Foundation & Key Stage 1
Our aim is not only to provide a great learning experience but to instill in children a love and understanding of the past and it’s people.
Curious Cornish Contraptions
LIMITED SLOTS – running until Friday 5 July
Come and get hands on with our latest temporary exhibition and make your own mini automata to join in with your classmates and make a giant ‘Curious Contraption’. Take a deep dive into the exhibition, learn all about the Cornish makers and the history of the collection. Finally, create and take home a ‘split pin creature’ – the basis of the first automata!
FS & KS1- Cornish Giant, Fact or Fiction?
Meet the real Cornish Giant, Antony Payne in this stimulating workshop. Use his portrait and original artefacts to find out about his life. Discover more about legendary Cornish giants and make a giant group collage to take away.
Old Toys
Explore toys and games from the past, enjoy the wonder of a Victorian magic lantern and make a replica toy to take away. Links to the National Curriculum area ‘changes within living memory’.
Mrs Trevithick’s Tale
Meet Mrs Trevithick and find out about her inventor husband. Within a dramatic presentation pupils handle and discuss artefacts, photographs and models. This workshop links with the National Curriculum ‘significant historical events, people and places in their own locality’ and ‘the lives of significant individuals in the past’. Also links with Key Stage 2 Local History topic.
Prices
£5.95 per pupil for a Workshop. To cover museum costs for school group visits, there is a minimum charge of £120 (or 20 pupils).
Home education
Please note, all workshops can be adapted to suit home education groups. Children aged 4+ cost £5.95 while under 4s and accompanying adults are free. We request that to cover museum costs for home education group visits, all groups contain 15 or more. Please note, there will be a maximum of one adult per two children allowed to join due to our limited room capacity.
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Please call 01872 245170 or email [email protected]
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