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Our Learning Resources have been adapted from sessions we usually deliver at Burghley. They focus on historical periods and topics directly linked to Burghley’s past. They can be used at school or at home and we hope will encourage you to find out more by visiting Burghley when the time is right.
Come to Burghley House, built by William Cecil, Queen Elizabeth’s Lord High Treasurer to learn all about life in Tudor England. A Tudor Day at Burghley is designed to be a full or half day experience. Through house tours and a series of workshops a visit to Burghley will teach your pupils about William Cecil and his connection to Queen Elizabeth, however, you will also learn all about Tudor life both locally and nationally in a fun and informative way.
Depending on the needs of your group your day will be formed from a series of workshops. Workshops can include:
Come to learn about the Victorians at Burghley House. Queen Victoria visited Burghley House twice, once as a little girl and once when she was queen. Through a combination of house tours and workshops we will learn about Burghley House in the Victorian times through the eyes of the servants who worked in the house and the family who lived there. Depending on the needs of your pupils we can focus on either the servants at Burghley House in the Victorian times or Victorian Childhood. Contact us to ask about how the workshops fit together to form your day. We can also provide a Victorian Christmas Day.
Workshops can include:
A general visit to learn about the history of Burghley House. We will visit both the Kitchen and state rooms to learn about how they were used in the past. This workshop can be modified to suit the subject matter your pupils might be studying, for example: art, portraiture, mythology, life in the past compared to the present and so on. It can be paired with one or more of our other workshops to create a full day visit. Speak to a member of the education team for advice over which other workshops will suit your topic.
Our World needs green plants! The children will learn about conservation and caring for plants. We look at the different parts of a plant, how they feed and reproduce. The importance of plants within food chains is stressed in the ecology of the living world. Dissect a flower and take leaf prints. The children will explore the life cycle of plants and learn some aspects of identification so they can explore the gardens with new eyes. This workshop can be paired with a self guided garden visit, one of our self guided activities, or another one or two workshops to create a full day visit. Contact us for more details.
Contact us to ask about how the workshops fit together to form your day, some of the options below can pair nicely with Green Plants :-
Explore the exciting world of the Mini-Beast. Children are introduced to the miniature life which lives all around them. They will learn about aspects of Conservation, Food Chains, Producers, Consumers, and Predators, the different parts of insect’s bodies and something of the identification of species. Using our thirteen acre Sculpture Garden as a living resource the children will take a great deal from the day and learn much about the science and life of this tiny world. This workshop can be paired with a self guided garden visit, one of our self guided activities, or another one or two workshops to create a full day visit.
In Partnership with The Royal Forestry Society, the largest and oldest educational charity dedicated to promoting the wise management of woods across England, Wales and Northern Ireland. The “Teaching Trees” programme works with primary schools and landowners, offering educational visits to local woodlands. All sessions are run by the local RFS Teaching Trees Education officer.
In this Session pupils will use the beautiful, natural environment of Burghley Gardens as their inspiration to create a wire sculpture based the form of a dragonfly. Children will learn to manipulate different types of wire using appropriate tools to produce a colourful small sculpture. Each child will have a wire dragonfly to take back to school.
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