All

sessions
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Museum of London
Museum of London Docklands
Learning programme
for special & hospital schools
2009–10
Contents What’s on offer?
Learning at Museum of London and Museum of London Docklands Sessions and gallery visits
With two unique venues Museum of London is one of the world’s Free sessions at the Museums include:
largest urban history museums. Representing a quarter of a million • interactive gallery workshops that
What’s on offer? 3 years of history, it cares for over 2 million objects in its collections and provide pupils with a chance to
holds the largest archaeological archive in Europe. explore displays through object
Services for schools 5 handling, dressing up and group
Gallery highlights: Museum of London 6 activities
• drama, storytelling and theatre
Coming soon: Clore Learning Centre and Galleries of Modern London 8 performances where your pupils
Gallery highlights: Museum of London Docklands 10 interact with characters and take part
in performing
Session listings 12
• art workshops where pupils produce
Storytelling 12 an artwork to take home at the end of
their visit.
Puppets, art and design 13
Handling history 15 ‘At your school’ and
History alive! 17 ‘School & Museum’ sessions
We have an extensive school-based
Dressing up the past 18 Museum of London overlooks the Museum of London Docklands service available for you. We hope that
Roman remains of the city wall near St is located just a short walk from the visits by our learning staff to your school
Museum and school projects 19 Paul’s Cathedral and tells the story of dazzling skyscrapers of Canary Wharf. will help give pupils confidence in using
Calendar 22 the world’s greatest city and its people From Roman times to Docklands’ the Museums.
from prehistoric times to the Great regeneration, this 200 year old
Making the most of your visit 23 Opportunities include:
Fire of London. Our spectacular new warehouse uses interactive displays,
Galleries of Modern London will open in recreated scenes, original artefacts • one day workshops at your school
Planning your visit 24 the summer term of 2010 extending our and stories of trade, migration and
• a visit to your school followed by a
displays from 1666 to the present day. commerce to reveal the long history of
Museum visit
London as a port.
• 5-week projects at your school
This brochure outlines the Museum of London Free schools sessions are suitable for KS1-KS4. FREE services Please see gallery highlights for details
including a Museum visit.
and Museum of London Docklands programme A visit to the Museums or a session in your school All sessions run by the Museum of both Museums and visit our websites
of museum-based and school-based sessions for can support and inspire learning across the are FREE, thanks to funding from for further information. The sessions include:
special and hospital schools, and SEN units in curriculum – in Literacy, Geography, Citizenship the Renaissance in the Regions • drama characters, storytelling and
mainstream schools. and Art, as well as History. The session leaders are programme. We offer a range of puppet theatre that bring people from
experienced at facilitating sessions for different age interactive and inspirational National the past to life
groups and abilities. Curriculum linked sessions.
• object handling and replica costume
Sessions are tailored to meet the that pupils can explore in their own
To book contact our SEN Officer, learning needs of your pupils and classroom
Jessica Rosenfield, on 020 7814 5549 or at supporting resource materials are
sen@museumoflondon.org.uk available to help you prepare for • art workshops where pupils can
and follow-up a session. express their interpretations of
London’s past and present with the
guidance of artists.

