Cliffe Castle Education Programme
Welcome to Cliffe Castle’s Learning & Outreach programme. To make a booking or for further information and small group rates (15 and under) contact:
Becky Davies, Museums Officer (Education)
telephone 01535 618234
email becky.davies@bradford.gov.uk
Alternatively contact - Dan Willoughby, Learning Team Support Officer
telephone 01274 435865
email daniel.willoughby@bradford.gov.uk
Resources
Contact the learning team for details of self led resources which can be used at Cliffe Castle Museum.
Schools Workshops
These workshops are available throughout the year. They can be adapted to your needs in discussion with the Museum Learning Team.
Toy Detectives
KS1 History; QCA Unit 1 How are our Toys different from those in the past?
A fun, hands on workshop where the children explore the differences between old toys and new looking at materials, how the toys were used, and Trevor's Time Boxes!
1 hour Education Officer led hands on session
£60 per session (Max 35 pupils)
Take 2 Portraits
KS1/2 Art and Design; QCA Unit 1A Self-Portrait & 3A Portraying Relationships.
This session takes advantage of the magnificent surroundings of the reception rooms at Cliffe Castle to look at the portraits of the wealthy Victorian couple, the Butterfields, who had the house built. The wedding portrait of the young Mrs Butterfield will then be compared to a wedding portrait of today; a photograph of a young Asian bride in her finery. The whole class will then have the opportunity of dressing up in Mughal period costume and will learn how to draw a portrait of each other. Comparison between contrasting portraits will encourage debate about the nature of portraiture and its links to the lives we lead.
2 hours Education Officer led hands on session
£80 per session (Max 35 pupils)
Ancient Egyptian Workshop
KS2 History; QCA Unit 10 What can we find out about ancient Egypt from what has survived?
Find out all about how the Ancient Egyptians prepared their dead for the Afterlife in our new hands on workshop. The session includes an opportunity for children to handle real burial objects from Ancient Egypt, and to find out how the mummy in Cliffe Castle’s collections met her death.
1 hour Education Officer led session
£60 per session (Max 35 pupils)
Rocks and Fossils
KS2 Science; QCA Unit 3D Rocks and Soils
As budding geologists children will experiment with grouping rocks, learning how rocks are formed and which rocks are important to us.
1 hour Education Officer led hands on session
£60 per session (Max 35 pupils)
Habitats and Adaptations
KS2 Science; QCA Unit 4B Habitats
Children will meet a host of local animals from our Natural History collections and become 'Habitat Estate Agents'. They will then investigate how the animals are adapted to living in their particular habitats.
1 hour Education Officer led hands on session
£60 per session (Max 35 pupils)
Bones, Muscles and Movement
KS2 Science; QCA Unit 4A Moving and Growing
The children will attempt to decipher which skull belongs to which animal in an interesting and different handling session. Though role play they explore which bone structures help different animals move in different ways.
1 hour Education Officer led hands on session
£60 per session (Max 35 pupils)
Time Team
KS1/2 History; QCA Unit 18 What was it like to live here in the past?
The museum's collections have been muddled up and the Time Team must sort artefacts in to categories: early history, the Romans, and the Victorians. As the children carefully observe and record what they find, the lives that revolved around these items will gradually reveal themselves.
2 hour Education Officer led session
£80 per session (Max 35 pupils)
Patterns in Glass
KS2 Art and Design; QCA Unit 3B Investigating Pattern
Using Cliffe Castle's stunning Morris & Co. stained glass and fabulously furnished reception rooms the children draw details of pattern. They then create their own laminated 'stained glass' to take back to school for the classroom window.
2 hour Education Officer led hands on session
£80 per session (Max 35 pupils)
Study Skins
KS2/3/4 Art and Design; QCA Unit 9/10 Visiting a Museum
Working with an artist, pupils will have the chance to explore museum objects not usually on display to inspire creative work. In a specially produced sketchbook pupils will experiment with approaches to drawing and develop observational drawing and recording skills using a variety of media.
2 hour Artist led session
£100 per session (Max 25 pupils)
Belonging
KS2/3 PSHE & Citizenship, English; Speaking and Listening
Cliffe Castle is full of fascinating objects from all over the world. How did they get here? Should they stay here? Can you help us decide where objects really belong?
Lively debate and discussion, with artefacts to handle from Keighley, Pakistan, Egypt and New Zealand.
2 hour Education Officer led hands on session.
£80 per session. (Max 35 pupils)
Classification
KS3 Science; Unit 7D Variation & Classification. Art and Design.
In this workshop pupils will get up close to the natural history collection and use this to help them sort vertebrates from invertebrates and identify key features of vertebrate groups. Students will then produce a relief print of an animal which can be ‘classified’ back at school.
2 Hour Education Officer led hands on session.
£80 per session (Max 30 pupils)
Booking is essential for all workshops and tours.
