pennine lancashire museums & schools brochure 2014-15

Pennine Lancashire Museums and Schools 2014/2015

Supporting learning and inspiring your pupils

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Contents


4 Welcome to Pennine Lancashire Museums

5 Where We Are

6 Working with Local Teachers

VENUES

8 Blackburn Museum and Art Gallery

10 Clitheroe Castle Museum

12 Gawthorpe Textiles Collection at Gawthorpe Hall

14 Haworth Art Gallery

16 Helmshore Mills Textile Museum

18 Queen Street Mill Textile Museum

20 The Whitaker Museum + Art Gallery

22 Towneley Hall Art Gallery, Museum and Park

24 Turton Tower

26 Special Events Weeks

27 We Visit You

28 Loan Boxes

29 Arts Award

30 Learning with PLM online

31 Contacts

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Welcome to Pennine Lancashire MuseumsWelcome to Pennine Lancashire Museums and Schools and our brochure for 2014/2015.

WHY ARE PENNINE LANCASHIRE MUSEUMS SPECIAL?Pennine Lancashire is home to some of the North West’s most lavish museum collections and architectural gems, thanks partly to the enormous wealth made from weaving cotton during the Industrial Revolution. It was during this golden age that industrialists and merchants donated money to build and fill museums with art and treasures. 150 years on and museums across Pennine Lancashire have built up an unparalleled collection of art and historical artefacts with national and international significance.

In addition many of the museums and galleries in Pennine Lancashire are located in beautiful parks, landscapes and natural habitats providing an amazing legacy for indoor and outdoor learning.

MUSEUMS AND SCHOOLS PROGRAMMEPennine Lancashire Museums have been working as part of a national programme called Museums and Schools. This programme aims to strengthen links between schools and their local museums and is funded by Arts Council England and the Department for Education.

Throughout this programme we have reviewed all of our learning sessions across the 9 venues, partnered with Sir John Soane and V&A museums in London to gain national museum support and worked hand in hand with teachers to develop learning sessions and activities that best meet the needs of schools and pupils today.

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WE ARE ON YOUR DOORSTEPFrom the map above you will see that you have a Pennine Lancashire Museum near to your school, and you may be within easy distance of a few of our venues. We hope this brochure encourages you to take a closer look at the excellent learning experiences available locally.


Where We Are

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CASE STUDY

Working with Local TeachersSince October 2012 the Museums and Schools Programme has given us the chance to develop new learning sessions in our museums in a completely new way. Teachers have visited our museums and been inspired by the collections, buildings and the sounds.

You know best what will fit with the curriculum, be it old or new, and seeing our museums through your eyes has been amazing.

Working together, we have created literacy and music sessions in Helmshore and Queen Street mills, geography sessions in Gawthorpe Textile Collection and Hall, storytelling sessions in Blackburn Museum and art activities in Towneley Hall and Clitheroe Castle.

We look forward to working with more teachers in the future. Read the case studies on these pages of two teachers we have worked with, and come visit our museums and be inspired!

’Minibeasts’ trial session at Blackburn Museum and Art Gallery.

Minibeasts with Blackburn Museum and Art Gallery

Kirsteen Walmsley, Bolton-by-Bowland CE Primary School I have always loved anything historical

– blame my parents for dragging me round castles and cathedrals as a child! Throughout secondary school I took ‘A’ levels in history, classics and archaeology, so really I had to become a teacher…or work on ‘Time Team’.

I have been teaching since 1995, initially in Blackburn, then in 1997 I ‘escaped to the country’ to teach at Bolton-by-Bowland CE Primary. We are a very tiny, rural primary school – just 2 classes. I have Early Years, Reception, Y1 and Y2 whilst 2 other teachers share the KS2 class.

I was drawn to this project, not just for the chance to visit such fantastic museums in London as the V&A, Sir John Soane’s and the Hunterian, but more as a chance to really have a voice as an infant teacher. More often than not, school trips are focused towards secondary school or KS2 children. KS1 children are too often

‘adapted for’ as a bit of an after- thought. Infant children are seldom given enough credit for what they can do, or what level of understanding they can achieve. I hope my interpretation of this project will go a little way towards addressing this misconception.

Currently I am teaching between Bolton-by-Bowland and Grindleton Infant classes (we share the same headteacher under a collaboration that has been in place for the last 5 years). We took both Infant classes to trial this project and they had an amazing time - mainly thanks to Steve’s unending knowledge of beetles (or coleoptera as we now know they are called).

I hope other schools try the project and get as much fun and learning out of it as we did.

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CASE STUDY

An infant school takes The Grand Tour (of Pennine Lancashire)

Art activity at Towneley Hall, photo Cath Ford

Design Your Own Museum

When I heard about the Pennine Lancashire Museums project, I wanted to get involved as I saw it as in interesting opportunity to develop something that would broaden the experiences of the children who attend my school.

The idea of setting up a museum in the classroom isn’t new but after visiting several of the venues I saw that they offered both a wide range of experiences for children and expertise amongst their staff.

In the end I chose to work with three of the Pennine Lancashire museums – Helmshore Mill, Towneley Hall and Clitheroe Castle.

Our introductory visit was to Helmshore and there we learnt what a museum was for; we also went on a ‘town trail’ around the mill village and had a go at modelling our own mill village.

At Towneley Hall we did a carousel of activities, the museum staff taught

the children about how to handle objects safely and display them. We also did a fabulous art activity and had a guided walk in the woods, linked to our science topic.

Our final trip was to Clitheroe Castle where we learned how to write labels, how to make our displays interactive and found out from the shop and café staff what their jobs entailed.

