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A Museum Education
Service for the New
Primary Curriculum
www.hants.gov.uk/museums
www.winchester.gov.uk/museums
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Hampshire County Council and Winchester
City Council’s Museums offer an education
service provided by a team of specialist
Community Engagement & Learning Officers.
Our museums are full of the kind of stuff that
really excites children and our expert-led
sessions using real artefacts and specimens
are designed to enrich and enhance children’s
learning and thinking skills.
We can work with teachers to ensure that our
service supports their enquiries, and we are
familiar with the ‘six steps’ of historical enquiry
used by many schools. We can help to create the
motivating ‘hook’ or a meaningful outcome for
pupils’ work and most of our workshops can be
tailored to match the subject matter, skills and
learning values of each group.
There is a wealth of opportunity for giving
children some fantastic first hand experiences
in many areas of the New Primary Curriculum.
The following pages are set out by curriculum
area and show what is available around the
county for different programmes of study. At the
end you will find a map showing the location of
all the museums and sites, and a list of contacts
for each museum.
Hampshire County Council and Winchester City
Council are working together during 2014/15 to
establish a Charitable Trust, limited by guarantee,
to deliver museum services on their behalf. The
schools offer, outlined in this brochure will remain
unchanged during this period.
Contents
History KS1
Changes Within Living Memory 3
Science KS1
Plants11
Events Beyond Living Memory that
are Significant Nationally or Globally
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Animals Including Humans
The Lives of Significant Individuals
in the Past
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Significant Historical Events,
People and Places in the Locality
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History KS2
Changes in Britain from the
Stone Age to the Iron Age5
Everyday Materials and Uses of
Everyday Materials11
Seasonal Changes11
Living Things and Their Habitats12
Science Year R
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Science KS2
Animals Including Humans
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The Roman Empire and its
Impact on Britain6
Rocks13
Britain’s Settlement by
Anglo-Saxons6
Properties and Changes of Materials
and States of Matter14
A Local History Study
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A Study of an Aspect or Theme in British History that Extends
Knowledge Beyond 1066
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The Achievements of the
Earliest Civilizations
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Spotlight on Winchester
City Council Museums9
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Living Things and Their Habitats13
Forces
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Evolution and Inheritance14
English KS1 & KS2
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Geography KS1 & KS2
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Art & Design KS1 & KS2
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Design and Technology KS1 & KS2
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Hampshire Arts Centres
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Map of Hampshire Museums
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Museum Contacts
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Events Beyond Living
Memory that are Significant
Nationally or Globally
Most of the community museums have relevant displays for self-led visits which are
free, as well as a range of led sessions detailed below.
Many of our museums have temporary exhibition galleries and it is well worth checking
the websites of your nearest ones as some of these exhibitions have a strong curriculum
focus and associated workshops.
All history sessions at our sites have an emphasis on historical enquiry, asking questions,
thinking critically and weighing evidence. ‘Precious Things’ and ‘Mini Museum Curators’
sessions can be run at most of our museums and as outreach, drawing on a range of
history skills, knowledge and ways of presenting information.
KS1
Changes Within
Living Memory
Curtis Museum
‘Exploring Toys’ offers
children the chance to
investigate toys from across
the decades through a series of
activities such as matching old and
new, sorting and problem solving.
Eastleigh Museum
The ‘Home Explorers’ workshop
investigates homes in the past
through hands-on activities using
a range of old household objects,
sounds, and the museum’s historic
room sets.
Gosport Discovery Centre, Red
House Museum and St Barbe
Museum (and as outreach in the
New Forest area)
‘Seaside Holidays in the Past’
sees children investigate how
holidaying along the South Coast
has changed over time. Penny
licks, Punch & Judy, coconut shies,
costumes and more! All with real
museum collections and lots of fun.
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In ‘Toys and Discovery’ a
variety of hands-on activities
encourages children to explore
the museum’s toy collections,
identifying similarities and
differences through time and
thinking about how to care
for special things. ‘Homes and
Discovery’ puts the focus on the
museum’s period room sets to
explore changes in our homes
from the 1930s to the 1970s.
Both sessions are followed by a
carousel of activities to discover
and explore the museum. For
Early Years groups, ‘The Post
Office’ specially designed
interactive play space has
facilitator-led activities and a
self-led I-Spy activity takes them
around the museum.
Red House Museum and St
Barbe Museum (and outreach)
‘Toys in the Past’ lets children
explore old fashioned toys and
sort them into old and new, and
play with replica Victorian toys.
‘Telling Tales’ (onsite only) brings
to life homes in the past through
a creative story making session.
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The ‘Time and Toys’ workshop
(which also has an Early
Years version) offers handson activities with the old toy
collections, linking them to
different generations of a family.
