HERE! Look inside to see our latest offer for schools this Spring/Summer 2013
Self Led Visits
Join us this Spring, as Preston Park Museum & Grounds celebrates sixty years of welcoming visitors from across the north of England and beyond. With a £7.5 million redevelopment of the museum and its surroundings recently completed, a whole new experience awaits. Why not discover the region’s diverse heritage through a range of exciting new interactive galleries, or step back in time over one hundred years into our ever popular Victorian Street?
Victorian Street & Costumed Interpretation
You and your children will want to see our buzzing Victorian Street; packed with both original favourites and new shops including the police station, printers, chemist, toy shop, violin makers, ironmongers, brand new grocers shop, and not forgetting our operational blacksmiths & their exquisite workmanship. See the street alive with Victorian life through costumed interpreters; don’t be afraid to stop and ask them questions.
Museum Shop
Visitors can also enjoy a visit to our fantastic new shop, stocked with an amazing range of products and souvenirs, where adults and children will be spoilt for choice. If you are bringing a large party, you might want to ring ahead and perorder on: 01642 527375.
Sweet Shop
Children will love that the first shop they see on entering the Victorian Street is J.F. Smith, the sweet shop. If you are bringing a large group of children you might want to ring ahead and pre book your order to save long queues on the day of your visit.
Walled Kitchen Garden & Orchard
For those with a taste for the outdoors, take a moment to explore our recreated walled kitchen garden as it celebrates the seasons.
Have you heard about our new’Online’ schools booking system?
We will be ready to receive online school bookings in April this year. Teachers are now required to make an online booking for a self led visit and or school workshops listed in this brochure. This new system will invite you to enter your main school email address and a password that all teachers within each school will need to share.
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To help you along with this new booking process, please find enclosed with this mailing your schools guidebook; ‘How to Make a School Booking’. 1
Victorian Values
A set of four Victorian themed workshops: 1 hour each.
Every Wednesday & Thursday 10.00am — 11.00am, 11.00am — 12.00 noon or 1.00pm — 2.00pm Max of 3 workshops per day, two workshops am & one pm, same theme for each. Max of 30 children for any one workshop. £1.00 per child admission, £25 each workshop per class ‘Victorian Toys’
‘Victorian Wash Day’
Recommended for Key Stage 1 — Reception, Yr 1 & 2 Children will be introduced to a brief history of Victorian toys, followed by a demonstration of how to work the toys. After the demonstration, children can have free time playing with and exploring a selection of wooden & tin toys.
Recommended for Key Stage 1 & 2, Reception — Yr 6 Children will discover the variety of arduous tasks required to launder clothes in Victorian times, including washing with carbolic soap, putting clothing through a mangle & labour intensive ironing.
‘Victorian Home’
‘Victorian School Day’
Recommended for Key Stage 1 & 2, Reception — Yr 6 Here, children will have a greater understanding of how difficult it was to live in times without the convenience of electricity and heating. This is a great object handling workshop and gives children the opportunity to explore original artefacts. It is also a good exercise in comparing household utensils from then to now.
Recommended for Key Stage 2, 7-11 yrs National Curriculum Links - History at K.S. 1&2 Unit 2 ‘Children should be seen and not heard!’ During this strict Victorian school day workshop, children will learn about the three R’s and enjoy two lessons; a typical writing lesson and an arithmetic lesson. Essential cost details: If you only attend a workshop and you are not visiting the museum, only the £25.00 workshop fee applies, and you are not required to pay the standard admission of £1.00 per child. However, if you would like a combination of self led and a workshop you will be required to pay a £1.00 admission fee plus a workshop fee of £25.00.
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‘Plant Well, Eat Well!’
Tuesday 11th June — Friday 21st June 2013 (Excluding Mondays) 10.00am — 12.00noon or 1.00pm — 3.00pm Maximum of 30 children for any one booking Suitable for Key Stage 2, National Curriculum Links; Science £25.00 per workshop, per class. Read on to discover brand new, exciting gardening & great food tasting workshops! During this workshop children will be able to have real ‘hands on’ gardening experience under the guidance of our Head Gardener. Children will gain knowledge of how this wonderfully restored Victorian Walled Kitchen Garden was maintained in the past, and the pecking order from crock boy to head gardener.
Planting up! More importantly, children will have a go at planting favourite fruits and vegetables to take away on the day and watch them grow! Eating up! After children have worked hard planting up, they will be invited to our newly refurbished demo kitchen. Here they will have the chance to participate in transforming hand picked produce into something really tasty. Please wear old clothes and bring at least two good sized boxes with you to carry children’s pots back to school.
