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York Castle Museum Home to the world famous recreated Victorian Street, Kirkgate, York Castle Museum makes an exciting and WORKSHOPS ...... 03 - 10 educational day out. Brand new for 2014 is an exhibition to mark the centenary of the First World War, York Castle Museum 1914: When the World Changed Forever. There are also WORKSHOPS ...... 11 - 17 Period Rooms, the Toy Stories exhibition, a groovy Sixties Gallery and the interactive Prison Experience. BOOKING It is the perfect venue to explore and understand how INFORMATION ...... 18 - 19 people have lived over the past 300 years. FREE Downloadable trails and resources for self-led visits are available on the school pages of our website, including: • KS1 & KS2 Literacy and Numeracy trails • KS1 Toys and Homes trails • KS2 Victorian Childhood & Rich and Poor trails • KS2 Kirkgate Maths Quiz • KS2 Prison History Trail

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The Yorkshire Museum has exciting and vibrant exhibitions on Roman and 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. FREE Downloadable trails and resources for self-led visits are available on the school pages of our website, including; Follow us on Twitter: • KS1 & KS2 Literacy @YMT_Learning and Numeracy trails • KS2 Dinosaur Detectives trail Find us on Facebook: /YorkshireMuseum • KS2 Exploring Eboracum /YorkCastleMuseum Roman trail /YorkArtGallery • KS2 Star trail

02 | BOOK YOUR PLACE TODAY! Tel: 01904 687 633 or Email: [email protected] York Art Gallery EARLY YEARS The Gallery is closed for a major refurbishment and due to reopen in 2015. FOUNDATION STAGE Art workshops are available at York Castle Museum and the Yorkshire Museum. AT Yorkshire Museum Arts Award Discover and Explore We can support your delivery of DISCOVERY HAMPERS Arts Award Discover and Explore. Discovery Hampers are available for use with early years groups on the museum galleries. These are free to use but must be booked. Hampers contain books, puppets, soft or plastic props, magnifying glasses, song sheets Many of our workshops include a practical and activity ideas. Options are Animals or art, craft or role play activity which can Dinosaurs & Fossils. contribute towards the requirements of: Part A: Participation in a range of arts activities. DINOSAUR DIG Your visit can also contribute towards: 1 hour | FS | Part B: Children will dig for fossils and identify Knowledge (or exploration) of the work of the fossils they find. There is the chance to artists (and arts organisations.) Please let us handle real dinosaur fossils and to discover know when you book if you would like more how fossils are made. Activities include detailed information. making a fossil cast to take home, designing their own camouflaged dinosaur and doing To make a booking the dinosaur walk! please contact: ROMAN LIFE Telephone: 1 hour | FS | Children will discover what life was like 01904 687 633 in Roman times through handling Roman objects, dressing up as a Roman solider Email: and doing Roman jobs. They will take part in activities including groupbookings@ being put through their paces in a drill ymt.org.uk session, making a mosaic and using a quern stone. Full booking details on pages 18 - 19

For more information please visit www.yorkmuseumstrust.org.uk | 03 Yorkshire Museum | WORKSHOPS THE CLASSICAL PREHISTORY WORLD PREHISTORIC NEW! FOR 2014 THE ANCIENT GREEKS PROGRESS KS2 1 hour 30 minutes | KS2 | 1 hour 30 minutes | | This workshop covers how we know and find Pupils have to plan a festival of celebration out about the past before written history. for their new city state in this interactive Pupils can handle prehistoric objects from workshop. The first decision is to decide which the Stone Age, Bronze Age and Iron Age and God they want to represent them. They are discuss what life was like in each period and assisted in this by a proud, retired Greek identify some of the key developments. There athlete who helps the children discover more are hands on activities to take part in for about everyday life in Ancient Greece, pupils to explore some aspects of everyday through handling genuine museum artefacts. life including; building a stone age shelter and Pupils take part in a circus of hands-on dressing for a ritual, making and decorating a activities including rehearsing a play telling bronze age pygmy cup and creating colourful the story of Perseus, practising the long jump iron age jewellery. for the celebration games, making a peplos and dressing for the festival.