‘When Great-Granny Was a Girl’
gets children exploring a 1950s
house and undertaking activities
such as washing, shopping,
setting the table and dressing up
– all with real 1950s artefacts. A
Wartime version is also available.
Westbury Manor Museum
The ‘Now and Then’ workshop
gets children to handle old and
modern objects and investigate
the museum’s displays and
photographs to understand and
compare the differences between
past and present, new and old.
Curtis Museum and
Aldershot Military Museum
‘What Are We Remembering on
Remembrance Day?’ uses Susan
Varley’s ‘Badger’s Parting Gifts’
to help children understand the
significance of Remembrance
Day and to explore ways of
remembering. Available in
November each year.
The Lives of Significant
Individuals in the Past
Milestones
For schools studying famous
Victorians, the self-led ‘Turning
Points: Victorian Britain’ visit will
provide perfect context, using
audioguides and a variety of
activities to explore the Victorian
collections, shops, streets, homes,
people and transport, complete
with costumed characters and
live demonstrations (subject to
availability).
Visiting the museum meant
the children could really
grasp the idea of how
things change over time
and no number of photos
and artefacts could have
replaced that.
Teacher, Toys and Discovery
Session at Milestones
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The ‘Victorians: Upstairs,
Downstairs’ workshop would
set the scene for any topic on
Victorian individuals. Children
explore a Victorian house full of
real artefacts, working in role
as Victorian characters and also
undertake artefact study with
microscopes and magnifiers. The
session is easily adapted to make
it more relevant to your topic.
A seasonal ‘Victorian Christmas’
version is also available.
Significant Historical
Events, People and Places
in the Locality
Bursledon Windmill
All the Windmill workshops touch
on the history of this important
local landmark, and ‘Millers’ Tales’
looks in more depth at its history
and the lives of the families who
lived and worked at the mill on
the hill! Photos, maps, artefacts,
dressing-up and role play, and the
3 historic buildings on the site
are all used to bring local history
to life.
Red House Museum
‘The Archaeology Lab: From
Roamers to Farmers’ uses
scientific techniques and
experimental archaeology to
investigate artefacts and reveal
clues to how people lived in
prehistory and how life
changed from the
Old Stone Age to
the Bronze Age.
KS2
Changes in Britain
from the Stone Age
to the Iron Age
Museum of the Iron Age
‘Join Our Tribe’ gives children
a great opportunity to focus
on Iron Age life and culture at
the museum which tells the
story of nearby Danebury Hill
Fort. Using the displays, plus
replica artefacts and a life-size
Eastleigh Museum, Gosport
roundhouse, children prepare
Discovery Centre and Westbury
for an Iron Age festival! ‘Dead
Manor Museum
Man’s Tales: The Mystery of the
A KS1 version of the ‘Our Town in
Danebury Body’ looks at one
the Past’ local history workshop
can be offered at local museums particular burial from the Iron
Age. Who was this person?
in South East Hampshire,
Why were they buried there?
focusing on the aspects that
What does the evidence tell
interest each class and using
us about life and death in the
artefacts, maps, photos,
Iron Age? Children examine
documents and the buildings
themselves in a fun and childthe evidence, and come up
friendly way.
with a story about the last days
of the Danebury body. Schools
St Barbe Museum
can extend the museum visit
(outreach only)
to a whole day out with a
‘A Mystery at Hurst Castle’ uses a
chest of replica Tudor objects for self-led or countryside rangerled session at Danebury –
children to investigate and find
details at www.hants.gov.uk/
out who they belonged to. They
countryside/danebury
use the objects, costume and
role play to explore the life of the
Master Gunner at Hurst Castle.
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St Barbe Museum
(outreach with optional
extension at the museum)
‘Life on a Hill Fort’ takes children
on an outdoor adventure at
Buckland Rings where they build
catapults and discover how
hill forts were built to defend,
place the Iron Age on our giant
outdoor timeline, paint their
faces, and get creative with clay
as they explore Druid beliefs.
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‘Stone, Bronze and Iron: Make
a Prehistory Museum’ allows
children to study artefacts from
the Old Stone Age to the Iron
Age, arranging them in a popup museum display with labels,
activities and re-enactments. Or
‘Of Mammoths and Men’ , taking
in the Geology Gallery next
door, allows groups to discover,
through a range of hands-on
activities, whether they could
have survived the Stone Age!
The Roman Empire and its
Impact on Britain
Museum of the Iron Age
‘Caution: Archaeologists at Work’
links to the stunning Fullerton
Mosaic and gets children
working as archaeologists.
They will examine real and
replica artefacts from the
Iron Age and Roman Britain.
Drawing conclusions from
their observations, children will
develop their own hypothesis on
how life in Britain changed as a
result of Roman Invasion.