enjoy
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What’s on offer?
Teachers’ Network
Join our FREE Teachers’ Network and
receive:
• regular e-news
• advance booking of sessions
• 10% discount on books in Museum
of London, Museum of London
Docklands and Horniman
Museum shops
• 50% discount on INSET
• free and exclusive private views
• opportunities to get involved
in the development of sessions
and resources.
To join please go to
www.museumoflondon.org.uk/
teachersnetwork or email us at
teachersnetwork@museumoflondon.
org.uk
interact
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INSET
We can provide whole school INSET
courses developed to meet your school’s
needs, either at Museum of London,
Museum of London Docklands or at
your school. Please contact the SEN
Officer on 020 7814 5549 or
email SEN@museumoflondon.org.uk
to discuss your requirements.
Museum shops
Shops at both our Museums stock
a wide range of books, resource
packs, DVDs and other products
which you may find useful, covering
subjects including the Romans, the Fire
of London and Victorian London. Don’t
forget our time-saving goody bag
service if you are planning a visit with
your group.
For prices and information email
shop@museumoflondon.org.uk or
call 020 7814 5600. Shop online at
www.museumoflondonshop.co.uk
look
Services for schools
Learning online
www.museumoflondon.org.uk
Watch out for our brand new resources
for SEN pupils and teachers that will be
appearing over the next few months.
These will be multi-sensory and
designed to be used to prepare pupils
for a Museum visit or simply to support
your classroom teaching.
In the meantime, you can use the
Teachers section of our website to:
• find out about our galleries
• book your visit
• download teachers packs related to
your session.
We have developed a number of other
online resources suitable for SEN pupils
which include:
• downloadable pictures
• 3D virtual object handling
• Poster Maker
• interactive whiteboard resources
• Fire of London activities.
Online learning provision is
improving!
We’re currently working to improve
the way we present learning resources
online. Please bear with us during this
busy time and keep an eye on our site to
see the changes evolving!
City Senses backpacks
Are you tired of written worksheets in
galleries that are not accessible enough
for your pupils? We have designed
backpacks especially for your class to
use in the Roman and Medieval London
galleries. There is a backpack for each
pupil and accompanying adult with
several activities to do in the gallery, or
you can use one backpack for the whole
group to investigate together.
empathise
The Roman packs take you through a
day in the life of a Roman centurion
returning to Londinium from battle.
Dress up in his leather and metal belt,
smell herbs used in Roman cookery and
draw Roman gods.
The Medieval packs take you back in
time through the Anglo-Saxon period,
the Viking invasions and Black Death.
Try on an Anglo-Saxon cloak, step into
a Saxon hut and play a magnet game to
decide what to wear to a medieval party.
We suggest that you come and try out
the backpacks before you visit with your
class. You can arrange this through the
SEN Officer on 020 7814 5549.
Videoconferencing with Museum
of London
Now you can experience a Museum of
London session without even leaving
the classroom! Each session allows
your pupils to interact with characters
or educators from the Museum and to
investigate objects from our collection
via a television screen or interactive
whiteboard.
Sessions on offer include:
• Roman London
• Great Fire
• Mary Seacole.
Sessions can be tailored to meet the
needs of pupils with special educational
needs. Please contact the SEN Officer to
discuss your requirements.
If you have not made a videoconference
before:
• check with your school’s ICT
department to find out if you already
have video conferencing equipment
• register with Global Leap or JANET
videoconferencing service (JVCS)
www.global-leap.com or call
020 8866 6036
www.ja.net/services/video/jvcs
or call 0131 650 4933
Videoconference availability is
advertised through Global Leap
and JANET collaborate websites
www.janetcollaborate.ac.uk
Advice
Global Leap, local authorities and
regional broadband consortia are all
able to advise on technical requirements
and equipment for videoconferencing.
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Gallery highlights
Museum of London
London before London tells the story of the
Thames Valley and the people who lived there
from 450,000 BC to the coming of the Romans
in AD 50. A rich gallery for supporting KS2
Geography, it contains interactive exhibits, models,
reconstructions, maps and an IT area.
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Roman London explores the history of Londinium
from its founding to AD 410. Reconstructed rooms
and models, an original mosaic and a stunning
collection of tools, pots, skeletons, armour, shoes
and other everyday objects reveal the way Roman
Londoners lived and worked.
Saxon to Tudor (in Medieval London gallery)
takes you from early Saxon settlements to the
bustling capital of Tudor times. During this eventful
period London was destroyed by invaders, racked
by plague and dominated by religious and political
controversy. Learn about Anglo-Saxon life, sit in a
recreated Saxon house and consider the lives of rich
and poor people in Tudor times.
London’s Burning: The Great Fire of London 1666
Designed with KS1 in mind, with simple text,
eye-witness accounts and dramatic displays of
artefacts, paintings and maps, plus interactive
exhibits such as period and modern fire-fighters’
helmets to try on. This fascinating exhibition brings
the story of the Great Fire and the rebuilding that
followed come to life! Displays include fire-fighting