Then during the summer term, the children from the two classes worked together to create their own exhibition at school, to which all the families in the school were invited.

I’ve really enjoyed the project and I’ve been delighted at how much has been done; working across whole terms has given us the opportunity to work in a cross-curricular way, drawing in the foundation subjects – art (all the children are completing their Discover level Arts Award), history and geography, as well.

One of the real benefits of the project has been the way in which the trips have really sparked the children’s interest and how their enthusiasm has drawn in their families.

Sarah Parker, Longshaw Infants School, Blackburn


The following new sessions have been developed by local teachers for the Pennine Lancashire Museums and Schools Programme:

SESSION VENUE

Mini-beasts Blackburn Museum and Art Gallery

Storytelling Blackburn Museum and Art Gallery

Local History: Mill Town Helmshore Mills Textile Museum

Stuarts, Battles and Lace Gawthorpe Textiles Collection at Gawthorpe Hall

The Textile Journey Gawthorpe Textiles Collection at Gawthorpe Hall

Investigating Pattern Gawthorpe Textiles Collection at Gawthorpe Hall

Sounds of the Mill Queen Street Mill Textile Museum

Mono Printing The Whitaker Museum + Art Gallery

The Wheelbarrow and the Bomb The Whitaker Museum + Art Gallery

The Tudors at Towneley Hall Towneley Hall

Looking at Art Towneley Hall

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Pennine Lancashire Museums and Schools 2014/15Blackburn Museum and Art Gallery

As one of the first purpose built free museums to open outside of London in 1874, Blackburn Museum and Art Gallery houses a rich and fascinating collection covering fine art, decorative art, Egyptology, coins, manuscripts, natural history, social history and South Asia. A visit is a great way to inspire your pupils and support both teaching and learning in the classroom.

We have long experience of working with schools and our staff will help to bring your curriculum to life. We appreciate that all classes differ in their needs and abilities and are happy to tailor a session to your particular class, please contact us to discuss.

Through our partnership with Pennine Lancashire Museums and Schools we are delighted to be able to offer two brand new learning sessions developed with local teachers that tailor the needs of pupils with the wonderful collections we have on offer.

If your pupils are studying ancient Egypt then come and see our Egyptology collection. The gallery, a dedicated Egyptology space, is home to the most requested and sought after item in the whole museum, the Mummy.

Parts of the Egyptian collection were collected by John Garstang who was not only one of the great early Egyptologists but also a son of Blackburn. Born and schooled in the town, the objects he gave to the museum give our Egyptian collection a link to both Blackburn and a country far away.

Special Collection

Come and see the ‘Cottontown’ Gallery which looks at the industrial history of the town, the ‘Skill and Labour’ gallery which focuses on the social history of the town after 1750 and the ‘Early History Gallery’ which looks at the history of Blackburn from the Iron Age until the 1750’s. Objects include power and hand looms, a cruck frame from a local inn and a collection of Victoriana from the town’s heyday.

Local Story

FACILITIES

Fully physically accessible

Lunch facilities

Coach drop off

Coach Parking

Toilets

Gift shop

Linked loan boxes

Outreach sessions available

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Learning sessions

SPECIAL EVENT WEEK

Meet the Victorians7/8/9 October 2014Half day / KS1/2

Experience life in a Victorian schoolroom and learn a trade at the local mill.

£4.00 per pupil

Full day / KS2 / Science

New session specially developed for Pennine Lancashire Museums and Schools.

This session has been developed in conjunction with Kirsteen Walmsley from

Bolton-by-Bowland CE Primary School.

Inspired by the Museum’s collection of over 3,000 beetles, this science workshop looks at beetles, nature’s favourite mini-beast. The children will discover the world of beetles, find out what makes them so wonderful, have a go at designing and then making their own.

Half day / KS2 / History

As well as seeing our Mummy, your pupils will use objects from the collection as well as craft activities to find out the ways in which objects from ancient Egypt can tell us about the lives of everyday people.


By looking at, and playing with, a selection of old and new toys the children will explore the ways in which we could tell ‘old’ from ‘new’. After playing with the toys your pupils will be able to make their own toy to take home.

Life in Ancient Egypt

Mini-beasts

Toys


The children will find out about the impact of WW2 on the people of Blackburn, the experiences of children and have the opportunity to handle a selection of objects from the period.

Half day / KS2 / Literacy


This session has been developed in conjunction with Natalie McNeil from

Meadowhead Junior School, Blackburn and Taffy Thomas the Laureate for Storytelling.

Your pupils will follow a riddle trail around the Museum, linked to the paintings and objects to be found in the galleries and then meet together for a storytelling session linked to the riddles they have solved.

Half day / KS1 / Art

What does a portrait tell us about the sitter? Your pupils will learn to unravel the clues that can be found in the picture of a person. After the opportunity to look at the pictures in our art gallery, the children will make a portrait of their own which can be developed back in the classroom.

WW2 Home Front

Storytelling

Portraits

From 1 Sept 2014 go to learningwithplm.org.uk to view an online version of this brochure and to enquire online.

Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS)

Most of our KS1 learning sessions can be adapted to fit the specific needs of EYFS. Please contact us to discuss.