Rockbourne Roman Villa
In the ‘Archaeologist for a Day’
workshop, children have a go
at surveying techniques and
go on a mock dig to discover
the excavation process. They
identify their finds and find out
what archaeologists have learnt
about the Romans in Britain from
the things they left behind. In
‘Slaves for a Day’ they discover
what life was like in a Romano
British villa on an interactive tour
in the company of Musa, the
villa’s mistress who has plenty
of work for them to do! Larger
groups can have the ‘Explore the
Site’ whole day programme – a
carousel of activities including
object handling, craft activity
and interactive tour. An
outreach option, ‘The Romans at
Rockbourne’, is available, using
photos and artefacts to find out
what archaeologists discovered at
the site. Children also help to make
Roman ink and perfume and enjoy
some interactive storytelling.
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‘Archaeology in Action, the
Romans’ sees children in role as
archaeologists interpreting the
real Roman evidence from an
archaeological site, at a series of
workstations in an archaeology
lab. The emphasis is on looking
for clues and building up
hypotheses like the Time Team!
Britain’s Settlement by
Anglo-Saxons
Curtis Museum
‘Alton’s Saxon Graves’ takes
children through several
activities including using
archaeological reports on the
47 Saxon graves excavated in
the town, to consider who Grave
17 – where the famous Alton
Buckle was found – might have
belonged to.
Red House Museum
‘The Saxons of Twynham’
workshop looks at the beliefs
and culture of the pagan Saxons
of Christchurch and investigates
whose remains are in the Bargate
Burials. Children get to handle
real and replica objects and
make clay beads and brooches.
A Local History Study
Aldershot Military Museum
In ‘A Glimpse of the Past’ children
use maps, census records,
photos and real artefacts to
build a picture of the past in the
Rushmoor area.
Basing House
The three Key Stage 2 workshops
available at this wonderful site
could all be used as a local history
study as Basing House is such
a significant local landmark.
‘Tudor Life’ turns the class into
an investigative team working
together to examine sources,
the site and its artefacts to
uncover facts about the Tudors
and their lives in the largest
private house in Tudor England.
‘Palace to Ruins’ covers Tudor
Life to Civil War in Hampshire,
using artefacts and even GPS to
examine the evidence for Tudor
life and the events and effects of
the Civil War at Basing. ‘Survivor
in the Landscape’ looks at Basing
House through time, examining
archaeological evidence from
the Stone Age onwards. Pupils
explore how significant aspects of
national history are reflected here.
Bursledon Windmill
‘Millers’ Tales’ sees
children become
detectives to
investigate life in
the past at this
important local site. Using first
hand evidence from census
returns and other documents,
photos, objects and maps, they
discover the stories of characters
like Phoebe Langtry who built
the Windmill in 1814, and they
see how the area has changed.
They present their tales in
dramatic form as a finale. Other
Windmill sessions such as ‘Flour
Power’ and ‘The Mill on the Hill’
are more cross-curricular but
with local history content.
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Curtis Museum
The ‘Investigating the Past’
workshop is a great opportunity
for young historians to explore
artefacts, documents, maps and
photographs to find out more
about Alton’s past.
Eastleigh Museum, Gosport
Discovery Centre and
Westbury Manor Museum
‘Our Town in the Past’ gets
children investigating first hand
sources – maps, documents,
photos and objects – to piece
together the history of their
town and the lives of people
who lived there, and presenting
their findings. Each town has its
own significant aspects of local
history that can be covered in
workshops such as ‘Workhouse
@ Westbury’ or ‘The Railway
Comes to Eastleigh’. In Gosport
and Eastleigh there are strong
Wartime themes so that ‘Home
Front Eastleigh’ and ‘Home Front
Gosport’ can be offered.
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‘Turning Points: Victorian
Britain’ is a self-led programme
using audioguides and handson activities to explore the
Victorian shops, streets, homes,
people and transport which all
have a local Hampshire history
context. ‘Turning Points: Wartime
Britain’ explores the way life was
changing in Hampshire and
Britain in the 1930s, and aspects
of life during the war effort at
home. Costumed characters
and live demonstrations usually
feature in these visits.
St Barbe Museum
(outreach with optional
extension at the museum)
‘Life on a Hill Fort’ takes children
on an outdoor adventure at
Buckland Rings (see above in
the Changes in Britain from
the Stone Age to the Iron
Age section). ‘The Lymington
Salterns’ is a hands-on interactive
presentation on the local salt
industry. ‘A Mystery at Hurst
Castle’ uses a chest of replica
Tudor objects for a detective
challenge where children
discover what the objects are
and who they belonged to.
Red House and
St Barbe Museums
Both sites offer ‘A Smuggler’s
Story’ which uses storytelling
and role play to explore local
tales of smugglers and those
who brought them to justice.
