper Christmas stocking decorations, make a moving toy and informative as possible. In order to make fully immersed in Victorian childhood. and much more. The workshop ends with go window shopping on the Victorian your whole day run as smoothly as the story of ‘Merry Christmas Blue street before hearing the story of possible, we will also ensure that all Kangaroo’ by Emma Chichester Clark. There ‘Christmas at the Toy Museum’ by worksheets and resources for the self-led TROUBLED TIMES is also a Christmas Shopping Trail for Early David Lucas. aspects of your visits are to hand. IN VICTORIAN YORK Years groups to use after the workshop. £10 plus workshop charge KS2 1 hour VICTORIAN CHRISTMAS Must be booked to ensure costumes are available. Our Victorian street, Kirkgate, is always full KS2 of characters, but none as colourful as Joseph 1 hour FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE Beedham – street trader and loveable rogue. Be like Ebenezer at the end of ‘A Christmas KS1 Pupils take a tour of Kirkgate with Joseph, but Carol’ and rejoice in a Victorian Christmas. 1 hour when he is arrested for theft, they become Pupils will make mincemeat to a traditional Pupils meet a nurse who is trying to his judge and jury and help to decide his fate. recipe, create a magical Christmas card and recruit new nurses on Kirkgate. She Will Joseph be found guilty or innocent? window shop for presents on Kirkgate, our recounts the story of her friend Florence Led by an Actor, £100 per session Victorian street. Nightingale, the improvements she made in Scutari and why she is known as the MEDICINE IN VICTORIAN ‘Lady of the Lamp.’ There is chance to see and handle real artefacts from the ENGLAND Raindale Mill Crimean War and discover more about KS2 improvements in 1 hour BREAD AND BUTTER Victorian medicine In this cross-curricular science and history KS1 and hygiene in workshop, pupils will visit the pharmacy hands-on shop in Kirkgate, the Victorian Street, 1 hour 30 minutes activities. where they will have the opportunity to It’s time to make breakfast in this practical session in the restored Mill. Children will handle find out just how different medicine and butter making equipment from the past before making their own butter using a replica health was 150 years ago! Activities butter churn, with a chance to eat it with bread in fine weather (or take it home to enjoy include trying their hand at pill rolling, later!). Other activities include setting old and new breakfast tables, storytelling with ‘The medicine mixing and diagnosing diseases King’s Breakfast’ by AA Milne and exploring how the mill works to produce flour to make bread. rife at the time, before deciding on the Available Spring and Summer terms. best treatment (all in a safe way!).

12 BOOK NOW on 01904 650333 or Email [email protected] Workshops are for a maximum of 30 pupils. 13 YORK CASTLE MUSEUM Toys Britain Since1930 1914 -1918TheFirstWorld War 14 how they work, and thematerials from they which are made. xlrto hyaeecuae todiscuss exploration they are encouraged KS1 Pupils take apeepintoouroldtoy todiscover chest toys from thepast. Through hands-on 1 hour TOYS THROUGH TIME had changed by theendof 1960s. appreciation ofjusthow Britain much war context; giving pupilsan footage to setthedecadeinitspost session usesreal andarchive artefacts and even aspacerocket! ‘launch’ This the everyday itemsfound inhouses, on costume, listentomusic, explore sounds of1960sBritain. They will try plunged intothevibrant sightsand Pupils visitourSixtiesgallery andare werethe cars andtheskirts mini! Museum andexplore thedecadewhen time andpupilswillhave tohandleobjects. thechance weapons, willillustrate thestories ofordinary peoplewho lived through anextraordinary women onthehomefront andwhat life was like for children. Real artefacts, including oftheadvances andcommunication,the importance intechnology thevitalrole of asnewspapersaccounts such andletters. hands-ongroup activitieswillcover Supporting Tommy atthefront, inthetrenches aswell aswhat was home, happeningback through KS2 KS2 Swing ondown to York Castle 1 hour30minutes THE SWINGINGSIXTIES Available Summer Term Pupils willdiscover how andwhy theFirst World War andwhat life started was like asa 1 hour30minutes TOTAL WAR

BOOK NOW NEW on 01904 650333 or [email protected] the similarities anddifferences between toys, York Prison Homes House and tale couldhave endedvery differently. begin writing theirversion ofhow Turpin's Pupils willuseawriting frame toplanand history. Was Turpin ahero oravillain? how stories caninfluence ourview of and pupilsare encouraged tothinkabout of Dick Turpin’s character are examined Turpin was actually held. Varied accounts Experience, includingthecellwhere visit theoriginal cellsinthePrison eighteenth century. There to ischance what life was like inprison during the highwayman Dick Turpin, anddiscover KS2 DICK TURPIN Pupils explore thelife oftheinfamous 1 hour30minutes LITERACY -

castle smells. totryandidentifyvariousthe chance coins andstainedglass. Brave pupilshave aspottery,collections such arrow heads, original objectsfrom themuseum’s medieval-style armouraswell ashandle religious space. Pupilscantryon the home, thedefensive fortress andthe of life inamedieval castleare explored: interactive workshop. Different aspects living inthemiddleages inthis discover what homeswere like for people wallcurtain canstillbeseen. Pupilscan of York’s medieval castlesandtheoriginal KS1 York CastleMuseumis builtonthesite 1 hour LIFE CASTLE NEW record theirfindings. makechildren theirown drawings to spot original features. Along theway, the the 18thcenturyDebtors’ Prison area to remains ofthe15th centurycastleand Prison. They willlookattheoutside and plansof York Castleand York Debtors changed over time, usingoldphotographs investigate how themuseum buildinghas encouraged toexamine theevidence and andhistory,combining art are children KS2 CAN CAN SPEAK? THIS BUILDING In thiscross-curricular workshop, 1 hour30minutes ART -YORK PRISON: Workshops are for a maximum of30pupils. were usedfor. and decidewhat Dolly’s mystery objects day objectsfrom thepastandpresent have todistinguishwash theopportunity White withtheweekly wash. They also Victorian domesticlife helpingDolly tubs, pupilsare settowork for atasteof KS1 Using original possers, dolly pegsand 1 hour WASH DAY

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