Making & doing
Hands-on workshops connected to the collections — pottery, ancient writing, model-building, craft. Young people make something to take home, and the history sticks because it passed through their hands.
More than babysitting
Real activity, real learning, real fun.
A holiday programme could easily be a way to park children somewhere for a few hours, and plenty are. Ours are not. Each programme is built around the partner museums and designed by the same people who design the school visits, so the activity has genuine learning at its core — but wrapped in the kind of doing, making and exploring that young people actually enjoy in a holiday rather than the sit-and-listen of term time. A child comes home having built something, found something out, or simply spent a day among extraordinary objects with people who made them interesting, and the learning lands precisely because it did not feel like a lesson.
The programmes run in the main school breaks across the partner museums, so wherever a family is in the region there is usually something within reach. They are supervised by staff used to working with young people, kept to sensible group sizes, and pitched at a range of ages. For a parent, they are a trustworthy, affordable way to fill part of a long holiday with something that does the child good; for the child, they are a highlight of the break. Holders of the student pass take part as part of the pass; others can join too, and the contact page is the way to ask about dates.