equipment, household objects and information on
how the Fire Court dealt with disputes during
the rebuilding.
London 1558-1666 charts the capital from
Elizabethan times through to the ravages of the The London’s Burning exhibition will be
moved into the London 1558-1666 gallery in
English Civil Wars and Stuart London, before the
Great Fire. Highlights include the copperplate map early 2010, ready for the opening of the new
(a detailed picture of 16th century London), a model Galleries of Modern London. This will place
of the Rose Theatre, Cromwell’s death mask and a the story of the Great Fire in its correct
beautiful wood-panelled Stuart room. chronological position within the layout of
the Museum, helping you make clearer links
to the Stuart room sets and to the story of
the rebuilding of London after the fire.
All key objects will remain on display but
there will be some change to the layout of
the exhibition. If you are booking for the
spring or summer terms you are encouraged
to make a planning visit in advance.
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Coming soon
Clore Learning Centre
and Galleries of
Modern London
Museum of London is on the brink of a new era.
In September 2009 we’ll open the inspiring Clore
Learning Centre, complete with e-learning studio.
Then, in the summer term of 2010, we’ll launch
the spectacular new Galleries of Modern London.
This £20 million project is just the first stage of an
ambitious masterplan to transform the Museum
which includes exciting schemes for our Roman
London gallery and Garden Court.
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Clore Learning Centre
The new centre will enable us to offer a greater
range of creative activities and all learning spaces
will have interactive whiteboards. The e-learning
studio will be the base for a wide range of sessions
that will combine tried and tested approaches such
as object handling and role-play with technologies
such as digital cameras and camcorders, PSPs
(PlayStation Portables), iPods and mobile phones.
The new 230-seat theatre will be equipped for
broadcasting and videoconferencing and will be the
perfect venue for issues-based programmes inspired
by the Galleries of Modern London.
Galleries of Modern London
Visit Museum of London from the summer term of
2010 and find out how London became the global
city it is today through five new galleries that
will cover the entire lower floor of the Museum.
These include the City Gallery, the new home for
the spectacular Lord Mayor’s Coach, and Inspiring
London, an exhibition space showcasing creativity
inspired by the capital, plus three exciting galleries
that will chart London’s development from the
rebuilding of the city after the Great Fire to the
issues faced by Londoners today.
Expanding City: 1660s – 1850s
Discover a London rebuilding itself after the
World City: 1950s – Present
Find out how the city’s population became one of
devastation of the Great Fire, a city pulsing with the most diverse in the world. London’s children
life, technological advances and money-making enjoyed new-fangled toys, Bill and Ben starred on
expertise. Find out how London became the Londoners’ TVs, the first Apple Mac computers
centre of the British Empire and about the city’s appeared in their homes and London fashions
relationship with the slave trade. Encounter the shifted from Biba and Mary Quant to Alexander
Londoners who struggled just to make a living and McQueen and Wale Adyemi. Finally, explore the
found themselves in Wellclose prison. Then wander challenges of 21st century London with a flowing
the streets of the Victorian Walk or take a stroll in River Thames interactive floating with concerns for
our recreated pleasure garden. Londoners past and present.
People’s City: 1850s – 1950s
Learn how East Enders endured destitution and
disease while in the West End London’s rich
enjoyed dazzling evenings in theatres, cinemas and
restaurants. Observe how the city found itself at
the heart of political campaigns and protest; from
match girls fighting for their rights and Suffragettes
on hunger strike to communist and fascist groups
emerging as the nation moved closer to war. War
cast a shadow over the capital as Londoners’ lives
and landscapes swung from death and destruction
to freedom and opportunity. Witness a modern
London for the masses; flickering with electricity,
chattering with telecommunications and buzzing
with cars and tubes.
Look out for the exciting new sessions
related to the Galleries of Modern London,
these include: Play now and then (page 16),
Enter a Victorian photograph (page 18) and
our Pleasure Garden drama project (page
20). Please contact us if you are interested
in attending a teacher’s private view of the
galleries, or an INSET aimed at helping you
The Clore Learning Centre and Galleries of Modern London have been
supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund, Clore Duffield Foundation, City make the most of the galleries.
of London Corporation, Department of Culture, Media and Sport, and many
other donors.
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Gallery highlights
The Sampling Warehouse (Warehouse of the
Museum of London World gallery)
Docklands Test your senses in this mini-warehouse recreation
where you can see some of the exotic goods
brought into London’s docks during the 19th and
Trade Expansion 1600-1800 early 20th centuries.
Witness London’s expanding port and the growth
of mercantile wealth between the 16th and 18th
centuries. Learn about the formation of trading Docklands at War: 1938-1945
companies such as the East India Company, and Experience an air-raid shelter, see a recreated
take a walk down an atmospheric recreation of a mobile kitchen and discover over 30 personal
legal quay. stories of life in wartime Docklands.

