Activities For Secondary Schools
Museum Visits for KS3 and KS4
Tours workshops and resources suitable for secondary school pupils are available at our museum sites:
The Potteries Museum and Art Gallery
Our archaeological and historical galleries cover local history from prehistoric times up to the last few decades. We have a gallery full of colourful costumes and out natural history area contains animals which sit still long enough for more detailed study and sketching! A visit will support and inspire your students’ learning with the depth and resonance of the real thing.
Gladstone Pottery Museum
The most complete Victorian Pottery factory in Britain, this unique site also includes a Victorian doctor’s surgery, tile gallery and toilet exhibition. Gladstone provides students with a fantastic hands-on learning experience. Find out about nineteenth century working conditions for adults and children. See traditional ceramics skills demonstrated and then have a go in a workshop led by one of our experienced tutors.
Gladstone Pottery Museum Tour - KS3, KS4
Art Deco Plate Painting – KS3, KS4
Clay Mask Making – KS3, KS4
Bone China Flower Making – KS3, KS4
Dish Making – KS3, KS4
Slab Pot Making – KS3, KS4
Ford Green Hall
An authentically furnished timber-framed house built in 1624. Students can handle tudor artefacts, marvel at sumptous tapestries and find out about Tudor and Stuart life in a country farmhouse.
Tour of Ford Green Hall - KS3, KS4
Etruria Industrial Museum
Situated at the junction of the Caldon and Trent & Mersey canals this is the last steam powered potters mill in Britain. The bone and flint mill provide fantastic opportunities for Art and Design. The mill is filled with original machinery which will inspire creative work and the historic site is a great place to learn about the impact of local industry.
Bone and Flint Mill Guided tour - KS3, KS4
If you are unable to take children out of school our you could make use of our Outreach workshops which bring our service to your classroom. We have a number of sessions which can be delivered at your school. One example is the cross curricular Viking or Egyptians workshops which use stories and objects to inspire students to make something from clay. We also have a range of loans boxes so you can make use of museum objects in the classroom. For more information contact us on 01782 235390 or email museumeducation@stoke.gov.uk
Currently our brochure lists services for Primary Schools, Special Schools and Nurseries. Many of the sessions listed can be adapted for older students and we can sometimes create sessions to suit your learning objectives.
Programme for primary, special and nursery schools brochure.
