Education
Education
The Nelson Museum offers excellent educational provision to schools, youth or adult groups and home-educated children via the following means:
- Dedicated Learning and Access Officer. Rhiannon O'Halloran-Waddell is skilled in delivering both formal and informal education and outreach sessions to children and life long learners.
- Visits to the museum. These can be of a duration to suit you; typically 45 minutes to one hour for KS1 children or one to two hours for older children. Visits of up to six hours have been successful, but exhausting! The museum has four galleries and an outdoor Maritime Courtyard.
- A CD-based Education Pack. Our fantastic education pack CD is divided into four main themes of Life on Board, Food on Board, Costume and Navigation. Each theme then has images, explanations, a role-play, sailors' eyewitness descriptions and lesson suggestions. As it comprises an enormous collection of information and images, the CD can be used for any learning purpose as it is not restricted to the National Curriculum. In addition to the four main sections, it has Nelson and Emma chronologies, Nelson's battle information sheets, end-of-term games, museum visiting information and a host of other articles and information sheets. The CD costs £10 and purchase of it entitles you to use of the Loan Boxes.
- Loan Boxes. These are based on four main themes of Life on Board, Food on Board, Costume and Navigation. Each box contains relevant articles for your group to examine and handle. They also contain 2d images, copies of papers and documents and relevant books for you to read if you wish. The boxes are available two at a time for three weeks each and, due to high demand, must be booked well in advance. As we are an independent museum and not part of Norfolk Museums and Archaeology Service, group leaders find it easiest to pick them up when they come to look round the museum prior to a visit and then to return them on the day of the visit.
- Education/Activity sessions. Tailored to suit your visit and the requirements of your group. Contact the Learning and Access Officer Rhiannon O'Halloran Waddell to make arrangements. Sessions range from simple object handling and guided tours to in-depth workshops about Nelson as a tactician, strategist and local hero.
- Outreach Sessions. If you can't visit the museum we'll bring the museum to you! Contact Rhiannon for further details.
- Worksheet. We offer a sheet based on the museum's Naval Room which is aimed at 5-8 year olds and can be printed off from the Education Pack or purchased at reception.
Comments on our education provision:
"I found your education pack to be a wonderful resource. It provided a wide range of materials, which I was able to use either directly from the pack or adapt accordingly to suit my class. The loan boxes were also a valuable resource as they allowed the children to have direct contact with artefacts they had never seen before. Using the two resources together, I was able to deliver three very exciting, investigative lessons, which really helped to broaden and stimulate the children's learning." Jacquie Flunder, Teacher at Garrick Green Infant School, Norwich
"I'd like to congratulate you on your education CD and say how impressed I am with its content. It will play a big part in teaching the children of my school the story of Nelson and the era he lived in." Darren Anderson, Teacher in Letchworth, Hertfordshire
"Thank you for our lovely visit to the museum. We really enjoyed our day with you. Our teachers thought that the museum was packed with interesting information, and we could come again and find things we hadn't noticed the first time!" Class 4, Ditchingham Primary School, Suffolk
"I am writing on behalf of the whole entire Year 6 to you to say a very big thank you for...our museum visit. We thoroughly enjoyed the experience and every little detail was perfect in my opinion so keep up these standards of excellence!" Thomas Holmes on behalf of 6W, Costessey Junior School, Norwich
