Primary Learning

Programme

Bronze casting at Salisbury Museum

Booking a visit

Free self-guided visits

Create your own learning programme at Salisbury

Museum with free self-directed visits for all schools

throughout 2013/14. Booking is essential and can be

made through reception on 01722 332151. Activity

sheets and support materials can be found on our

website at www.salisburymuseum.org.uk/learning

Free facilitated sessions

All facilitated sessions are free throughout 2013/14.

The sessions are led by one of the museum’s learning

officers or by a freelance facilitator and can be

delivered in the museum or in school. Where

sessions are delivered in school the museum will

charge travel costs of 40p per mile. For enquiries and

bookings contact the learning team on 01722 820540

or email education@salisburymuseum.org.uk

Special Needs

The museum can support pupils with special

educational needs, adapting sessions where

necessary. Please advise the museum when booking.

All areas on the ground floor are wheelchair

accessible, including galleries, lecture hall, toilets and

café. Please note, however, there is no lift access to

the first floor galleries.

Teacher visits

We encourage teachers to visit the museum before

the intended school trip. Entry is free but we ask that

prior notice is given. The learning team is happy to

discuss your visit with you.

Health and Safety

Risk assessments for the public areas of the museum

and for specific activities are available and can be

downloaded from our website. However, these

should not replace a school’s own risk assessment.

We ask that schools ensure there is one adult for

every eight children under the age of seven or every

10 pupils aged seven to 11.

Lunches

The museum can provide an indoor lunch space for

up to 90 children but this must be requested when

booking. The museum garden and Cathedral Close

are also available for picnics.

Museum shop

Children are welcome to buy a souvenir of their visit

but we ask that they be in small groups of five or six

and accompanied by an adult.

Parking

There is no coach or car parking at the museum

except for disabled parking. There is a car park in the

Cathedral Close as well as city centre car parks. The

coach drop-off point is in St John Street.

For enquiries and bookings contact the learning

team on 01722 820540 or email

education@salisburymuseum.org.uk

Visit the website at www.salisburymuseum.org.uk

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Ancient Wessex New Gallery — New Learning

Salisbury Museum is home to a nationally important

archaeology collection of objects excavated from the

Stonehenge World Heritage Site.

This gives us the unique ability to bring Stone Age

artefacts to your school. Through handling ancient

objects pupils will gain a better understanding of the

technology and lives of people from many thousands of

years ago.

After studying real artefacts and making records of

their observations the class will create a giant ‘Surviving

the Stone Age’ board game.

Pupils will use their new-found knowledge and

understanding of ancient technologies, as well as their

imagination, to judge whether they could have lived

happily in the Stone Age or if they would have fallen

foul of the challenging environment.

Duration: 90 minutes—2 hours

Surviving the Stone Age KS1 & 2

A superb new gallery and an exciting new learning programme

for schools…

You will find both at Salisbury Museum as we invest £2.4m —

including £1.8m from the Heritage Lottery Fund — creating an

archaeology gallery fit for the 21st Century and a schools

programme to match.

The redeveloped gallery will present the museum’s nationally

designated archaeology collections in an innovative and

engaging way. It will tell the story of life in south Wiltshire from

the Normans at Old Sarum back to the early Stone Age.

Magnificent artefacts such as the Amesbury Archer and his

grave goods and finds excavated from Stonehenge are among

the gallery highlights.

During winter 2013/14 we are offering a series of outreach

sessions, bringing collections to your school along with

fascinating and engaging activities.

When The Wessex Gallery opens in Spring 2014 we will be

inviting schools in to the museum to show you how this

valuable resource can be used to bring alive your class topics.

The Wessex Gallery

The Amesbury Archer KS1 & 2

Roman Life KS1 & 2

Take a closer look at the lives of people in Britain nearly 2,000

years ago with this session on the Romans.

What did they eat? What art did they like? How did they play?

Did they smell bad?

What historians could not read from ancient manuscripts

archaeologists have discovered by unearthing artefacts. Objects

both spectacular and mundane provide an insight into daily life

of Roman Britain.

The museum is home to Roman finds from the Wessex region

which, along with replicas, will help your class discover for

themselves how things used to be done.

This new found knowledge is then transferred to a series of

Roman crafts options such as clay work and mosaic inspired art

which can be chosen beforehand to fit in with your topic.

A set of Roman costumes ends this session for your class to

look and feel like real Romans.

Duration: 90 minutes — 2 hours

The Amesbury Archer is possibly the most famous character at

Salisbury Museum and has featured many times on television and

in books and publications. Impressive for someone over 4,400

years old. Not surprisingly he is a key element of the story of

Wessex and of the new Wessex Gallery.

We will bring a set of replica clothes and burial goods to your

school to help your classes explore life at the beginning of the

Bronze Age, when Stonehenge was in its prime and metal

working skills were first brought to Salisbury Plain.