Red House Museum
‘Christchurch: How the Town
Began’ is a trail starting at the
museum which takes children
on a journey to discover the
origins of Christchurch through
key buildings including the
Castle and Priory. ‘Bridging
the World’ looks at the Bailey
Bridge, one of Christchurch’s
most internationally significant
contributions, extensively used
in World War 2, and challenges
children to build their own
bridge! ‘Crime and Punishment’
explores Christchurch’s criminal
past and changing methods of
punishment including ducking
stools and stocks, all in the
context of changing local life.
Willis Museum and
Sainsbury Gallery
‘Basingstoke in WW2’ sees
children finding out about
the 1940 air raids and the
impact on the town’s daily
life, through photos, artefacts
and documents. ‘Basingstoke’s
Victorian Past’ uses a range of
historic sources to help children
use investigative skills and build
a picture of the town in the past.
‘Top of Town Tour’ gives children
a chance to explore the town and
the changes it has experienced
over time.
A Study of an Aspect or
Theme in British History
that Extends Knowledge
Beyond 1066
Aldershot Military Museum
‘Children in WW2’ focuses
young learners on the lives of
children during the war, using
artefacts, photos, documents
and dressing up to explore
evacuation, rationing and Home
Front campaigns like Dig for
Victory. ‘Home Front Christmas’ is
a seasonal look at WW2, available
in November & December.
Andover Museum
‘Andover’s Workhouse Scandal’
explores the circumstances
that led to Andover’s Union
Workhouse making headline
news in 1846. Children use
a range of historical sources
and evidence from the inquiry
into the events to uncover the
past. ‘Andover’s Home Front’
focuses children on life in and
around the town during WW2,
using artefacts and themes like
rationing and evacuation.
Basing House
‘Tudor Life’, ‘Palace to Ruins’ and
‘Survivor in the Landscape’ could
all be undertaken as visits to
support British History aspects
or themes such as Tudors, the
Civil War or Turning Points. See
session descriptions in the Local
History Study section.
Our experience at Basing
House was excellent –
very knowledgeable and
enthusiastic session leaders
who really helped to bring the
artefacts alive to the children
Teacher, Tudor Life session at Basing House
Eastleigh Museum
‘Home Front Eastleigh’ covers
the turning point of WW2,
exploring rationing, evacuation
and safety on the home front
using real memories, sounds,
smells, costumes and artefacts
Bursledon Windmill
to handle. A seasonal version,
The ‘Flour Power’ workshop could ‘Home Front Christmas’ is also
be used to support a topic on
available. ‘The Railway Comes
the history of food and farming
to Eastleigh’ would be a good
as it looks at how wheat was
visit for a local school doing a
harvested, threshed and ground railways topic as it presents first
into flour through the ages,
hand evidence for the meteoric
with the emphasis on the 19th
growth of places like Eastleigh in
century windmill.
this era.
Milestones
The ‘Turning Points: Victorian
Britain’ and ‘Turning Points:
Wartime Britain’ programmes
make ideal visits for exploring
these significant times of change
in Britain. Both have audioguides,
hands-on activities and lots of
opportunities to explore the
streets, shops and homes of the
time. Costumed characters
and live demonstrations are
usually available.
Red House Museum
The ‘Crime and Punishment’
workshop described in the
Local History Study section
would also make a good visit
for a class studying this aspect of
social history.
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‘Victorians: Upstairs, Downstairs’
which takes place in room sets
and an artefact ‘handling room’,
could cover many social history
aspects as the emphasis can be
put on themes such as changes
in domestic lives, children’s
lives, the impact of electricity
or the Industrial Revolution. A
‘Victorian Dragon’s Den’ version
about inventors and inventions
is available, as is a ‘Victorian
Christmas’ version. If your
‘turning point’ topic is World
War 2, then the ‘Wartime House’
workshop would be perfect,
allowing children to work in role
as museum curators, creating a
wartime museum full of labelled
artefacts and complete with their
own costumed characters. Taking
cover in the Anderson Shelter is
always popular!
Westbury Manor Museum
‘Workhouse @ Westbury’ would
help deliver a fascinating aspect
of social history. Hands-on
activities with photos, sounds,
objects and census records are
complemented by activities such
as working out the ingredients
of gruel, deciding who should
have to enter the Workhouse and
debating whether it should be
shut down!
Willis Museum
and Sainsbury Gallery
‘Basingstoke in WW2’ and
‘Basingstoke’s Victorian Past’ would
both support theme or aspect
studies - see session descriptions
in the Local History Study section.
‘Art and Design Over Time’ is
described in the Art and Design
section, but could be used for a
historical study of this theme.
The Achievements
of the Earliest
Civilizations
Red House Museum
‘Out of Egypt’ gets
children to step into
the shoes of a
traveller returning
from this ancient world. They
handle real Egyptian artefacts
and use the collections to unlock
the achievements of this early
civilization and explore Egyptian
inventions.
