School Visits
A visit to the museum offers children a tactile, engaging and fun experience
We are open all year for UK school visits by pre-appointment. We also offer special ‘home-educator’ days for home-educating families to experience the museum during term time. We also offer a loans box service for UK Schools and have updated workshops to complement a museum visit. Our learning offer is adaptable for all needs and we will discuss any special requirements your students have during the booking process.
Loans Boxes
Bring the Museum to your classroom with one of our loans boxes
SEND
We have put together a variety of resources to help plan visits for SEND students, ensuring their experience is tailored to their needs
Home Educators
Take a look at our home educators page for the latest open days. Open days are planned in collaboration with home educator networks.
Meet the learning team
When you contact our learning team you will talk to:
Emma-Jayne Hamlington
Learning and Engagement Officer
Powell-Cotton Museum, Quex House and Gardens
Alison Day
Learning and Engagement Officer
Powell-Cotton Museum, Quex House and Gardens
Janice Le Corney
Learning and Engagement Officer
Powell-Cotton Museum, Quex House and Gardens
Emily Anderson
Loans Box Coordinator
Powell-Cotton Museum, Quex House and Gardens
Join us for our #HomeEducators day on 22nd June!
Are you learning about forces and flight?
Our Winging It – Aerobatics and Obstacles #STEAM event, especially for Home Educating families, is a great hook into this exciting topic. Learn how to make animal gliders and investigate how well they fly by playing our flight games.
Measure how far your glider can fly
Test your landing skills
Practise precision flying
Book via our website 🎫
#learning
Happy new school year! We’re looking forward to welcoming schools back. If you’re planning a museum visit, you might like our brand-new workshop: What am I? This workshop let’s children get hands-on with real museum objects. Together we explore how to read and interpret objects like a museum curator.
Find more information and how to book here https://powell-cottonmuseum.org/learning/school-visits/
#learning
We're really excited to welcome schools back to the museum from 17th May and our preparations are well underway. If you would like to book your class a visit please get in touch with our learning team on learning@powell-cottonmuseum.org
#Learning #BehindTheScenes
This week is #nationalstorytellingweek and we want to recommend a couple of our Learning Team’s favourite children’s books just to give grown-ups a bit of lockdown reading inspiration. We hope you enjoy:
👑 Don't Mess with a Princess by Rachel Valentine (Author) and Rebecca Bagley (Illustrator) 🏰
Emma-Jayne from our Learning Team says:
“If like me, you enjoy neo fairy tales then you’re certain to love Rachel Valentine’s action-packed story of using your talents and not allowing others to make decisions for you. A lovely message of strength and facing your fears running through the story, along with girl power. My advice; read it multiple times, the illustrations keep giving and you find something new each time.”
The Powell-Cotton Museum was not paid or asked to recommend this book. All opinions are our own.
#storytime #learning #dontmesswithaprincess
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