Facilitated by museum experts, our interactive digital workshops focus on examining, questioning and discussing items from our collections specifically related to your curriculum topic.
All sessions conclude with a Q&A and we provide follow-up activities to consolidate and extend learning.
Digital Primary School Sessions
Expand each title for more information
Curriculum links: Science- developing scientific investigation skills
Session times: Flexible
Capacity: 30 pupils per session
Price: £60
Enter the virtual conservation studio and become a conservator for the day and use practical scientific methods and skills to identify materials and their different properties. Pupils will search out the very special materials in their environment and learn how to look after them using the scientific methods used within the museums stores. With a live feed direct from our state of the art stores, Pupils will have fun investigating a range of maritime themed toys within the collection as well as discovering what they are made from.
Curriculum links: History - The lives of significant individuals in the past; compare aspects of life in different periods
Session times: Flexible
Capacity: 30 pupils per session
Price: £60
Meet a museum expert in this digital session and use objects and artefacts to compare voyages of exploration from different periods through the common themes of clothing, equipment and navigation. Learn about significant explorers from Tudor sailors to astronauts, and use real museum objects to ask and answer questions about the past. This session concludes with a Q&A segment so have your exploration questions ready! We will provide follow-up explorer activities to extend the learning.
Curriculum links: Literacy, Geography, History
Session times: Flexible
Capacity: 30 pupils per session
Price: £60
Ahoy me hearties! Jump aboard the pirate ship as we set sail on a swashbuckling digital adventure. Meet pirate Alice Leghorn and learn everything you need to know to be a proper pirate including songs and actions. Use your detective skills to investigate mystery pirate objects onscreen and ask Alice all those burning pirate questions you’ve always wanted to ask.
For the full pirate experience, we encourage all pirates to dress in appropriate swashbuckling attire in their classroom.
Curriculum links: History - Vikings
Session times: Flexible
Capacity: 30 pupils per session
Price: £60
Follow Vikings on journeys around the world and investigate museum objects, images and sagas to learn about their lives and incredible seafaring. Facilitated by an expert member of our team, the session will develop historical enquiry skills using objects to ask and answer questions about Viking seafaring, exploration and trade. This digital session concludes with a Q&A segment so have your Viking questions ready! We will also provide follow-up activities to support further learning.
Curriculum links: History - a study of an aspect or theme in British history that extends pupils’ chronological knowledge beyond 1066; English – conventions of different types of writing
Session times: Flexible
Capacity: 30 pupils per session
Price: £60
Discover some of the treasures of the Museum’s archive relating to polar exploration including objects, diaries and letters, and use detective skills to unpick who has created them and why. What can these sources tell us about the past? What don’t they tell us? Follow the stories of explorers such as Ernest Shackleton and Olaudah Equiano in this digital interactive session and uncover how Inuit knowledge was essential for explorers to survive in extreme polar regions. There will be time towards the end of the session for questions and we will provide follow-up activities to support further learning.
Curriculum links: Geography- Locational knowledge, Place knowledge and development of geographical skills through use of maps charts globes and GPS.
Session times: Flexible
Capacity: 30 pupils per session
Price: £60
Discover your world from the comfort of your own chair! This interactive online session brings one of the most unique and vast collections of globes and maps directly to you. There is no better way to learn about the world as we identify the position and significance of latitude, longitude, Equator, Northern Hemisphere, Southern Hemisphere, the Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn, Arctic and Antarctic Circle and the Greenwich Meridian through our rich collection of geographical items dating back to the 13th Century.
Digital Secondary School Sessions
Expand each title for more information
Key Stage: KS3
Curriculum links: Art - use techniques to record observations, as a basis for exploring ideas; English- Communicate and present ideas effectively through creative writing and spoken word; History- Analysing historical sources and Broaden understanding of Black British History and Britain’s Colonial History; Citizenship - discuss and express views on topical issues and events
Session times: Flexible
Capacity: 30 pupils per session
Price: £60
Guided by an artist educator, discover how contemporary Black artists such as Kehinde Wiley and Yinka Shonibare CBE convey important messages about diversity and citizenship in their work. Analyze famous artworks and make comparisons between historical and contemporary pieces around themes of equality and representation. Respond to artworks through creative written and spoken tasks and collect ideas together to create a collaborative outcome.
Pupils will:
-
analyze famous artworks.
-
discuss how leading contemporary artists are exploring issues of diversity and citizenship.
-
communicate and present ideas effectively through practical creative writing and spoken word tasks.
-
broaden understanding of Black British history
Key Stage: KS3, GCSE, A Level
Curriculum links: History – the development of the British Empire with a depth study
Session times: Thursdays and Fridays
Capacity: 30 pupils per session
Price: £60
What can our collections tell us about the Spanish Armada? Why did it fail? Work with an expert member of our team to investigate world famous paintings, archive materials owned by spies and equipment that meant life or death to Elizabethan sailors in this interactive digital workshop. There will be time for a Q&A in the workshop and we will provide supporting resources for before and after the session.
Pupils will:
- Consider original archival material and museums collections on the failure of the Armada
- Assess and evaluate different explanations of the Armada's failure
- Discuss and communicate their own ideas and responses
This session can be adapted to meet exam specifications for GCSE and A Level groups, contact bweddell@rmg.co.uk for more information
Key Stage: KS3, GCSE, A Level
Curriculum links: History – the development of the British Empire with a depth study
Session times: Flexible
Capacity: 30 pupils per session
Price: £60
What can our collections tell us about how the British Empire came to be? What role did the East India Company play? What are the legacies of this history that are still experienced today? Investigate museum objects and archive materials ranging from luxury goods to a teacup in this interactive digital session. Work together to consider the significance of different factors in the East India Company’s rise and fall and investigate the company as a case study in the growth and consequences of Empire. There will be time for a Q&A in the workshop and we will provide supporting resources for before and after the session.
Pupils will:
- Consider original archival material abd museum collections on the growth of the East India company
- Assess and evaluate different explanations of the Armada's failure
- Discuss and communicate their own ideas and responses
This session can be adapted to meet exam specifications for GCSE and A Level groups, contact bweddell@rmg.co.uk for more information
Digital SEND School Sessions
Expand the title for more information
Suitable for: Pre-key stage/SLD/MLD/PMLD/ASC/EBD
Curriculum links: sensory and physical learning, communication and interaction skills
Session times: Wednesdays, Flexible timings
Capacity: Up to 10 pupils per session
Price: £60
Sail away on the Cutty Sark in this interactive digital session, using songs, rhymes and multisensory learning to discover what life is like on the high seas. Explore Antarctica and the Pacific Islands on your journey using the National Maritime Museum collection. We will provide you with a list of materials to prepare in advance of your digital voyage to bring the adventure alive for you and your pupils. There will be time in the workshop for a Q&A and we will provide follow-up activities to support further learning and creative responses.
These workshops are all run by the National Maritime Museum, Cutty Sark, the Queen's House and the Prince Philip Maritime Collections Centre. For information about the Royal Observatory astronomy team's learning programmes, click here.
Schools Resources
From science and space to the history of the world, find fantastic school resources for all ages, key stages and subjects