Junior Tour Guides

Training children and young people to be tour guides for other learners.

Live onsite, online and on film.

Award-winning

In the award-winning Junior Tour Guide project children and young people learn how to guide and present tours to other learners.

We also run projects where young people learn how to lead object handling sessions, activities and games as well as outreach presentations to groups unable to physically access a site.

Huntly Castle

Doune Castle

Why invest in a Junior Tour Guide project

Trinity House Maritime Museum

There are significant long-term benefits both to the site and to the children participating including

Increased confidence, communication and presentation skills, team work and self-esteem – valuable Developing the Young Workforce skills
Local community participation at a heritage site/museum over a long term creating a meaningful partnership for sites with children, schools and families
Can inspire a lifelong commitment to and interest in heritage and conservation

Enhances and supports curriculum
Attractive offer to other schools to visit the Junior Tour Guides
A unique learning experience – child led learning, engaging with peers
Sandford Heritage Education Award winning program and highly praised in HMIE Inspections
Easily adapts to become an online and/or film making experience
Roles are found for all children to be included regardless of ability and/or interests

Scottish Seabird Centre

Doune Castle

Passion and process

How we approach each project

Our aim

Our aim is to immerse the trainee Junior Tour Guides with such a passion and interest in their local site that they want to share it with others and protect it for the future.

How we achieve this

We do this by introducing children to the site, supporting school staff to set up classroom topic learning and providing training and rehearsals to nurture each child’s confidence and presentation skills.

The finished results

Children usually present in costume and character. They provide an interactive experience for the audience with activities like object handling, drama and quizzes built into the tour.

This Historic Environment Scotland documentary gives you an insight to the journey and benfits to participating in a Junior Tour Guide project.