Cliffe Castle Education Programme
20 October 2010
Heads of Art Update and Opportunities Meeting
The next meeting will be held at Cliffe Castle Museum and will take the theme of drawing. 1.30 - 3.30pm practical session and 4 - 5pm for the Student Opportunities Meeting. Places are free but please book a place, to confirm your attendance please email luke.owens@bradford.gov.uk
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
Cliffe Castle Museum has been awarded the Learning Outside the Classroom Quality Badge. The quality badge is awarded to organisations who deliver high quality learning experiences and have appropriate risk management structures. For more details visit www.lotcqualitybadge.org.uk
General visit information sheet (PDF 78kb)
General Risk Assessment Guidelines for Cliffe Castle Museum (PDF 35kb)
Resources
Contact the learning team for details of self led resources which can be used at Cliffe Castle Museum.
Exhibitions
26 June – 5 September 2010
Shocking Electricity!
The hands – on summer science exhibition this year will be opening on 26th June to allow access for schools in the final few weeks of term. This year’s exhibition contains experiments for all ages on the theme of electricity. Using 15 different interactives students will be able to make an explosion using water, experiment with batteries and generators, magnets and plasma globes, create circuits and make objects dance! The exhibition can be used to consolidate teaching of National Curriculum SC4 Electricity and Science QCA units 2F, 4F & 6G. Entrance to the exhibition is free but schools need to book visits in advance.
Multisensory handling bags
- Habitat bag
- Fossils bag
These bags contain resources to allow independent exploration of the museum displays. Containing objects sounds and smells the bags can be used to prompt discussion and encourage pupils to find out more from the displays. Both bags are suitable for use by KS1, 2 and SEN groups. Use of the handling bags must be booked in advance.
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)
Further information about Toy Detectives (PDF 89kb)
Toy Detectives risk assessment form (PDF 36kb)
Booking essential
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)
Take 2 Portraits risk assessment form (PDF 52kb)
Booking essential
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)
Further information about Ancient Egyptian Workshop (PDF 92kb)
Ancient Egyptian risk assessment form (PDF 43kb)
Booking essential
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)
Further information about Rocks and Fossils (PDF 90kb)
Rock Fossils risk assessment form (PDF 44kb)
Booking essential
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)
Further information about Habitats and Adaptations (PDF 86kb)
Habitats and Adaptations risk assessment form (PDF 44kb)
Booking essential
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)
Further information about Bones, Muscles and Movement (PDF 90kb)
Bones, Muscles and Movement risk assessment form (PDF 44kb)
Booking essential
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)
Further information about the Time Team Workshop (PDF 86kb)
Time Team risk assessment form (PDF 44kb)
Booking essential
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)
Further information about Patterns in Glass (PDF 86kb)
Patterns in Glass risk assessment form (PDF 44kb)
Booking essential
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)
Booking essential
Under Threat
KS2 Science, Design and Technology, English: Speaking and Listening
This workshop uses the museums collections to explore some of the current threats to biodiversity. Following an introduction to biodiversity pupils will work in 3 teams to complete practical and thought provoking challenges on habitat destruction, hunting and endangered British species.
Suitable KS2 YR 4, 5, 6
1.5 hr Education Officer led interactive workshop
£80 per session (max 35 pupils)
Booking essential
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)
Further information about Belonging (PDF 86kb)
Belonging risk assessment form (PDF 44kb)
Booking essential
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)
Further information about Classification (PDF 86kb)
Classification risk assessment form (PDF 44kb)
Booking essential
