Whether you want to book a staff-led Learning Session or just bring your class for a free visit, please fill out this form and someone from the Learning Team will get back to you shortly.

Learning Sessions led by the Learning Team:

• Available Tuesday – Friday
• Session Times are: 10.30 – 11.30am or 1.00pm – 2.00pm
• Maximum of 30 pupils per session (additional pupils can be added for an additional cost)
• Please see specific Learning Session for duration and cost.

School visits without Learning Sessions:

•       Free

Before you book please consider:

• Staff-led Learning Sessions need to be prebooked and we kindly request at least two weeks’ notice. These sessions are available on a first come first serve basis
• Free visits must also be prebooked.
• The Museum opens at 10am and shuts at 5pm.
• The Food Museum is a large open site and we strongly advise that appropriate clothing and footwear be worn.
• We offer free pre-visits for teachers to enable you to prepare risk assessments for your trip. These will be provided when your visit is booked.
• Limited coach parking available. Must be booked in advance.
• Limited lunch spaces available. Must be booked in advance.

Age: EYFS, KS1, KS2, KS3

Subjects: Food & Nutrition, Science, History

Duration: 60-90 minutes depending on Key Stage

Cost: £130 + VAT for up to 30 students. £2.00 per additional student (Max 60)

Semolina, sponge pudding and custard, turkey twizzlers… What are your memories of school dinners?

Explore our exhibition to discover how school dinners came about, the importance of nutrition in planning what to put on the menu and how school food has changed over time.  Share your memories of school food and help to design a school dinner of the future.

Pupils will have the opportunity to handle objects, interrogate photographic and written resources and explore the exhibition to gather information that will help them create their own school dinner.

Learning Outcomes:

• Understand the importance of eating a healthy and varied diet.
• Recognise the impact of diet on the way our bodies function.
• Apply the basic principles of nutrition and a healthy, varied diet to “prepare” a school dinner.
• Use historical documents to compare school dinners over time.
• Be excited, inspired, engaged and have fun.

Age: Key Stage 2, Key Stage 3, Key Stage 4

Subjects: Science, Food Education, Geography

120 mins (The length of this session can be adapted according to need)

Cost: Up to 30 students £240 + VAT, £3.50 per additional student (Max 60)

Pupils will gain understanding of how wheat grows, how wheat plants are processed into grain and then flour. Students will undertake a bread-making activity that culminates in their bread being baked on our wood fired oven.

The learning session begins with your students making dough from freshly milled flour. Whilst the dough is proving, a member of our learning team will lead a short interactive presentation on how wheat grows and how it is milled into flour. This part can be tailored depending on Key Stage, Subject and desired learning outcomes. After a short break, the students then shape their dough before taking it over to the wood-fired oven to be baked. This ends the learning session. However, we recommend that you and your group follow our bread trail to discover our GROW area, watermill, and much more.

Age: KS1, KS2

Subjects: Science, History, Food Education

Duration: 60 minutes

Cost: £120 + VAT for up to 30 students, £2.00 per additional student (Max 60)

Explore the museum site to discover how the different elements of a packed lunch got into your lunch box.

Visit our watermill to see where the flour is milled to make your bread.  Discover how easy it is to make butter.  Visit our animals to find your sandwich filling and explore our walled garden to see what delights it can offer for your lunch.

Learning Outcomes:

• Understand where food comes from.
• Understand seasonality and know where and how a variety of ingredients are grown, reared, caught and processed.
• Identify and name different sources of food.
• Be excited, inspired, engaged and have fun.

Age: Key Stage 1, Key Stage 2,

Subjects: History

60 min session

Cost: Up to 30 students £105 + VAT, £2.00 per additional student (Max 60)

Enrich your pupils’ understanding of the Victorian era with this Farm Labourer Learning Session. This session will explore the roles that children had in rural life. The session starts with a fun question and answer session about Victorian era objects from our handling-collection. Then, a member of our Learning Team will lead your class in a carousel of the hands-on jobs that children in the Victorian era undertook.

Age: Key Stage 1, Key Stage 2

Subjects: Science, History, Food Education

60 min session

Cost: Up to 30 students £130 + VAT, £2.00 per additional student (Max 60)

Discover how butter was made in the past and the processes involved. Make your own individual pat of butter and find out about the butter making process through handling old dairy items including three different kinds of butter churns, butter pats, skimmers and more.

Learning Outcomes:

Pupils will

• Learn how butter was made in the past
• Learn the process of turning cream into butter
• Try something new by making their own butter
• Experience an authentic: we will use real objects from the past
• Be excited, inspired and engaged; above all your pupils will have fun!

Age: Early Years Foundation Stage, Key Stage 1, Key Stage 2

Subject: Science

60 minutes; summer term only

Cost: Up to 30 students £105+ VAT, £2.00 per additional student (Max 60)

Discover the fascinating world of minibeasts in the Museum grounds. Find out what minibeasts are, see some specimens from our handling collection and explore the gardens to investigate minibeast habitats.

Please note: This is an outdoor session. An alternative indoor session will run only in the case of severely adverse weather.

Learning Objectives:

Pupils will

• Learn to identify a range of minibeasts and their habitats.
• Understand the differences between an insect and other invertebrates.
• Be actively involved; have the opportunity to be ‘hands-on’, ask questions and have discussions, contribute to the session.

Age: Key Stage 2

Subject: Science

60 min session

Cost: Up to 30 students £105 + VAT, £2.00 pp each additional student (Max 60)

Why do animals have skeletons? What are the different types of teeth for? Handle a range of real farm animal skulls such as pigs, dogs, cats and sheep, and study their teeth to identify carnivores, herbivores and omnivores. Challenge yourself to guess the animal from the mystery skulls. After the session, follow up by exploring the Heritage Farm and meeting our friendly farm animals.

Learning Objectives:

Pupils will be able to

• Identify and name a variety of common animals that are carnivores, herbivores and omnivores.
• Make predictions about what an animal would eat from looking at their teeth.
• Identify animals from their skulls. 

Age: EYFS, Key Stage 1, Key Stage 2, Key Stage 3

Subject: Science

60 min session

Cost: Up to 30 students £105 + VAT, £2.00 per additional student (Max 60)

Explore the Heritage Farm with a guided tour of the animals. Meet the animals, discover what they eat, learn about the different breeds and why they have been bred to look the way they do.

Learning Objectives:

• Identify and name a variety of different animals.
• Find out what different animals eat and what their needs are.
• Find out about different breeds of animals.
• Be excited, inspired and engaged; have fun!
• It will be a positive and inclusive outdoor experience in a museum.
• Be actively involved; have the opportunity to be ‘hands-on’, ask questions and have discussions, they will contribute to the session.

Age: EYFS, Key Stage 1, Key Stage 2

Subject: Science

60 min session

Cost: Up to 30 students £120 + VAT, £2.00 per additional student (Max 60)

Explore the Heritage Farm with a guided tour of the crops and farming methods. Find out about the crops we grow; how our four crop rotation farming method works and dig in to help with a seasonal farm job.

Learning Objectives:

• Identify and name a variety of different plants.
• Discover what different plants need to live and grow.
• Be excited, inspired and engaged; have fun!
• It will be a positive and inclusive outdoor experience in a museum.
• Be actively involved; have the opportunity to be ‘hands-on’, ask questions and have discussions, they will contribute to the session.