SPOTLIGHT ON
WINCHESTER CITY
COUNCIL MUSEUMS
Winchester City Council
Museums, partners of HCC
Arts & Museums Service, also
offer a range of services to
schools to support the history
curriculum, including support
for schools on pre-visits and
planning self-led booked visits,
hands-on artefact studies
with the education officer,
and artefact loans to schools.
See www.winchester.gov.uk/
museums
The City
Museum
‘Old Winchester
Shops’ uses
reconstructed
Victorian and
Edwardian
shops and period costumes to
explore changes within living
memory. ‘Romans’ uses mosaics,
jewellery, coins, pottery and
Willis Museum and
costumes to investigate the
Sainsbury Gallery
Roman Empire and its impact
‘Discovering the Egyptians’
on Britain. ‘Anglo-Saxons’ uses
sees children working as
amazing artefacts, city models,
Egyptologists, planning an
expedition to Egypt and studying activities and replica costumes to
life in the past by examining real look at the Anglo-Saxon struggle
for England, and would combine
Egyptian artefacts and learning
well with a visit to the Cathedral.
about mummification.
Local history studies can also be
covered using the City Museum’s
models of the town through
time and the wealth of objects
highlighting life in the town
through the ages.
Westgate
The displays in the Westgate
are also good for local
history studies.
City Space in Winchester
Discovery Centre
This gallery space does not only
host art exhibitions but also has
object based history displays.
Keep up to date at www.hants.
gov.uk/wdc/city-space
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All science sessions at our sites
have an emphasis on working
scientifically, using scientific
methods and skills and
scientific vocabulary.
KS1
Plants
Bursledon
Windmill
The ‘Little Red Hen’
workshop covers the
Grain Chain from planting a
wheat seed and following it
through its life cycle to harvest,
threshing, winnowing & milling,
right up to eating the bread!
And the woodland walk at the
Windmill site is a great place
to learn the names of trees
and plants.
Red House Museum
‘A Garden Habitat’ allows
children to identify a variety of
garden and wild plants, herbs
and trees, and to discover and
create habitats for animals, in a
beautiful historic garden.
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Animals Including
Humans
Everyday Materials and
Uses of Everyday Materials
Living Things and
Their Habitats
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The ‘Creature
Features’
workshop
designed for
Year 1 covers animal groups and
characteristics using a wealth
of real specimens including
animal skulls of carnivores,
herbivores and omnivores.
Children explore human body
parts and senses through models
and hands-on activities. The
‘Dinosaurs & Beyond’ workshop
also includes a strong focus on
animal groups and attributes
as well as elements from other
programmes of study. The
‘Staying Alive’ workshop for
Year 2 includes studying animal
life cycles and baby animals,
the basic needs of animals for
survival, and how to stay healthy,
all using the fabulous hands-on
specimens and equipment in
SEARCH for Science.
Many of the history workshops
at our museums have a strong
focus on materials used and
explore what materials were
used in the past before modern
plastics and synthetic fabrics
were invented.
Bursledon Windmill
The ‘Eco-Explorers’ or ‘Minibeast
Safari’ workshops look at the
different habitats at the Windmill
site, identifying the plants and
animals, making simple food
chains and looking at how to
care for the environment – all
using real specimens from the
Museums Service.
Bursledon Windmill
‘The Creaking Mill’ is a crosscurricular workshop that focuses
in part on the properties of
the materials used in the barn,
granary and windmill.
Red House Museum
(and outreach)
The ‘Toys in the Past’ crosscurricular workshop uses a
wealth of old toys from the
collections and includes looking
at the materials used.
Seasonal
Changes
Bursledon
Windmill
The ‘Little Red
Hen’ workshop
takes children right through
the seasons, following the
Grain Chain, and gets children
observing the weather and
wind direction for milling. The
Windmill site has a woodland
walk with lots of seasonal nature
on show!
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The ‘Habitat Explorers’ workshop
explores and compares living
and non-living things using
real specimens for handson activities, and focuses
on animal adaptations in
different habitats, food chains
and interdependence. The
‘Minibeasts’ workshop covers
similar topics and also includes
life cycles plus animal groups
and characteristics from other
programmes of study.
Year R
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The popular ‘Animal Antics’
workshop for Early Years
Foundation Stage is still available
as a great introduction to the
subject of animals, with lots of
play, poems and stories.
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KS2
Rocks
Animals Including Humans St Barbe Museum
Bursledon Windmill
The cross-curricular ‘Flour Power’
workshop includes the grain
chain, energy transfer, food
chains and nutrition.
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The ‘Skeletons & Movement’
workshop is designed for Year
3 and uses real and replica
skeletons, animal specimens
and human body models to
explore bones and muscles and
their functions. ‘Teeth & Eating’ is
designed for Year 4 and includes
hands-on activities about
digestion and healthy eating,
human teeth, animal diets and
food webs – using real animal
and plant specimens.
