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Early Years and Key Stage 1 Sessions

The Learning and Engagement Team offer a range of collections centred sessions and resources across all our venues. Information on each session can be found below.

Find out more about our sessions

Durham Castle

Available as a full-day visit to Durham Castle.
View along the length of the Tunstall Gallery inside Durham Castle. Along the length of the Gallery are tapestries, paintings, busts of famous figures, old wood and metal chests and museum cases.

Great Fire of London

Available as a half-day outreach visit to your school or a one-hour online session.
A 17th-century woodcut print showing how people responded to fires; using buckets of water to douse the flames, hooks on ropes to pull houses down to create a firebreak, letting children and belongings down through windows using ropes, fleeing the flames and praying.

Jack and the Beanstalk

Could Jack's beanstalk grow as tall as the clouds? We explore how plants have adapted to grow and have a go at planting your own bean to grow your own beanstalk.
Young girl looks up at large plant at the botanic garden

Local History

Available as a half-day outreach visit to your school or a one-hour online session.
Cropped portion of 19th century map of County Durham showing Durham City and the surrounding area.

Lunar New Year

Available as a full-day visit to the Oriental Museum, a full-day outreach visit to your school or a one-hour online session.
Four smiling children are holding up a brightly coloured Chinese parade dragon while standing next to a display case holding Chinese ceramics.

Mini Beasts

Come to the Botanic Gardens, hunt for mini beasts, explore their habitats and make your own bug hotels to help the mini beasts who live in our garden and keep it healthy.
A Botanic Garden staff member showing a large bug to a group of people.

What Makes a Great Artist

Available as a half-day outreach visit to your school or a one-hour online session.
Downwards view of a table covered with bottles of paint, two blue trays filled with different colours of paint swirled together with paint brushes and straws lying in them and a completed artwork made of straws and card in the shape of a heart.

What Makes Plants Grow

Explore the different trees, plants and habitats from all over the world at the Botanic Gardens. We will focus on environments, adaptations and nutrients needed to grow.
Two children enjoying the artificial rain in the Botanic Garden Greenhouse.