YEAR GROUP OVERVIEW
PROVIDERS: Various
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Year
Group
Topic Title
Subject
Focus
1
Splendid
Skies
Science
Suggested
Memorable
Experience
Nature walk
Provider Possibilities
Kirkleatham Hall outdoor:
Engage: Nature’s Treasure’s walk
Develop: Windy day experience
Guisborough Forest:
Engage: Nature walk in woodland looking at seasonal features
Develop: windy day experience: kite making
Acorn Antics:
Engage: Nature’s treasures walk, investigating flora and fauna and the effects of
the seasons
Develop: Windy day experience: make kites and anemometer (school based
workshop)
Saltholme:
Memorable experience: Nature walk, including pond dipping
Life Centre, Newcastle:
Develop: Seasons and weather and the movement of the sun
1
Dinosaur
Planet
History
Museum Visit/
Dinosaur
Hunt/Dinosaur
Man
Dorman Museum:
Engage or Develop: Interactive workshop and loan box available, featuring
artefacts and handling experiences
Acorn Antics:
Engage: Dinosaur hunt, looking for eggs. Create miniature dinosaur world.
Develop: Search for plants that lived in the age of dinosaurs
Cleveland Ironstone Museum:
Engage: Visit to the beach, collecting fossils. Fossil footprints and claywork.
Develop: Investigating fossils in detail
Life Centre Newcastle:
Develop: Fantastic fossils: be a palaeontologist, create a dinosaur
Hancock Museum, Newcastle:
Engage: exhibition and workshop (recommended by Mbro school)
1
Rio da Vida
Music
Carnival Day
Tees Valley Music:
Memorable experience: Brazilian carnival workshop Develop: Listen to the music
of Brazil and see how many instruments they can hear. Percussion instrument
workshop Innovate: Compose class samba celebration
1
Enchanted
Woodland
Science
Visit to a
woodland
environment
Acorn Antics:
Engage: Woodland walk, collecting specimens. Woodland fantasy experience.
Develop: Tree study and tree boggart. Nests for woodland animals.
Cleveland Ironstone Museum:
Engage: Explore woodland environment through the life of a bird. Look at trees
and birds in detail.
Develop: Investigate wild flowers in the environment
Kirkleatham outdoor:
Engage: Investigate trees, recognise leaves. Flora and fauna in woodland.
Observations and collections
Develop: Woodland animals and plants
Life Centre Newcastle:
Develop: Parts of plants and seed dispersal
Dorman Museum:
Engage: introduction to forests, trees and animals (combine with visit to
Guisbrough Forest Walkway?)
Stewart Park:
Engage: Woodland walk and collection of specimens
North York Moors Bird of Prey:
Engage: Woodland birds of prey: holding birds and flying demonstrations in school
North York Moors Centre, Danby:
Engage: Woodland walk, identifying trees, plants and wildlife
Stokeld Forest, Wetherby:
Engage: Woodland experience (recommended by Mbro school)
Valley Gardens, Saltburn:
Engage: Woodland experience (recommended by Mbro schools)
1
Paws Claws
and
Whiskers
Art and
Design
Visit a zoo,
Wildlife Centre
or sanctuary,
visit from a vet
Dorman Museum:
Workshop: using a collection of animals, workshop on caring for animals and
identification. Examine cat skeleton and learn about cats.
Kirkleatham Hall outdoor:
Develop: Investigate variety of animal species. Investigate butterflies. Look at
tigers in detail. Make collage in animal prints.
