Key Stage Three
*New* Dodging the Law: the case of the Artful Dodger
Visit the Charles Dickens Museum and the National Justice Museum team at the Royal Courts of Justice for an immersive, cross-site study day. Students will learn all about Victorian life, crime and punishment, and enact a mock trial in a real, working courtroom. Teachers will also leave with a post-visit resource where students will debate the future of capital punishment in the Victorian era.
Ghosts
The mischievous Marley’s Ghost has trapped Scrooge’s heart deep inside a locked box! Can you help restore Scrooge’s humanity?
Virtual Explorer Tour
Join us on a tour around the Charles Dickens Museum from the comfort of your own classroom!
'A Christmas Carol': Creating Scrooge
In this session, pupils investigate how Dickens’s celebrated and ever popular Christmas story has secured such an enduring place in our hearts, with adaptations on stage, screen and print.
Dickens: 'Oliver Twist' and poverty in Victorian Britain
In this session pupils will explore this celebrated book as well as excerpts from his non-fiction writing, in order to explore poverty in the Victorian era and Dickens’s life and work as a social reformer.
Explorer Tour
Discover where Charles Dickens lived, wrote and entertained as you explore his Bloomsbury family home.
Tactile Explorers
Designed for SEND students, this session explores the family home of Charles Dickens where he lived, wrote and entertained.