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Introduction to the National Maritime Museum and the Queen’s House...... 4

School Programmes ...... 6

Primary Schools

My First Visit ...... 7

Pirate day...... 8

The World for Breakfast ...... 9

Art Inspirations...... 10

Trafalgar Tales...... 11

Meet the Vikings: Raiders, invaders, traders...... 12

Archive Adventures ...... 13

Ships, maps and trade: the Great Tea Race...... 14

A Sailor went to Sea...... 15

Added Extras...... 16

Secondary Schools

British Empire Enquiry day ...... 18

Transatlantic Slavery Enquiry day ...... 19

The Spanish Armada Enquiry day...... 20

Museum as Muse: Nelson’s Ship in a Bottle...... 21

Leisure and Tourism: Marketing and the Museum brand...... 22

Leisure and Tourism: Customer service and the visitor...... 23

Leading Lives Study Day: Horatio Nelson...... 24

SEND provision, home education groups and teachers forum...... 25

Making your booking...... 26

2 3 Introduction to the National Maritime Museum and the Queen’s House

Visits to the National Maritime Museum and the Queen’s House are a unique opportunity for pupils to explore complex and sensitive topics across the curriculum, be inspired by world-class collections and learn from a wide range of expertise. School groups can choose from our broad selection of facilitated sessions and study days, self-guided trails and gallery visits to develop a wide range of skills.

A brief history of our sites The Museum buildings were added Our galleries to the House in the 19th century to Set within the breath-taking Maritime Some of our key galleries include: form a school for the children of Royal World Heritage Site, the Naval seamen. Renamed the Royal National Maritime Museum (NMM) Voyagers: Britain and the Sea Nelson, Navy, Nation Hospital School from 1892 it moved and the Queen’s House are historic This gallery introduces the NMM’s key themes, the This gallery explores the life and times of to Suffolk in 1933. After building buildings with connections to the royal breadth and diversity of our collections and the great British hero Horatio Nelson, within conversions, the Museum opened in and maritime heritage of Greenwich. people whose lives have been shaped by the sea. the broader context of the 1937 and since then its collections and British people from 1688 to 1815. The Atlantic: Slavery, Trade, Empire The Queen’s House is a 17th-century have grown to become the most Ahoy! Children’s gallery royal villa, commissioned in 1616 by important in the world on the history This gallery explores themes of exploration, trade, war, enslavement and resistance. It is Polar exploration, pirates and a host of other Queen Anne (wife of James I) and of Britain at sea, including maritime about the movement of people, goods and maritime themes are brought to life in this playful art, cartography, manuscripts, official completed for Queen Henrietta Maria ideas across and around the Atlantic Ocean and immersive gallery for children under seven. in about 1638. It was designed by public records, ship models and plans. from the 17th century to the 19th century. renowned architect Inigo Jones and was the first fully Classical building Traders: the East India in England. The House is famous for Company and Asia its architecture and today displays For over 250 years, the East India Company shaped trade between Britain and Asia. This highlights of the NMM’s extraordinary gallery looks at the commodities the company art collection, including works by traded, the people who shaped its tumultuous masters such as Gainsborough, history and the conflicts and rebellions Hogarth and the van de Veldes. that were its ultimate undoing, as well as its continuing legacy in the world today.

