Wardown Park Museum, Luton

Wardown Park Museum is a local history museum in Luton, Bedfordshire. We have a successful schools programme that offers a broad range of cross-curricular engaging activities and resources that build on and extend pupils' classroom learning. Through video conferencing we hope to be able to bring our approach to schools from further afield.

Our video conferences are offered as part of a short unit of work that complements popular KS2 history topics in school but also offers opportunities to support literacy, drama, thinking skills and SEAL. We aim to take the conference beyond an 'ask the expert' interview and engage children with a narrative to which they can contribute through their existing knowledge, questioning skills and imagination.

We are offering three sessions and a range of dates in January, February and March 2012. Please select the session you want and the date and time and contact Dawn Boother to make the booking.



	World War Two – Kitchen Tips In role as trainee journalists at a local newspaper in 1940 pupils must write a 'Kitchen Tips' column that will impress the editor. In the conference they speak to a Wartime housewife and pick her brains to get the information they need.
	Additional material: Unit outline Teacher Notes
	KS3 Curriculum links – History, Literacy, Speaking and Listening, ICT
	Website links: WWII page

	Victorians – A Working Boy Pupils share the story of Albie Brown, a 10 year old in 1860, who has run away from home and work. In the conference, in role as concerned members of the community, they can interview Mrs Tanner, Albie's plait school mistress, and find out what has really led to Albie's flight. Using this information they can then complete the story.
	Additional material: Unit outline Teacher Notes Albie's story PowerPoint
	KS2 Curriculum links – History, Drama, Literacy, Speaking and Listening, SEAL
	Website links: Victorian Child Hats & Plaits

	Ancient Greeks – The Mystery of the ghostly Greek There have been strange goings on at the Museum. Our experts are puzzled. Using their knowledge of Ancient Greek beliefs about death and the afterlife, pupils are asked to solve the mystery of the ghostly Greek.
	Additional material: Unit outline Teacher Notes Follow-up literacy resources
	KS2 Curriculum links – History, Literacy, Speaking and Listening, Thinking Skills
	Website links: Greeks page

Times and dates of sessions

Conferences are available every Monday and on other days by arrangement. Please contact us to discuss your requirements.

Tel: 01582 546740 or contact dawn.boother@lutonculture.com to book a videoconference session, with Wardown Park Museum. All of the Wardown Park Museum videoconferences are managed by the JANET Videoconferencing Service (JVCS). Schools must register with JVCS (at no charge for state-funded schools) before booking sessions with the Wardown Park Museum.

All conferences are approximately 30 minutes long and cost £30 per class, including a free preliminary conference for staff. Book two or more conferences for your school and pay just £25 per session. Charging is based upon a class sized unit with a maximum number of children of 35.

Conferences are available every Monday and on other days by arrangement, please contact us to discuss your requirements.

The free preliminary conference is used to test the connection between sites, and for you to discuss any specific needs or concerns you may have prior to the conference day.