Guisborough Forest:
Develop: Look at variety of animal species and habitats. Focus on butterflies
Flamingoland
Engage:
Acorn Antics:
Develop: Animal movement and dance session (school based workshop). Printing
and collage using animal prints. Big cat sculptures
Stewart Park:
Engage: Looking at variety of animal species and talking to rangers about their
care
Life Centre Newcastle:
Develop: Minibeasts and me (investigating minibeasts and characteristics of living
things)
North York Birds of Prey:
Engage and Develop: Handling a variety of birds, flying demonstration
Monk Park Farm:
Engage: Range of domestic and non domestic animals
River Tees Rediscovered, Tees Barrage:
Engage and Develop: Wildlife walk looking at minibeasts and river creatures
1
Memory
Box
History
Teddy Bear’s
Picnic/Artefacts
from the past
Dorman Museum:
In development: practical workshop making own memory box
Acorn Antics:
Engage: Making celebration cards (school based)
Museum of Hartlepool:
Develop stage: Workshop using artefacts from the past. Loan box: Toys from the
past
Preston Park Museum:
Using artefacts from the past to make a memory box
1
Superheroes PE
Superheroes
Hunt
Captain Cook Museum:
Develop: Find out about the life of a local hero such as Captain Cook.
Acorn Antics:
Engage: Superhero rescue! (School based workshop)
Develop: PE activities eg create battle, play “superman says”
Use Crazy Talk (version 7) to send a message to the children in the role of a
superhero!
1
1
Bright
Lights, Big
City
Moon Zoom
Geography
Tea party with
the Queen
Newby Hall
Engage: Visit to “palace”. Recommended by Mbro school
Design and
Technology
Alien crash
scene
investigation
PERCY Scrapstore:
Engage, Develop, Innovate and Express:
loads of scrap materials for use throughout the topic
PROVIDER DETAILS:
Dorman Museum: Linthorpe Rd, Middlesbrough TS5 6LA Telephone: 01642 358102/01642 358108 E mail: susan_sedgwick@middlesbrough.gov.uk
Captain Cook Birthplace Museum, Stewart Park, Middlesbrough TS7 8AT Telephone: 01642 311211 or 01642 515656 E mail:
jenny_phillips@middlesbrough.gov.uk
Acorn Antics (based at Guisborough Forest, Aireyholme Farm and Burn Wood, Yarm. Telephone: 07857 408470 E mail: acornantics@hotmail.co.uk
Cleveland Ironstone Museum, Deepdale, Skinngrove TS13 4AP Telephone: 01287 642877 E mail: jean@ironstonemuseum.co.uk
Guisborough Forest Walkway, Pinchinthorpe, Guisborough TS14 8HD Telephone: 01287 631132 E mail: neil_thirkell@redcar-cleveland.gov.uk
Museum of Hartlepool, Maritime Ave, Hartlepool TS24 0XZ: Telephone: 01429523483 or 01429 860077 E mail: jo-anne.cole@hartlepool.gov.uk
Kirkleatham Hall Museum (outdoor): Kirkleatham Hall, TS10 5NW Telephone: 01642 496400 E mail: liz-vine@redcar-cleveland.gov.uk
Saltholme Bird Sanctuary Seal Sands, Billingham TS2 1TU: Telephone: 01642 542077 or 01642 546625 E mail: susan.mcginty@rspb.org.uk
Stewart’s Park, The Grove, Middlesbrough TS7 8AR: Telephone: 01642 300202 E mail: francine_marshall@middlesbrough.gov.uk
Tees Valley Music Service, North Shore Academy, Stockton: Telephone: 01642 603600 E mail: TVMS.org.uk
Life Centre Newcastle: Telephone: 0191 2438223 E mail: education@life.org.uk
Preston Park Museum, Stockton TS 18 3RH: On line booking at www.prestonparkmuseum.co.uk
North York Moors Birds of Prey: Mike Kinder and Mark Allen E mail: allen.mark1968@gmail.com
Monk Park Farm, Bagby, North Yorkshire Y07 2AG: Telephone: 01845 597730 E mail: enquiries@monk park farm.co.uk
North Yorks Centre, Danby. Lodge Lane , Danby, YO21 2NB Telephone 01439 772737 (Free entry)
River Tees Rediscovered, Tees Barrage, Navigation Way, Stockton Telephone: 01642 616144
PERCY Scrapstore, C2 Commerce Way, Middlesbrough TS6 6UR; Telephone: 01642 456905 Open Tuesday and Wednesday, 10am – 4pm, Thursday 10am –
6pm