YEAR GROUP OVERVIEW
PROVIDERS: Various
Please note that providers in red type have NOT been informed of Cornerstones ILP’s. Those in black type are aware of requirements.
Year
Group
3
Topic Title
Subject
Focus
Suggested
Memorable
Experience
Scrumdiddlyumptious! Design and Visit to
Technology supermarket or
local shop
Provider Possibilities
Acorn Antics:
Engage: Take part in an outdoor cooking experience
Develop: Baking activities
Captain Cook Birthplace:
Develop: Dragon’s Den workshop links with James Lind and prevention
of scurvy. Tasting fruits from around the world. Workshop making
smoothies
MIMA:
Engage: Observational drawings of food
Develop: Clay work; Design packaging
3
Mighty Metals
Science
Visit a local
playground
Guisborough Forest:
Engage: Visit play area and investigate the way equipment moves
Acorn Antics:
Engage: Visit a local woodland playground and investigate forces
Cleveland Ironstone Museum:
Engage: Forces workshop
Develop: Magnets, including Faraday. Sources of iron.
MIMA:
Develop/Express:
Design and make with metal
Life Centre Newcastle:
Develop: Magnetism workshop, Friction workshop, Materials, Metals
and Armour workshop
Preston Park Museum:
Develop: Workshop available
3
Flow
Geography
Visit local stream
or river
Dorman Museum: workshop available (combine with a visit to High
Force?) looking at River Tees and its fauna.
Acorn Antics:
Engage: Visit local stream or river and measure flow etc
Develop: Construct bridges across water
Cleveland Ironstone Museum:
Engage: Stream visit. Using maps. Collecting soil and water samples.
Investigating flow.
Develop: River formation. Play “Cross the River”
Guisborough Forest:
Engage: Follow the stream. Pond dip, collect minibeasts, collect soil
and water samples
Develop: Work outdoors using natural materials. Cross the river and
look at aquatic plants
Preston Park Museum:
Engage: Using the River Tees in park
3
Gods and Mortals
History
Meet Zeus
3
Tremors
Geography
Visit seashore,
rocky outcrop or
river bed
River Tees Rediscovered:
Engage and Develop: Walk along the River Tees, looking at features,
flora and fauna
Museum of Hartlepool:
Loan box available
Cleveland Ironstone Museum:
Engage: Beach visit, fossil hunt, rock formation and mine visit
Develop: Earthquake workshop (including William Smith)
Life Centre, Newcastle:
Engage and develop: Rocks and soil (Be a geologist!) Fantastic Fossils
workshop
3
Urban Pioneers
Art and
Design
Visit to town on
the bus or train
Dorman Museum: in development
Teesside Archives:
Engage: Central Mbro tour looking at buildings, statues etc
Develop: Use historical source materials to investigate how Mbro has
developed, and research some of the people alive in the past
Innovate: Look at work from local artist McKenzie Thorpe and create
in his style
Preston Park Museum:
Develop: Local history workshop and tour
3
Heroes and Villains
Music
Meet Cruella de
Ville
3
Tribal Tales
History
Visit a prehistoric
site
River Tees Rediscovered, Tees Barrage:
Engage and Develop: Local History along the River Tees
Captain Cook Museum:
Develop: Captain Cook as a local hero
Cleveland Ironstone Museum:
Engage and Develop: Investigate the Iron Age and Stone Age, including art,
mining, cave painting, battles, pottery, storytelling and meet an archaeologist
Preston Park Museum:
Develop: Workshop
3
Predator!
Science
Animal experience
eg bird sanctuary
Dorman Museum: in development
Guisborough Forest:
Develop: investigate birds of prey
Cleveland Ironstone Museum:
Engage: Aquatic predators and minibeasts
Life Centre, Newcastle: ????
South Lakes Safari Park
North York Moors Bird of Prey Centre: Handling and flying various birds of
prey in school
Falconry Days: Handling and flying various birds of prey either in
school or at centre
PROVIDER DETAILS:
Dorman Museum: Linthorpe Rd, Middlesbrough TS5 6LA Telephone: 01642 358102/01642 358108 E mail: susan_sedgwick@middlesbrough.gov.uk
Teesside Archives: Exchange Square Middlesbrough TS1 1DB Telephone: 01642 248321 E mail: teesside_archives@middlesbrough.gov.uk
Acorn Antics (based at Guisborough Forest, Aireyholme Farm and Burn Wood, Yarm. Telephone: 07857 408470 E mail: acornantics@hotmail.co.uk
Captain Cook Birthplace Museum, Stewart Park, Middlesbrough TS7 8AT Telephone: 01642 311211 or 01642 515656 E mail:
jenny_phillips@middlesbrough.gov.uk
MIMA: Centre Square, Middlesbrough TS1 2AZ Telephone: 01642 738814 erin.rolfe@tees.ac.uk
Guisbrough Forest: Pinchinthorpe, Guisborough Telephone: 01287 631132 neil.thirkell@redcar-cleveland.gov.uk (Guisborough) paul.murphy@redcarcleveland.gov.uk (Kirkleatham) jonathan.green@redcar-cleveland.gov.uk (Flatts Lane)
Cleveland Ironstone Museum, Deepdale, Skinngrove TS13 4AP Telephone: 01287 642877 E mail: jean@ironstonemuseum.co.uk
Museum of Hartlepool, Maritime Ave, Hartlepool TS24 0XZ: Telephone: 01429523483 or 01429 860077 E mail: jo-anne.cole@hartlepool.gov.uk
Life Centre Newcastle: Telephone: 0191 2438223 E mail: education@life.org.uk
South Lakes Safari Park, Dalton in Furness, Cumbria: on line booking at southlakessafarizoo.com
Preston Park Museum, Stockton TS 18 3RH: On line booking at www.prestonparkmuseum.co.uk
Falconry Days, Lady Hill Farm, Simonburn, Hexham NE48 3EE: Telephone 01434 689 681 E mail: info@falconrydays.com
North York Moors Birds of Prey: Mike Kinder and Mark Allen E mail: allen.mark1968@gmail.com
River Tees Rediscovered, Tees Barrage, Navigation Way, Stockton Telephone: 01642 616144