Key Stage One
We have an exciting range of interactive, curriculum linked workshops and tours available onsite, online and as outreach. Please see below for our current sessions.
Curating Charles Dickens
Onsite, Online and Outreach
Learn about the life of Charles Dickens and his family by exploring their home just as it was at the start of the Victorian period. In this session, pupils will learn to handle, identify and understand objects from the Museum’s collection, investigate what these objects can tell us about people’s lives during the past and consider for themselves how museums decide which objects to display to their visitors.
Curriculum Links:
KS1: History
- the lives of significant individuals in the past who have contributed to national and international achievements
- significant historical events, people and places in their own locality
Virtual Explorer Tour
New! Online
Join us on a tour around the Charles Dickens Museum from the comfort of your own classroom! Let us show you the rooms Dickens and his family lived in, the objects that they used and fill you in on the background to his life and his work.
This one-hour tour can be booked alone, or could be added on to one of our virtual Dickensian London Walks delivered by a blue badge guide.
Discounts are available for Virtual Explorer Tours for multiple bookings from the same school.
Curriculum Links:
KS1: History
- the lives of significant individuals in the past who have contributed to national and international achievements
- significant historical events, people and places in their own locality
Food Glorious Food!
New! Onsite
Join the education team to find out about one of Charles Dickens’s favourite subjects – food! What kind of food did the Victorians eat? Did the rich and the poor have different food? Where was it prepared? Where was it eaten? How did he make food seem so real in his writing? We will be singing songs, reading from his texts and having a go at writing with quill pens (make sure you don’t come on an empty stomach!).
Curriculum Links:
KS1: History
- the lives of significant individuals in the past who have contributed to national and international achievements
- significant historical events, people and places in their own locality
KS1: English – Reading and Writing
- discussing and clarifying the meanings of words, linking new meanings to known vocabulary
- discussing favourite words and phrases
- discussing the sequence of events in books and how items of information are related
- consider what they are going to write before beginning
- make simple additions, revisions and corrections to their own writing
Dickens Explorers
New! Onsite
Discover where Charles Dickens lived, wrote and entertained as you explore his Bloomsbury family home. Handle some of the objects from our collection and ‘channel your inner Dickens’ by writing your own character creation using real quill pens and ink!
Curriculum Links:
KS1: History
- the lives of significant individuals in the past who have contributed to national and international achievements
- significant historical events, people and places in their own locality
KS1: English. Writing - Composition
- Saying out loud what they are going to write about
- Composing a sentence orally before writing it
- Sequencing sentences to form short narratives
- Re-reading what they have written to check that it makes sense
- Discuss what they have written with the teacher or other pupils
- Read aloud their writing clearly enough to be heard by their peers and the teacher.
Tactile Explorers
New! Onsite
Designed for SEND students, this session explores the family home of Charles Dickens where he lived, wrote and entertained. Handle some of the objects from our collection, try some dressing up, and ‘channel your inner Dickens’ by writing with real quill pens and ink!
This sensory tour includes a variety of activities around the museum. Get in touch with us to discuss your students’ access needs and we will design an experience to suit your group.
Maximum of 15 students per session. All Tactile Explorers sessions will be charged at the off-peak rate.
Costs:
Onsite – 2 hours. All workshops are integrated into interactive guided tours of the historic house.
- Up to 10 students, Off-peak £100 (Jan-Oct), Peak £125 (Nov-Dec)
- Up to 20 students, Off-peak £150 (Jan-Oct), Peak £185 (Nov-Dec)
- Up to 30 students, Off-peak £200 (Jan-Oct), Peak £250 (Nov-Dec)
Online - 1 hour, one class, £120 (All year round)
Online - 1 hour, one homeschool household, £70 (All year round)
Outreach - 1 hour, one class, £150 (All year round)
Booking
Booking forms and enquiries should be sent to: education@dickensmuseum.com
Download onsite education visit booking form
Download onsite education visit terms and conditions
Download online education session booking form
Download online education session terms and conditions
We can accommodate a maximum of 30 students per booking slot. We have the capacity to run two half day sessions onsite each day from 10:00 – 12:00 and 13:00-15:00. Please note that for the safety of your group we require a minimum adult-to-student ratio of 1:10 for each onsite booking.
Online and outreach sessions can be booked at times to suit you subject to availability.
Please be advised that full payment is required in order to confirm your booking.
Amendments and cancellations must be made at least 21 days prior to your visit, after which no refund will be available.