Enhance your history topics with a school’s workshop at and CHRISTCHURCH MANSION IPSWICH Museum. TOYSTORY Key Stage 1 1 hour 15 minutes IPSWICH AT WAR Key Stage 2 2 hours Ipswich Spin the 100 year old Zoetrope and compare Service offers five modern and old toys. A giant jigsaw puzzle Examining a range of ‘lost exciting workshops timeline helps children see the changes in toys property’ bags children that complement and childhood over the last 150 years. work out which bag the National The children bring their own toys from home to belonged to which Ipswich Curriculum for Key compare with the toys in our galleries. Find out wartime character and stages 1 and 2. why the Noah’s Ark toy survived 150 years! handle 1940s artefacts, ‘Just the right amount and variety of activities including a Morse code In each workshop and well paced...’ machine. Children search a real artefacts have Rougham Primary School model house to find out been specifically what life was really like in chosen to help the VICTORIAN HOME Key Stage 2 2 hours the 1940s and what changes children read the had to be made for the war effort. clues from the past Handling real Victorian mystery artefacts the ‘We had a fantastic session - the children learnt in our handling children discover the differences between the so much more and were ‘buzzing’ with all they lives of the Victorian Servant and Master. sessions. Specially had done!’ Kingsfleet Primary School created replicas and interactive exhibits have Children will have the chance to dress up in replica clothes and find out how Victorian also been made for the children to get ‘hands ...and introducing the new - on’ with. Fully trained activity leaders will knickers worked. conduct the sessions in the Museum galleries and ‘The whole trip was excellent and a very good SCARABS and SHABTIS Key Stage 2 education rooms. experience for us all.’ Whole day workshop Morland Primary School from 10am - 2.30pm

RUFFS and STUFF Key Stage 2 2 hours Real Egyptian artefacts and custom-made In the Tudor chambers of interactives let the the Mansion children children discover what unlock the mysteries of life (and afterlife!) was Tudor life using actual like for the Ancient Tudor objects and Egyptians. The Sensory portraits, learning how Obelisk lets children hear, the lives of the rich and smell and touch Ancient Egyptian life. Masks and poor were very different. dressing up allow children to become Pharaohs Replica costumes and Gods. (including a ‘Bumroll’!) ‘Provided excellent hands on activities.’ can be tried on by four Chelmondiston Primary School children. The children become portrait detectives and unlock the secrets of the Tudor To book your workshop please see overleaf; portraits. for further information on the above workshops ‘Workshop leaders were excellent. Focussed please contact the Access and Learning Officer: well on the Tudor period. Hands-on activities tel: 01473 433570 very good.’ Cedarwood Primary School e-mail: [email protected] WHAT ELSE IS THERE TO DO? BOOKING INFORMATION IPSWICH MUSEUMS SERVICE

Ipswich Museum is a Victorian For all schools bookings and other educational FOR SCHOOLS built museum with extensive enquiries please telephone our booking team: collections of Ethnography, 01473 433550 Mammals, and Geology. There are also reconstructed Anglo Saxon and Roman domestic settings, the Ipswich story from pre-historic Ipswich Museum times to the present day, a special High Street, Ipswich IP1 3QH exhibition on Ipswich at War and Tel: 01473 433550 Fax: 01473 433558 displays of Egyptology from the e-mail: [email protected] famous Petrie collection. Tuesday to Saturday 10am-5pm

Christchurch Mansion and Park Full disabled access and facilities are an oasis in the heart of Lunchroom by arrangement Ipswich. The house was built in Coaches set down/pick up outside the Museum 1551 and is laid out in period Nearest coach parking Crown Street lay-by room settings from the Tudor Admission free - charges apply to school activities times to Victorian, within which artefacts, costume and textiles are displayed. There is also a Christchurch Mansion large collection of paintings , Soane Street, Ipswich IP4 2BE including many from local painters Tel: 01473 433554 Fax: 01473 433550 such as Gainsborough and e-mail: [email protected] Constable as well as many Tudor Summer opening times until Sunday 29 October - portraits. Also there is the very rare Painted Monday-Saturday 10am-5pm; Sunday 10am-4.30pm Closet, a tiny room panelled with dozens of Closed Monday 30th October pictures of fables and mythical creatures, painted Winter opening times from Tuesday 31 October- in the sixteenth century. Tuesday-Saturday 10am-4pm; Sunday 2.30-4pm Park closes at dusk in the winter

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