School Learning

Many thousands of pupils have experienced our wide ranging school program. Every workshop, living history re-enactment, handling activity, drama or creative activity is designed by our experienced staff to match and extent Nation Curriculum requirements.
We use our collection as a stimulating resource for skills based and inter linked learning.

"Superb educational resource. We will certainly use this service again."

"The Children throughly enjoyed the hands-on experience."

Key Stages	F	1	2	3	Key Stages	F	1	2	3
Literacy & Numeracy					Living history characters
Making Books	X	X	X	X	Elfrieda Aglo Saxon - I saw the Vikings and lived to tell the tale		X	X
Every object tells a story	X	X	X	X	Maud Heath Medieval - Dry shod to market			X	X
Writing through the ages		X	X	X	Mistress Pedlar Tudor - Wares for sale and the odd bit of gossip				X
Maths past times			X	X	Mistress Nicholson, school dame Vict - The three R's and a lot of love			X	X
Numbers and patterns	X	X	X		Miss Thompson ,schoolma'am Vict Children should be seen and not heard			X
Inter linked curriculum					Ada Boxall, laundressVict - It's a bih diff'rnt dahn ere arfter Lundun		X	X
Houses and homes	X	X	X		Mary Kingsley, traveller Vict The spirit of adventure is everything		X	X	X
Toys (materials, forces, design)	X	X	X	X	Mary Kingsley, traveller Vict Life with and without Mr Brunel,		X	X	X
Lights and lighting - timelines	X	X	X	X	Gertie O'Brain WWI - munitions The canaries of Saxby and Farmer			X	X
Travel and Transport		X	X	X	Miss Douglas, teacher WW2 - Life as an evacuee with the children		X	X	X
At the seaside, a Victorian view		X	X		Time Periods
Archaeology		X	X	X	Ancient Egyptians artifacts and tales			X
Making a museum		X	X	X	Ancient Greece, archaeology tells a story		X	X	X
		X	X	X	Prehistoric Chippenham Stones and Bones			X
Geography					Romans - artifacts & money go round			X
Local Studies - Land Use		X	X	X	Anglo-Saxons & Vikings		X	X	X
Local Studies - Shops		X	X		Medieval times were not dark ages		X		X
Local Studies - town trails	X	X	X	X	Tudor life/designs		X	X
Citizenship					Georgian Chippenham is Little Bath		X	X	X
**Citizens' Voices**			X	X	Victorian town/school/homes	X	X	X
Technology					WWI Woman doing men's work			X	X
Buildings and builders			X	X	WW2 make do & mend/home front		X	X	X
Technology then and now		X	X		Timelines
Innovations with Isambard		X	X		Prehistory - present day - irons arrowhads, shoes, lamps, household items costume...		X	X	X
Art	X	X	X	X

PPA Any of the above, papercraft, drawing activities, book readingsm storytelling and knotting!

Please Contact Jean Harvest, Education Officer, for discussion and further details.

10 Market Place
Chippenham
Wiltshire
SN15 3HF

Tel: 01249 705020
Fax: 01249 705025
Email: heritage.education@chippenham.gov.uk