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Education Colchester
Castle Museum
Our hands-on interactive galleries are ideal to visit with school groups. We offer a range of services that have all been tailored to meet the needs of the National Curriculum. All these services have been piloted with school groups and evaluated by teachers to ensure they meet your needs. Comments on the School Castle tours'Excellent. The tour fired the imagination, gave the children the opportunity to draw on what they had already discovered and held their attention' Finchingfield School Comments on Castle Museum galleries''The variety, quality and quantity of exhibits were excellent. The logical layout of Homes, Invasion etc. Really assisted with the children's learning and their making the best use of the worksheets.' St Michael's CE Junior School Galley wood 'Fantastic. The pupils were thrilled to be able to touch and try things on. They loved the bones, Celt and Roman fighting, videos etc. Favourites were chainmail, toga and slave collar. We could easily have stayed another 2 hours' Lionel Walden School Doddington Cambridgeshire Inspired by the School Castle toursA visit by Sir Robert Hitcham Primary School, Suffolk inspired work back in the classroom Sir Robert Hitcham's Roman Web Find out more about the Romans, Local History, Victorians, Life and Living Processes and Toys & Homes in the Past . We also support classroom teaching through our loan boxes. We are happy to discuss the needs of your class and adapt sessions to meet their needs. Please let us know of any special learning requirements that you may have.
How to bookTo book a visit to any of Colchester's museums, please contact our Information and Bookings Officer, on 01206 282937 or on bookings.information@colchester.gov.uk Details to consider on booking: Once you have booked a visit, you will be sent a booking form and timetable for your visit. Supporting materials for visits to the Castle Museum or Hollytrees Museum can be downloaded from this website. We book up four to six months in advance at the Castle Museum so allow plenty of planning time for your visit . |
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Why visit Colchester Castle Museum? At the museum you can see real mosaics, go inside the foundations of the Roman temple that once stood here and take part in a story tour that tells of Boudica's revenge on the Romans. Feel how heavy chain mail was and touch Roman pottery. For a trip that will entertain and educate come to Colchester Castle Museum. We offer three different packages to schools to visit the Castle Museum. Prices are valid until 31st December 2008. Package A Package B Costs : £3.00 Colchester borough schools £3.50 for non-borough schools Package C The Activity Room
session is led by the teachers themselves and as part of the package,
we run training sessions before your visit that show you how to
run this session and also the best ways to organise your visit around
the galleries. Costs: £3.50 Colchester borough schools £4.00 for non-borough schools. |
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Why not use us to introduce your groups to museums? With their friendly atmosphere and hands on activities, our museums provide a great experience for pupils of all ages. We have developed the following sessions to meet their needs: . Houses and Homes - Take your group on a tour of the Castle and find out what type of home it would have been. We take groups as young as 4 years old who are either studying Castles as a topic or looking at homes. An Education Assistant leads the group up the Great Staircase and onto the roof of the Castle and shows them hidden places that visitors to the galleries cannot see. . Colchester in Roman Times - As the first Roman capital of Britain, Colchester has a rich Roman history. We offer different packages for schools studying it. Please click here for more details: Romans. . The Norman Conquest - Colchester Castle is the largest Norman keep ever built and retains many of the features of a traditional castle. It is therefore an ideal place to visit to see how Colchester developed after the Norman conquest and what the castle would have been like when it was first built. We run tours of the castle for all ages, showing features, such as the Great Staircase and castle roof. These tours include worksheets looking at the exterior of the building. . Colchester during the Civil War - The Siege of Colchester in 1648 was a major event in the Civil war. For 76 days, the Roundheads besieged the town. This topic gives pupils an ideal opportunity to study different buildings in Colchester as much evidence still exists to show how the Siege unfolded and the damage inflicted on the town. The best way to study these buildings is on a Siege of Colchester walking tour.To book a tour, please contact the Colchester Visitor Information Centre on vic@colchester.gov.uk. 01206 282920 We have also created
a Siege of Colchester loan box which contains replica Civil War
