Heritage Learning & Outreach
Bespoke workshops, projects and activities for museum learning, heritage organisations, schools and community groups to support your learning outcomes and topics.
Example project
Trinity House Maritime Museum
For over 12 years we ran the Learning, Community and Outreach programme for Trinity House Leith Maritime Museum .
Our work there has included:
- Interactive site tours for schools, learning groups and the public, incorporating object handling, trails, treasure hunts and activities
- Managing events and running activities for the public as part of Doors Open Days and Leith Festival
- Instigated Hidden Histories research and delivered tours and schools workshops exploring Leith’s Black History, maritime women and LGBTQ+ history
- Developing a close working relationship with Leith Primary School to support their learning needs and run a Junior Tour Guide program and a Junior Outreach Guide program
- Creating a community collage, based on historical and contemporary images and stories.
- Offering a storytelling outreach visit to all early learning centres and nurseries on a maritime theme where the children sit in comfort and explore our storytelling carpet
- Supporting children and young people with Additional Support Needs to visit the site, take part in drama and object handling, help design and decorate our storytelling carpet and to paint our boat shaped outdoor planters
- Running themed family events e.g Halloween tours and Christmas storytelling
- Working with training providers to give those preparing for the world of work an experience of the heritage sector and activities to develop creativity, customer care and communication skills
Example project
Stanley Mills
Character led workshops for schools and learning groups on site at Stanley Mills in Perthshire for Historic Environment Scotland.
Child Workers workshop
The children were welcomed to the site by Janet Scott, a mill worker from 1838 and put into role and costume as child workers of the period. The children spent half a day on site, including taking lunch ‘in period’, learning how children in the past would spend their day working in the mill.
Mill inspectors workshop
Mill Inspectors workshop for S1/2 pupils where the children were invited to the year 1835 to investigate life at the Mill in role as Inspectors for Parliament and then to debate the improvements that should or should not be made.
National Trust for Scotland (NTS) – Newhailes House and The Georgian House
Incorporating heritage learning and drama education, working in partnership with NTS and a local High School to create a performance with S5 and 6 Advanced Higher Drama students at these NTS sites.
Supported pupils with research and learning and mentored their writing, directing and production. The young people were then enabled to stage a full performance on site in front of a live audience as part of their SQA assessment.
Other projects
Canaletto Workshops – Queens Gallery at Holy Rood Palace
Historic Environment Scotland – Bishops Earls Palaces – Exploring the site
pARTicipate with National Trust for Scotland
If you have an idea for a project or would like to ask a question, then please get in touch.