Information for school visits and outreach programmes www.stockport.gov.uk/heritageattractions Introduction Contents Stockport’s rich heritage provides an Nothing can quite match the excitement For information on excellent learning resource for schools of visiting a museum or heritage site, but a particular site, Stockport Air Raid Shelters 1-2 and offers a wide programme designed Outreach is the next best thing. including the cost The largest purpose built civilian WWII undeground shelters to meet the needs of every group. The programme covers aspects of all of Together our sites cover a period of the sites and can be adapted to meet your of a visit, history that stretches from the Iron Age specifi c requirements. Sessions can be half please contact Bramall Hall 3-5 to the Tudors, the Victorians to World or full day, and we can deliver to more than the Education Team Magnifi cent black and white timber-framed Tudor manor house War II - and much in between! one class in a day. at the site you are interested in. 6 We can cater for all Key Stages and GCSE Outreach doesn’t have to be an Chadkirk and post 16 educational groups. We can alternative to visiting a site – it can be used Restored 14th century chapel tailor a visit to meet your specifi c needs to help prepare your class for a site visit, and are continually assessing and or to recap and consolidate what was revising our sessions based on feedback learnt on site? Hat Works 7-9 from teachers and pupils. We believe that The UK’s only museum dedicated to the hatting industry, hats Let us come to you before or after your we offer a value for money service of a high and headwear visit to help you get the most learning quality - the high number of repeat visits from the site. is testimony to this. Stockport Story Museum 10 Three of Stockport’s heritage sites are INSET Days New museum exploring Stockport’s history over the last 10,000 years! holders of the prestigious “Sandford Award We can offer a whole school or for Heritage Education” - a national award department INSET Day, covering aspects which recognises excellent provision for of all of Stockport’s heritage sites, including Staircase House 11-12 school groups at museums and heritage textiles, history, drama and role play. sites. This can be done in school or at one of Restored medieval town house offering a hands-on time travelling our sites. We can also help you to experience from 1460 to WWII Outreach Programme prepare for taking your group to a museum or heritage site, so that you are able to We know that sometimes the cost of taking get the best out of the visit. Mellor 13-14 a group out to a museum or heritage site Please contact the Formal Learning can be prohibitive. At Stockport Museums’ Manager on 0161 488 4286 to talk through New! ????????????? Service we want as many pupils as your requirements and plan a day. possible to benefi t from our extensive programme of learning activities, so we Education Structure 15-16 have developed an - Outreach programme - we bring the site to you! Information for schools ??????????? Bookings and information: 0161 474 1940 At almost a mile long Stockport’s World War II Living History Days Shelters Experience Wartime Britain for Wartime Britain for Air Raid Shelters are the largest purpose built It’s 1940 and your school Spend the morning in Key Stage 2 Key Stage 3 underground shelters in the UK. Carved into has been evacuated to the Shelters and fi nd out This session explores Life As previous but with a the natural sandstone cliffs beneath the town Stockport for safety! about Life on the Home on the Home Front in WWII greater depth and Pupils play the role of Front in WWII as well as from today’s perspective, emphasis on the use of centre, they were used extensively between 1940 an evacuee and will meet discovering more abut the and 1943, and have now been imaginatively allowing comparisons with primary sources. There is characters from the past tunnels themselves. and discussions about life in also the opportunity for restored using primary sources. as they learn how to cope This fl exible session can be modern wartime. Pupils will pupils to talk to, and with life in war torn Britain. adapted to meet the needs experience a range of hands question, a 1940s character Sessions are available for Key Stage 2 and 3 and A very hands-on day which of any group and is an on activities, including Air in our “Hot Seat”. our fl exible, hands-on approach ensures that every includes Air Raid excellent way of enhancing Raid Precautions, Rationing Suitable for Years 7, 8 and 9 visit is tailored to your specifi c needs. Precautions, Rationing and classroom work. Key Stage and Make Do and Mend. Monday - Friday 10 – 2.30 Make do and Mend – and 3 and 4 groups may chose A memorable learning For further information and to discuss your group’s visit plenty of singing! to explore some of the unlit experience. KS3 History, Unit 18: Hot War, contact the Education team on tunnels. Cold War – why did the major Suitable