Pupils will explore such questions as who was the Archer?

Where was he from? Why did he walk with a limp and how has

modern science helped us learn so much about one man’s life

from thousands of years ago?

This session is very hands on, looking at real and replica items

contemporary to the Archer and creating archaeological

records in the classroom. Costumes are available for children to

step into the role of the Amesbury Archer.

Duration: 90 minutes — 2 hours.

Pottery — Archaeology and Art KS1 & 2

Saxon Treasures KS1 & 2

Pupils enter the ‘Dark Ages’ with this session.

Archaeology has played a major part in unravelling some of the

mysteries of this turbulent period of history and Wessex has

produced some fascinating finds.

Saxon dignitaries are famed for the hoards buried with them.

Your class will look at Saxon burial offerings and the language

and art from the period to gain an insight into the Saxon mind,

drawing comparisons and contrast with today.

Children will then be shown craft skills to make replica jewellery

suitable to pay tribute to a fallen leader.

Bringing all this together, complete with child size costumes,

your class will be led through developing and performing their

own Saxon funeral ceremony.

Duration: 90 minutes — 2 hours.

The new Wessex Gallery houses a magnificent collection of

pottery showing how craft skills have developed since the late

Stone Age.

Your class will handle pieces of pottery from the Neolithic

period right through to early Medieval times.

Pupils will record their observations of designs and material.

They will then use and consider what this can reveal about life

thousands of years ago.

Then comes the really hands on part when children will be

shown how to make pots of their own, using designs and

techniques they have seen in real artefacts.

We will provide the necessary resources for this session

including clay.

Duration: 90 minutes — 2 hours

The Normans — building Old Sarum KS1 & 2

Medieval Salisbury KS1 & 2

The Wessex Gallery is a trip through time, beginning with the

decline of Old Sarum and the birth of Salisbury.

Beautiful Norman stone carving is the link in this transition and

is revealed through our collection of stonemasonry from the

site of the cathedral at Old Sarum.

Exploring the new art and construction skills the Normans

brought to England, this session looks at the stonemason’s

design and craft which provide an insight into life some 1,000

years ago.

Your pupils will explore symbols of power that adorned

impressive buildings at the centre of Norman community life.

After being presented with a range of ideas from Norman

craftsmanship pupils will make their own Norman-style works

of art. Pupils can complete their transformation into residents

of Old Sarum with our collection of Norman costumes.

Duration: 90 minutes—2 hours

Why was Salisbury called the Venice of the North? How did it

become one of the most important cities in Medieval England?

Explore the myths and facts surrounding the origins and growth

of the city through the museum’s medieval collections.

We offer two sessions — Salisbury: A Medieval New Town

and Trades & Guilds in Medieval Salisbury.

Salisbury: A Medieval New Town lets pupils explore

historic maps and the museum’s collections to discover why Old

Sarum was abandoned and the Cathedral city of New Sarum

was built.

In Trades and Guilds in Medieval Salisbury pupils discover

why Salisbury was such an important medieval city. They

investigate objects in the galleries and handle original and replica

artefacts to learn about Salisbury’s vibrant and wealthy

commercial past.

Both sessions can be adapted for delivery in school.

Key Stage: 1 & 2 History, Geography, Art & Design

Duration: 60-90 minutes

The children learnt a great deal about the The children learnt a great deal about the

trades and guilds of Salisbury and had fun doing trades and guilds of Salisbury and had fun doing

so so —— so perfect!so perfect!

KS2 Teacher

Tudor Salisbury KS1 & 2

The Victorians FS, KS1 & 2

Walk in the footsteps of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn. Discover

how the city of Salisbury prepared for a Royal Progress. And

explore what was life like for ordinary folk in Tudor times.

Tudor Life is a one hour session and The Tudors are

Coming! is two hours

Tudor Life is an interactive session. Pupils learn through object

handling about the experiences of rich and poor in Tudor times.

There is also an opportunity to dress in Tudor costumes.

The Tudors are Coming! recreates the pageant surrounding

the visit to Salisbury of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn in 1511. The

children will learn about the food and music of the time and

dress in Tudor Costumes. They are also introduced to the

different roles of people who made up Henry’s court and the

people of Salisbury who welcomed the king to the city.

Both sessions are best delivered in the museum but can be

adapted for delivery in school.

Key Stage: 1 & 2 History, Art & Design

Duration: 60 — 120 minutes

Discover what life was like for Victorian children with this

session that can be delivered in the museum or in school.

The session focuses on investigation and learning through

objects. It is very much hands-on, exploring toys, clothing and

other objects from the period.

Pupils will be able to handle real Victorian objects and compare

modern childhood with that of 150 years ago.

