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Museum of Royal Worcester
Severn Street
Worcester WR1 2ND

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Tel: 01905 21247
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Monday: Closed

Tuesday to Saturday: 10am – 5pm

Sunday: 10am – 4pm

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Educational Visits

Visits can enrich the national curriculum and will help bring collection themes to life, such as art and design, social history, local heritage and the people behind the porcelain.

Excite curiosity exploring 250 years of industrial heritage. Our education activities are specifically designed to link to school curricular, art and design, STEM and History. Inspired by the stories of manufacture, home and lifestyle, trade and transport, and industrialisation across 18th to 20th century, workshops explore creativity, scientific innovation, and social history. From factory founders to factory workers our sessions include:

· Hands-on activities

· Trails and quizzes

· Sensory learning

All sessions are led by our trained learning and events staff and volunteer staff. Sessions have been designed working with schools, teachers and education specialists.

Educational visits - Museum of Royal Worcester - school engagement

ACTIVITIES FOR LEARNERS

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EYFS to KS1 Workshops

Discover Workshop:  playfull Clay Birds

Length: 1 hour and 30 minutes

Curriculum focus: Expressive Arts, Understanding our World (history, geography, science)

Cost: £6.50 per child

Learning through sensory play children explore past and present, and representations of the bird world. Identifying shapes, colours and patterns they enjoy “bird spotting” in our galleries, to inspire their own clay artworks. Children engage with storytelling, interactive sensory trails, textures, materials, sounds and a hands on clay workshop.

KEy stage 1 and 2 workshops

Discover Workshop: Working Lives past and present

Length: 2 hours (4 hours including Paint A Plate activity)

Curriculum Links: KS1: History, PSHE, Spoken Language, Art and Design (skills of similarity and difference, fairness and rules, design and technique).

KS2 : Local history, Cause and consequence, historical enquiry. cross-curricular learning in English (discussion and interpretation), Maths (measurement, time, and accuracy), Art & Design (pattern, symbolism, and design), and PSHE through ethical reflection past and present.

Cost: £6.50 per student (option of additional Paint A Plate activity for £13.75 per student)

About the Session

An interactive workshops with handling original-style objects, and interpreting visual sources. The session explores the working lives of children at the Worcester porcelain factories. Through role play, discussion, and creative design activities, students will develop a deeper understanding of home and working lives experienced by children living in industrial Victorian Britain and comparisons to production and working lives today.

key stage 3 workshops

Discover Workshop: Working Lives past and present

Length: 2 hours (4 hours including Paint A Plate activity)

Curriculum Links: Supports key KS3 historical skills including source interpretation, change and continuity, and evaluation of evidence, while offering strong cross-curricular connections to Citizenship, English (analysis and debate), Maths (quantification of labour and productivity), and Art & Design.

Cost: £6.50 per student (option of additional Paint A Plate activity for £13.75 per student)

About the Session

An interactive engaging workshop with handling collections, and visual source interpretation. Students explore the working lives of children at the Porcelain factories deepening understanding of the Industrial Revolution and social history to examine division of labour, gender roles, childhood, trade and empire and reform-era working conditions in the 19th century. 

key stage 3 workshops

Discover Workshop: The Art of PrecisionFlip it, turn it, scale it up: The hidden geometry behind 250 years of design

Length: 1 hour

Curriculum Links: Mathematics, including geometry themes such as scale and reflective & rotational symmetry.

Art & Design, relating to patterns in design, decorative arts & historical design techniques

History, including industrial Britain, Victorian industry, and social and local (Worcestershire) history

Careers, including apprenticeships, creative industries, and STEM related careers

Cost: £6.50 per student

About the Session

The Art of Precision is a cross-curricular STEM workshop that explores the hidden mathematics behind more than 250 years of Royal Worcester design. Using real objects from the Museum of Royal Worcester’s collection, students investigate how artists and craftspeople used geometry, scale, ratio, and symmetry to create detailed porcelain designs and miniature replicas. Through discussion, object-based learning, and a hands-on plate-design activity, students discover how mathematical thinking was essential to the factory’s artistic and manufacturing processes. Alongside Key Stage 3 mathematics concepts such as scale and transformations, the session also introduces students to the history of apprenticeships, industrial design, and the skilled workforce that shaped Worcester’s world-famous porcelain industry.

key stage 3 & 4 workshops

Discover Workshop: Potters and Painting

Length: 2 hours

Curriculum Links: History, Art and Design

Cost: £10.50 per student or £14.75 per student depending on the session

About the Session

An interactive engaging workshop with handling collections. Students explore the cultural, political, social and economic influences on the design and production of objects by the Worcester porcelain factories. Students work with our skilled facilitators to explore how changes across the 18th, 19th and 20th influence the paintings, designs and shapes of the collection for adorning homes. Producing their own clay or painted pieces.

suitable for all

Discover Workshop: clay

Length: 1 or 1.5 hours

Curriculum Links: History, Art and Design

Cost: £6.50 per student

About the Session

During our clay play session inspired by the Museum of Royal Worcester, pupils will learn to create pinch pots by shaping and smoothing clay with their hands. They will also explore modelling techniques to form simple objects, encouraging creativity, imagination, and fine motor skills.

This engaging school workshop combines a brief guided tour of the Museum of Royal Worcester with a hands-on clay making session. Pupils will explore real ceramic objects in the museum before creating their own pinch pots and clay models, inspired by what they have seen.

Find out more about booking Educational Visits

Contact our friendly team to find out more about booking a visit, what you and your class can expect, how we can tailor your class visit to fit your topics and the national curriculum.

For booking, please complete the booking form. Enquiries please contact our team through info@museumofroyalworcester.org

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