(and outreach)
In the ‘Fantastic Fossils’
workshop, children see and
handle some of the different
rocks and fossils discovered
locally, and make their own
fossils with plaster and clay.
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‘Riveting Rocks
& Fascinating
Fossils’ includes
identifying
rocks with keys
and through
testing, investigating
how fossils are formed, and
separating soils to identify from
their constituent rocks and
organic matter.
Seeing the animals, touching them,
using the microscopes, enhanced
the evidence for scientific enquiry.
It was a great morning.
Yr 3 teacher, science session at SEARCH.
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Living Things and Their
Habitats
Bursledon Windmill
‘Eco-Detectives’ sees the children
act on a letter inviting them to
assess the Windmill site for its
wildlife-rich habitats. They use
identification keys, observation
skills and scientific equipment
whilst exploring the pond,
woodland, garden and barn
habitats, and they deliver a
report on how to care for the
environment. Content can be
varied for different year groups.
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‘Animals and
Classification’ can
be offered at Year 4 or Year 6
levels with younger children
sorting vertebrates and
invertebrates into their groups
by observing the features of
real specimens using keys and
scientific equipment, and older
children getting to grips with
more complicated taxonomy
and the work of Carl Linnaeus
through fun challenges with a
variety of specimens. The impact
of man on the environment can
be included for Year 4.
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‘Junior Scientists’ is aimed
at Year 5 and gets children
testing rocks and other natural
materials from the SEARCH for
Science collections for hardness,
permeability, floating & sinking
and magnetism; sieving and
analysing soils; and rocking
around Hampshire with our
interactive geology mat.
Activities to support other Year
5 programmes of study, such
as putting together animal life
cycles, can be included. A Year
6 Junior Scientists session can
be run, covering your choices
from the whole KS2 science
curriculum.
Properties and
Changes of Materials
and States of Matter
St Barbe Museum
(and outreach)
‘The Lymington Salterns’
is a hands-on, interactive
presentation exploring the salt
marsh environment. Includes
science experiments to take
back to school.
Forces
Bursledon Windmill
The cross-curricular ‘Flour
Power’ workshop includes an
exploration of the real-life use of
the forces of wind power, gravity,
gears and brakes in Hampshire’s
only working windmill.
Red House Museum
‘Bridging the World’, run during
Science Week, looks at the Bailey
Bridge invented in Christchurch
and gets children building their
own large scale bridge!
Evolution and Inheritance
SEARCH
The ‘Darwin’s Detectives’
workshop explores Darwin’s big
ideas through hands-on activities
with real specimens. Children
investigate how evolution
through natural selection works
by observing finches’ beaks and
experimenting with camouflage;
they explore the branches and
dead-ends on a tree of life with a
wealth of specimens from fossils
to stuffed mammals, become
19th century scientists studying
Darwin’s animals for their
adaptations, and put together
Darwin’s life story to present
in role in his parlour! Or if the
focus needs to be on fossils and
prehistoric species, ‘Remarkable
Creatures’ uses dinosaur and
marine fossils to demonstrate the
work of Mary Anning and how
the story of early life has been
pieced together.
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Most of our sites can be
used to inspire or to display
children’s writing, or used as a
setting for drama and role play
– please enquire if you want
to do a project with us. Some
sites offer regular workshops
for the English curriculum:
Bursledon Windmill
‘The Little Red Hen’ KS1
workshop brings this well
known story to life and gets
children acting it out step
by step. The children help
with planting wheat, caring
for it, harvesting, threshing,
winnowing and milling… so they
get to eat the bread unlike the
animals in the story!
Red House
and St Barbe Museums
The ‘Telling Tales’ KS1 workshop
is a creative story making session
on a theme of homes in the
past. ‘A Smuggler’s Story’ for KS2
uses storytelling, role play and
debating skills to explore the local
tales of smugglers and those who
brought them to justice.
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SEARCH
‘Object Stories’ is available
all year to all ages, allowing
groups to create their own
pop-up museum at SEARCH
on any theme our collection
will support. Pupils tell the
stories of their exhibits through
English and drama skills. ‘Off the
Page… and into the Museum’ is
a special Roald Dahl workshop,
with KS1 & 2 versions, run in
September for the author’s
birthday. Bringing the famous
stories to life through hands-on
activities with real specimens
and artefacts is a great motivator
to get children reading. ‘Story
Explorers’ is offered in March
for the week of World Book Day
and turns the SEARCH room sets
and collections into the settings,
props and characters from a
wealth of well known books.
A drama extension can turn it
into a whole day visit.
Working in
collaboration
with staff at the
Museum is a
fantastic opportunity
where we can bring
History alive and
really inspire and
engage the children
with a purposeful,
exciting local project.
Teacher working with
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Basing House
For KS2, the ‘Survivor in the
Landscape: Basing House
Through Time’ workshop
(see History section) includes
examining the physical
features of the site.