Sailortown: 1840-1850
Venture into the dark alleyways of a Victorian street
with authentic sights, sounds and smells! Pass an
Mudlarks exotic animal emporium, chandlery and sailors’
‘Mudlark’ is the name given to someone who lodgings then pay a visit to the Three Mariners pub.
explores the river mud for treasures. This hands-
on gallery enhances cross-curricular learning at First Port of Empire: 1840-1880
Foundation Stage, KS1 and KS2 through exploration Trace the change from sail to steam during the
and structured play. Highlights include loading and Industrial Revolution and find out how the docks
balancing a tea clipper’s cargo, damming a river and changed due to technological advances.
moving pulleys to shift cargoes.
London, Sugar & Slavery: 1600 onwards
Discover the only permanent gallery in London
to examine the city’s involvement in transatlantic
slavery. Challenge what you think you know about
the transatlantic slave trade and find out how this
terrible traffic made the London we know today.

New Port, New City: 1945 onwards

City and River: 1820-1840 Follow the industrial decline of the docks during
At one time, London had the largest fleet of whalers the ‘swinging sixties’ and their regeneration in the
in the world and this gallery examines the whaling 1980s, through the eyes of the developers, the local
trade from the Port of London. workforce and dockland communities.

Thames Highway: AD 43-1600

Follow the story of settlement in the early port of
London and discover the vessels and merchants
involved in overseas trade from Roman, Saxon and Warehouse of the World: 1880-1939
Viking times right up to the Tudor period. Examine some of the major commodities traded
through London with our tobacco weighing station,
a replica bottling vault and exhibits detailing the
tobacco, timber, grain and sugar trades.

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Puppets, art & design
Museum
of London Docklands
Regeneration
Drawing and painting workshop
Experience Docklands’ regeneration
first-hand with a trip outdoors to view
and draw the contrasting old and new
buildings. This is followed by a painting
workshop in the Museum. You’ll also
visit the New Port, New City gallery to
discuss docklands redevelopment and its
impact on the local community, and use
maps and aerial photographs of the area
to support this work.
Duration 11.30am – 2pm including
a lunch break
Dates 7 December 2009, 22 March 2010
IMAGINE
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AT YOUR SCHOOL
Back to the future
Prehistoric London art workshop
Find out about prehistoric London by
investigating objects hidden in a time
capsule. Discover what we can learn
about the past from ancient objects
and think about what people in the
future might learn about us from items
we leave behind. Use clay to create an
object for your own time capsule.
Duration 60 minutes
Dates 30 September 2009, 2 February,
14 June 2010
AT YOUR SCHOOL
Changing faces
Portrait art workshop
How were portraits of celebrated
Londoners painted? Explore the
meanings behind portraits by looking
at reproductions from the Museum’s
collection. Create multi-layered self-
portraits with oil pastels, wax crayons,
text and acetate.
Duration 60 minutes
Dates 23 September 2009, 5 February,
19 May 2010
AT YOUR SCHOOL AT YOUR SCHOOL
Dinner by The Great Fire of London
candlelight
Tudor clay workshop
We often take electric light for granted,
but candlelight was the only way of
lighting a room in Tudor times. During
this fun, informative and hands-on
session imagine life in London without
electricity. Make your own clay
candleholder inspired by original Tudor
artefacts.
Duration 90 minutes
Dates 20 October 2009, 24 March,
7 July 2010
Puppet show and puppet making ‘The puppet show really
Experience this colourful shadow
puppet show where period music
engaged children of
and interactive storytelling bring the different abilities and
puppets to life. Meet famous figures
from the 17th century including the
brought to life events
diarist Samuel Pepys and King Charles II. of the Great Fire of
Following the performance make your
own shadow puppets and re-enact your
London.’ SEN teacher,
version of the Great Fire. Bedelsford School
Duration 80 minutes (20 minute show and
60 minute workshop)
Dates 14 October, 4 November 2009,
23 February, 12 May 2010
CREATE
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Storytelling
Museum
of London Docklands
Man with a ship
on his head
Storytelling
Joseph Johnson was a black merchant
sailor in the early 19th century who
became a famous character on the
streets of London. Your pupils will
meet him in the early 1800s as a street
entertainer renowned for wearing a
model ship on his head. To the beat
of a drum the storyteller tells Joseph’s
account based on surviving historical
evidence.
Duration 45 minutes
Dates 7 October, 3 November 2009
REMEMBER
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Museum
of London Docklands
A Christmas Carol
Musical drama performance
Treat your class to this musical
adaptation of the Dickens’ classic and
experience this evocative picture of
Victorian London. On Christmas Eve, a
miserly Ebenezer Scrooge encounters
ghosts and spirits, who teach him the
true meaning of Christmas. Have fun
joining in, playing Scrooge and singing
along to original tunes.
Duration 90 minutes
Dates 2 December 2009
AT YOUR SCHOOL
Fire! Fire!
Interactive drama
Travel back to 1666 with this exciting,
interactive and sizzling tale created from
first-hand accounts of the Great Fire of
London. Join in with the story of a young
boy and his cat through hand actions
and sounds.
Duration 60 minutes
Dates 23 September 2009, 3 February 2010
Handling history
Museum of London
Roman technology The key to
in action the past
Waterwheel and object handling
Handle original Roman objects from
the Museum’s collection and learn
how archaeology helps us understand
the past. Your pupils can imagine they
are Roman slaves as they operate the
amazing life-size Roman water-lifting
machine reconstructed outside the
Museum.
* During wet weather the class will have a full
hour of Roman object handling.
Duration 60 minutes
Dates 6 July 2010
Museum of London Museum of London
Smells of Roman
streets
Roman London gallery exploration
Visit a Roman home, smell the cooking
in a Roman kitchen and explore a Roman
temple at the Museum. This session
uses music, fabrics, objects, smells and
switches to discover what everyday
life was like for young Romans. Your
pupils will then create a beautiful piece
of Roman jewellery to remember their
journey through the Roman streets.
This session is designed for students
with SLD and PMLD but it can also be
adapted for more able groups.
Duration 60 minutes
Dates 5 October 2009, 18 May 2010
Medieval London
gallery exploration
Take the key to open up the medieval
treasure chest! Find out about the
past through smelling spices, handling
objects and using switches, symbols
and photos to discover the mysteries
of medieval London. This session is
designed for students with SLD and
PMLD but it can also be adapted for
more able groups.
Duration 60 minutes
Dates 16 November 2009, 8 February 2010
‘Very visual and hands-on. The session was
very appropriate and stimulating. All students
participated, there was excellent interaction with
presenters.’ SEN teacher, St Ann’s School
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Handling history continued History alive!
Museum of London Museum AT YOUR SCHOOL AT YOUR SCHOOL AT YOUR SCHOOL AT YOUR SCHOOL
of London Docklands