THE EGYPTIAN WAY OF DEATH 1 hour 30 minutes | KS2 | The group meet a Victorian Egyptologist who is investigating the mysterious tomb of Kemmet. To discover the lost statue of Anubis pupils must work through a series of challenges including the mummification and embalming process using our specially constructed mummy, wrapping a mummy Discover what and making their own amulet. Pupils also handle genuine Egyptian artefacts to explore it was like to be Egyptian beliefs about death and the afterlife. a soldier in the If they can decipher the final hieroglyphic Roman army message of Kemmet and apply their knowledge of the Egyptian Way of Death they may discover where the statue is hidden.

04 | BOOK YOUR PLACE TODAY! Tel: 01904 687 633 or Email: [email protected] ROMANS THE REAL ROMANS EXPLORING EBORACUM 1 hour | KS1 | 1 hour 30 minutes | KS2 | Pupils will meet a well to-do Roman citizen Pupils meet the Censor for Eboracum, who and find out about their life in Eboracum needs their help to complete his records and (Roman York) and what possessions they correctly identify the citizens from the slaves. owned. Pupils will handle real artefacts from Pupils dress as Romans and then through the collection. Then the pupils dress as handling real artefacts and taking part in Romans and take on the work of slaves; hands on activities the pupils investigate the including using a quern stone, designing lives of six characters who lived in Roman a mosaic and writing roman numerals. York. The activities include using a quern stone, creating roman hairstyles, building a roman arch and trying on replica roman armour. The session brings to life how both the rich and poor lived and involves pupils in teamwork and problem solving.

A LEGIONARY’S LIFE 1 hour 30 minutes | KS2 | Pupils discover what it was like being a soldier in the Roman army and living in the Fortress of Eboracum (Roman York). Pupils will explore Roman military artefacts and learn about soldier’s equipment, armour, battle formations and weapons before being put through their paces in a drill session. FOR £25 ADD

FIRE AWAY! 45 minutes | KS2 | In groups, pupils design and build their own model catapult to discover who has the most fire power! This is a special session that can be added onto A Legionary’s Life.

For more information please visit www.yorkmuseumstrust.org.uk | 05 Yorkshire Museum | WORKSHOPS ANGLO SAXONS VIKINGS LIFE IN ANGLO NEW! VIKING VOYAGES SAXON YORK FOR 2014 1 hour | KS1 & KS2 | 1 hour 30 minutes | KS2 | Pupils are prompted to imagine that they have travelled back 1000 years in time to Pupils will meet Oshere the Thane or his wife experience Viking life first hand. Costumes Aelle, and decide if they are willing to be and Viking names help to set the scene of a Oath Helpers for Eadgar, accused of stealing Viking village in Denmark whose inhabitants bread made for the Thane’s feast. The session have to vote on whether or not to set sail in explores life in Anglo Saxon York in the 11th a longboat for a new life, and decide what to century. Pupils can handle museum artefacts take. The class act out a saga of a perilous and take part in activities to find out about voyage to Jorvik and on ‘arrival’ make some home life, manufacture, artistry and religion leather belts to sell. in Eoforwic. Activities include braiding, taking part in a ‘feast’, dressing up and practising intricate engravings. JORVIK LIFE 1 hour 30 minutes | KS2 | Who were the Vikings? When did they come to York and how did they live? In this workshop, the class are introduced to a family of six characters and explore everyday life in Jorvik, from food and clothes to playing and working. Hands on activities include grinding grain on a quern, playing trip trap troll, weaving and writing; children will also handle genuine objects.

Travel back 1000 years in time to experience Viking life first hand

06 | BOOK YOUR PLACE TODAY! Tel: 01904 687 633 or Email: [email protected] INVADERS TUDORS THE STRUGGLE FOR YORK PRINCE & PAUPERS; 1 hour 30 minutes | KS2 | LIFE IN TUDOR YORK This session explores Anglo Saxon and Viking 1 hour 30 minutes | KS2 | invaders and settlers. Pupils will discover the Explore the life of Brother Thomas, former story of the Anglo Saxon and Viking struggle soldier and monk during the time of Henry for England and how rule in York changed VIII. He is now struggling to survive in the between 410 AD (when the Romans left) lanes of Tudor York and needs the help of your and 1066 AD. Pupils will handle museum group of beggars to help him find three artefacts which demonstrate why York was important objects which he can take to the an important target for Viking raiders and new Queen Elizabeth. These objects will help take part in practical activities to reinforce him gain back his lost lands and wealth. the chronology of the period, including participating in a costumed timeline. The Handle objects from merchants, traders, session also includes the stories of Kings and knights and monks to find out more about Rulers such as Athelstan, first King of England, the life of people in Tudor York. Learn about and Eric Bloodaxe. illuminated manuscripts and dining etiquette in Tudor times.