ADDRESS Blackburn Museum and Art Gallery Museum Street, Blackburn BB1 7AJ

Tel: 01254 667130

Website: blackburnmuseum.org.uk/learning

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COST Half day session costs £2.50 per pupil Full day session costs £5.00 per pupil

TO BOOK Call the Museum on 01254 667130 Enquire online at: blackburnmuseum.org.uk/learning

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There are rocks and fossils, photographs, paintings, coins and medals, and finds from the site and the surrounding area - like bronze age burial urns from Pinder Hill and silver coins from Mitton (The Mitton Hoard Henry VI coins). The North West Sound Archive is located on the top floor of the museum building and has contributed to the exceptional sound elements in our galleries.

Special Collection Local Story

Discover how the landscape (glaciated valley) we see today was formed and how people have lived and worked within it.

Explore the natural world of the area and find out why it is an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and a Special Protection Area. Our displays cover geology, archaeology, natural history, folklore and industrial and social history.

Visit our award winning museum and let us take you on a journey through 350 million years of history.

Discover the spectacular Norman keep, explore the museum galleries or learn about everything that happened in the year 1066 from our Norman nobleman Henry de Brocas.

FACILITIES Lunch facilities

Coach drop off

Coach Parking

Limited accessibility

Toilets

Gift shop

Linked loan boxes

Clitheroe Castle Museum

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Half day / KS2/3 / History/Science

Follow a historical, interactive and hands on tour of the Norman keep, whilst taking in the spectacular views over Clitheroe and the surrounding area. Find out how castles were built, what they were made from, how they were defended and how and why they changed.

Then get to grips with a range of exciting, hands-on activities that will enliven and support a range of cross curricular skills. Build your own Motte and Bailey castle utilising key ideas you have learnt on the tour. Older pupils will explore the science behind trebuchets and catapults as they use these principles to attack an enemy castle.


Half day / KS2/3 / History/Science

This immersive and experiential session gives pupils the opportunity to be an active part of the year 1066. They will witness the rise and fall of the last Anglo Saxon kings, be party to the invasion of both Vikings and Normans, and participate in three

battles. There will also be a chance to examine and handle Norman and Saxon arms and armour, study and compare the differences and see how they were used in battle.

Pupils will then use the skills and knowledge learned to design and construct armour … for an egg! They will test their armour using the ancient method of the ‘long drop’ to see who is crowned ‘Champion of the egg’.

Half day / KS1/2 / Literacy

Come and meet our Dragon Protection Officer and enrol in SWORD (Society for the Welfare Of Real Dragons).

In this exciting and immersive session pupils will be taught all the skills they need to become a SWORD Ranger.

Pupils will discover the secret history of SWORD, how to identify different dragons, discover where they live, what they eat, their likes and dislikes, what makes them so scary, and how to care for them. They will explore and train in the sword and shield techniques that will keep them safe from angry dragons, and those skills needed to stop Dragon Slayers. Once the tasks are completed take a seat and hear the tale of ‘The Clitheroe Dragon’.

Myths and Legends creates a refreshing and stimulating learning opportunity that combines creative storytelling, drama, hands on learning and adventure.

1066 The Year

Myths and Legends

Castles and Keeps

You can also send an enquiry to the Museum via the Pennine Lancashire Museums and Schools website (to be launched 1 Sept 2014) www.learningwithplm.org.uk and find out about all of the learning sessions across all 9 Pennine Lancashire Museum venues.

COST Morning or afternoon session (2hrs) £2.50 LCC pupil, £3 non LCC pupil. All day session (4hrs) £5 LCC pupil, £6 non LCC pupil. Accompanying adults free.

TO BOOK Call Clitheroe Castle Museum on 01200 424568 to discuss your requirements and make a provisional booking for the proposed date of your visit. Your booking will be confirmed upon receipt of a completed booking form and non-refundable deposit of £30. Email: [email protected]

ADDRESS Clitheroe Castle Museum Castle Hill, Clitheroe BB7 1BA

Tel: 01200 424568

Website: lancashire.gov.uk/museums


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Remembrance Event11–12 November 2014

Commemorate WW1 through interactive activities including literacy and storytelling.

Dark Age Britain (life under the Vikings and Saxons)11–15 May 2015

Discover the role of the Dark Age warrior and learn battle tactics. Join our Saxon storyteller who will tell tales and teach Old English. Watch our moneyer demonstrate the coin making process and make a coin for each pupil to take away. Explore Dark Age domestic life.

Castles and Castle life24 June–2 July 2015

Find out more about life during the medieval period. Handle arms and armour, play medieval games and try out some cooking medieval style!

£4.00 LCC pupil £4.50 non LCC pupil

SPECIAL EVENTS WEEKS

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This superb 17th century Elizabethan country house set in the heart of Pennine Lancashire, was home to the famous Shuttleworth family for over 300 years and houses one of the finest textile collections in Europe.

Explore the Rachel Kay-Shuttleworth’s textile treasures alongside innovative fashion and textiles from contemporary makers, and try out textile skills inspired by the collection.

Take your pupils back in time to meet the butler and housekeeper and discover the life of a large Victorian family and their home. Join our time scene officer and examine portraits from one of the biggest loans of paintings from the National Portrait Gallery in the North West.

Discover the Gawthorpe Textiles Collection at Gawthorpe Hall. Rachel Kay-Shuttleworth (1886-1967), the last member of the Shuttleworth family to live at the Hall, amassed her amazing collection with the aim of keeping textile skills alive. Her collection is renowned for its impressive quality and depth and includes lace, embroidery, textiles and costume.

Miss Rachel was a local hero and valued simple textiles made for Lancashire homes as much as exotic masterpieces from around the world.


FACILITIES


Coach parking

Lunch facilities

Toilets

Linked loan boxes


COST Half day session (2hrs) £2.50 LCC pupil, £3 non LCC pupil. All day session (4hrs) £5 LCC pupil, £6 non LCC pupil. Accompanying adults free.

