If you are interested in booking a workshop for your pupils, please download and fill out our Booking Form and return in to bookings@wandsworthmuseum.co.uk. Alternatively you can contact the education team on 0208 870 6060.

Our current in-house learning programme is outlined below. All of our workshops can be offered as outreach sessions, except those using our large-scale floor maps. If you would prefer to have your workshop in the classroom, please get in touch on 0208 870 6060.

Primary Stages

People who help us – Past & Present FS &KS1

Interactive Storytelling

Based on the Foundation Stage topic ‘people who help us’, this session explores the role of five people whose profession involves helping/protecting the community. It encourages children to think about the job roles of people who help us and understand how these have been an important part of our community for over 100 years. The session is designed to develop your pupils’ understanding of the concept of past and present as well as looking in depth at 5 characters. The session enables children to handle objects both old and new, role play different people who help us and join in with an interactive story set 100 years ago.

Curriculum Content: The session covers three of the four specific areas highlighted in EYFS, these are literacy, understanding the world and expressive arts and design.

Duration: 1 hour

 

Toys FS & KS1

Object Handling

This session, incorporating both history and science, allows your pupils to enjoy a range of toys in small groups. It encourages children to think about the lives of people in Wandsworth today and the lives of people in the past, including older people in their own family. The session is designed to develop your pupil’s knowledge of old and new and reinforces the message that toys often reflect the technology of the time but can be created from almost anything.

Curriculum Content: Forces and Movement, Toys from the past, recycled toys and toys from other countries.

Duration: 1 hour

 

Village Inventors KS1 & KS2

Map Investigation, Story Telling and Town-making

This session blends local history and geography with art to form a session based around map skills. Your pupils will investigate large child friendly maps of the local area spanning 250 years listen to true stories from the past and go on to create their own map of the future.

Curriculum Links: Geography, History and Local Studies, Art and Design,

Duration: 1.5 hours

 

Bags of Time KS2

( Roman / Tudor / Victorian / World War II )

Object Handling and Replica Costume

In small groups, your pupils will explore life in the past by discovering a piece of luggage lost in Wandsworth. They will rely on their investigation skills to decide which Wandsworth resident has lost their luggage and use supporting sources to develop their character and the wider context of their life.

Curriculum Links: History: Chronological Understanding, Interpretation, Enquiry

Breadth of study: Local History Study, Roman Britain, Tudor Britain, Victorian Britain, World War Two

Duration: 1.5 hours

 

Mapping the Centuries KS2

Story Telling and Map Investigation

This session blends local history and mapping skills as your pupils will investigate large floor maps from 1760, 1880 and the present day. They will use a grid referencing system to discover some of the major features of our area and populate the map with stories of weird and wonderful things that have happened here.

Curriculum Content: Geography, History and Local Studies

Duration: 1.5 hours

Secondary Stages

Bags of Time: Mystery KS2-3

Object Handling and Replica Costume

Your pupils will explore life in various periods of Wandsworth’s past. They will share a piece of luggage lost in Wandsworth in small groups and must rely on their investigation skills to discover who and when the luggage was lost. With the help of supporting sources they will develop their character and their understanding of the context of their life.

Curriculum Links: History: Chronological Understanding,

Interpretation, Enquiry, Organisation and Communication.

Local History Study, Roman Britain, Victorian Britain, WW2.

Duration: 2 hours

 

Bags of time: Wandsworth Settlers KS3

Object Handling and Replica Costume

From pre-history onwards, settlers from around the globe have arrived in Wandsworth and made it their home. Your pupils will explore our local history by discovering a piece of luggage lost by a Wandsworth resident, someone who arrived and settled here in the past. Objects and supporting sources will be used to help investigate the push and pull factors that lead to this decision and as a group we will examine the importance of immigration and cultural diversity in the shaping of the Wandsworth we know today.

Curriculum Links: History: Chronological Understanding, Interpretation, Enquiry, Organisation and Communication. Local History Study, Citizenship.

Duration: 1.5 hours

 

Suffragette Drama Performance & Mock Trial

This interactive drama and mock trial features an actor playing the role of Charlotte Despard, a militant Suffragette campaigner who lived in Wandsworth in the early 20th century. Charlotte tells of her experience of the changing status of women as well as her reasons for wanting the vote. Later imprisoned for her Suffragette activities, the performance dramatises the events leading up to her arrest. Students will get the opportunity to question her before they re-enact her trial, taking on the roles of witnesses, barristers, judge and jury in our courtroom space. The trial is made real to students by use of archival material from Charlotte’s suffrage campaign. This drama performance and mock trial highlight how the legal system operates, the importance of voting and how both men and women campaigned to be allowed play an active part in democratic and electoral processes.
 
Curriculum links: KS3 History: The development of political power from the middle ages to the 20th century, Campaigns for Civil Rights-Women, The Changing Role and Status of Women in Britain since 1900. KS3 Citizenship: Democracy and justice.
 
Duration: Drama (1hour) Mock Trial (1.5hour)
 
This session was developed under the Museum of London Renaissance Advisory Scheme with consultancy advice from the NCCL.

 

Costing

All sessions are priced at £3 plus VAT per student. Teachers and accompanying adults visit free of charge. Outreach session are priced at £3 plus VAT per student and travel expenses.

Cancellation policy

The Museum aims to be as accommodating as possible with education group bookings. However, because of the high level of demand, we reserve the right to charge a cancellation fee (of up to 50% of the workshop fee) for bookings cancelled less than 14 days before the visit.