Journey
through time
Object handling and photography
Come and take a journey through time
and create a multimedia memory of
your visit to the Museum! Your pupils
will handle and explore objects from
the Museum’s collections, some dating
back 350,000 years. They’ll be supported
to take photos of objects to put into a
multimedia photo gallery which they will
take back to school as a lasting memory
of their journey into the past.
Become a mudlark Docklands at war
Object handling and role-play
Handle exciting World War II artefacts
and try on helmets and costumes to
discover why London’s docks were
targeted during the Blitz. Draw on
role-play to create empathy with the
evacuees and the local community.
Duration 60 minutes
Dates 2 November 2009, 4 May 2010
Play now and then Maeve Dawson Mary Seacole
Anglo-Irish stories of the
Victorian East End
Meet Maeve Dawson, our lively pub
owner from 1840. Born in Ireland but
now working near the docks, Maeve has
tales to tell from all over the world as
well as gritty stories about the living and
working conditions in east London.
Duration 45 minutes
Dates 12 October 2009, 9 March 2010

Duration 60 minutes
Dates 1 February, 28 April 2010

Hands-on gallery session

Object handling, comparing Victorian drama
A mudlark is the name given to
Victorian toys with toys of today Meet Mary Seacole and hear of her
someone who explores the river mud
for treasures. In this fun session your Enjoy hands-on play with original and ‘amazing adventures in different lands’,
pupils will become mudlarks and find replica Victorian toys. Your pupils and her experiences as a black woman in
out what it was like to live and work are encouraged to explore toys and Victorian London. During the Crimean
by the Thames. They’ll embark on a compare qualities of old and new. War her reputation as a nurse rivalled
treasure hunt in the Mudlarks gallery Toys include an impressive sand toy, that of Florence Nightingale. Smell
and use storytelling, role-play and object zoetropes, flick books, dolls, soldiers, the herbs Mary used in her cooking
investigation to explore interactive jigsaws, spinning tops, cards and for soldiers, try on replica war-time
exhibits. kaleidoscopes. bandages and play musical instruments
in this entertaining and moving session.
Duration 60 minutes Duration 60 minutes
Dates 18 November 2009, 19 January, Dates 17 November 2009, 13 January, Duration 45 minutes
10 March, 16 June 2010 5 July 2010 Dates 29 September, 19 & 21 October,
3 November 2009