4 5 School Programmes My First Visit

Key stage: Early Years Foundation Stage School subject: Understanding the World, Communication and Language, Literacy Primary School Programmes Secondary and Location: National Maritime Museum Post 16 Programmes Session times: Mondays and Thursdays at 10.15, 11.00, 12.20 and 13.05 Early Years Foundation Stage History Session price: £30 (maximum 15 pupils, 6 adults) My First Visit British Empire Enquiry Day Transatlantic Slavery Enquiry Day Key Stage 1 Museums are wonderful places. Night Lights Spanish Armada Enquiry Day Pirate Day Come on a journey of wonder and During this session, a series of jigsaw clues The world for breakfast Art discovery, looking, touching – and piece together to guide children through a Art Inspirations Museum as Muse: Nelson’s Ship in a Bottle even smelling – to explore the variety of activities which help them explore light sources, and find the lighthouse home Key Stage 2 Leisure and Tourism galleries and solve a mystery. for a mysterious giant light-bulb. The session Art Inspirations Marketing and the Museum brand We sing and talk, ask questions, play is based in the Museum’s galleries, and begins Trafalgar Tales Customer service and the visitor with handling and comparing light sources games and take a really close look Meet the Vikings: Raiders, Invaders, Traders Business Studies from the past and present. Children then use at the things around us. These are torches to explore the galleries and search for Archive Adventures (pirates and polar explorers) Leading Lives Study Day: Horatio Nelson cross-curricular sessions designed to more clues. Along the way, they experiment Ships, Maps and Trade: the Great Tea broaden children’s experience, extend with red and green lights, finding out how Race (joint visit with ) vocabulary and introduce them to new these keep ships safe at night, and think A Sailor went to Sea (joint visit with Cutty Sark) opportunities through familiar themes. about other light sources in the night sky.

Choose from the following themes: Treasures of the Sea Added extras Other information We’re off on a hunt for lost treasure Monster Hunt belonging to a very famous man – Captain The Great Map SEND (Special Educational This active session is a maritime adaptation Francis Drake – who sailed right round the Needs and/or Disabilities) Ahoy! of Michael Rosen’s classic We’re Going on a world finding lots of precious things. All Hands Home education groups Bear Hunt. Children will embark on a ‘treasure We have a treasure chest of our own to Trails Teacher Forum hunt’, following a series of jigsaw clues to help us start our adventure. We unpack it Making a Booking find a monster hiding in one of the galleries. together, touching, smelling, listening and Through songs and role-play, children explore looking at the things inside. Some of our museum objects, including a sailing boat and treasures come from the sea and others the beautiful Prince Frederick’s Barge, and are valuable things made by people, giving negotiate a big blue ocean, a wide rushing us a chance to ask ‘What is treasure?’ and river, and a tall rocky cliff along the way. to wonder if we have any ourselves.

As we rummage in the chest, we discover jigsaw pieces which are clues to finding the captain’s treasure and we go on a hunt for precious things in the Museum. Finally we find Captain Drake’s missing treasure and discover why a dragon has been so important to our story.

6 7 Pirate day The World for Breakfast

Key stage: KS1 Key stage: KS1 School subject: Drama, Literacy, History School subject: Geography, History, Maths Location: National Maritime Museum Location: National Maritime Museum Session times: Fridays 10.15–14.00 Session times: Thursdays at 10.15, 11.30 and 13.00 Session price: £60 (maximum 30 pupils) Session price: £60 (maximum 30 pupils)

Ahoy me hearties! Welcome to a Ahoy! gallery Open up the shopping bag and find out Then the children work in groups, whole day of adventure, pirate-style! Scrub the decks and fire the ! Children what’s for breakfast. Who planted the talking, thinking, listening, looking and learn the ropes in our interactive gallery, where tea, picked the bananas or roasted the sniffing, to work out what the other Our action-packed day of fun and they can discover what life was like on board coffee beans? While we’re on the subject breakfast foods look like in their natural learning immerses children in the a . Our Visitor Assistants guide the where did the tablecloth come from? state and where in the world they come children through this hands-on experience world of pirates through timed from. Children look at maps, pictures specially designed for young pirates. activities that keep them busy with The ‘World for Breakfast’ takes children and objects from around the world, hands-on, interactive experiences. Pirate treasure trail on a journey around the world from the discovering where our food comes from When you arrive, you will receive a Take your children on a hunt through the breakfast table and introduces them to and how it sailed across the sea to us. bespoke timetable of the following Museum, looking for precious treasures to the topic of trade. The session starts as sessions, each lasting approximately 45 draw. We provide everything you need we unpack a bag of groceries filled with We come together to discuss our minutes, including a 12.30 lunch slot. for the children to sketch their treasures cereal, milk, tea, coffee, sugar, bread, findings and talk about how food travels onto a special paper pirate treasure chest. chocolate and bananas, and lay them across the sea from other countries. Pirate school When you are back at school, the paper can out on a tablecloth ready for a meal. be folded and glued to make a 3D chest, Get ready for a swashbuckling session with Finally, focusing in on the bananas ready for the children’s own treasures. our very own Alice Leghorn, fearless pirate, Starting with this familiar scene, in our bag, we use role play to think as she teaches you the swagger, songs and Come dressed for the part! we introduce children to the idea of about who gets paid for our food and scary faces that every pirate should know. trade and begin to wonder where our Children learn the pirate promise, design a to explore the idea of fair trade. food comes from and how it gets to Jolly Roger, choose a fiendish pirate name and agree never, ever to wash again. our breakfast table. Using globes, we work out where the is and discover which of our breakfast foods is produced in this country.

