Activity Sessions For 2001!


Activity sessions can accomodate up to 30 pupils in a 40 minute session. They involve groups actively in doing, making or building using historic techniques. Sessions are run either on site or in our teaching room and use models, slides, historic objects and materials to recreate the past.

Special Offers!

"Tudor Builder Experience!"
(KS2/3) Find out what it was like to build a house in Tudor times. A 2 hour session combining 3 of our most popular Activity Sessions; Tudor Homes, Wattle & Daub and Timber Framer all for the price of two! Special Price = £40 (Limited seasonal availability, please enquire on booking).

Buy one get one half price!

Book any session in November and choose another for half price

Brickmaking & Bonding

This one hour session combines brickmaking with a section on bricklaying & bonding! Special price £ 27.50

Membership Scheme:
Do you want to come back? If you pay one and a half times your initial visit fee, you can register to become a member of the Museum. This entitles your school to make unlimited trips to Avoncroft for the 2001 season! (this scheme does not include the cost of sessions) Phone the Museum for details.

 

New For 2001!

  • Children's Play Area
  • Interactive CD - Roms.
  • Numeracy box.
  • Sessions directly linked to the new history Scheme of Work.
  • Wildlife Pond
Key Stage 1
  • The Three Little Pigs (explore building materials through storytelling)
  • Little Red Hen (how to grow and harvest wheat)
  • Mouse in the Medieval House (explore a medieval house to find clues and finish a rhyme)
  • Bricks and Brickmaking (making hand made bricks)
  • Homes a long time ago (explore homes from Tudor times to the 1940's)

Key Stage 2

  • Building Materials and Structures (uses of different materials in historic building)
  • Homes through the Ages (how homes have changed across time)
  • Tudor Homes (how to build and live in a Tudor house - see special offer!)
  • Tudor Homes (How to build and live in a Tudor house see special offers)
  • Child in the 1940's (daily life in a Prefab and a mystery 1940's object quiz!)
  • Bricks and Brickmaking (make your own genuine hand-made brick)
  • Bricklaying (hands-on bricklaying and bonding

Key Stage 2/3

  • Wattle & Daub (find out how to make a Wattle and Daub panel)
  • Timber Framer (learn about joints and build a timber framed house!)