‘This session was particularly good as the students,

who are tactile learners, can see and feel objects
for themselves and imagine the time period more
effectively.’ SEN teacher, Meadow High School

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Dressing up the past Museum and school projects
Museum of London AT YOUR SCHOOL AT YOUR SCHOOL Museum of London Museum of London
AND At your school AND At your school

Enter into Victorian children Dressing We offer linked outreach

and Museum-based
Roman journeys Become a
a Victorian Roman style sessions that maximise Roman designer
photograph Costume and object handling learning opportunities Art workshop and handling
Discover how Roman people dressed by for your pupils. Choose Prepare for your Museum visit with a
Photography, replica costume and
object handling
trying on replica costumes worn by rich a project that suits your Roman costume and handling session
and poor people living in Londinium. in your school (see Dressing Roman
Using blue screen technology we’ll Handle original artefacts and imagine
scheme of work and we style on page 18 for a full description).
photograph your pupils dressed in what Roman people looked like. will work closely with you Then, bring your class to the Museum
replica Victorian costumes and digitally over half a term to ensure to explore the Roman London gallery
insert them into original photographs
of Victorian London. They will handle
Duration 60 minutes that the sessions meet with an artist who will work with your
pupils to design and create a mosaic
objects from our impressive collections
Dates 23 November 2009, 17 March, your pupils’ needs. like the one in the gallery. Find out how
9 June 2010
and dress up in costumes of Victorians the Romans made mosaics and discover
rich and poor. A CD of the photographs how mosaics can tell us what wealthy
will be given to you to take back to Romans might have eaten in their
school. dining room.

Duration 60 minutes Duration 60 minutes

Dates 9 February 2009, 11 May 2010 Dates 6 October (school session) & 13
October 2009 (Museum visit), 20 January
Costume and object handling Storytelling and object handling (school session) & 25 January 2010
Try on replica costumes and touch Our storyteller and learning staff (Museum visit)
original artefacts to learn about rich and will come to your school with Roman
poor children in Victorian London. Find objects to touch, replica clothing to try
out about the working life of a bootblack on and musical instruments to listen
boy and experience the luxurious clothes to and explore. Having been prepared
Princess Victoria wore to the Great for their visit, your pupils will meet the
Exhibition of 1851. storyteller again on their trip to the
Museum and hear the ancient tales as
they take a journey together through the
Duration 60 minutes
Roman London gallery.
Dates 28 September 2009, 27 January 2010

Duration 60 minutes
Dates 24 or 25 November (school session) &
8 December 2009 (Museum visit),
2 or 3 March (school session) & 8 March 2010
(Museum visit), 22 or 23 June (school session)
& 30 June 2010 (Museum visit)

