Home education groups at Royal Museums Greenwich

Home Education Day: Sea and Space Explorers

Following a successful pilot day, we have developed an exciting new cross-curricular day of activities, exclusively for home educators, on:

Friday 13 November 2026
Friday 8 January 2027
Friday 28 May 2027

What's included?

The day includes a combination of drop-in and set-timed activities. Confirmed activities for Friday, 13 November, are:

Unboxing the Universe (best suited for ages 5+)
Object Handling (best suited for ages 7+)
Astro Assemble (best suited for secondary age)
A planetarium show presented live by one of our astronomers (various ages)
Astronomers Take Over (suitable for all ages)
Astronomy Lego Brick Club (suitable for all ages)

Pricing

£3.50 per learner, with one adult free
Adults/carers attending with children requiring 1:1 SEND support are free
Additional adults: £7

Sessions at the National Maritime Museum, the Queen’s House, Cutty Sark and Prince Philip Maritime Collections Centre

Home education groups are welcome to book any facilitated learning session for schools.

Onsite sessions are charged at the same rates as those advertised for schools, with a maximum number of 30 learners (excluding accompanying adults and siblings) per session. The minimum group size is 15 people.

Facilitated sessions are pitched at the level of the majority of learners in the group.

Due to the capacity of certain galleries and facilitation spaces, the maximum group size is 36 for National Maritime Museum sessions and 40 for Queen's House sessions (this is inclusive of learners, siblings, adults and carers). In the circumstance of a full cohort, learners, required supervising adults, and any adults providing 1:1 support should be prioritised over additional parents.

Please ensure there are enough adults to cover our supervision ratios (adults acting in a 1:1 capacity are not counted as adults fulfilling the supervision ratio).

The general supervision ratios are listed below, but due to the range of ages of students in some home education groups, the discretion of the Bookings and Learning teams will be used.

EYFS KS1	1 to 5
KS2	1 to 8
KS3/KS4	1 to 10
KS5	1 to 16

Self-guided visits to Cutty Sark are available to home education groups at the reduced rates of:

£90 for a group of up to 30 people (including all accompanying adults and siblings)
£45 for a group of up to 15 people (including all accompanying adults and siblings)
£22.50 for a group of up to 7 people (including all adults and siblings

Entry to the ZWO Astronomy Photographer of the Year exhibition is included in the above prices.

Check out our available sessions and, when you're ready to book, please complete the booking enquiry form.

Sessions at the Royal Observatory Greenwich

The Home Education programme at the Royal Observatory is currently on pause due to our exciting upcoming site regeneration project.

During the first phase of this regeneration project, the South Building and the Peter Harrison Planetarium are closed, though the historic Royal Observatory site remains open.

The Astronomy team are now temporarily based at the National Maritime Museum. We're piloting a new form of home education content, which you can read about at the top of the page. You can also learn all about the general Astronomy schools programme, which home-educated groups are very welcome to join, on this page:

Schools programme information