clothing for the children to try on, photographs of important monuments
in Colchester and artefacts, such as tallow candles, showing what
conditions would have been like for the Colchester citizens during
the siege. For more information about any of these topics or to book a box, please contact our Bookings and Information Officer on 01206 282937. |
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School programme in Hollytrees Museum We have devised a programme which supports the following QCA History schemes of work: Key Stage One Key Stage Two All pupils have the opportunity to dress up in Victorian costume, provided by the museum. Will they be transformed into a poor or rich child? We also have a unique resource, specially made for schools, a dolls' house of Hollytrees in 1881. This model has rooms that can be taken out of the house to allow a bird's eye view into each one. We also give groups the opportunity to take part in an unusual literacy hour, reading a story based on life in Hollytrees and finding out about objects involved in the story. Hollytrees Schools hands-on sessions comments''Doll's House session very good. Very well organised and suited to the children's attention span and curiosity. Very good range of activities, length and pace of sessions perfect. Activities varied and great for historical enquiry' Rivenhall Primary School ''Very good & very interesting- well paced and kept their interest, as did the varied activities. The focus on a particular family was good - made it more relevant and believable.' Fingringhoe Primary Hollytrees comments on displays''The most child-friendly museum we have ever visited. Children really enjoyed themselves' Clavering Primary '''Very clearly laid out with lovely interactive features' Copford Primary School
Victorian Lives at Hollytrees MuseumHollytrees was home to one of the most important families in Colchester. Find out what life would have been like in a rich Victorian home in 1881 for both the family and the servants by investigating a range of sources from a census form to Victorian artefacts. Toys and Homes at Hollytrees MuseumHollytrees Museum is an ideal place to bring a Key Stage One group. This session can either be geared to looking at Toys in the Past or Houses and Homes. Both groups have an opportunity to dress up as children in the olden days and explore our interactive dolls house of Hollytrees. They also have an opportunity to play with toys from the past or to compare old and new household objects and homes. Full Day Cost: £3.50 for Colchester borough school children £3.90 for non-borough school children. Half Day Cost: £3.00 for Colchester borough school children £3.40 for non-borough school children. |
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Our Natural History Museum is ideal for supporting units of the Science National Curriculum. We have collaborated with the Essex Advisory and Inspection Service to create sessions that focus on Life Processes and Living Things. These sessions are geared for both Key Stage One and Key Stage Two. Key Stage OneThis museum is especially popular with Key Stage One pupils as it has different ways for them to discover local animals that they recognise. In this session pupils take part in four activities in which they explore different topics using real specimens and specialist equipment such as a video microscope. Topics include: The sessions last two hours and are led by trained staff. We send you ideas for classroom activities to support your visit. Key Stage TwoPupils choose four activities in which they can explore different topics using real specimens and specialist equipment such as a video microscope. Topics include: Pupils have the opportunity to: .
Handle real specimens Cost: £3.00 for Colchester borough school children £3.50 for non-borough school children. |
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We have loan boxes containing original artefacts that you can take back to your schools to use as follow-up work. An excellent way to bring history to life for your class they can be used to develop thinking skills and as primary evidence in the classroom. They are available for a range of topics; Topics of boxes: . There are original artefacts in the boxes that
gives the pupils a chance to handle objects from as long ago as
500 BC. A question sheet guides the pupils in looking at the objects
so the box could be the basis of cross-curricular topics. Sensory Loan BoxesThese boxes are designed to support groups with
visual, hearing or learning difficulties. Smell Roman herbs! Feel
Roman pottery and listen to a tape of Rufus telling you what it
was like being a slave in Roman Britain. Oral history tape recorderRunning oral history projects is a great way to fulfil your 'Speaking and Listening' strategy. We are able to offer you three sets of recording equipment that you can use to record pupil interviews. This recording equipment includes: . Marantz tape recorder Training on how to use this equipment is given when you hire the equipment.
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