Key Stage 1

At the Museum your pupils will not only love exploring the interactive displays, but they can also experience a range of education sessions designed to stimulate enquiring minds. Sessions are challenging and highly interactive, with pupils engaged in making things, investigating and role play.

Visits run from 10:00 to 14:00 and cost £250 per class (group of up to 30 children). Bring two classes on the day for a cost of £225 per class (£450 total).

Your visit will include a guided exploration of the Museum, time in our Waterworks Gallery and Splash Zone (weather dependent) and one of the following shows or workshops.

Super Soggy Science Show

This interactive and fun show explores where water comes from, the ‘monster soup’ of 200 years ago, and how we can clean water using a simple filter!

Learning outcomes:
- To observe a phenomenon and use simple scientific
language to explain what they see.
- To understand the water cycle.

Mrs Tristram’s Wonderful Water Show

The pupils will travel back in time and learn about the history of making London’s water supply clean. Through role play and museum displays, they will think about clean and dirty water sources, as well as how water is purified and pumped into people’s homes.

Learning outcomes
- To develop an awareness of the past.
- To begin to understand how events fit within a chronological framework.

***Booking dependent on facilitator availability. Please declare interest for this program when enquiring.

Victorian Washday

Pupils will explore, using real museum objects, how the Victorians did their clothes washing. They will consider the effort involved and how machinery, through time, has changed and automated the process.

Learning outcomes
- To understand that objects can give us information about how people lived and worked.
- To compare life in Victorian Britain and life today.