8 9 Art Inspirations Trafalgar Tales

Key stage: KS1, KS2 Key stage: KS2 School subject: Art School subject: Literacy Location: National Maritime Museum and the Queen’s House Location: National Maritime Museum Session times: Tuesdays at 10.15 and 12.30 Session times: Wednesdays at 10.15 and 12.30 Session price: £60 (maximum 30 pupils) Session price: £60 (maximum 30 pupils)

For centuries, artists have found Work with an artist to explore the Museum’s Join the crew on HMS Victory during the In the ‘Nelson, Navy, Nation’ gallery, inspiration in the striking buildings of world-class collection of paintings and objects most dramatic naval battle in history we consider life in the Navy at this and create a sketchbook of your own. Using a Greenwich and, more recently, the world- to inspire daring tales set at sea. time. Using a painting as inspiration, variety of drawing techniques, we experiment class collections of the Queen’s House children create a battle soundscape with colour, line, texture, tone, pattern and The sea has inspired thousands of and the National Maritime Museum. perspective. From a gripping scene of a famous and work together to retell the captivating stories and hosted many Stimulate your pupils’ creativity sea battle by great artist J.M.W. Turner, to story of a young boy who joined up through working with practising atmospheric paintings of boats at work on the a fearful battle. Our ‘Trafalgar Tales’ aged 14, took part in the Battle of artists to explore real works of art. Thames, to awe-inspiring sculptural figureheads, session explores the most famous Trafalgar and lived to tell the tale. we take children on an illuminating journey naval battle of all and equips children Choose from the following themes: of artworks to discover how artists and craft with the skills and enthusiasm to Mirroring the writing process, children makers respond to the drama of life at sea. create their own poetry and narrative then use the rich collections in the Sketching the sea stories. The National Maritime gallery to research content for their own Nelson’s Ship in a Bottle How have artists and craftspeople been inspired Museum has worked in collaboration stories. Will they be a ship’s captain, Inspired by Yinka Shonibare MBE’s sculpture by the sea? How can you capture the mystery with the National Literacy Trust to cook or a cabin boy? Will they be a and the magic of the ocean in a drawing? ‘Nelson’s Ship in a Bottle’, this session looks at how artists use objects to talk about develop this swashbuckling literacy woman hiding her gender to serve? themes including identity, trade and history. session and a wider unit of work What was life like on board? How will to support the development of they describe the events on the day Led by a practising artist, we use a variety of experimental drawing and collage techniques writing back in the classroom. of the battle and do they survive? By to explore scale, line, pattern and colour. As the end of the session the children We begin with the sea, considering a finale to the session, the children’s work will be ready and eager to write their is dramatically transformed in scale and the sights, sounds, smells and own stories back in the classroom collated to create a colourful, collaborative, feelings it evokes. Children collect and will take away their own logbook panoramic work to take back to school. sea-related words and phrases in containing writing plans. To add a sense the ‘Voyagers’ gallery and build a Portraits (from January 2017) of purpose to their writing, they will be poem together, before stepping 200 encouraged to send their stories back to Get close-up to kings, queens and explorers in years back in time as they are press- our world-renowned art collection as we think the Museum to be posted on our blog. ganged into the world of Lord about who had their portrait painted – and why. Nelson and the Napoleonic wars. Guided by a real artist, we explore portraits of people connected to the Queen’s House. We find clues in the paintings and wonder why men wore jewels and tights. Children try out portrait poses and learn the secret art of drawing faces.