for Years 3, 4, 5 and 6 Suitable for Years 3, 4, 5 and 6 20th Century confl icts affect so 0161 474 4449 Monday – Friday, 10 – 2.30 Suitable for Years 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, Monday – Friday 10 – 2.30 many people? or 8, 9 and above QCA Links: KS2 History, QCA Links: Ks2 History, Unit 9: E-mail: [email protected] Monday - Friday 10am - 12pm Unit 9: What was it like for What was it like for children in children in the Second World QCA Links: Ks2 History, Unit 9: the Second World War? AR War? What was it like for children in Literacy Strands 1 – 3 Literacy Strands 1 – 4 the Second World War? KS1&2 Art & Design, Unit 2c: KS1&2 Art & Design, Unit 2c: Literacy Strands 1– 3 BH Can Buildings speak?; Unit 9: Can buildings speak?; KS1&2 Art & Design, Unit 2c: Visiting a museum, gallery or Unit 9 Visiting a museum, Can Buildings speak?; Unit 9: site. KS3 History, Unit 18: Hot gallery or site CH Visiting a museum, gallery War, Cold War – why did the or site. KS3 History, Unit 18: major 20th Century confl icts Hot War, Cold War – why did the affect so many people? HW major 20th Century confl icts affect so many people? STOR SC 1 Stockport Air Raid Shelters, Chestergate, Stockport SK1 1NE WEBSITE: www.airraidshelters.org.uk E-MAIL: [email protected] 2 Bookings and information: 0845 833 0974 Living History Days Experience Sessions Touching the Past Bramall Hall is a magnifi cent example of a black What were people’s homes Choose from a Tudor or Pupils learn about life in the and white timber framed building. It is big enough like over 100 years ago? Victorian day and give your Hall through a tour delivered to be awe inspiring but small enough to give a In this session children can pupils an unforgettable by our trained staff. Using look at the similarities and sense of belonging. Built over many centuries, and insight into the lives of the a mixture of question and differences between their added to greatly in the late 19th century, Bramall is people who lived at Bramall answer sessions and hands home and that of a child a fi ne combination of Tudor and Victorian Hall in the past. Pupils meet on activities pupils are fully living at the end of the 19th various members of the engaged and work in small architecture and life – something that is refl ected in century. This interactive tour household and will groups to ensure maximum the programmes on offer. offers plenty of hands-on experience life in an benefi t. For a Tudor experiences, including the appropriate manner, Experience there are nine chance for all the children Sessions are available for Key Stage 1, 2 and 3, and according to the time activities to choose from, to play with some Victorian can be adapted to meet the needs of GCSE and and their status – subject to availability, each toys. They will learn what it post-16 groups. We also cater for Early Years accompanying adults designed to give pupils was like to do the washing are too! an insight into life in Foundation Stage groups and for pupils with Special with a dolly tub and wash Tudor times, and specifi cally Educational Needs. Suitable for Year 4 and above board, and fi nd out what the lives of the Davenport Available Monday and Tuesday rich Victorians carried in household. For a Victorian For further information and to discuss your group’s visit, only 10am-2.30pm their suitcases. Experience pupils learn contact Amanda Phillipson or Caroline Davenport on QCA Links: KS2 History, Unit 8: AR about life “above and below Suitable for Reception and 0161 488 4286. What were the differences stairs”, looking at the work Years 1 and 2 between the lives of rich and of the servants and the Available Wednesday - Friday BH poor people in Tudor times? leisure time of rich children. 10am – 12pm (October – Unit 11: What was it like for December, April – July) Suitable for Year 3 and above children living in Victorian and 12.30pm – 2.30pm Available Wednesday – Friday CH Britain? (January – March only) 10am – 12pm (October – KS2 Citizenship, Unit 2: Choices December, April – July) QCA Links: KS1 History, Unit 1: Literacy Strands: 1 - 4 HW and 12.30pm – 2.30pm How are our toys different from (January – March only) those in the past? Unit 2: What were homes like a QCA Links: KS1 & 2 History, STOR long time ago? Unit 8: What were the differences Unit 11: What was it like for between the lives of rich and children living in Victorian SC poor people in Tudor times? Britain? Unit 11: What was it like for Literacy Strands: 1 - 3 children living in Victorian Britain? Literacy Strands: 1 - 3 3 Bramall Hall, Bramall Park, Bramall, Stockport SK7 3NX WEBSITE: www.bramallhall.org.uk 4 Stories Old and New Who ate all my Tudor Life Chadkirk Chapel (text to follow) Using the Hall as a porridge? Pupils are taken on a tour backdrop, children will listen Children follow the story of of the Hall to help them to to, and become a part of Goldilocks and the Three consolidate their school some well known stories - Bears as they explore work on the Tudors.