Horsham Museum & Art Gallery

School Workshops

Horsham Museum & Art Gallery9 Causeway, Horsham

West Sussex RH12 1HE

Tel: (01403) 254959 Email: museum@horsham.gov.uk

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June 2012

Horsham Museum and Art gallery has:

• 26 galleries covering everything from Archaeology to Zoetrope

• An education room to use as a workshop or base when exploring the museum or town

• A building whose history goes back to 1420• Over 20 temporary exhibitions a year that cover a wide

range of subjects • A mummified cat and a model prisoner

It is an ideal venue to look at and explore the past and the present.

ChargesThe School workshops are charged at a per pupil per hour rate. Travel to the school is also charged.

Visits to the museum are free and use of the Education room is free. Talks held in the Museum by Museum staff are charged.

Children are encouraged to be “History Detectives” by developing investigative and interpretive skills.Objects, images, contemporary anecdotes bring the subject to life.

All sessions include an introductory talk (20-30mins), handling sessions and plenary.

N.B. If there are any topics that you would like a workshop on, not listed here, please do discus it with us as Horsham museum has a wide range of objects waiting to be used.

To book a schools workshop is as easy as A B C

• Select the topic you want from the list

• Phone Helen Clark on 07802 196458

• Tell Helen what you would like and confirm the charges for the session.

Note. You will be invoiced by Horsham District Council after the session.

Phone Helen Clark on 07802 196458 for more details

We would like to thank the pupils, teachers and parents of Bewbush School, Crawley, and Arunside Primary School,

Horsham, who allowed us to take the photographs.

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• TeddyBears/TeddyBearsPicnic

Designed for the Early Years/Reception. A fantastic collection of old bears with stories to explore the origin and development of the Teddy.

• ToysThis talk is ideal for K.S. 1. Using toys from 1880 to 1940 along with modern comparisons, your pupils learn about change.

• DinosaursWe can offer your pupils an amazing opportunity to handle fossilised dinosaur bones. The children can learn about this fascinating topic whilst digging for their own dinosaur. Unless you have 3 sand pits for use at school, this is best done at the Museum, with its unique fossils remains.

• VictorianWashday/HousesandHomesUsing clothing, utensils and everyday objects these sessions reconstruct a typical Victorian washday and life in a Victorian kitchen. The parallel is drawn between then and now.

• AncientEgyptChildren learn about this fascinating culture by looking at and handling artifacts such as a 5,000 year old make up palette. Comprising of 2 sessions, the first covers aspects of Egyptian daily life including fashion, makeup, jewellery and their beliefs; in the second, children have the opportunity to dress up and role play mummification, complete with a mummy doll and her removable organs!

• WorldWar2Using original objects, contemporary war time propaganda and posters, supplemented with local stories, children can explore the real war and the impact the war had locally.

• Bikes/TransportBest appreciated at the Museum where the children can see over 15 fine examples of early bicycles. A short quiz is provided to accompany this tour. It is possible to bring two of the bikes to your school along with a selection of smaller cycling objects.

• RomansinBritainExplore through handling 2000 year old artefacts what the Romans brought to Sussex. Not only straight roads but fish paste and wine.

• TheJubileeYears(1950s-2000s)Many interesting artifacts chart the changes in our homes and daily life during the reign of Queen Elizabeth II.

• Holidaysin1950s/TheseasideWhat was it like to take a holiday in the 1950’s before the package holiday? We went to the seaside of course! The children can chuckle at the contents of a 1950s suitcase full of items which make us all smile today!

• PartiesinGrandma’sTime(1950s)Any child from KS1 to KS3 will enjoy this role playing session that is both informative and fun. The children experience the games, music, talk about the food and what they would have taken as gifts in the 1950s.

• 1960sWe work with you to create the session you want covering the swinging 60’s. We can cover fashion, toys, games, music as well as household items – a wealth of things from which to select.

• FireofLondonThe session is in the form of role play where the children see the progress of the Great Fire of London through the eyes of one of Samuel Pepys’ maids. Ideally held at the timber framed Horsham museum it is possible to hold it at your school with a limited range of objects.

• ShoesThis session for older KS2/KS3/KS4, highlights the development and fashion changes of footwear from the Romans to the present day, using artifacts and pictures.

• Textiles/Victorianfashion/SuffragettesThis is a session for KS3/4. The pupils explore the politics of fashion and how clothing represented ideas of women from tightly laced Victorians to 1920s flappers which they can photograph and draw. However the ‘must see’ in our collection has to be underwear worn by Queen Victoria.

• PicturesandPortraits Horsham Museum’s renowned collection of old photographs and portraits brings to life this interesting session explaining why and how people have been depicted and recorded from before cameras were invented to our digital age.

• SettingUpYourClassroomMuseumA session for KS1 – KS4 by trained Museum staff. Alternatively this can also be delivered as a teacher training session/CPD. It explains how to catalogue, choose and display your own artifacts in the classroom.

• HistoricHorshamThis popular session is for older students and incorporates a walk through the most historic areas of Horsham with an accompanying talk. It focuses on the architecture, history and prominent characters of the locality.

• TheChangingLandscapeofHorshamThis session is a talk only and focuses on what the area of Horsham was like millions of years ago when Dinosaurs roamed the land. How and why has it changed and become the town it is today?

• HorshamThenandNow(1950/1960s)A talk with a PowerPoint presentation showing some archive pictures of a Horsham before the development of the 1960’s when farms where converted to the mass of housing which we recognize today.