TO BOOK Call Gawthorpe Hall on 01282 771004 to discuss your requirements and make a provisional booking for the proposed date of your visit. Your booking will be confirmed upon receipt of a completed booking form and non-refundable deposit of £30. Email: [email protected]

ADDRESS Gawthorpe Hall Burnley Road, Padiham, Burnley BB12 8UA

Tel: 01282 771004


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Gawthorpe Textiles Collection at Gawthorpe Hall


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Half day / KS2/3/4 / Textiles/ Art/Design


This session has been developed in conjunction with Louane Frances, Sir

John Thursby Community College, Burnley.

An inspirational half-day researching and creating patterns and decoration. Explore Gawthorpe Hall as a treasure house of Jacobean and Victorian Gothic Revival architecture and interior design alongside magnificent historical textiles from around the world, and be inspired to create patterns and decoration in a hands-on design session. Sketchbooks welcome.

Please note: there is an extra materials charge of £1.00 per pupil for this session.

Full day / KS2 / Geography/Art/Design


This session has been developed in conjunction with Karen Taylor and

Louise Cottrell, The Northern School, Bacup.

A day for explorers to discover the world-wide origins of the textile collection.

Take a tour of Miss Rachel’s home. Use maps to explore the collection and identify the country of origin of the textiles on display. Create work inspired by the collection in embroidery and weaving textile skills sessions.


Also available as a half-day visit.

Full day / KS2 / History/Art/Design


This session has been developed in conjunction with Sally Astbury, Pilling St. John’s Primary School.

A thrilling day of Civil War battle stories and historic textiles.

Colonel Shuttleworth or his wife Fleetwood Barton will give a tour of their home with tales of the English Civil War in Lancashire. Explore historical lace and embroidery in the textile galleries; try lacemaking and make a paper lace collar to wear while promenading in the magnificent Long Gallery.


Also available as a half-day visit.

Half day / KS2/3 / Art

Explore the historical portraits housed within Gawthorpe Hall with our time scene officer. Use your skills as a time scene detective to find and interpret the hidden meanings within the paintings. Examine samples of

the fabrics seen in the portraits, learn about their history and what they signify. Then using what you have discovered about symbolism, plan, design and create your own portrait. What symbolism will you hide in yours?

Half day / KS1/2 / History

Visit the kitchens and discover the duties of the butler at the Hall. Hands-on activities include polishing the silver and instruction in setting the table correctly.


Follow the housekeeper and learn about the jobs she has to do every day. A practical session which includes laying a fire in one of the bedrooms.

Half day / KS1/2/3 / History

Explore this beautiful 17th century house and discover the rich history of the Shuttleworth family.

You can choose combinations of activities to suit your particular requirements and those of your pupils. Photo: Lancashire Telegraph

Victorian Housekeeper

Stuarts, Battles and Lace

Investigating Pattern

The Textile Journey

Site Tour

Time Scene Investigations: Symbolism in Portraits

Victorian Butler

SPECIAL EVENTS WEEKSOne week of exciting morning or afternoon sessions on the following themes:

Tudor Week 20–24 October 2014

Victorian Christmas 8–12 December 2014

Shakespeare Week 8–12 June 2015 £4.00 LCC pupil

£4.50 non LCC pupil

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Pennine Lancashire Museums and Schools 2014/15Haworth Art Gallery

The Haworth Art Gallery in Accrington is home to Europe’s largest public collection of Tiffany glass.

Schools groups are invited to tour the gallery and the Tiffany glass collection outside of public opening hours on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday from 9.30am to 11.30am. Our morning sessions offer exclusive access to the collection, where pupils will be able to discover how Tiffany designed and

created his unique work. Pupils will be able to use our own worksheets to record the colours, patterns and shapes they see in the Tiffany exhibition rooms and will also be able to participate in any one of an array of practical activities (see Learning Sessions opposite).

FACILITIES


Coach drop off

Toilets

Lunch facilities

Coach parking

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This art activity is based on the fabulous glass vases in our collection and is suitable for younger children. After being inspired by the real thing, the children get to recreate it in collage form.


This session teaches more advanced printing techniques and leads to the children producing their own designs and printing them onto fabric. The fabric can then be used to produce a small, drawstring money bag.

Relief Collage ‘Vases’

Transfer Printing - Money Bags

Half day / KS1/2 / Art

This is an ideal activity to introduce your group to printing techniques. We will tailor it to your children depending on whether they are KS1 or KS2. The blocks are then used to create either a group banner or individual gift boxes.


Using the mosaic patterns and designs in our Tiffany collection as inspiration, this activity introduces your group to the technique of creating a mosaic using multi-coloured paper squares, rectangles and triangles.

Block Printing - Banners or Gift Boxes

Paper Mosaic

The Tiffany Glass Collection contains many rare and varied glass items including iridescent vases, mosaic tiles, nature inspired vases and glassware. The collection charts the Tiffany Glass company’s history and influences from Europe, Middle East and the natural world.


Find out about the local man Joseph Briggs, who brought the Tiffany Glass Collection back to Accrington after he went to America to find his fortune in 1891. The collection came to the Haworth in 1951, which was previously home to brother and sister William and Anne Haworth.

COST Hyndburn Schools are free. For all other schools each half day session costs £2.50 per pupil. Maximum group size is one class of 30, plus adults. Accompanying staff are free.