Bursledon Windmill
‘The Creaking Mill’ KS1 workshop
involves children in using
geographical vocabulary to
describe the features of the
windmill’s location, mapping
the windmill site, using a
compass to find out the wind
direction, and thinking about
seasonal and daily weather
patterns with reference to
the windmill. Year 2 can use a
wider range of fieldwork and
observation skills to study the
environment of the site. ‘The
Mill on the Hill’ for KS2 uses the
unique windmill location for
practical hands-on fieldwork
activities including investigating
and comparing maps, using
compasses and developing
mapping skills.
Westbury Manor
Museum
The ‘Workhouse @
Westbury’ session has a
follow-on literacy option
where pupils investigate
and recreate the story
of the little boys at the
centre of the Fareham
Workhouse, taking on
roles and writing their
own play.
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Most of our museums have galleries or exhibition spaces which often display work by well known
artists, craftspeople and designers and have school workshops on offer, so do check our websites
for what is coming to a gallery near you. Most of our sites can be used to inspire or to display
children’s artwork – please enquire if you want to do a project with us. Some sites offer regular
workshops for the art and design curriculum:
Allen Gallery
‘Hands-on Pattern’ for
KS2 is a series of activities
allowing children to explore
pattern through a stunning
display of ceramics and a series
of activities including dressing
up, matching patterns to names,
sorting patterns and solving
pattern puzzles.
Varied activities.
Hands on opportunities.
Group work.
Good thinking skill
opportunities. Time
for all the children to
become engaged –
super!
Red House and
St Barbe Museums
‘Explore: Connect: Create’
is an open ended, child-led
programme with KS1 & 2
versions, centred on the
temporary art exhibitions.
Children explore the exhibitions
and objects creatively,
connect and share their ideas,
experiences and imagination,
and create using a range of
materials. The ‘Bridging the
World’ workshop for KS2 at the
Red House Museum also has a
large element of design in
it (see History
and Science
sections).
Willis Museum
and Sainsbury Gallery
‘Art and Design Over Time’ lets
KS1 young creatives explore
art and design in everyday
life, finding similarities and
differences in familiar objects
like ornaments, wallpaper and
crockery across the decades
in the displays, room sets and
activities. The KS2 version
increases children’s awareness of
different types of art and design
using the displays, temporary
exhibitions in the Sainsbury
Gallery and hands-on activities.
Bursledon Windmill
For KS1 groups studying where
food comes from, ‘The Little
Red Hen’ would be perfect as
it follows the grain chain from
planting a wheat seed to eating
the bread. The session also
demonstrates the mechanisms
of the windmill, using simple
cog models. At KS2 ‘Flour
Power’ goes into more detail on
mechanical systems and also
covers seasonality through the
grain chain.
SEARCH
The ‘Victorian Dragon’s Den’
workshop gets KS2 children
analysing and evaluating the
inventions in the Victorian
house. They could then go on
to develop their own product
designs for carrying out the
same tasks.
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Curriculum-linked workshops
The arts centres around Hampshire can work with your school
to provide a wide range of high quality arts workshops/projects
to fit any aspect of the curriculum. By providing creative and
fun interactive activities we can help you meet your targets and
enthuse your pupils. We also work with you to develop bespoke
projects that enable us to share knowledge between our centres
and your school, enhancing the learning experience for all of
us. We can provide tutors and resources to come to your school,
or host pupils in one of our many dedicated spaces, including a
theatre, dance studio, art spaces and a pottery room (West End
Centre only). We are experienced in working with young people
with disabilities, as well as children and adults from disadvantaged backgrounds.
Recent projects have included:
• Myths and Legends inspired
puppetry workshops for Year
4 pupils, following on from a
special performance of The
Girl with the Iron Claws by
acclaimed theatre company The
Wrong Crowd in our theatre
(West End Centre)
• Willow-weaving workshops
where Year 3 pupils made bugs
and butterflies to take home,
and created a magnificent 30foot tree that now ‘lives’ in the
school reception. (West End
Centre)
• Monsters project working
with Year 1 pupils on model
making which resulted in them
producing their own animated
film featuring monsters they
had created from clay (Ashcroft
Arts Centre)
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• Collab-nation project which
involved pupils from two
special schools and one primary
school working with nationally
renown dance company
StopGap to create a piece of
fully inclusive dance which was
then performed at the theatre
(Ashcroft Arts Centre)
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orrible Science Show
140 children across 5 local
schools were invited to see
the show at Forest Arts Centre.
The performance was used as
inspiration for an art/ science
project delivered through
follow up workshops and
twilight sessions in school lead
by author Nick Arnold and artist
James Aldridge. (Forest Arts)
• Transition animation and
soundscape project
Year 6 pupils from 4 of our
local primary schools discussed
their fears and expectations
of moving on to secondary
school. They will took part
in workshops where they
converted their ideas, along
with the help of a professional
practitioner, into songs, poems
and interviews. These would
form the soundtrack to a
short film.
