Led Sessions
From September 2010 we will be charging £1 per child, per hour.
The fees can be waived for KS3/4 and pilots sessions, please get in
touch for details. Any bookings taken before 6th
September 2010 for the 2010-2011 school year will be free of
charge.
Documenting Our Past
2
hours, KS2 or KS3
Explore a timeline of Hull from its origins as
Wyke upon Hull to the Blitz and beyond through Hull’s unique
archival and local studies collections whilst developing key skills
and using cross-curricular links.
- Create a charter of rights and responsibilities for modern
Hull
- Become Cartographers to predict and map out Hull’s growth
- Become ‘Enumerators’ collecting census information from your
‘Victorian’ classmates
- Act as Historians to discover and present what life was like
for children in Hull during the war
- Collect information from our resources together into a timeline
of Hull
This session would compliment Hull Museum
Education’s ‘Tour Through Time’ and ‘Hull’s Hidden History’ led
sessions well. For more details or to book call 01482-318733.
Behind the Scenes
2
hours, KS2
Option A: The Mystery of Mason
Street
Investigate the History Centre and it’s
collections through a guided interactive tour. Explore the rich
Victorian, wartime and recent history of our building and it’s site
through our photographic, census, map and document collections.
Option B: Destination
Hull
Investigate the origins of the Victorian residents
of Mason street and how they got here from Russia, Ireland, Norway
and as far away as Cornwall!
This session would compliment Hull Museum
Education’s ‘Tour Through Time’ and ‘Hull’s Hidden History’ led
sessions well. For more details or to book call 01482-318733.
WW2 - ARP Apprentice, 2 hours - KS2
Practise the skills necessary to become an ARP warden through
investigating a ‘top secret’ incident, exploring Hull during WW2 on
film and practising wartime first aid. Using Hull’s vast
wartime document collection and clips from the Yorkshire Film
Archives.
A 1 hour version of this session investigating
the ‘top secret’ incident is also available.
This session would compliment Hull Museum Education’s
‘Evacuation!’, ‘Home Front’ and ‘On the Ration’ led sessions well.
For more details or to book call 01482-318733.
Tudors - Henry’s Hull, 2
hours - KS2
Was Henry VIII really as mean as he sounds? Discover the effect
Henry VIII’s reign had on Hull through original documents sent to
the city by the man himself. Practise your own Tudor handwriting to
create a scroll letter to reply to Henry.
This session would compliment Hull Museum
Education’s ‘The Tudors – Painting the Past’ and ‘The Tudors – Age
of Discovery’ led sessions well. For more details or to book call
01482-318733.
Local History - Old School
(all KS’s)
This project runs as an option for the acclaimed Museums in a Box
project and is run in partnership with Hull Museums Education.
Throughout the project pupils will act as curators and archivists
and practise the skills necessary to research, create and deliver
an exhibition about their school and the local area.
Please click on the link to download our whole schools
programme. If you are unable to open this link please
email esther.farrow@hullcc.gov.uk
for more information or to be sent a copy in the post