TO BOOK Call the Gallery on 01254 233782Email [email protected]

ADDRESS Haworth Art Gallery Manchester Road, Accrington BB5 2JS

Tel: 01254 233782

Website: hyndburnbc.gov.uk/hag

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Nestling side by side in the quiet village of Helmshore in the stunning Rossendale Valley are two original Lancashire textile mills, Higher Mill and Whitaker’s Mill, together known as Helmshore Mills Textile Museum.

Pupils will be immersed in the sights, sounds and smells of mill life as they witness original machinery at work. Discover how raw wool and cotton were transformed into yarn ready to

be woven into cloth, and learn how the ideas of famous local inventors revolutionised the world in which we live today.

Helmshore Mills Textile Museum’s collections are designated as being of national importance. Many are original machines, a number of which are still in working order and demonstrated on a regular basis.

Find out about the Turner family who transformed Helmshore into a thriving mill community.


FACILITIES Fully physically accessible

Coach parking

Lunch facilities

Toilets

Gift shop

Linked loan boxes

COST Half day session (2hrs) £2.50 LCC pupil, £3 non LCC pupil. All day session (4hrs) £5 LCC pupil, £6 non LCC pupil. Accompanying adults free.

TO BOOKCall Helmshore Mills Textile Museum on 01706 226459 to discuss your requirements and make a provisional booking for the proposed date of your visit. Your booking will be confirmed upon receipt of a completed booking form and non-refundable deposit of £30. Email: [email protected]

ADDRESSHelmshore Mills Textile Museum Holcombe Road, Helmshore, Rossendale BB4 4NP

Tel: 01706 226459


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Helmshore Mills Textile Museum


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Half day / KS1/2/3 / History/Science

Where does our cotton come from? Take a trip through the Devil Hole to discover how the mill used recycled cotton to make yarn. Find out about how and why we need to recycle things today. In Whitaker’s Mill find

out about carding and spinning by machine and the working conditions of the mill, then watch a demonstration of the original carding engines and spinning mule.


Take a journey through the Industrial Revolution, from the domestic woollen industry to the time when cotton was king. Follow the inventions that made it happen, and the lives of the people it affected.


Half day / KS1/2/3 / History/Science

Before cotton came to Britain, people spun and wove wool at home. This session will teach pupils about the cottage industry and allow them to try carding and spinning wool by hand. Visit Higher Mill, built in 1789

and discover how woollen cloth was made and finished. Watch the waterwheel turn and power sets of fulling stocks and visit the lodge to see how the mill was supplied with water.

Half day / KS1/2 / Literacy

An alternative to cotton story, our fun new interactive session reinterprets the mill combining history, language, literacy and art. The noises from the machinery have been stolen and must be recreated with words, sounds and pictures. There will also be the opportunity to see some of our working machinery running.

The Cotton Story

Revolution!

The Wool Story

The Sound Snatcher

Science and Engineering9–11 and 16–18 March 2015Half day / KS1/2/3

Take part in science and engineering challenges based on the workings of the Mill and meet “local hero” Richard Arkwright to discover how his inventions revolutionised the textile industry.

£4.00 LCC pupil, £4.50 non LCC pupil

CORE SESSIONS / We advise that teachers and pupils take part in at least one core session.

ADDITIONAL ACTIVITIES



This session has been developed in conjunction with Sarah Parker, Longshaw Infants School, Blackburn.

Become a Victorian entrepreneur and build your own Textile Empire. Take a guided walk around the local area to reveal how the industrial revolution changed the landscape forever.

Half day / KS1/2/3 / Art & Design

A practical session for pupils; how to turn wool into felt!

Please note: there is an extra charge of 75p per pupil for this session.

Local History: Mill Town Felt Making

Half day / KS1/2 / Design & Technology

What are the clothes we wear made from? Pupils discover the origins of different fabrics.


An opportunity for your pupils to handle real objects from Victorian domestic and working life.

Fibres and Fabrics

Object Handling

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History is brought to life for your pupils at Queen Street Mill; the last surviving 19th century steam powered mill in the world!

Hear the clatter of 300 Lancashire power looms in our weaving shed and witness the heat, smells and noise of the historic steam engine ‘Peace’. Learn about the lives of people who worked at the mill and trace the journey of how cotton yarn was transformed into woven calico. Our exciting new session, the Queen Street Mill Maths Challenge, gives pupils the opportunity to apply maths to ‘real-life’ situations in the mill.

The most significant and now unique aspect of Queen Street’s collection is the machinery which has been preserved in situ in full working order, including the original Lancashire boiler, the steam engine Peace and the 19th century looms connected to it.

Find out about local hero James Bullough who made important improvements to the design of the Lancashire Loom which went on to revolutionise the textile manufacturing industry for a century.


FACILITIES

Fully Physically accessible

Coach Parking

Lunch facilities

Toilets

Linked loan boxes


Gift Shop

COSTHalf day session (2hrs) £2.50 LCC pupil, £3 non LCC pupil. All day session (4hrs) £5 LCC pupil, £6 non LCC pupil. Accompanying adults free.

TO BOOKCall Queen Street Mill Textile Museum on 01282 412555 to discuss your requirements and make a provisional booking for the proposed date of your visit. Your booking will be confirmed upon receipt of a completed booking form and non-refundable deposit of £30 Email: [email protected]

ADDRESSQueen Street Mill Textile Museum Harle Syke, Burnley BB10 2HX

Tel: 01282 412555


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Half day / KS1/2/3 / Design

Through hands-on activities discover the principles of weaving and how to recognise woven fabrics. Learn how patterns are created in fabric by using different weaving techniques.


What toys did Victorian children play with? Discover the difference between toys of rich and poor children and then try them out for yourselves!


