All our education sessions for 4 to 6 year olds are delivered by a costumed interpreter. They are designed to support a range of subjects across the National Curriculum.

All sessions are devised for classes up to a maximum of 30 children.

Meet the Family (Standard Tour)

Pupils will discover how a family and their servants lived at Barley Hall in the late fifteenth century, where they ate, slept and worked, and have an insight into lives through role-play. Comparisons will be made between modern homes and homes of this period. Materials used to build the Barley Hall will also be discussed in this session.

Curriculum Links

• Citizenship Unit 1: Taking part - developing skills of communication and participation
• En1: Speaking and Listening
• History Unit 2: What were homes like a long time ago?
• Design and Technology Unit 1D: Homes

Toys and Games (Workshop)

This workshop allows pupils to find out what games and toys were played with by Tudor children and try them themselves. The empahasis of this session is on having a go and to look at why some toys are different today. It is led by a costumed host.

Curriculum links

• Art and Design Unit 1B: Investigating materials
• Citizenship Unit 1: Taking part - developing skills of communication and participation
• En1 Speaking and Listening
• History Unit 1 Section 1: How are our toys different from those in the past?
• ICT Unit 1D: Labelling and classifying
• Science Unit 1C: sorting and using materials