10 11 Meet the Vikings: Raiders, invaders, traders Archive Adventures

Key stage: KS2 Key stage: KS2 School subject: Geography, History School subject: History, Literacy Location: National Maritime Museum Location: National Maritime Museum Session times: Mondays and Thursdays at 10.15, 11.30 and 13.00 Session times: Wednesdays at 10.15, 11.15, 12.30 and 13.00 Session price: £60 (maximum 30 pupils) Session price: £30 (maximum 15 pupils)

Vikings were great sailors, building We begin by investigating a ship Meet actor characters and get a rare sturdy ships and travelling huge model to discover how Viking vessels chance to examine genuine historical distances. Their seafaring talents were designed for both deep-sea documents from our collections. The took them far and wide, as they sailing and navigating shallow waters, ‘Archive Adventures’ sessions are a raided and invaded other lands, and analysing the different materials used unique opportunity to immerse children traded their goods. Our ‘Meet the to make a watertight vessel. Using in the lives of real pirates and explorers. Vikings’ session examines the skills role-play, children then become Viking and technologies they used to equip traders striking deals with a visiting Choose from the following themes: themselves for long sea journeys. Arab merchant. They haggle and Polar explorers negotiate as they exchange replica Viking goods for items from Arabia Stamping snow from his boots, here’s Tom Crean, hero of three trips to Antarctica led by – some precious, some for everyday famous explorers Scott and Shackleton. use. What makes a good trade? Tom was one of the toughest of the tough, saving Finally we use replica clothes to get a lives with a solo march across the frozen ice feel for what it was like to dress as a and surviving an 800-mile journey across the Viking and talk about which clothes were world’s roughest seas.Children use real historical documents to find out why adventurers like Tom worn for warmth and which showed the wanted to explore the freezing polar regions, and wearer’s wealth. just how they survived such extreme conditions.

The secret life of pirates Be afraid! You are in the company of the fearless pirate Alice Leghorn, known to her friends and enemies as ‘The Wolf’. Arrrrgh!

But Alice is also rather good at knitting.

Digging through real letters and diaries, children discover that pirates had neat handwriting and collected flowers. Comparing ideas about pirates with real documents, we discover that history can be full of surprises.

12 13 Ships, maps and trade: the Great Tea Race A Sailor went to Sea

Key stage: KS2 Key stage: KS2 School subject: Geography, History School subject: Literacy Location: Cutty Sark, National Maritime Museum Location: Cutty Sark, National Maritime Museum Session price: £140 (maximum 30 pupils) Session price: £140 (maximum 30 pupils)

Explore maps and play games at both Children will experience what life Visit both Cutty Sark and the National Cutty Sark and the National Maritime was like for merchant sailors as they Maritime Museum in one day to find Museum to find out how journeys become key characters from the ship’s all the inspiration children need to and trade connect the world. past, study maps and images, and write creative stories set at sea. recreate weather conditions on board Discover the story of tea at Cutty using simple drama techniques. At Cutty Sark, children will step into Sark and set sail on an exciting the shoes of the crew as they embark journey from Victorian London Time to race home! Which team will on an unforgettable voyage on board to China on board the ship. get back to London first? Venture the ship. Taking a letter written by a onto the Great Map at the National young apprentice as a starting point, Maritime Museum to explore groups will use their senses to explore objects and trade with our trails. prop and clues before recreating a journey at sea through role play.

At the National Maritime Museum, children explore the theme further with our self-guided story-ship trail.