Take a trip back to school with our Victorian school teacher. Become a half-timer in the mill and learn to say your tables and how to write properly using a slate and slate pencil.


What was life like for workers at Queen Street Mill? Explore the site to discover the conditions they worked in and find out about the jobs that children had to do. Examine the truly unique features of the mill and discover the ingenious way in which water is collected, stored and cycled.

Weaving

Victorian Playtime

Victorian Schoolroom


Visit our Victorian wardrobe and find out what it was like to dress as a mill worker. Then handle real objects from Victorian domestic working life.

Victorian Wardrobe and Object Handling

Mill Life

SPECIAL EVENTS WEEK

Weaving Words and Stories 24–26 March 2015

Using this unique museum and the mill workers as inspiration, create a poem and a piece of forum theatre, then take part in a role play activity.

£4.00 LCC pupil £4.50 non LCC pupil

CORE SESSION / We advise that teachers and pupils take part in the core session in order to fully experience the unique features of Queen Street Mill Textile Museum.

ADDITIONAL ACTIVITIES

Half day / KS2/3 / Numeracy


During this exciting two hour session, measurement, shape, data handling and arithmetic skills are all utilised

and developed. By applying their skills to ‘real-life’ challenges, pupils will realise that maths can be fun!

Half day / KS1/2 / Music/Literacy


This session has been developed in conjunction with Tracy Ensby, Barrowford School.

Find out about all the different parts that make up a Lancashire loom, what they sound like, how they move and then work together to become a human loom. Listen to the sounds of the working machinery and be inspired to create music and onomatopoeic poetry!

The Queen Street Mill Maths Challenge Sounds of the Mill

This session also includes the opportunity to see the remarkable Lancashire boiler and steam engine PEACE. (Please note: working demonstrations will only be available in the afternoon when the boiler is up to pressure).

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The Whitaker Museum at Rossendale is a 19th century building based in the heart of the beautiful Whitaker Park in Rawtenstall.

The Museum contains artefacts of local history and general interest, housed in a former Victorian mill owner’s residence, built in 1840. There is also a strong focus on visual arts and accessing and integrating the Park grounds.

Facilitating learning through the use of the collection and park environment are particular strengths. Bringing your curriculum to life with energy and professionalism, our staff can support different needs and abilities.

Through our partnership with Pennine Lancashire Museums and Schools we have worked with local teachers and are delighted to be able to offer two new learning sessions that tailor the needs of pupils with the wonderful collections we have on offer

FACILITIES


Coach drop off

Lunch facilities

Toilets

Linked loan boxes


Gift shop

Coach parking

The Whitaker Museum + Art Gallery

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Full day / KS1/S2 / Literacy / WW1


This session has been developed in conjunction with Natalie McNeil from Meadowhead Junior School, Blackburn.

This session will develop narrative story writing with a local history theme.

The amazing story of how a First World War bomb came to be at The Whitaker, brought there in a wheelbarrow, will be brought to life in the museum. A story hook will be sent to your school a week prior to your visit, then a full day spent in The Whitaker will explore characters, artefacts, events and historical facts from the First World War and children will have opportunities for writing the story in the museum.


Full day / KS2 / Art


This session has been developed in conjunction with Natalie McNeil from Meadowhead Junior School, Blackburn.

Come and develop mono printing techniques with your class and take home a ready made display for your school. Using sketch books in the Museum children will collect ideas from the Museum and the Park which will be developed through printmaking later in the day.

Mono Printing The Wheelbarrow and the Bomb

The Museum has an amazing natural history collection, including a tiger and python, elephant, polar bear, platypus and many birds. Many have been acquired from other museums around the country and the Tiger and Python dates back to around 1810.


Find out about George Hardman and his family who lived here until the end of the 19th Century and local man Richard Whitaker who turned the building into a museum and park for the people of Rossendale.

COST Each full day session costs £5 per pupil. Accompanying staff are free.

TO BOOK Call the Museum on 01706 218858 Email Jackie Taylor or Carl Bell at [email protected]

ADDRESS The Whitaker Museum + Art Gallery Whitaker Park, Haslingden Road, Rawtenstall, Rossendale BB4 6RE

Tel: 01706 218858

Website: thewhitaker.org

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This impressive house, once the home of the important Towneley family, has been Burnley’s Art Gallery and Museum for over 100 years.

Our sessions for schools have been developed in collaboration with local teachers and cover a wide range of topics drawing both on the Hall itself and the surrounding parkland.

Our staff know that all classes differ in their needs and abilities and are happy to tailor a session to your particular class.

Through our partnership with Pennine Lancashire Museums and Schools we are delighted to be able to offer two brand new learning sessions developed with local teachers that tailor the needs of pupils with the wonderful collections we have on offer.

Towneley houses a unique collection of treasures from around the world including outstanding paintings, Egyptian artefacts, a Peruvian mummy and ‘Bill the Bear’ a Himalayan mountain bear.

Find out about the Towneley Family who lived at Towneley Hall for over 500 years. The most famous member of the family was Charles Towneley who was a collector of Roman antiquities, and his collection is now housed by the British Museum in London.


FACILITIES Fully physically accessible

Coach Parking

Lunch facilities

Toilets


Gift Shop

COST Half day session £2.50 per pupil. Full day session £5.00 per pupil. Accompanying staff are free. Maximum group size is one class for each half day session. Self-guided visits are FREE but please contact the museum in advance.

