Student Trail Map: Key Stage Henry VIII’s Apartments Self-led Resources Teacher Guide • Refer to map overleaf My name is • Head towards Main entrance William Reskimer. from Clore Learning Centre I am one of the king’s • Ask a member of staff for servants in King Henry VIII’s court here at Hampton Court directions if necessary Palace. You will see a painting • Gather your students in of me later. Base Court Come with me to look around the Tudor rooms in the palace • Assign students their adults and I will show you some of • Read the character introduction the spaces I spend time in. to your students Follow the trail to find out as • Head towards much as you can about what it is like to live here. Anne Boleyn’s Gateway Please help me to look after the palace by only touching objects with this symbol. When you have looked around decide if you would like to live in the palace. • Start the trail by walking up the steps signposted ‘Henry VIII’s Apartments’ and walk into the Great Hall The trail will take approximately 35-40 minutes Self-Guided Resources Teacher Guide Key Stage 1 02 Palace Map Chapel Royal with Henry VIII’s Crown Chapel Court Garden Henry VIII’s Wine Cellar Clock Court Great Hall Start here Buttery lunch room Anne Boleyn’s Gateway Base Court lunch rooms and toilets Base Court Tudor Kitchens Kitchen Garden, Barrack Block lunch rooms and picnic area Other spaces to visit Clore earning Centre Self-Guided Resources Teacher Guide Key Stage 1 03 KS1 Student Trail Map locations C Turn and walk straight ahead into the Great Watching D Now walk Chamber. along the F Now walk through corridor called the gallery looking at the Processional the paintings as you go. Route. The trail finishes at the end of the Processional Route. Walk through 7 Processional the door and turn right to find the Queen’s 12 Route Staircase. You can walk 8 down these stairs to Horn go out. Room 13The Pages’ Chamber B Now walk 9 through the door to the right into a room with lots of Great E Turn and look into horns in it. Watching the small room off the Chamber corridor to the right. 5 11 1 4 The Great Hall A Find these stone steps under 2 Anne Anne Boleyn’s 10 Gateway. When Boleyn’s you have found Gateway them, walk carefully up and 3 open the wooden door. Turn right into the Great Hall to begin the trail. g Self-Guided Resources Teacher Guide Key Stage 1 04 7 g The Great Hall 8 h Horn Room 9 Ask children to carefully touch one ofGreat the objects. How does it feel?Watching It is made from a metal calledChamber pewter. Meals are served in here twice a day for 600 of the 5 king’s servants.11 They eat a lot of meat, bread and fish. I don’t eat my meals in here. 1 4 I will show you where I The Great Hall eat later! What do you think the 2 different objects might be used for? A popular drink in the10 palace is wine. Can you find something on the table which might contain wine? Carefully touch one of 3 the big bowls from the table. How does it feel? Now try sitting down at one of the tables with the wooden benches. Would you like to eat in this room? 2 The roof Find a quiet space and look up at the roof. Henry wanted the roof to be impressive so he asked for it to be painted bright blue! What shape is the roof? Can you make the shape with your arms? Now make 1 Top table the shape with a partner. Key object: More important servants sat at this top table. They had chairs whereas the less important servants further down the hall sat on The Great Hall was built by with other visitors so you benches. Ask children to sit King Henry VIII to show how may have to look at other in one of the chairs at the top rich he is! Henry loves gold objects in the room first. table and then sit on one of and silver colours as they If it is busy you can gather the benches. Which one is look expensive. children at the far end in the more comfortable? Which alcove by the stained glass table would they prefer to Practical window. They can look up sit at and why? information at the ceiling there. If they The servants would eat meat want to sit down they can The Great Hall can get very which was roasted, boiled or sit on the wooden benches busy at times. As it is the made into pies. There would by the tables. You could also largest room in the palace also be lots of bread and fish. sit down in the middle of the and has a lot in it you and They would drink beer or wine. hall. Make sure that any other children will probably want Ask children to look at the visitors can still pass either to spend some time in here. different objects on the table side of you. The top table is popular and work out what they might have used for. g Self-Guided Resources Teacher Guide Key Stage 1 05 7 g The Great Hall continued 8 h Horn HornRoom Room 9 The main forms of communicationGreat were throughWatching letters but most peopleChamber in Tudor England could not write. Therefore, the main way to 5 communicate11 something was face to face. In the Great Hall the servants might be 1 4 tempted to talk to each The Great Hall other about the king. The eavesdroppers were there to remind the servants that 2 other people were listening to 10what they were saying and to be careful what they said. It was thought to be safest to see, hear and say nothing. Look up and find the 3 carved wooden faces in the roof. They are called Eavesdroppers. They are there to remind the servants not to say anything bad about the king as people might be listening! There are a lot of lions How many Eavesdroppers 4 Lions in this palace! can you find? Key object: Ask children to There is a lion on the king’s find the figure of the gold lion special symbol called his Coat leading into the Horn Room. of Arms. Henry likes lions as 6 There are lions all around Your Choice they are a symbol of strength. Key object: Hampton Court Palace both Ask children to inside the palace and in the Why do you think discuss with a partner which gardens. Ask children work in Henry likes to have lots is their favourite object in this pairs and think of some words of lions in his palace? room. If there is time they can share their idea with the rest they might use to describe How many lions can you a lion – strong, big, golden, of the group and talk about spot around this room? Walk why they like it best. powerful, fierce, has a loud slowly around the room and roar, like a king (royal.) Henry count them as you go. Can you find your VIII has a lion on his special favourite object in this 3 The Stone Ceiling symbol called a Coat of Arms. room? Why do you like Stand in the big space next Ask them to suggest why it best? to the big window, to the there might be a lion on it. 5 Eavesdroppers right of Top Table. Key object: Find the figure of Ask children to Look up at the ceiling the gold lion across the top look up and spot the wooden there. of the door leading to the carved figures in roof. Explain Great Watching Chamber. that in Tudor times they What shapes you did not have all the forms can you see on the ceiling? of communication we have Can you make the shapes today such as mobile phones with your fingers? and computers. Self-Guided Resources Teacher Guide Key Stage 1 06 Horn Room &Horn Room Great Watching The Great Watching ChamberChamber Horn Room 8 Lion on the This room is where the staircase 7 servants bring the food up Can you spot the from the kitchens into the carved lion at the top Great Hall and the Great of the staircase? 8 Watching Chamber above. Horn Look at the lion’s Room Practical information claw. Can you make Horn Place can be a quiet a claw with your hand? 9 space to rest if children need to sit down for a few minutes. There are some wooden The Great benches by the wall. Great Watching Watching Chamber Chamber 7 Painting of In this room more important 5 11 Elizabeth I’s porter servants wait for a long time Key object: There were many to speak to the king. The king different jobs in the palace. walks through the large Ask children to look at the wooden doorThe in the Great corner Hall painting of the giant man. when he walks through this What is he armed with? He room to chapel. I am2 only Anne has a sword and his job as a allowed in this room to serve 10 porterBoleyn’s is to guard the palace. my master. Find one of the Other Gatewayporters had the job large cushions on the floor of collecting things such as and sit down.