Handle objects from merchants, traders, knights and monks

For more information please visit www.yorkmuseumstrust.org.uk | 07 Yorkshire Museum | WORKSHOPS SCIENCE ALL ABOARD THE COSMODOME BEAGLE! LIFE OF 30 minutes | KS1 & KS2 | £40 | CHARLES DARWIN NEW! Groups of 30 FOR 2014 Take a trip through space inside our inflatable 1 hour | KS2 | £90 | Cosmodome and learn more about the planets Actor Led session and their moons which make up our solar Meet Charles Darwin and sail with him across system. After this the class can see what to the Southern Seas, a journey that opens his look for in the winter night sky and also how mind and challenges his perceptions of the to find it! natural world. Share his discoveries of how Available to book in December and January. species adapt to suit their ever changing environment. Handle objects (from the Yorkshire Museum collection) and help SPECIAL SPACE DAYS IN Darwin apply his theories of evolution. DECEMBER AND JANUARY £150 for the day TELESCOPES Book the Telescopes workshop, Cosmodome 1 hour 30 minutes | KS2 | £90 | session and the Observatory tours for a full This session complements a tour of the space day for your class! Includes Star trails Observatory and explores what stars are and and a special dressing up box. how they have been used throughout history; as navigation and as a source of superstition and stories. Pupils will look at Victorian DINOSAUR DESIGNS telescopes and explore how telescopes work. 1 hour | KS1 | All pupils will have the chance to make their Pupils wear white coats and become scientists own to take home. to discover what fossils are and what we know about the dinosaurs by studying them. They will handle fossils and dinosaur bones – OBSERVATORY TOURS and there is the chance to see and hold 20 minutes | £20 | Groups of 15 | fossilised dino poo! Pupils will make their own Housed in the Observatory that nestles in fossil casts and design their own camouflaged the Museum Gardens, children have the dinosaur to take home. opportunity to get up close to the working telescope made in 1850 to understand how it works and moves. This session is for small groups, which allows better access to the telescope and also includes a fun and informative video. For a class, the other half can do a Star trail inside the museum, which will be sent out with the booking information.

08 | BOOK YOUR PLACE TODAY! Tel: 01904 687 633 or Email: [email protected] DINOSAUR DETECTIVES FORENSIC SCIENCE: 1 hour 30 minutes | KS2 | WHO WERE YOU? The museum needs help to identify a box of 1 hour 30 minutes | KS2 | mystery dinosaur fossil bones. Pupils become assistant curators in this interactive A skeleton has been found in the Museum investigation; handling dinosaur fossils and Gardens. The pupils become forensic scientists taking part in five mini investigations to and investigate the evidence to find out who uncover clues to the identity of the mystery that person was: a Roman child, a Viking dinosaur. The investigations will use problem warrior or a Medieval monk? solving and maths skills. The groups will undertake a number of scientific and archaeological investigations to determine the gender, age and means of death of the skeleton. Look out for the Red Herrings too! Pupils have the chance to handle real artefacts and examine real human remains.

WORKING SCIENTIFICALLY SLIME! 1 hour 30 minutes | KS2 | This is a fun but practical investigation on states of matter, which involves making slime! In groups they will design and carry out their own experiment investigating viscosity and the flow rate of slime. Pupils will discover which animals rely on slime for their survival and why, with examples from the museum spirit collections; including gastropods, newts, seaweed and the ‘doctor fish’.

For more information please visit www.yorkmuseumstrust.org.uk | 09 Yorkshire Museum | WORKSHOPS ART MUSEUM TOURS PORTRAITS IN We now also offer tours NEW! for school groups based FOR 2014 YOUR POCKET around the following themes: 1 hour 30 minutes | KS1 & KS2 | DINOSAURS Looking at miniature portraits from York Art Gallery’s collection and coins from the 30 minutes | KS1 & KS2 | £30 Yorkshire Museum collection, pupils will consider why we carry portraits and what ROMANS they can tell us about the people they 30 minutes | KS2 | £30 portray. Pupils will search for faces in the Museum displays and design their own OBJECT HANDLING portrait coin on shrinkable plastic.

