Hands on Lessons

Come to Tullie House with your class to look, touch and find out about the past using real artefacts! These lessons are all 'hands-on'. If you are within our catchment area we like you to come to the relevant INSET training and then run the lessons yourself.

The KS1 sessions have been updated. We are also working on KS2 Egyptians and Tudors for the Autumn term onwards.  Why not come to our INSET evenings and discover how we have improved our service.  See INSET page for more information and dates.
 
To book a session contact Gill Goodfellow
Booking line 01228 618783 or e-mail gillg@carlisle.gov.uk   
 
Roman Object Study KS 2 and 3
Allow 1½ - 2 hours
User Group: free
Non User Group: £1.00 per child
Education led session: £50 extra per class
Objects are themed (the soldier, the home, cooking, building) and include a pottery sorting and identification activity using similar techniques as an archaeologist.
 
Victorian Object Study KS 1 and 2
Allow 1½ - 2 hours
User Group: free
Non User Group: £1.00 per child
Education led session: £50 extra per class
Has your class ever imagined what life was like before electricity? Bring them along to handle some domestic objects of the period.
 
Toys and Games KS1
Allow 1½ - 2 hours
User Group: free
Non User Group: £1.00 per child
Education led session: £50 extra per class
Bring your class to look at toys that children played with in the past. Help us to sort them in their correct time.  A fun mix of investigating old toys, playing with replicas, creating simple puppets and exploring the Childhood Gallery.
 
Washday Blues with the Dixon Family KS1
Allow 1½ - 2 hours
User Group: free
Non User Group: £1.00 per child
Education led session: £50 extra per class
You're never too young to start work but is your class good enough for the job?  Travel back in time and meet the head laundry maid of the Dixon household who will set your class a number of tasks to see if they have what it takes to be a servant.
 
Homes in the Past: The Victorian Home KS1
Allow 1½ - 2 hours
Cost: User Group: 50p per child
Non User Group: £1.50 per child
Education led session: £50 extra per class 
Your class will discover what a Victorian home would have looked like and help put the correct objects inthe right rooms.  Then it is time to roll up their sleeves and try out some of the activities that would have been done in the house including candle making, bread making and washing.
 
Life and Death in Ancient Egypt KS 2
Allow 1½ - 2 hours
User Group: free
Non User Group: £1.00 per child
Education led session: £50 extra per class
This lesson will give you a chance to explore this popular topic using primary source material. Children will have the opportunity to look closely at, and handle, real Egyptian artefacts including cooking pots, perfume jars, jewellery, even a mummified bird. Children willaslo be able to try on Egyptian costume and get arty.  All activities will lead up to a Funerary ceremony as a grand finale.
 
Life in Tudor Carlisle KS 2
Allow 1½ - 2 hours
User Group: free
Non User Group: £1.00 per child
Education led session: £50 extra per class
Please note that these prices apply when the Guildhall is open to the public, otherwise please add £15 per hour + VAT to the total cost [minimum charge 2 hours]. The Guildhall is closed from 1 November to Good Friday or 31st March [whichever is sooner]. The Guildhall is open to the public from 12pm to 4.30pm from 1 April to 31 October.
 
This lesson is run in the Guildhall Museum. Carlisle's Guildhall is a wonderful timber framed building originally built as a private house. It was later donated to the City and used by the Guilds as a meeting place from the 16th century to the present day. ln this lesson you will look at the fabric of the building which has sloping floors, wattle and daub walls and some of the original windows. Children will learn about the Guilds of Carlisle and explore objects that would have been in use in Tudor times. The session will finish by looking at the mural of Tudor Carlisle and getting some of the children to dress up as the characters they can see.
 
Tudor Teacher's pack available. £3.95 from the Tullie House shop.