School Scarecrow Competition
As part of our new ‘Harvest Home’ event, scheduled for Saturday 28th September 2013, 11.00am — 3.00pm (all families and groups welcome) we will be hosting a ‘Stockton Schools Scarecrow Competition’. The deadline for this will be Friday 20th September 2013. To find out more details, please contact our gardener at keith.hugill@stockton.gov.uk
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‘Making a Mark’
Tuesday 2nd July — Friday 12th July 2013 (Excluding Mondays) 10.00am — 12.00noon or 1.00pm — 3.00pm Maximum of 30 children for any one booking Suitable for Key Stage 2, National Curriculum Links; History & Art FREE In partnership with the National Portrait Gallery, London, ‘Making a Mark’ is a brand new series of art and history based workshops aimed at primary aged children. Ask our Learning Officer for more details about this project on (01642)528842.
Brand New History and Art workshops!
Arts Council England
Funded by Arts Council England, and in partnership with the National Portrait Gallery, London & Tees Valley Museums, this is an exciting and creative opportunity to engage Key Stage 2 children.
The People
Working with experienced staff at the museum and a practicing artist & a photographer; children will gain first class, hands on experience.
The Project
This multi layered project bridges together local history (with national relevance) and a variety of artistic skills, including fine art and photography. Children will enjoy being detectives as they learn more about their local heroes through fact finding missions in the museum and portraiture reading. Children will then be invited to try their hand at painting a fellow classmates’ portrait, through a series of exciting, short sketching and painting exercises. Once complete, they will be invited to try on a selection of costumes as they start to create Victorian characters. Once created, the children will have the opportunity to express this through composing a photographic portrait and recording it. As this is a free event all bookings should be made directly through our Learning Officer on 01642 528842. 4
Theme Boxes
Please see below for our full range of theme boxes and how to use the new system
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School theme boxes, Victorian School Day Victorian Childhood Victorian Toys Toys through Time
School theme boxes, Victorian Wash Day Victorian Kitchen Victorian Home Victorian Walled Kitchen Garden
School theme boxes, World War 2 Seaside Holidays Transport Victorian Inventions
Optional extras, Children’s Victorian Costume Sensory theme box
Nursery theme boxes, Threadbear Goes Shopping Threadbear in the Garden Threadbear Travels to the Seaside Threadbear Makes Music
Reminiscence theme boxes, 1930’s 1940’s 1950’s Beside the Seaside
What are theme boxes useful for? Theme boxes are a really useful way to support term time class projects, or theme days and group events, either as a starting point or as a review at the end of a project. Who can use the new theme boxes? Although the theme boxes are marketed via audience type, any organised community group or school (within the boundaries of Stockton) can hire any of the above theme boxes.
What is the new hire charge? All theme boxes are ÂŁ20.00 each to hire. This is a non-refundable hire charge, with the exception of the Victorian Costume box which is ÂŁ40.00 to hire. How many theme boxes can I hire at one time? You can hire up to two theme boxes at any one time, any one half term.
How long can I hire a theme box for? You can hire a theme box for 4-5 weeks each half term. Collection dates and return dates will be given at the point of booking.
How can I book a theme box? All theme boxes can be collected by a teacher or group leader from Preston Park Museum reception desk and signed out by both parties. Payment will also need to be made at this point. Theme boxes should be returned to reception. Book your selected theme box by contacting our Learning Officer on (01642) 528842 or reception desk on (01642) 527375.
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How to find us
For information about local public transport links, please contact: Stockton Centre (01642) 528 130 or ring Traveline North East on 0871 200 2233.
Normal Opening Hours; Tuesday to Sunday — 10.00am — 4.00pm Last admission 3.30pm Closed Mondays except Bank Holidays For all admission charges please read the following; All school children admission charges are £1.00 per child; all accompanying adults free of charge. Please note our new workshop prices: £25.00 per standard class, maximum of 30 children for all workshops. Our new outreach prices are; £100.00 for a full day including two workshops & £75.00 for a half day for one workshop (This includes one member of staff and a theme box with a selection of 4 topics)
Non-school admission price; Adult £2.00, Concession/Child £1.00, Family ticket £4.00 (2A&4C). Contact us for general enquiries; Preston Park Museum & Grounds, Yarm Road, Stockton-on-Tees TS18 3RH Tel: (01642) 527375 Email: prestonhall@stockton.gov.uk
Also at Preston Park
Butterfly World Tel: (01642) 791414 Website: www.butterflyworldltd.com
Please note: Preston Park Museum & Grounds operates a No Smoking Policy
Images courtesy of Dave Hudspeth, Tom Kirby and Stockton Museum’s Service
Domestic Details
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On your bike Designated cycle parking facilities are available in the car park, close to the café (bikes left at owner’s risk)