Schools
Our education programme is tailored to suit students at Key Stage 1 through to GCSE, and our Curator is happy to work with teachers to produce bespoke workshops where required. We are constantly updating and developing the workshops we offer. All workshops and handling sessions are currently charged at £2.50 per student, per workshop. We also offer a half hour film, Heroes of Medicine, which gives a good general introduction to Western medicine. This is suitable for late primary school up to GCSE and beyond.
GCSE workshops
We offer excellent workshops tailored to the GCSE curriculum that can be used as introductions to topics and make ideal revision exercises.
Chopping People Up: Victorian Surgery
A gory account of key developments in surgery during the 19th Century: anaesthetics, antiseptics and surgical instruments. The workshop uses authentic Victorian objects and students will have a chance to find out how a limb would have been amputated in 1830!
Loans boxes
We have a number of tried and tested loans boxes for your class made up from our designated education collection. Our education staff will discuss with you what sort of box you would like, and then come to your classroom to lead a session. Alternatively you can hire a loans box from us for a short period of time and work through some activities by yourself. Fees apply for our loans boxes, which are:
KS1/2 Black Teeth and Blacksmiths
This loans box will help your KS1-2 pupils understand that in history there was more to dental care than a simple trip to the dentist! Through teamworking and using objects from our collection they will create a short play to show the rest of the class how they would have been treated for bad teeth by people like the local blacksmith, wise woman or travelling 'quack' doctor.
Curriculum links include:
- KS2 Sc2 2a Teeth and eating
- KS2 Sc1 2b Investigation through sources
- KS1/2 History 4a & The Victorians
- KS1/2 Drama
KS2 Dirty Dentures, Tired Teeth and Fragile Fangs
This loans box will help your students understand:
- why we need to care for our teeth
- what people in the past used to make false teeth from
- the properties of materials used to make teeth
- the best materials to make teeth from
Curriculum links include:
- KS2 Sc3 Materials and their properties
- KS2 Sc2 2a Teeth and eating
- KS2 History
- KS2 Sc1 2b Investigation through sources