Add £15 for optional 15 minute object SENSING THE GARDENS handling session. 1 hour 30 minutes | KS1 & KS2 | If you book two tours and object handling sessions for a class of 30 we can offer a Take a tour of the museum gardens using all SPECIAL RATE OF £70 . your senses and discover the sounds, smells and textures all around. Pupils will record Tours and object handling sessions are for a their tour on a sensory map and then paint maximum of 15 pupils at a time; so when one a watercolour of their favourite flower or half of your class is on a tour, the rest can use part of the garden. Please come prepared one of our self-led resources linked in with for wet weather. the theme (which we will provide for you). Photographs of the gardens during different Groups can then swap seasons will allow pupils to consider how the over so that each child gardens change. KS2 groups will also use will have completed historic photographs to consider how the both activities. gardens have changed over time.

Learn about a Roman soldier’s equipment, armour, battle formations and weapons

10 | BOOK YOUR PLACE TODAY! Tel: 01904 687 633 or Email: [email protected] York Castle Museum | WORKSHOPS EARLY YEARS FOUNDATION STAGE Workshops are for a maximum of 30 pupils. National Curriculum links can be found on the schools pages of our website.

KNIGHTS AT THE CASTLE BILL IN A CHINA SHOP 1 hour | FS | 1 hour | FS | In this hands-on workshop discover what life Join Bill, a friendly Bull who loves to collect was like in York Castle hundreds of years ago china, and his friends in a story of broken and handle some real medieval objects. rules and broken teacups! In this workshop Activities include trying on a replica helmet, based on the story by Katie McAllaster feeling the weight of chain mail, holding a Weaver pupils can decorate their own paper real sword, smelling the smells of the castle plate, set a tea table, make a playdough and making a cardboard helmet. ‘china’ cup, piece the jigsaw plates together and learn how to package china carefully in BURGLAR BILL our china shop. 1 hour | FS | Using the story of Burglar Bill by Janet and BREAD AND BUTTER Alan Ahlberg as inspiration, this workshop Available Spring and Summer terms. offers a variety of activities for young 1 hour 30 minutes | FS | children. They will use a feely bag to discover objects from the story, make their own It’s time to make breakfast in this practical Burglar Bill or Betty mask to take home, session in the restored Mill. Children will learn how to care for a baby and try a couple handle butter making equipment from the of matching activities. past before making their own butter using a replica butter churn, with chance to eat it **There is also the option for groups booking with bread in fine weather (or take it home to this workshop to borrow an activity to use enjoy later!). Other activities include setting after the workshop on Kirkgate, our Victorian old and new breakfast tables, storytelling with street, where children are encouraged to spot ‘The King’s Breakfast’ by AA Milne and the items that Bill stole and find the shops exploring how the mill works to produce flour where they belong. to make bread. WASH DAY 1 hour | FS | Using original possers, dolly pegs and tubs, children are set to work for a taste of Victorian domestic life helping Dolly White with the weekly wash. They also have the opportunity to peg out clothes, match up all the odd socks and investigate wash day objects from the past.

For more information please visit www.yorkmuseumstrust.org.uk | 11 York Castle Museum | WORKSHOPS CHRISTMAS AT FAMOUS PEOPLE NEW! THE CASTLE SUFFRAGETTES! FOR 2014 1 hour | KS1 | This December means Christmas at the York Castle Museum so book a festive Discover more about what it meant to be a workshop to get into the spirit of the season! Suffragette and the significant contribution that Emily Davison made towards women's rights, before donning time-travelling VICTORIAN CHRISTMAS costumes and going on a Suffragette march 1 hour | FS & KS1 | on the Victorian Street, Kirkgate. Listen to the rhyme of ‘The Night before Christmas’, make coconut ice, traditional FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE decorations and go window shopping on Kirkgate, our Victorian street, in this festive 1 hour | KS1 | workshop celebrating a Victorian Christmas. Pupils meet a nurse or solider who is trying to recruit new nurses on Kirkgate. They recount the story of their friend Florence VICTORIAN CHRISTMAS Nightingale, the improvements she made 1 hour | KS2 | in Scutari and why she is known as the Be like Ebenezer at the end of A Christmas ‘Lady of the Lamp.’ There is chance to see Carol and rejoice in a Victorian Christmas. and handle real artefacts from the Crimean Pupils will make sugar mice, create a magical War and discover more about improvements Christmas card and go window shopping for in Victorian medicine and hygiene in hands presents on Kirkgate, our Victorian street. on activities.