TO BOOKCall Towneley Hall on 01282 477130 Email: [email protected]

ADDRESSTowneley Hall Towneley Park, Burnley BB11 3RQ

Tel: 01282 477130

Website: burnley.gov.uk/residents/towneley-hall

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Half day / KS2 / Art/History


This session has been developed in conjunction with Sarah Purtill from Belthorn Primary School.

This session explores the dangerous lives led by the family who lived in the Hall during Tudor times. The children get to see the Priest Hole and quiz a priest who is on the run from Queen Elizabeth’s pursuivants!



This session has been developed in conjunction with Sarah Parker,

Longshaw Infants School and local artist Cath Ford. It encourages the children to study Towneley’s paintings and learn to creatively look at and describe paintings.


The many sculptures inside the Hall and the woodland sculpture trail outside it, allow your class a whole day of activities, exploring the Hall and its woodland.


The children explore the Hall comparing and contrasting the old house and its contents with their own homes.


The children use objects from the collection to find out us about the lives of everyday people from ancient Egypt and then they get to mummify one of their classmates!

Half day / KS1/KS2 / Science/Geography

Taking a look at the life that fills the ponds around the Hall. The children get to capture and identify animals as well as learn about their life-cycles.

Half day / KS1 / Science/Geography

Find out about the invertebrates and small animals living in the different habitats in the park and have a go with ‘Beating Trays’ to collect mini-beasts from the trees.


The children get to explore the Victorian parts of the Hall, especially the kitchen, and to handle original objects from the period.


Explore the ecology of the surrounding woodland; learn about the life cycles of the animals, their food chains and the importance of green plants and fungi.


Using the River Calder, the children are introduced to river systems, have a go at ‘Kick Sampling’ and learn about the animals that make the river their home.


These explore the same ideas as Habitat Studies but with younger children who get to study the structure of the wood and look at where the animals live.


The children find themselves looking at toys from the past such as a dolls’ house and money box before taking part in a role playing activity with the toys.


The children will discover the impact of WW2 on the people of Burnley. The children will have the opportunity to handle a selection of objects and meet Barry Marshall, who was a child of nine when the war started.

Sculpture Trail

Houses and Homes

Life in Ancient Egypt

Pond Dipping

Mini-beast Safaris

The Victorians at Towneley Hall

Habitat Studies

River Studies

Woodland Walks

Toys and Games

WW2 Home Front

The Tudors at Towneley Hall Looking at Art

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Pennine Lancashire Museums and Schools 2014/15Turton Tower

Built as a stone tower in the 1400s, this ancient house was a family home for 500 years.

A visit here will give your pupils an insight into how those people lived their lives, long ago. We offer a range of activities for school groups, which use both the house and its garden.

Our staff know that all classes differ in their needs and abilities and are happy to tailor a session to your particular class, please just call us.

FACILITIES

Coach Parking

Lunch facilities

Toilets


Linked loan boxes

Gift Shop

Today Turton Tower still captures the spirit of the Tudor and Victorian ages and displays one of the finest collections of period furniture and paintings in the region. Many items are on display from the Victoria & Albert Museum in London.


Turton Tower evolved from being a simple stone tower house into an impressive and comfortable residence owned by the Orrell family, Humphrey Chetham and the Kay family who transformed it into a romantic Gothic building.

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Full day / KS2 / History

Your pupils get to tour the house with two of our costumed interpreters; looking at the different lives lived by the rich and the poor. The children will be able to handle replica objects from the period and after lunch they get to learn a Tudor dance!

15-17 December 2014 Half day / KS1

Our experienced costumed interpreters will lead your children in an exploration of the kinds of activities which a Victorian child would have

taken part in during the festive season before meeting a Victorian Father Christmas!

£4.00 per pupil

8-12 June 2015 Half day / KS2

Our experienced costumed interpreters will use the Tower and its grounds to lead your children in an exploration of four different

aspects of life in Tudor times.

The sessions are ‘hands on’ and the children will have the opportunity to take part in a range of different activities.

£4.00 per pupil

Meet the Tudors

Victorian Christmas Tudor Week

Full day / KS1 / History

The house was a family home for some 500 years and the children get to compare and contrast what life was like then with their own homes. Ancient loos, four poster beds and a studded front door all help to show the ways in which homes have changed.

Homes from the Past

COST Each full day session costs £5 per pupil. Accompanying staff are free. Maximum group size is one class plus adults.

TO BOOK Call the Tower on 01204 852203 Email: [email protected]

ADDRESS Turton Tower Chapeltown Road,Turton, Bolton BL7 0HG

Tel: 01204 852203

Website: visitblackburn.co.uk/attractions/turton-tower

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Special Events Weeks

Date Venue and contact Event Key Stage7–9 October 2014 Blackburn Museum and Art

Gallery – 01254 667 130Meet the Victorians – Experience Victorian life at school and in a mill.

KS1/KS2

20–24 October 2014 Gawthorpe Hall – 01282 771004 Tudor Week

11–12 November 2014 Clitheroe Castle Museum – 01200 424568

Remembrance Event – Commemorate WW1 through interactive activities including literacy and storytelling.

KS2

8–12 December 2014 Gawthorpe Hall – 01282 771004 Victorian Christmas – Traditional games, pastimes and Father Christmas.

KS1/Lower KS2

15–17 December 2014

Turton Tower – 01204 852203 Victorian Christmas – Traditional games, pastimes and Father Christmas.

KS1/Lower KS2

9–11 March 2015 16–18 March 2015

Helmshore Mills Textile Museum – 01706 226459

Science and Engineering – Take part in challenges and meet local hero character Richard Arkwright.

