EDUCATION
Your museum in the classroom
Abingdon County Hall Museum is now closed for major redevelopment work to take place. The new displays and a bright new education and community space will reopen in Spring 2012.
While we are closed the museum is offering a FREE bookable outreach service for Abingdon schools from January 2011. Each 45 minute pilot workshop will be led by experienced museum staff. All workshops are hands on, cross curricular and linked to national curriculum objectives and learning outcomes..
There are 3
workshops to choose from:
KS1
How we used to Live
Discover
what life was like for the servants and family living in a
wealthy Victorian household in Abingdon. Children will handle
and discuss a variety of everyday objects from flat irons to
china cups in this active and lively workshop.
By taking
part in this workshop your pupils will build on the following
skills:
·
Active participation in speaking, listening, group discussion
and interaction
·
Understanding chronology, knowledge and understanding, change
and continuity over time
·
Knowledge and understanding of materials
·
The understanding of forces and motion
KS2
and KS3 Past into Present
You can
find out the answers to these questions and more by taking part
in this active session which travels through time from the past
into the present. Many
of the objects which pupils will handle in this session were
made by or belonged to people in Abingdon.
By taking part in this workshop your pupils
will build on the following skills:
·
Active participation in speaking, listening, group discussion
and interaction
·
Understanding of chronology, knowledge and understanding, change
and continuity and enquiry skills
·
Knowledge and understanding of materials and their properties
·
Knowledge and understanding of design, materials and their
function
KS2
and KS3
Roman Abingdon
What did
the Romans do for Abingdon and is there evidence to prove it?
Pupils turn archaeologists in this hands on investigation
exploring an intriguing part of the town’s past.
By taking part in this workshop your pupils
will build on the following skills:
If you would like to book or discuss any of the sessions offered
please contact
Adela Thomas, Audience Development
Officer
Telephone 01235-531378 / Email
adela.thomas@abingdon.gov.uk