QUEEN VICTORIA’S NEW! EMPIRE FOR 2014 1 hour | KS1 & KS2 | Meet a visitor to the 1851 Great Exhibition who will help pupils discover inventions from across Queen Victoria's Empire. Activities include creating an image using Victorian techniques, investigating mystery objects and exploring technology on the Victorian Street, Kirkgate. KS2 pupils will also have the opportunity to examine Victorian coins and their monetary system.

12 | BOOK YOUR PLACE TODAY! Tel: 01904 687 633 or Email: [email protected] BRITISH HISTORY BEYOND 1066 VICTORIAN CLASSROOM TROUBLED TIMES IN 1 hour | KS1 & KS2 | VICTORIAN YORK Pupils will discover what it felt like to go to 1 hour | KS2 | £100 per session | school in Victorian times and might be glad Led by an actor to get back to your classroom after an hour with our Victorian school teacher! Our Victorian street, Kirkgate, is always full of characters, but none as colourful as Joseph During the lesson, which is set in our Victorian Beedham – street trader and loveable rogue. schoolroom, pupils will use the abacus and try Pupils take a tour of Kirkgate with Joseph, but some simple mental arithmetic, practise their when he is arrested for theft, they become his handwriting, apply their reading skills and judge and jury and help to decide his fate. take part in drill helping them to feel fully Will Joseph be found guilty or innocent? immersed in Victorian childhood. MEDICINE IN VICTORIAN ENGLAND 1 hour | KS2 | In this cross-curricular science and history workshop, pupils will visit the newly refurbished pharmacy shop in Kirkgate, the Victorian Street, where they will have the opportunity to find out about just how different medicine and health was 150 years ago! Activities include trying their hand at pill rolling, medicine mixing and diagnosing Find out why diseases rife at the time, before deciding on Florence Nightingale the best treatment (all in a safe way!). was known as the ‘Lady of the Lamp’ THE SWINGING SIXTIES 1 hour 30 minutes | KS2 | Swing on down to the Castle Museum and explore the decade when the cars and the skirts were mini! Pupils visit our Sixties gallery and are plunged into the vibrant sights and sounds of 1960s Britain. They will try on costume, listen to music, explore the everyday items found in houses, and even ‘launch’ a space rocket! This session uses real artefacts and archive footage to set the decade in its post war context; giving pupils an appreciation of just how much Britain had changed by the end of the 1960s.

For more information please visit www.yorkmuseumstrust.org.uk | 13 York Castle Museum | WORKSHOPS 1914 - 1918 THE FIRST WORLD WAR TOTAL WAR A CHILD OF THE NEW! 1 hour 30 minutes | KS2 | GREAT WAR FOR 2014 Pupils will discover how and why the First 1 hour | KS1 | World War started and what life was like as Pupils explore what life was like for a child a Tommy in the trenches at the front, as well (Walter) living through the First World War as what was happening back home, through and investigate some of the roles played by accounts such as newspapers and letters. members of his family in supporting the war Supporting hands on group activities will effort. Real artefacts will illustrate the stories cover the importance of the advances in of ordinary people who lived through an technology and communication, the vital role extraordinary time and pupils will have the of women on the home front and what life chance to handle objects. Hands on activities was like for children. Real artefacts, including include bandaging, shell filling and sending weapons, will illustrate the stories of ordinary semaphore messages. Pupils will also go away people who lived through an extraordinary with their own poppy seeds to plant at home. time and pupils will have the chance to handle objects. ELECTRICITY 1 hour | KS2 | NEW! ONE MAN’S WAR FOR 2014 1 hour | KS1 & KS2 | NEW! After a brief tour of museum FOR 2014 £100 per session | displays noting the change in Led by an actor use of electricity through our recent past, pupils will look at its role in the First World Meet Great War veteran Lieutenant Frank War before making their own Morse Code Wood (actor, Chris Cade) and play a part in machine to take back to school. This his story. Be recruited into his regiment: the workshop provides a great cross-curricular East Riding of Yorkshire Yeomanry and set sail approach to the subject. for Alexandria. Help him relive his experiences of the Middle Eastern Theatre of War, including defending the Suez Canal, fighting the Battles of Gaza and being part of the last great cavalry charge in Britain’s military history! But first, be trained and prepared for the desert. Learn to follow orders and forget home comforts as you look to take on the Turks as part of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force. Lawrence of Arabia, camaraderie and patriotism inspire you to keep going despite intense heat, disease and heavy casualties.