14 15 ADDED EXTRAS All Hands gallery Complete an exciting day of activities by choosing up to two of the following free options when you make your booking: Key stage: KS2 School subject: Geography, History Location: National Maritime Museum The Great Map Session price: Free

Key stage: KS1, KS2 Key stage 2 school groups booking a visit to the Museum can choose a free session in our ‘All Hands’ children’s gallery for an exciting day of activities. School subject: Geography, History Location: National Maritime Museum Discover first-hand where sailors slept, what they ate, and the many dangerous and skilled jobs they did as they sailed around the world. Session price: Free Fire the cannon, steer the ship, hoist the sail and navigate the seven seas – and don’t forget to look out for rats and weevils! Take part in a variety of engaging, curriculum-linked activities on this giant map of the world. The Greatest Explorer app helps children discover distant lands and understand their connections to us and the Traveller’s Trails Trails game engages with themes of exploration through movement. Trails are provided free with a pre-booked schools session. Ahoy! gallery Please feel free to download and print one of our gallery trails to accompany an independent self-led visit with your class. Key stage: Early Years Foundation Stage, KS1 School subject: Maths, Literacy, Understanding the world Treasure Ahoy! trail (EYFS, KS1) Story Ship trail (KS2) What treasures can you find around Fill your ‘story ship’ with things Location: National Maritime Museum the Museum? Make the treasure chest you need for your journey. Session price: Free and draw your favourites inside. Maritime Greenwich Arts This gallery encourages learning through play and exploration, enabling Highlights trail (EYFS, KS1) Award Discover trail (KS2) children to find out about ships and the sea in a stimulating, fun-filled way. Look at some of the highlights of Trail booklets and teachers’ notes are the Museum’s collection. available free to Greenwich schools. They So jump aboard and fire up your imaginations with the chance to: can be used to achieve an Arts Award Find a Favourite trail (KS2) Discover qualification. Please ask our • stoke the boiler of a steamship What will you tell your family, school friends Bookings team for more information. • dress up as a passenger on a 1920s cruise liner and teachers about your favourite object? British Empire trail (KS3) • buy and sell fish in the fish market Nelson’s Ship in a Bottle trail (KS2) You are a researcher for a TV production Think about an object that you company which is making a documentary • fire a cannon in a sea battle would like to take home. programme about the British Empire and the sea. • plot your course in the captain’s cabin • catch seaside creatures in the rock pools • steer an icebreaker through the polar ice

16 17 British Empire Enquiry day Transatlantic Slavery Enquiry day

Key Stage: KS3 Key Stage: KS3 School Subject: History School Subject: History Location: National Maritime Museum Location: National Maritime Museum Session Times: Tuesdays 10.00–14.00 Session Times: Tuesdays 10.00–14.00 Price: Free (maximum 60 students) Price: Free (maximum 60 students)

How did trade with the Far Sessions focus on: This day offers students the chance Sessions focus on: East become an Empire? to explore the sensitive history of Working with objects the transatlantic slave trade and Working with objects Our British Empire Enquiry day helps Students are given rare access to the Museum’s enslaved peoples. By handling In this hands-on session, we explore the system students to explore this complex handling collections to help them explore the objects, examining archives and of transatlantic slavery by examining replica history of the relationship between the UK history, and, in particular, to consider visiting the galleries, students develop objects linked to the trade of enslaved peoples. and India first-hand. They examine original We consider how objects carry history and its contemporary legacies. their historical enquiry skills in the and replica objects, and study documents meaning, in the past and present, even affecting We start by considering the development that tell the story of life in India under the unique context of the Museum. how we handle them in this workshop. of the British Empire in America and Mughals, the emergence of the East India Company, trade relationships between 1600 We start by considering the legacy of Archives and manuscripts Asia, and then develop this learning and 1857 and, finally, the end of the Empire. the slave trade and students prepare Students are given access to the Museum’s over the course of facilitated sessions their own research questions, which unique and rare collection of original throughout the day to consider the Archives and manuscripts focus their learning in a series of account books and logs from slave ships, impact of the British Empire on India, Guided by the Museum’s Archives team, facilitated sessions throughout the day. and inventories from plantations, exposing the journey between Britain and India students investigate life on board ship on the Each session lasts between 30 and 45 them to some of the realities of the slave long journey between Britain and India using a trade and the attitudes of those who ran it. and the role of the East India Company. minutes and group leaders are given a letter and original ships logs, and consider the Guided by archive experts, we examine these use of this material as historical evidence. timetable on arrival at the Museum. fragile documents for answers to our research questions and reflect on how effective they ‘Traders: the East India are as sources of historical evidence. Company and Asia’ gallery Our ‘Traders’ gallery explores the 250-year ‘The Atlantic: Slavery, history of the East India Company; how it Trade, Empire’ gallery shaped relations between Britain and Asia Students gather information about across thousands of miles and affecting objects and images using digital tablets the lives of millions of people. Students in the gallery, constructing their own work in groups with digital tablets to collect interpretations of what these sources reveal information about the objects on display. about enslavement. They can access this Structured activities encourage them to information back at school and use it to make deductions and form opinions about create and share multimedia presentations. historical events and relationships. We end the day by coming together as a group, We come together at the end of the day to share discussing and sharing students’ findings our findings and identify any new thoughts or and responses, and reflecting on any other questions that have arisen during the visit. questions that have arisen during the visit.

