School Outreach
You can now get a taste of Amberley Museum from your own classroom!
To reserve an experience, please email the Learning Officer at learning@amberleymuseum.co.uk
Loan Boxes
You can now borrow a box of artefacts from the Museum’s collections to enhance your classroom learning. To use this service, a member of staff must be able to pick up and drop off the box to the Museum.
Currently available:
Communications – a selection of objects demonstrating the history of visual and telecommunications. Includes a working Morse code key and four sets of modern semaphore flags.
Everyday Inventions – intriguing household and work-based objects from the 19th & early 20th centuries, from button hooks to fat massagers!
Historic Transport – authentic and replica objects illustrating transport from the 1920s-1980s. Complements our KS1 Journeys workshop.
N.B. We are building up a library of loan boxes on popular themes. If you have a suggestion for a new loan box that would suit your school curriculum, please get in touch!
What’s included?
- 10+ themed Museum artefacts and props for related activities
- Artefact fact sheets
- Handling notes
- Activity prompts
Cost:
2 weeks: £40 / 4 weeks: £80
To reserve an experience, please email the Learning Officer at learning@amberleymuseum.co.uk
Communications Loan Box Items 1
Communications (clockwise from left): WWII electric lamp, postal scales, rotary dial telephone, desktop microphone.
Communications Loan Box Items 2
Communications (clockwise from left): Pair of headphones, box camera, working Morse code key, cat’s eye road stud.
Communications Loan Box Items 3
Communications: Four sets of mini semaphore flags and instructions are included in this loan box.
Communications Loan Box
Communications: Each box includes a full contents list, object notes, handling guidance and classroom activity prompts.
Inventions Loan Box Items 1
Everyday Inventions (left to right): Invalid drinking jug, fat massager, wooden component pattern.
Inventions Loan Box Items 2
Everyday Inventions (top to bottom): Spirit level, shoe horn/button hook tool, curling tongs.
Inventions Loan Box Items 3
Everyday Inventions (clockwise from left): Knitting wool holder, box camera, ink blotter, glove stretcher.
Inventions Loan Box
Everyday Inventions: Each box includes a full contents list, object notes, handling guidance and classroom activity prompts.
Historic Transport Loan Box Items 1
Clockwise from top left: Rear bicycle lamp, horseshoe, ‘cat’s eye’ road stud’, bicycle bell.
Historic Transport Loan Box Items 2
Top: Bus driver’s/conductor’s cap. Bottom: Pigskin driving gloves.
Historic Transport Loan Box Items 3
Top: Model Southdown double-decker bus. Bottom: Bus ticket rack.
Historic Transport Loan Box Items 4
Top: Pump-action oil can. Bottom: Model horse and cart.
Virtual Visits
Our popular EYFS/KS1 ‘Journeys’ workshops can now be delivered to your class online, via the digital platform of your choice.
Pupils will experience the same activities as if they were here at the Museum, animated by the Learning Officer and a number of our knowledgeable volunteers through a series of pre-recorded videos, interactive elements and questions slots.
What’s included?
- A ride on the narrow-gauge railway.
- A visit to the wheelwrights’ workshop to see cartwheels and find out how they’re made.
- A visit to the Village Garage to investigate bicycles and motorised vehicles from the early- to mid-20th century.
- A ride on one of our vintage buses.
- FREE ‘Design a Train Ticket’ pre-visit activity!
When?
Virtual Visits can be booked at 10am, 11.15am and 1pm on Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays.
Cost?
£40 per class/32 children
Making a Booking
Please return the forms to learning@amberleymuseum.co.uk, with a choice of at least two dates, in order to begin the booking process.
If you’d like to discuss your requirements beforehand, you can also phone us on 01798 831370 #3.