14 | BOOK YOUR PLACE TODAY! Tel: 01904 687 633 or Email: [email protected] CRIME AND PUNISHMENT AT YORK PRISON CRIME AND NEW! LITERACY - DICK TURPIN PUNISHMENT FOR 2014 1 hour 30 minutes | KS2 | 1 hour | KS2 | Pupils explore the life of the infamous highwayman Dick Turpin, and discover what Pupils explore the real cells of York Prison and life was like in prison during the eighteenth discover what a grim place it was to live in century. There is chance to visit the original through discovering the story of real felon cells in the Prison Experience, including the Simon Hargreaves imprisoned here, during cell where Turpin was actually held. Handling this character led session. Pupils can handle real prison artefacts help bring the story to original artefacts used in the prison over its life. Varied accounts of Dick Turpin’s character last hundred years, look at prison diets are examined and pupils encouraged to think throughout history and even carry out a about how stories can influence our view of prisoner's daily exercise. This workshop is a history. Was Turpin a hero or a villain? Pupils great starting point for studying crime and will use a writing frame to plan and begin punishment through time. writing their version of Turpin’s tale.

ART - YORK PRISON: CAN THIS BUILDING SPEAK? 1 hour 30 minutes | KS2 | In this cross-curricular workshop, combining art and history, children are encouraged to examine the evidence and investigate how the museum building has changed over time, using old photographs and plans of York Castle and York Debtors’ Prison. They will look at the outside remains of the 15th century castle and the 18th century Debtors’ Prison area to spot original features. Along the way, the children make their own drawings to record their findings.

Explore the real cells of York Prison and discover what a grim place it was

For more information please visit www.yorkmuseumstrust.org.uk | 15 York Castle Museum | WORKSHOPS CHANGES WITHIN SIGNIFICANT LIVING MEMORY HISTORICAL PLACES TOYS THROUGH TIME CASTLE LIFE 1 hour | FS & KS1 | 1 hour | KS1 | Pupils take a peep into our old toy chest York Castle Museum is built on the site of to discover toys from the past. Through one of York’s medieval castles and the original hands-on exploration they are encouraged curtain wall can still be seen. Pupils can to discuss the similarities and differences discover what homes were like for people between toys, how they work, and the living in the middle ages in this interactive materials from which they are made. workshop. Different aspects of life in a medieval castle are explored; the home, BREAD AND BUTTER the defensive fortress and the religious space. Pupils can try on medieval-style armour as 1 hour 30 minutes | KS1 | well as handle original objects from the Children will visit our mill area in this museums collections such as pottery, arrow workshop based around The King’s Breakfast heads, coins and stained glass. For brave by AA Milne. They will make butter using a pupils there is a chance to try and identify replica butter churn along with trying their various castle smells! hand at grinding wheat, taking rubbings with wax crayons and investigating old butter making equipment. We will then visit the mill where children will have the opportunity to learn the basics of the milling process and see the huge machinery up close. In fine weather, children can sit outside the mill to enjoy the butter they helped to make on bread, or the butter can be taken back to your setting to taste later.

WASH DAY 1 hour | KS1 | Using original possers, dolly pegs and tubs, pupils are set to work for a taste of Victorian domestic life helping Set pupils to Dolly White with the weekly wash. work for a taste They also have the opportunity to of Victorian distinguish wash day objects from the past and present and decide what domestic life Dolly’s mystery objects were used for.

