Grace Darling Museum Workshops

'You to the Rescue': PSHE, History & Drama
This workshop will bring the story of the rescue to life in a fun and highly interactive way. Through costume and drama pupils will become the main characters in the famous story, explore the emotions involved and gain an understanding of help and rescue.

• PSHE KS1 & 2: Knowledge, skills and understanding
• Citizenship KS1 & 2 Unit 1: Taking Part
• History KS1 Unit 4: Why do we remember Grace Darling?
• Drama

'Meet the Family': Object handling
Find out about Grace Darling, her family and life in a lighthouse by exploring objects that tell about their lives. This is an object handling workshop designed to inspire speaking, listening and responding.

• Literacy: speaking, listening & responding, group discussion & interaction
• History KS1 Units 1 & 4
• History KS2 Units 12 & 18

'Meet Grace Darling': Character in Role
In this workshop, pupils will meet ‘Grace Darling' to hear the story in her words and get chance to hot seat questions.

• Literacy: speaking, listening and responding and drama
• History KS1 Unit 4
• Drama

'Art Attack': Art appreciation & Drama
Find out about the dramatic rescue through paintings from the time. This workshop will allow the children to explore emotions, visualise the rescue and to use drama to recreate the famous scenes.

• Art
• Art and Design KS2 Unit 9: gen
• Literacy: speaking, listening and responding and drama

'Puppet Power': Shadow Puppets
Recreate the story of Grace darling with a Victorian Shadow Puppet show. The children will make their own puppets and then act out the story.

• Art
• Art and Design KS2 Unit 9: gen
• Literacy: speaking, listening and responding, drama
• Design and Technology KS1 Unit 2b: Puppets
• History KS1 Unit 4: Why do we remember Grace Darling?

'What's your Story': Literacy & Drama
Find out how to create a story and then use the museum displays to retell the famous story of Grace Darling. Re-enact the story with costume and drama using our replica coble.

• Literacy: speaking, listening & responding, group discussion and interaction, drama and understanding and interpreting texts.
• History KS1 Unit 4: Why do we remember Grace darling?
• Drama

'Victorian Values': Research
Understand Victorian values by exploring public reaction and media response to Grace Darling's rescue. Using evidence such as newspaper accounts and paintings, pupils will explore the story as they know it and question its accuracy. The workshop will conclude with lively debates.

• Citizenship KS2 Unit 11: In the Media- what's the news?
• Citizenship KS3 Unit 9: The significance of the media in society
• History KS1 Unit 4: Why do we remember Grace darling?
• History KS2 Units 12 & 18: Victorians
• History KS3 Unit 22: The role of the individual for good or ill?
• Literacy: Understanding and interpreting texts, engaging with and responding to texts.

'What is History – Grace darling': Research
This workshop aims to develop pupils' research skills, introducing concepts of reliability and usefulness, considering what types of evidence researchers and historians need in order to find out information. Pupils are also asked to consider the types of questions needs to be asked when evaluating evidence.

• History KS3 Y7 Units 1: Introductory Unit: What's it all about
• History: Knowledge, Skills and Understanding
• Literacy: Understanding and interpreting texts, engaging with and responding to texts, text structure and organisation.

'RNLI Recruits': PSHE & Drama
In this workshop pupils will re-enact a modern day scenario where they are a lifeboat crew and have to understand emotions, make choices, agree and follow rules, work co-operatively and realise they have responsibilities . They must learn from their experiences and reward each other for good work. Problem solving

• PSHE KS 1 & 2: Knowledge, skills and understanding
• Citizenship KS 1 & 2 Unit 1: Taking Part
• Citizenship KS 1 & 2 Unit 2: Choices
• Citizenship KS 1 & 2 Unit 4: People who help us