Learning on Site
Bradford District Museum and Galleries’ Learning Team are taking bookings for on-site workshops.
Learning on Site
Bradford District Museum and Galleries’ Learning Team are taking bookings for on-site workshops. Please see the video below for a snapshot of some of the things your pupils could experience!
Please see below for the list of the workshops at each of our sites. For further information about any of the workshops, please click on the link or email: learning@bradford.gov.uk.
If you are unable to visit us, details of other ways we can support your pupils’ learning are below the workshops list.
If you are planning to bring your pupils on a self-led visit to our museums, please still contact the Learning Team on learning@bradford.gov.uk so that we can give you information to help you with your visit.
Workshops by Key Stage
Bradford Industrial Museum
Duration 2 hour – Full day
Price £127 – £150
As local mill-working children, pupils will experience lessons at Moorside Board School including copywriting with dip pens, using slates and singing period songs.
Bradford Industrial Museum
Duration 1.5 hour – Full Day
Price £102 – £150
Pupils get ‘hands on’ with the basic processes by which the fleece of a sheep is turned into cloth.
Bradford Industrial Museum
Duration 1 hour
Price £81
Using toys from the past 100 years pupils explore the working mechanisms and everyday materials of toys.
Bradford Industrial Museum
Duration 1.5 hour – Full Day
Price £102 – £150
Pupils go on their own transport journey throughout the museum using maps, role play and our amazing transport collection.
Cartwright Hall Art Gallery
Duration 2 hour
Price £127
Using artwork and artefacts pupils will explore the historic origins of Early Islamic civilisation, its influences and contribution to world culture.
Cartwright Hall Art Gallery
Duration 2 hour
Price £127
Through looking at a range of Hockney artworks, pupils will investigate and try some of the different techniques and mediums Hockney works with.
Cartwright Hall Art Gallery
Duration 1.5 – 2 hours
Price £102 – £127
Pupils will investigate the colours and techniques used by Pop Art artists through engaging with original art
Cartwright Hall Art Gallery
Duration Half Day
Price £350
Pupils go behind the scenes to meet and work with a variety of staff – such as curators and collection officers
Cliffe Castle Museum
Duration 1.5 hour
Price £102
Pupils will explore dinosaur features by looking at and handling real dinosaur fossils. They will be able to explore other creatures who left fossils behind.
Cliffe Castle Museum
Duration 1.5 hour
Price £102
Take a journey down the Nile with a trader, finding out about the objects Ancient Egyptians used in their daily lives and the importance of the Nile to travel and trade.
Cliffe Castle Museum
Duration 1.5 hour
Price £102
In this science-focused workshop pupils use a variety of fossil specimens and sources to formulate their own theories before looking at fossil sequences to identify changes over time.
Cliffe Castle Museum
Duration 2 hour
Price £127
Pupils will be able to explore science and music as they “rock” out on Cliffe Castle’s lithophone (musical stones).
Cliffe Castle Museum
Duration 1.5 hour
Price £102
Pupils will explore dinosaur features by looking at and handling real dinosaur fossils. They will be able to explore other creatures who left fossils behind.
Cliffe Castle Museum
Duration 1.5 hour
Price £102
Take a journey down the Nile with a trader, finding out about the objects Ancient Egyptians used in their daily lives and the importance of the Nile to travel and trade.
Cartwright Hall Art Gallery
Duration 2 hour
Price £127
Using artwork and artefacts pupils will explore the historic origins of Early Islamic civilisation, its influences and contribution to world culture.
Cliffe Castle Museum
Duration 1.5 hour
Price £102
In this science-focused workshop pupils use a variety of fossil specimens and sources to formulate their own theories before looking at fossil sequences to identify changes over time.
