Quarry Bank Mill & Styal Estate
Address: Styal, Cheshire SK9 4LA
Tel: 01625 445888 or 01625 527468
Quarry Bank Mill and Styal Estate is the only complete working example of an 18th-century cotton mill with its Apprentice House - where the pauper children who worked at the mill lived. Also incorporating a village, shop, school, river and woodland walks, Quarry Bank Mill and Styal Estate offer education visitors a richly rewarding experience.
Programmes of practical hands-on textiles sessions are offered for many curriculum areas. Key Stage 1 pupils learn about Fleecy the Sheep, how we make woollen cloth, and making patterns.
Pupils from Key Stage 2 are able to explore how cloth was made in ancient Greece, Victorian times and textile technology, with options in spinning, weaving, felting, tie dyeing, batik and screen printing. This programme is also offered for Key Stage 3 pupils and extends into an exploration of different fibres.
Tailor-made sessions in textile technology, art and design in batik are also offered for GCSE and A Level students.
Environmental and Travel and Tourism sessions are also available and workshop facilities and staff training ensure sessions are accessible to children of all abilities.
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Montacute House
Address: Montacute, Somerset TA15 6XP
Tel: 01935 826924
Montacute House is an excellent example of an unspoilt late Tudor mansion and contains a stunning collection of Tudor and Jacobean portraits from the National Portrait Gallery.
The Learning Team, in partnership with the National Portrait Gallery, offers a range of fun, hands-on learning opportunities for visitors of all ages. School groups can take part in an interactive tour of the house, then try a number of activities including writing with quill pens or making a miniature portrait. Our Outreach programme, ‘Tudor Portraits, Costume & Dance’ has been received very enthusiastically by schools. As one child discovered, 'What amazed me was how they managed to move in their clothes!' We also offer a range of Teacher INSET courses relating to the House and the portraits.
A new Family Gallery Trail and children’s activities draw visitors, young and old, into the lives, adventures and romances of Tudors and Stuarts they meet in the portraits. Three new Family Garden Trails and a Nature Trail enable visitors to discover the stories and secrets hidden in the gardens.
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Windermere and Troutbeck
Address: St Catherine’s Property Office, Patterdale Rd, Windermere, Cumbria LA23 1NH
Tel: 015394 46402
The National Trust owns much of the eastern shore of Windermere, England’s longest lake. The fantastic mix of natural woodlands, meadows and lake shore is balanced with a 17th-century farmhouse and a Roman fort.
Key Stage 2 visitors enjoy cross-curricular sessions focusing on Geography, nature and sustainability whilst using Art, Literature and lots of imagination.
All groups leave after having had a fun day designed to stimulate their curiosity and their desire to know more.
One of the sessions focuses on the forces that have influenced the landscape at St Catherine’s. Starting with the last Ice Age and covering forest clearances, Romans, monks, Victorians and modern day, we examine natural and human pressures. The session sets the scene for work based on ESD through exploring the idea that if the environment today is a result of the past, then the environment of the future will be a result of the present.
Key Stage 3 groups have used role play to investigate land use pressures in such a tourism honey-pot, and university groups have used Wansfell as an ideal location for studying the balance needed between recreation and conservation.
Regardless of age or experience, we aim to expand students’ awareness of the natural world but, more importantly, plant a deep seed of interest that keeps on growing.
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Beningbrough Hall
Address: Beningbrough, York, North Yorkshire. YO30 1DD
Tel: 01904 470666
An 18th-century mansion, Beningbrough Hall is home to over 200 portraits from the period. Many of the portraits are part of the national collection cared for by the National Portrait Gallery in London. A visit to Beningbrough Hall is a marvellous opportunity to view these 18th-century portraits in the sort of setting their subjects and painters would have originally displayed them.
Organised in collaboration with the National Portrait Gallery, jointly funded by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) and the Department for Education and Skills (DfES), the Education Resource Project running at Beningbrough aims to celebrate the portraits and make resources available for schools and visitors.
Learning activities at Beningbrough Hall:
Outreach to primary schools in North Yorkshire. Using a selection of 18th century portraits as a starting point with both Key Stage 1 and 2, children produce their own art work.
Visits for schools with opportunities for looking in detail at costumes and social life (Key Stage1) and painting techniques and production (Key Stage2) followed by children's own art work.
Families
Examples of activities offered recently:
- Family art day - mask making, collage, silhouettes, copying portraits
- Sketching portraits in the house
- Workshops for children involving drawing facial expressions, a plan of an average face
- Copying poses in various portraits and having digital photos taken
- Giant collage pictures using natural materials (autumnal theme)
- Looking in detail at various portraits in the house
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