COLLABORATE ‘The experiential, multi-sensory

approach was brilliant.’ SEN teacher,
St.Nicholas School

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Museum of London
AND At your school
Fetch the engines!
Art workshop and Fire of London
exhibition visit
Learn about the Fire of London through
storytelling, puppets, art and objects.
First, a puppeteer will come to your
school and recreate the events of 1666
with your pupils (see The Great Fire of
London on page 13 for a full description).
Then bring your class to the Museum
and explore our interactive Fire of
London exhibition with the puppeteer,
where your pupils can try on replica
fire-fighters’ helmets from the past and
present. Finally, create period hats to
take back to school.
Duration 60 minutes
Dates 16 March (school session) &
23 March 2010 (Museum visit)
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Museum of London
AND At your school
Pleasure gardens
Drama project
Wander into the pleasure gardens of
old and experience life there in every
way! Multi-sensory storytelling by
Peoplescape Theatre uses live music,
puppets and movement to engage your
pupils in interactive drama sessions. The
project involves a visit by our staff to
your school, followed by a Museum visit
where your pupils will go back in time
to take part in a participatory drama
session amongst the sights and sounds
of our fantastic 18th century pleasure
garden recreation.
Duration 60 minutes
Dates 13 or 14 May (school session) & 24 May
2010 (Museum visit)
Museum of London
AND At your school
1000 tales to
be told
Storytelling and object handling
Explore London’s history through
stories of London’s past. A time period
of your choice will be brought to life by
our magical storyteller and musician,
Richard Neville, who will come to your
school every week for four weeks to
lead interactive sessions involving
storytelling, music and object handling.
On week five, pupils will come to the
Museum and journey through the
galleries telling stories as they go!
Duration 60 minutes
Dates Dates are flexible and will be arranged
with teachers
Museum
of London Docklands
AND At your school
Over the sea
to London
Drama project, the Sampling
Warehouse gallery
Help Charlie unpack the wares of
the docks through this participatory,
multi-sensory drama workshop led
by Peoplescape Theatre. Discover the
golden bird of paradise in the Victorian
London docks through interactive
storytelling and puppets. This is a drama
project that includes a visit by our staff
to your school and a Museum visit with a
drama workshop.
Duration 60 minutes
Dates 1 or 2 December (school session)
& 14 December 2009 (Museum visit), 24
or 25 February (school session) & 1 March
(Museum visit), 20 or 21 May (school session)
& 25 May 2010 (Museum visit)
‘All the students, some of whom are
profoundly disabled, were very well
catered for.’ SEN teacher, Newbridge School
Museum
of London Docklands
AND At your school
Wartime
Docklands
Object handling and art
workshops
In the first session at your school your
pupils will handle exciting World War II
artefacts, try on helmets and costumes
and be given opportunities for role-play.
At the Museum they’ll experience our
atmospheric replica air-raid shelter,
explore the collection of paintings by
war artist William Ware and create their
own artistic responses to Ware’s work
through drawing and painting.
Duration 60 minutes
Dates 21 January (school session) &
26 January 2010 (Museum visit)
Museum
of London Docklands
AND At your school
Songs of the sea
Interactive storytelling
Keith Park (author of ‘Interactive
Storytelling’) leads this half term
project, visiting your school once a week
for four weeks to run interactive sea
shanty sessions where your pupils will
experience their own personalised sea
shanty. On week five, they will come to
the Museum to perform the sea shanties
in the heart of the Museum’s galleries.
‘Interactive Storytelling’ was developed
as a way of including children and adults
with severe and profound learning
disabilities in storytelling activities. A
call and response method is used, where
the storyteller calls out a line and the
other participants respond by repeating
the same words. This rhythmic exchange
between the storyteller and the group
provides a powerful momentum. It is
very simple, very effective, and very
enjoyable.’ Keith Park
Duration 60 minutes
Dates Dates are flexible and will be arranged
with teachers
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Wed 23 Changing faces •
Wed 23 Fire! Fire! •
Mon 28 Victorian children •
Tue 29 Mary Seacole •
Wed 30 Back to the future •
October 2009
Mon 5 Smells of Roman streets •
Tue 6 Become a Roman designer part 1 •
Wed 7 Man with a ship on his head •
Mon 12 Maeve Dawson •
Tue 13 •
Become a Roman designer part 2 Mon 1 Over the sea to London part 2 •
Wed 14 The Great Fire •
Mon 19 Mary Seacole •
Tue 20 Dinner by candlelight •
Wed 21 Mary Seacole •
November 2009
Mon 2 Docklands at war •
Tue 3 Mary Seacole •
Tue 3 Man with a ship on his head •
Wed 4 The Great Fire •
Mon 16 Key to the past •
Tue 17 Play now and then •
Wed 18 Become a mudlark •
Mon 23 Dressing Roman style •
Tue 24 Roman journeys part 1 •
Wed 25 Roman journeys part 1 •
December 2009
Tue 1 Over the sea to London part 1 •
Wed 2 Christmas Carol •
Wed 2 Over the sea to London part 1 •
Mon 7 Regeneration •
Tue 8 Roman journeys part 2 •
Mon 14 Over the sea to London part 2 •
January 2010
Wed 13 Play now and then •
Tue 19 Become a mudlark •
Wed 20 Become a Roman designer part 1 •
Thu 21 Wartime Docklands part 1 •
Mon 25 •
Become a Roman designer part 2 Wed 16 Become a mudlark •
Tue 26 Wartime Docklands part 2 •
Wed 27 Victorian children •
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Mon 1 Journey through time • encouraged. The SEN Officer is happy 10.30am. The earliest afternoon start
Tue 2 Back to the future • to discuss your planning with you. time is 1.30pm. We will work with
Wed 3 Fire! Fire! • you to ensure the session fits in with
Fri 5 Changing faces • • You are responsible for the group and
school break times.
Mon 8 Key to the past • an adult must remain with your pupils
• We are happy to run single sessions
Tue 9 Enter a Victorian photo • at all times.
or to come to a school for a whole day
Tue 23 The Great Fire • • The maximum number of pupils per
and offer two or more sessions for
Wed 24 Over the sea to London part 1 • group is 15 for object handling and art
different classes/year groups. Please
Thu 25 Over the sea to London part 1 • workshops, 25 for all other sessions.
discuss this with the SEN Officer when
March 2010 making a booking.
• The maximum number of pupils
Tue 2 Roman journeys part 1 • per group is 15 for object handling
Wed 3 Roman journeys part 1 • and art workshops, and 25 for all
Mon 8 Roman journeys part 2 • other sessions.
Tue 9 Maeve Dawson •
Wed 10 Become a mudlark •
Tue 16 Fetch the engines part 1 •
Wed 17 Dressing Roman style •
Mon 22 Regeneration •
Tue 23 Fetch the engines part 2 •
Wed 24 Dinner by candlelight •
April 2010
Tue 28 Journey through time •
May 2010
Tue 4 Docklands at war •
Tue 11 Enter a Victorian photo •
Wed 12 The Great Fire •
Thu 13 Pleasure gardens part 1 •
Fri 14 Pleasure gardens part 1 •
Tue 18 Smells of Roman streets •
Wed 19 Changing faces •
Thu 20 Over the sea to London part 1 •
Fri 21 Over the sea to London part 1 •
Mon 24 Pleasure gardens part 2 •
Tue 25 Over the sea to London part 2 •
June 2010
Wed 9 Dressing Roman style •
Mon 14 Back to the future •
Tue 22 Roman journeys part 1 •
Wed 23 Roman journeys part 1 •
Wed 30 Roman journeys Part 2 •
July 2010
Mon 5 Play now and then •
Tue 6 Roman technology •
Wed 7 Dinner by candlelight •
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Museum of London Museum of London Docklands