KS1/2/3

24–26 March 2015 Queen Street Mill Textile Museum – 01282 412555

Weaving Words and Stories Poetry, theatre and role play activities.

11–15 May 2015 Clitheroe Castle Museum - 01200 424568

Dark Age Britain (life under the Vikings and Saxons) – Experience life during the Dark Ages with Saxon storyteller and coin making.

KS1/KS2

8–12 June 2015 Gawthorpe Hall – 01282 771004 Shakespeare Week KS2

8–12 June 2015 Turton Tower - 01204 852203 Tudor Week – Hand on workshops around the themes of Tudor weaponry, buildings and domestic life.

KS2

24 June–2 July 2015

Clitheroe Castle Museum – 01200 424568

Castles and Castle Life – Handle arms and armour, play medieval games and try out medieval style cooking!

KS1/KS2/Lower KS3

Special Events Weeks are a great way to give pupils and teachers the opportunity to immerse themselves in stimulating, hands–on activities in breath-taking historical settings.

“Thank you very much. The pupils had a superb afternoon… students gained a good understanding of the Civil War in their local area.”Miss H. Loxston, Longridge High School

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“The activities the children took part in at Turton Tower were stimulating, fun and really brought Tudor England to life”. Anne Chadwick, St Stephen’s CE Primary School, Burnley

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We Visit YouPennine Lancashire Museums like to be as flexible as possible when it comes to bringing the curriculum to life for your pupils.

We recognise that sometimes it is more appropriate for our staff to come into school to deliver a session in your classroom. Our aim is to really bring the subject to life, getting your pupils all ‘fired up’ about a new topic or revising and reinforcing a topic that they’ve just finished.

For more information about our range of outreach sessions, contact Gill Brailey (01772 534090) or Stephen Irwin (01254 667130)

Each session offers the chance to handle and use genuine artefacts and replica objects. Some of our outreach sessions are delivered in costume – you could rent a Tommy for the day, or a Roman, or a Victorian schoolteacher…

Cost: £95 half day, £150 a full day

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Loan Boxes

Our loan boxes are a great way of bringing a little bit of the museum into your classroom. The boxes contain a wide range of historical artefacts, replica objects and useful resources and can be used to inspire a range of classroom activities which deliver desired learning outcomes with enjoyment and fun.

The objects may be handled by the children or used for a classroom display. There is nothing like the real thing to convey to a child how heavy a steel helmet is or for the texture of an ancient Egyptian pot.

For more information on loan boxes from LCC please contact:

Carole Marsh on 01772 534067.Email: [email protected]

Charges apply for loan boxes but vary depending on the provider and number of loans. Full details are available from the contacts above.

For more information on loan boxes from

Blackburn Museum and Art Gallery please contact:

Suzanne Cunliffe on 01254 667130 Email: [email protected]

“Our students really enjoyed using the Norman clothing and armour - it inspired them to have a go at making their own swords, shields and papermache helmets.”

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Arts Award


This is a great way for children and young people to be inspired by and enjoy the arts whilst achieving nationally recognised introductory and accredited awards. Did you know that your children can complete the key sections of their Arts Awards by working with Pennine Lancashire’s Museums? By taking part in a museum visit, children can discover rich cultural heritage from art and craft to sculpture, architecture and design.

In an innovative approach to the Discover and Explore Arts Award Levels, Pennine Lancashire Museums have produced bespoke log-books. These are a great way for children to collect evidence of their Arts Award journey both during their visit and back at school.

We hope you are inspired to help your children achieve Arts Awards. If so, please contact Steph Hawke at Curious Minds [email protected] and take a look at the Arts Award website www.artsaward.org.uk

As the North West Bridge Organisation, Curious Minds works with Arts Council England to connect children and young people with great art and culture. We are pleased to be working in partnership on the Pennine Lancashire Museums and Schools Programme.

Arts Award is managed by Trinity College London in association with Arts Council England working with Curious Minds.

Arts Award is all about encouraging and inspiring children and young people up to age 25 to find out about art and culture, take part in creative activities and share their learning.

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Learning with Pennine Lancashire Museums Online

From 1st September 2014 you can visit

learningwithplm.org.uk where you can view this brochure and make enquiries via our online form. There will be teachers’ case studies, details about new learning sessions, news about teachers’ events, venue information, newsletters and updates on the Pennine Lancashire Museums and Schools Programme and our partners.

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Contact Us


Simply phone the museum or gallery you’d like to visit, tell them you’d like to make a school booking and they’ll do the rest!

VENUE CONTACT PHONE NUMBER

Blackburn Museum and Art Gallery Suzanne Cunliffe 01254 667130

Clitheroe Castle Museum Jackie Villers 01200 424568

Gawthorpe Textiles Collection at Gawthorpe Hall Deborah Lambert 01282 77100

Haworth Art Gallery Yvonne Robins 01254 233782

Helmshore Mills Textile Museum Suzanne Rothwell 01706 226459

Queen Street Mill Textile Museum Stephen Barnes 01282 412555

The Whitaker Museum + Art Gallery Carl Bell 01706 218858

Towneley Hall Art Gallery, Museum and Park Mike Townend 01282 477130

Turton Tower Ally Hodgson 01204 852203

Blackburn Museum and Art Gallery

Haworth Art Gallery

The Whitaker Museum + Art Gallery

Clitheroe Castle Museum

Helmshore Mills Textile Museum

Towneley Hall Art Gallery, Museum and Park

Gawthorpe Textiles Collection at

Gawthorpe Hall

Queen Street Mill Textile Museum

Turton Tower

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