School Outreach
Schools Outreach Programme
The newly re-developed Salt Museum is full of potential for learning and creativity.
A visit will bring the history of Droitwich alive through a variety of interactive learning experiences in our historic building. All our activities are led by experienced staff and support specific schemes of work whilst also helping pupils to make cross-curricular links across different subject areas.
Workshops
All our workshops are free of charge although we do ask or a voluntary contribution of £1 per child.
They are principally aimed at years 3 to 6, and are fully accessible to all children but can be adapted to other age groups and those with additional needs as required through discussion when booking.
Each workshop is an hour long and involves a half hour talk and a half hour interactive activity to bring the session alive.
The Romans
This session involves a short talk about the extensive Roman history of Droitwich and the chance to explore the new interactive museum exhibits.
The activity involves carrying out an archaeological excavation using genuine techniques to discover and investigate different artefacts in a tray of sand
Curriculum links
- History – develop an awareness of the past, discover where the people studied fit within a chronological framework; use a wide vocabulary of everyday historical terms; understand some of the ways some of the ways in which we find out about the past and how it is represented.
- English – Spoken language. Listen and respond appropriately to adults and their peers. Ask relevant questions to extend their understanding and knowledge, to articulate and justify answers, arguments and opinions; maintain attention and participate in conversations, initiating and responding to comments.
Local Study
This session involves a short talk explaining hoe salt has shaped the fascinating history of Droitwich and the chance to explore the new interactive museum exhibits.
The activity involves looking at what a question is and discussing and sorting historical questions and answers before working out where historical features of Droitwich are from photographs and positioning them on a local map.
Curriculum Links
- History - develop an awareness of the past, discover where the people studied fit within a chronological framework; use a wide vocabulary of everyday historical terms; understand some of the ways some of the ways in which we find out about the past and how it is represented.
- English - Spoken language. Listen and respond appropriately to adults and their peers. Ask relevant questions to extend their understanding and knowledge, to articulate and justify answers, arguments and opinions; maintain attention and participate in conversations, initiating and responding to comments.
The Industrial Revolution
This session involves a short talk explaining the importance of the salt industry in Droitwich in the industrial revolution, highlighting its place in a European context and its repositioning as a Spa Town.
The activity involves 4 different tasks looking at the prices and treatments on offer at the brine baths; looking at modes of transport and deciding which would have been available in Victorian times; ordering photographs of the different brine baths chronologically, and choosing items from the café menu; looking at the old coins that would have been used to pay for them.
Curriculum links
- History – study a significant turning point in British History. Develop an awareness of the past, discover where the people studied fit within a chronological framework; use a wide vocabulary of everyday historical terms; understand some of the ways some of the ways in which we find out about the past and how it is represented.
- English - Spoken language. Listen and respond appropriately to adults and their peers. Ask relevant questions to extend their understanding and knowledge, to articulate and justify answers, arguments and opinions; maintain attention and participate in conversations, initiating and responding to comments.