Open Mon-Sun 10am–6pm Open Mon-Sun 10am–6pm
Last admission 5.30pm Last admission 5.30pm
Getting to the Museum Getting to the Museum
St Paul’s, Barbican Museum entrance is two minutes walk from West India
Moorgate, Liverpool St, City Thameslink Quay. There is an NCP car park behind the Museum on
4, 8, 25, 56, 100, 172, 242, 501, 521 Hertsmere Road. See map.
West India Quay
Canary Wharf
15, 115, 135, 277, D3, D6, D7, D8

FREE ADMISSION The Museum can provide: Cancellation

• accessible lifts serving all floors Cancellation fees for booked sessions
• accessible lavatories and baby- are charged as follows:
How to book changing room • 4–8 weeks: £50
The SEN Officer is happy to discuss • manual wheelchairs available for use • less than 4 weeks: £100
your group’s needs and takes on request • on the day: £150
bookings Tuesday to Thursday • spaces for wheelchair users in the Cancellations must be confirmed
between 9.30am and 4.30pm. learning rooms and theatres in writing.
Telephone: 020 7814 5549 • folding seats to borrow
Fax: 020 7600 1058 • a BSL interpreter for sessions can be
E-mail: SEN@museumoflondon. arranged on request
org.uk • induction loops at both Museums and
All bookings are subject to availability. in the learning rooms of the Clore
Please give us as much notice as you Learning Centre at Museum of London.
can. Please be ready with a range of
dates and times when you book. Free travel
All schools within the Greater London
area can take advantage of Transport
Access
for London’s School Party Scheme.
The Museums are fully accessible.
See www.tfl.gov.uk/schoolparty or call
There is full physical access to all public
London Underground Customer Services
areas. Lunchrooms are provided and you
on 0845 330 9881 for details.
will be allocated a time automatically.
The Museum is grateful to the following organisations
We have disabled parking spaces for for their support of the learning programme.
blue or orange card holders and permit
Canary Wharf Group plc, Citi Foundation, Port of
parking for minibuses. Please request a London Authority and State Street
parking space if required when making
a booking.