18 19 The Spanish Armada Enquiry day MUSEUM AS MUSE

Key Stage: KS3 (KS4 and KS5 can be accommodated by special request) Nelson’s Ship in a Bottle School Subject: History Key Stage: KS4 and post-16 Location: National Maritime Museum School Subject: Art and Design Session Times: Wednesdays 10.00–14.15 Location: National Maritime Museum Price: Free (maximum 90 students) Session Times: Tuesdays 10.15 and 13.00 Price: Free (maximum 20 students) This session takes the Spanish Sessions focus on: Give your students the opportunity to Museum are containers of history and Armada as a focal point for developing work with a practising artist, as they identity. The students then work on independent historical enquiry skills. The Working with objects explore the National Maritime Museum’s their own pieces, responding to what National Maritime Museum has unique Using replica objects, we learn about life on world-class historical and contemporary they have seen and exploring ideas of collections and archives that bring this board ship and how the Spanish and English collections as a stimulus for critical ‘inside and outside’, ‘appropriation’ and story to life as students discover why adopted very different strategies. We also research and creative response. ‘transformation’. The work produced in consider how useful these sources are to the Spanish Armada failed and question this workshop can be added to portfolio assess why the Spanish Armada failed. whether the English actually won. This session focuses on concepts research and used in exam preparation. Archives and manuscripts such as history, identity, authenticity, Starting with a discussion of the Students get a rare opportunity to get close to site-specific art and appropriation, Please bring cameras and sketchbooks context for the Armada and how the original 16th-century manuscripts including and is relevant to the following exam to document your session. Spanish and English found themselves a spy book made for Francis Walsingham, themes: Memorabilia, Journeys, Inside/ at war, students participate in three Elizabeth I’s spymaster, and letters which Outside, Looking through, Past, Present sessions, which shape their learning reveal that England tried to attack Spain in and/or Future and Landmarks. throughout the day. Each session lasts 1589 with disastrous results. We discuss what the documents reveal about Elizabeth I as a an hour and group leaders are given a The starting point is Yinka Shonibare leader and consider the practical challenges MBE’s ‘Nelson’s Ship in a Bottle’ where timetable on arrival at the Museum. for historians working with original sources. students begin to analyse and discuss Investigations in the galleries the themes raised by the artist and his Teachers lead their students around the Museum work. The discussion moves on to the as they examine and investigate objects relating ‘Nelson Navy, Nation’ gallery, where to the Spanish Armada in our collections. we examine how similar themes are Working in small groups, students then assess addressed within the Museum’s historic these against further historical materials. collections and consider the idea that After a day of discovery and discussion, both ‘Nelson’s Ship in a Bottle’ and the students come together to share their findings and reflect on their learning, as well as identifying other questions that have arisen during their visit to the Museum.