The session can also include dressing up in replica Victorian

costumes. The costumes represent an entire Victorian

household from the gentleman and lady of the house to the

shoe boy and scullery maid.

Key Stage: FS, 1 & 2

Duration: 60 minutes

Thank you so much for a wonderful day. The children were buzzing Thank you so much for a wonderful day. The children were buzzing

with excitement about all of their fantastic experiences at the with excitement about all of their fantastic experiences at the

museum. I will definitelymuseum. I will definitely be recommending a trip to my colleagues. be recommending a trip to my colleagues.

Y1 Class Teacher

Museum Curators KS1 & 2

World at War KS2

EXPLORE the reasons why we collect objects in museums. Learn

how to handle real artefacts and use key thinking skills to

investigate what makes an object important.

Museum Curators and Museum Designers are sessions

designed to encourage the use of key thinking skills as well as

adopting a hands-on and practical approach to History, Art &

Design and Design Technology,

The one hour Museum Curators session is an ideal way to

introduce children to decision-making as well as object handling.

Museum Designers is a two-hour session where students

create their own mini-museums. They will select objects, write

captions and design and annotate their displays.

Both sessions support Personal Learning & Thinking Skills

including critical thinking and peer and self-evaluation.

Key Stage: 1 & 2 History, Art & Design and Design Technology

Duration: 60 — 120 minutes

What was life like on the Home Front during the two world

wars? How were people's lives affected and what connects then

and now?

In 2014 we mark the centenary of the First World War and 70th

anniversary of the D-Day landings. We are offering sessions

focusing on the Home Front in both conflicts which can be

delivered in school or at the museum. The museum’s exhibition

Salisbury & The Great War will run from October 2014.

WW11— life on the Home Front looks at the experiences

of families and child evacuees. Pupils have an opportunity to

handle original and replica objects and imagine themselves in the

place of a 1940s child.

Wiltshire’s Great War is a new session focusing on the

experiences of civilians and soldiers in Salisbury, surrounding

villages and military camps of Salisbury Plain. Pupils will use

objects, letters, postcards and photos to explore such themes as

Empire, rationing, the role of women and remembrance.

Key Stage: 1 & 2 History, Literacy

Duration: 60 — 120 minutes

Exhibition Programme A visit to Salisbury Museum is a chance for pupils to be inspired

by works of art by some of this country’s most important artists.

The museum holds more than 4,000 paintings, prints and

drawings, including five Turner watercolours and the Rex

Whistler archive, as well as having permanent collections of

costumes and ceramics.

Since 2011 we have established a programme of major summer

art exhibitions that include loans from national galleries and

collections.

Our summer 2014 exhibition will show how flamboyant

photographer, artist and designer Cecil Beaton was inspired by

Wiltshire and his homes at Ashcombe and Broadchalke.

A major exhibition of works by Turner is planned for 2015 and in

2016 we expect to welcome back Constable’s great oil painting

of Salisbury Cathedral from the Water Meadows with an

exhibition and supporting education programme.

For more details of our exhibitions and collections visit

www.salisburymuseum.org.uk Visit the Your Paintings website at

www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/ to see the museum’s collection of

Whether you want a self-guided or facilitated session we offer

teachers a free planning visit to the museum.

The museum’s collections and sessions support existing and new

programmes of study for history, geography, art and design, design

technology, science and literacy. We have an internationally

renowned archaeology collection relating to Stonehenge and are

uniquely placed to deliver exciting and inspiring sessions on the

Stone Age and Bronze Age.

Our Old Sarum collection is ideal for supporting a local history

study or why not build a whole-school project based around an

object or painting in the museum’s collections.

The session summaries in this programme are a guide and can be

adapted to meet your specific needs.

New for 2014 Salisbury Museum has joined forces with English

Heritage and the Wiltshire Museum in Devizes to offer free CPD

sessions. These will give teachers practical support for learning

opportunities related to the Stonehenge World Heritage Site and

the museums’ archaeology collections. The sessions can be

delivered in school as part of your twilight CPD programme or

INSET day.

Teaching & Learning at Salisbury Museum

Exhibition Programme

Salisbury Cathedral from the Meadows, 1831, John Constable

A view of Old Sarum 1828-1829 by JMW Turner

Contact Us

Ruth Butler

Museum Learning & Outreach

Ruth is responsible for developing and delivering the

learning programme covering medieval to modern

historical periods, including Tudors, Victorians, WW1

& WW11. Also contact Ruth to discuss teaching and

learning planning sessions.

T: 01722 820540

E: education@salisburymuseum.org.uk

Owain Hughes

Learning Project Officer

Owain is responsible for creating and delivering the

learning programme for our new Wessex Gallery.

Contact Owain for sessions covering the Stone Ages,

through to the Normans, including The Amesbury

Archer, Saxons and Romans.

T: 01722 820540

E: education@salisburymuseum.org.uk