16 | BOOK YOUR PLACE TODAY! Tel: 01904 687 633 or Email: [email protected] MUSEUM TOURS COSTUME BOXES

We now also offer tours for school groups Class sets of period costume for children – based around the following themes: and for accompanying adults – can be hired for the day for only £10! HOMES 30 minutes | KS1 | £30 | VICTORIANS | KS1 & KS2 VICTORIANS FIRST WORLD WAR 30 minutes | KS1 | £30 | (SOLDIERS) | KS2 VICTORIAN LIFE Please book in advance on 01904 687633 . 30 minutes | KS2 | £30 | THE GREAT WAR 30 minutes | KS2 | £30 | HISTORY HAMPERS

TIME DETECTIVES Sets of History Hampers will also be 30 minutes | KS1 & KS2 | £30 | available to book for groups to use on the galleries. They include activities such as BEHIND BARS - spot the difference, question cards, toys DICK TURPIN AND to play with and drama prompts. LIFE AS A DEBTOR They are available for: 30 minutes | KS2 | £30 | HOUSES AND HOMES | KS1

OBJECT HANDLING VICTORIAN CHILDHOOD | KS2 Add £15 for optional 15 minute object handling session. Don’t forget to check out the wide variety of trails available to download from our If you book two tours and object handling website too. sessions for a class of 30 we can offer a SPECIAL RATE OF £70 . Tours and object handling sessions are for a maximum of 15 pupils at a time; so when one half of your class is on a tour, the rest can use one of our self-led resources linked in with the theme (which we will provide for you). Groups can then swap over so that each child will have completed both activities.

For more information please visit www.yorkmuseumstrust.org.uk | 17 York Museums Trust | BOOKING INFORMATION To make a booking please contact: Telephone: 01904 687 633

You will find our ‘Learning Journey’ resources, designed to support your visit, on the York Museums Trust pages at www.mylearning.org Email: groupbookings@ ymt.org.uk

All our sites have been Please have the following awarded the Learning Outside the Classroom Quality Badge. information ready: • Name of workshop • Preferred date and time of visit

York Art Gallery, York Castle Museum and the • School contact details Yorkshire Museum & Gardens have all been awarded the Sandford Award for Heritage • Number and ages of students Education in recognition of our high quality educational services and facilities.

18 | BOOK YOUR PLACE TODAY! Tel: 01904 687 633 or Email: [email protected] Number of adults Admission Prices Please have the correct ratio York Schools have free entry to both the of children / adults: Yorkshire Museum and York Castle Museum. Nursery & Reception Please note group rates don't apply One adult per four children for parties of less than ten. Key Stage 1 & 2 One adult per six children York Castle Museum Opening times: Risk Assessments 9.30am – 5pm daily Risk Assessments for each workshop are sent (10am, Fridays in term time) out with the Teachers Pack and can also be Admission: downloaded from our website. Teachers are School Adult: £7.00 offered a free site visit in advance to plan School Child: £4.25 their own Risk Assessments. Guidance is included in the Planning Your Visit guide. Yorkshire Museum Opening times: Cancellations 10.00am – 5pm daily We require a minimum of 48 hours notice for cancellation of sessions for payment to Admission: be refunded. We reserve the right to cancel School Adult: £5.50 workshops in the event of excessive lateness. School Child: £4.00

Accessibility York Castle Museum Admission is free to wheelchair users and Yorkshire Museum their helpers but please note that some of Joint Ticket the upper floors of the York Castle Museum (to be used within the same academic year) are not accessible to wheelchair users. Admission: Each site has disabled access toilets. School Adult: £9.50 School Child: £6.50 Lunch Rooms The Yorkshire Museum has a bookable lunch Workshop Prices space, ‘The Diner-Saurus’. Spaces may be Prices depend on the length of the workshop, available at the York Castle Museum upon there is no minimum number of pupils request. required. Workshops have a maximum of 30 pupils. Parking 1 hour workshop ...... £60 Parking information can be found on the 1.5 hour workshop ...... £70 City of York Council website: 2 hour workshop ...... £80 www.york.gov.uk/transport/Parking/Coach_parking/ Actor led sessions – prices vary. Telephone: 01904 551309 Some sessions do vary, check the listings.

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Yorkshire Museum Opening times: 10.00am – 5.00pm daily

Exhib ition Square, Y ork YO1 7EW Yorkshire Art Gallery CLOSED FOR REFURBISHMENT UNTIL 2015

Yor k St Ma ry’s Castlegate, York YO1 9RN York Art Gallery's contemporary art space

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