20 21 LEISURE AND TOURISM LEISURE AND TOURISM Marketing and the Museum brand Customer service and the visitor

Key Stage: KS4 and Post-16 Key Stage: KS4 and Post-16 School Subject: Leisure and Tourism School Subject: Leisure and Tourism Location: National Maritime Museum Location: National Maritime Museum Session Times: Mondays and Thursdays 10.00, 11.30 and 13.15 Session Times: Mondays and Thursdays 10.00, 11.30 and 13.15 Price: Free (maximum 20 students) Price: Free (maximum 20 students) session, we encourage students to How do you provide consistent visitor develop a critical analysis of our work. experience to millions of visitors every year? That’s the challenge faced by We start by reviewing mission Royal Museums Greenwich, one of statements from international London’s leading visitor attractions. companies and organizations, and students draw up their own mission In this session, students discover that statement for the Museum. Then we great customer service starts with a discuss how the mission statement deep understanding of the organization’s relates to our marketing strategy. mission. We start by reviewing mission statements from international Guided by the ‘four Ps’ of marketing companies and organizations, and (Product, Price, Place and Promotion) students draw up their own mission as well as the Museum’s internal statement for the Museum. practices, students produce an analysis of a Royal Museums We then discuss customer service Greenwich marketing campaign. within the Museum and identify Royal Museums Greenwich internal customers before we look encompasses four sites: the National Together we discuss how the visual at the challenges of delivering Maritime Museum, the Queen’s elements of a marketing concept evolve, consistent and audience-appropriate House, the Cutty Sark and the Royal comparing initial ideas with the final external customer service. Observatory, Greenwich. It attracts designs for a promotional campaign. as many as three million visitors Students then use information Students work in groups exploring a year. Our Marketing department from the Marketing department real-life customer service scenarios, is at the heart of the organization to prepare a SWOT analysis. offering them an opportunity to and essential to our success. implement and evaluate their learning. The session ends with a question In this session, students get first- and answer session with a member We end the session with a question hand experience of how we create of our Marketing team. To get the and answer session with a member and develop marketing campaigns for maximum benefit from this Q&A, it of our Visitor Experience team. To get our sites, which attract visitors from can be helpful if the students have the maximum benefit from this Q&A, all over the world. Throughout the done some preparation in advance. it can be helpful if the students have done some preparation in advance.

22 23 LEADING LIVES STUDY DAY SEND provision

Horatio Nelson The National Maritime Museum is a welcoming and engaging place to bring learners with a wide range of needs. Key Stage: Post-16 Suitable facilities include: School Subject: Business Studies • ‘Ahoy!’ gallery Location: National Maritime Museum • ‘All Hands’ gallery Session Times: Wednesdays 10.30–15.00 • Lunch room Price: Free (maximum 60 students) • Wheelchair access to all floors Horatio Nelson was a great leader and a Students then work in groups, national hero, arguably the first celebrity. participating in a workshop in the • Accessible toilet From relatively modest beginnings he Museum’s vibrant RE·THINK space and The Museum is currently developing facilitated sessions for rose to lead the Royal Navy to a series a digital activity in our ‘Nelson, SEND schools. If you are interested in informing the provision for of dazzling victories against French and Navy, Nation’ gallery. The workshop SEND learners at the Museum then please get in touch. allied fleets, culminating in his death at focuses on issues in modern business the at the age of 47 in practice. The digital activity focuses on 1805. His leadership was distinguished six key areas of the Business Studies Home education groups by superb man-management and curriculum, relating these to gallery The Museum works with all types of learners and home-education groups he also possessed tactical brilliance objects. The students learn more are welcome to take part in our schools programme. Please read our and tremendous courage. about the objects through short films guidelines for making the most out of your facilitated school sessions. accessed on iPads and then reflect In this study day, students use on questions about modern business To discuss your visit or to make a booking, call Nelson’s example as a framework for practice, recording their answers. Monday–Friday between 10.00 and 16.00 understanding how leaders tackle the core challenges facing every group In the afternoon, students participate in an Tel: +44 (0)20 8312 6608 and organization – motivation, team- exciting immersion in real-time decision- building, crisis management and making through the crisis leading up to the E-mail: bookings@rmg co. .uk fostering a strong, shared identity. Battle of Trafalgar. They are put in Nelson’s position, given the information that he had Teachers Forum We start by taking a look at leadership available and asked to make decisions. through Nelson’s career in a dynamic and Join our Teachers Forum! We want your advice and fast-paced introductory session, a blend The final session of the day offers expertise to help us develop our schools offer and in of film, discussion and activities. Nelson students a chance to put their questions return you will have exclusive access to exhibition and his context are analysed by leadership to a business leader who will present a previews and free opportunities to try out our new experts from the Navy and private personal view of today’s leadership learning programmes. sector, and by the Museum’s Curator of challenges. Naval History. Students are encouraged Email Martha Burns Findlay to sign‑up: to think critically about his leadership mfindlay@rmg co. .uk . skills. What made him so successful? How did he gain the trust of his men?

