Education at Cliffe Castle
Welcome to Cliffe Castle's Learning & Outreach programme. To make a booking or for further information, please contact 01274 438234 or email becky.davies@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.
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
*New* Who's Coming to Dinner ?
KS1 Science; QCA Unit
In this fun workshop pupils help to prepare for an animal dinner party! Pupils must find out the names of guests, what they eat, where they live and who they should sit with. The workshop uses natural history specimens to help pupils explore and examine some of the plants and animals found in the local environment.
1 hour museum led hands on session
£60 per session (Max 35 Pupils)
*New* Dirt Detectives
KS1
In this hands on workshop pupils will find out more about the lives of 2 families through object based investigation. Pupils will dig for, record, sort and describe stone age objects and then explore the Victorians of Cliffe Castle through dressing up and object handling.
1 hour museum led hands on session
£60 per session (Max 35 Pupils)
Ancient Egyptian Mummification 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. 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
*New* 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)
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
*New *Amazing Archaeology
KS2 History; QCA unit 18 What was it like to live here in the past ?
Using the museum collections & our interactive dig pupils will discover life as an archaeologist. Using evidence and objects from stone age and Victorian Britain pupils must record, observe, discuss, dig & dress up to find out more about the lives of 2 historical families.
1.5 hour museum 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)
Further information about Patterns in Glass (PDF 86kb)
Patterns in Glass risk assessment form (PDF 44kb)
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.
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
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