The film was shown at their
move up day and has been
kept to show to future year 6’s.
(Forest Arts)
We can also provide CPD sessions for
your staff, activities for events, and after
school clubs and activities. For larger
projects, we can work with you to provide
support for funding applications.
Contact Details
Ashcroft Arts Centre, Osborn Road,
Fareham, PO16 7DX
Annabel Cook, Area Manager Arts &
Museums on 01329 235161 or
[email protected]
Forest Arts Centre, Old Milton Road,
New Milton, BH25 6DS
Jacqueline Goddard, Arts Development
Officer on 01425 619983 or
[email protected]
West End Centre, 48 Queens Street,
Aldershot, GU11 3JD
Jenni Upstill, Arts Development Officer,
on 01252 408040 or email
[email protected]
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• Basing House
• Milestones Museum
• Aldershot
Military Museum
• Willis Museum
• Andover Museum
Aldershot Military
Museum
Queens Avenue
Aldershot
Hampshire
GU11 2LG
Enquiries and bookings:
ross.mcgauran@hants.
gov.uk or 01252 314598
Basing House
The Street
Old Basing
Basingstoke
Hampshire
RG24 8AE
Enquiries and bookings:
helen.sinnamon@hants.
gov.uk or 01256 403900
Rockbourne
Roman Villa
Rockbourne
Fordingbridge
Hampshire
SP6 3PG
Enquiries and bookings:
laura.bullivant@hants.
gov.uk or 01725 518541
Andover Museum
6 Church Close
Andover
Hampshire
SP10 1DP
Enquiries and bookings:
sophie.mclean@hants.
gov.uk or 01264 366283
Bursledon Windmill
Windmill Lane
Bursledon
Southampton
So31 8BG
Enquiries and bookings:
[email protected].
uk or 01329 827428
SEARCH
50 Clarence Road
Gosport
Hampshire
PO12 1BU
Enquiries and bookings:
wendy.redman@hants.
gov.uk or 023 92501957
• Museum of the Iron Age
• Winchester
City Museum
• Westgate Museum
•C
ity Space
• Rockbourne
Roman Villa
• The Allen Gallery
• The Curtis Museum
• Eastleigh Museum
• Westbury Manor
Museum
• Bursledon Windmill
• SEARCH
• Gosport Discovery Centre
•R
ed House
Museum
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• St Barbe Museum
and Art Gallery
Museum of
the Iron Age
6 Church Close
Andover
Hampshire
SP10 1DP
Enquiries and bookings:
sophie.mclean@hants.
gov.uk or 01264 366283
The Allen Gallery
Church Street
Alton
Hampshire
GU34 2BW
Enquiries and bookings:
ross.mcgauran@hants.
gov.uk or 01420 82802
Curtis Museum
High Street
Alton
Hampshire
GU34 1BA
Enquiries and bookings:
ross.mcgauran@hants.
gov.uk or 01420 82802
Eastleigh Museum
25 High Street
Eastleigh
Hampshire
SO50 5lF
Enquiries and bookings:
[email protected].
uk or 01329 827428
Gosport Discovery
Centre (for Museum
on the Mezzanine,
Gosport Gallery and
the Geology Gallery)
Walpole Road
Gosport
PO12 1NS
Enquiries and bookings:
[email protected].
uk or 01329 827428
Milestones Museum
Leisure Park
Churchill Way West
Basingstoke
RG22 6PG
Enquiries and bookings:
helen.sinnamon@hants.
gov.uk or 01256 403900
St Barbe Museum &
Art Gallery
New Street
Lymington
Hampshire
SO41 9BH
Enquiries and bookings:
laura.bullivant@hants.
gov.uk or 01590 676969
Red House Museum
Quay Road
Christchurch
Dorset
BH23 1BU
Enquiries and bookings:
laura.bullivant@hants.
gov.uk or 01202 482860
Westbury Manor
Museum
West Street
Fareham
Hampshire
PO16 0JJ
Enquiries and bookings:
[email protected].
uk or 01329 827428
Willis Museum
Market Place
Basingstoke
Hampshire
RG21 7QD
Enquiries and bookings:
sophie.mclean@hants.
gov.uk or 01256 465902
Winchester City
Museum
The Square
Winchester
Hampshire
SO23 9ES
Enquiries and bookings:
[email protected]
or 01962 848 115
Westgate Museum
High Street
Winchester
Hampshire
SO23 9AP
Enquiries and bookings:
[email protected]
or 01962 848115
City Space
Winchester
Discovery Centre
Jewry Street
Winchester
Hampshire
SO23 8SB
Enquiries and bookings:
[email protected]
or 01962 848115
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