24 25 Making your booking

School sessions Sessions do not need to be paid for Suggested ratios of adults To make sure you get the most out Admissions and prices on point of booking but do need to of your visit, we recommend that be paid for in advance of the visit, teachers arrange a preliminary • Early Years (all My First Visit sessions): Foundation stage 1 adult for £30 per group (15 children max) over the phone by credit/debit card. and Key Stage 1 every 5 pupils visit to plan practical details, and Teachers may pay by cheque but an 1 adult for to assist in briefing group leaders • Archive Adventures: £30 per administration fee will be applied. Key Stage 2 and pupils before they arrive. group (15 children max) every 8 pupils Key Stages 3 1 adult for • All other Key Stage 1 and Key Booking a visit Download our Risk Assessment for and 4 every 10 pupils schools groups visiting the National Stage 2 sessions: £60 per School visits must be booked in group (30 children max) Maritime Museum and Queen’s House advance. To book a session, please Cancelling or amending • KS3,4 and Post-16 Sessions are free contact the Bookings team, Monday– your booking Getting to the National Maritime Friday between 10.00 and 16.00. Museum and Queen’s House • Cross-site visits with the Cutty Sark If you need to reduce numbers or are charged on a separate scale. See Tel: +44 (0)20 8312 6608 cancel your booking for any booked session pages for more information We are located in Zone 2, 20 minutes activities you must tell us at least from central London by DLR or rail. • Please note: all sessions are Email: bookings@rmg co. .uk 28 days before the date of your Parking is limited in Greenwich so please free to Greenwich schools visit. We cannot accept cancellations and Special Schools. When you book we will point out any use public transport if possible. Whether support materials relevant to your visit. or amendments made by phone or you are arriving by coach or on public • Admission to National Maritime We will send them with your booking voicemail, so cancellations and changes transport we have useful information Museum and the Queen’s House must be made in writing by either: about parking and walking times. is free to school groups, including confirmation. When you call please ensure most special exhibitions provid- you have the following information: Post: School Bookings, National Maps and floor plans of our site ed this is booked in advance. • date and timings of your visit Maritime Museum, Greenwich, These are flat rates per session and a range of alternatives London, SE10 9NF Arriving at the Museum and non-negotiable. • the learning needs of your Email: bookings@rmg co. .uk School groups enter via the group, including any Special Group Entrance on Romney Road. School groups booking one of our paid Educational Needs If you cancel less than 28 days in A learning team host will meet sessions may book a lunch space, advance, we will not refund the cost groups here on their arrival. Children’s Gallery or Great Map tablets, • whether you want to book a lunch room and will need to use the of the session. If you have not already or collect printed copies of our trails at no cloakroom to store coats and bags paid by time of cancellation, you additional cost. Ask the Bookings team for will still be invoiced for that cost. availability on booking your paid session. • the school’s details including full postal address, telephone and email address Arrange a preliminary visit to • the number of pupils and the National Maritime Museum accompanying adults. Pupils and Queen’s House must be accompanied by an adult at all times on site.

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Lunch and cloakroom facilities A lunch space and group lockers to store coats and bags are available for you to use if you are attending a facilitated session. Please book these in advance.

Access The National Maritime Museum is committed to developing its educational programme and collections for everyone to enjoy. Most educational sessions involve handling objects and all can be adapted for students with Special Educational Needs. Please let us know about your access needs when you book.

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