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Key Stage 2 Sessions

The Learning and Engagement Team offer a range of collections centred sessions and resources across all our venues. Information on each session can be found below.

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Ancient Egypt

Available as a full-day visit to the Oriental Museum, a full-day outreach visit to your school, or a two-hour online session.
Close up view of the lid and upper section of a canopic jar featuring the human headed god Imsety, made of orange clay with details picked out in a black glaze.

Ancient Greeks

Available as a full-day outreach visit to your school or a two-hour online session.
Close-up view of a glazed Greek pot featuring a god speaking with a group of satyrs

Anglo-Saxons

Available as a full-day outreach visit to your school or a two-hour online session. This session can also be combined with our Vikings Session.
View of the portrait page of St John from the Lindisfarne Gospels, showing him sat facing front holding a scroll in one hand, with his other hand on his chest. His symbol, an eagle, is shown behind his head

Botanic Garden

A free self-led visit for KS2 classes to the Botanic Gardens, booking is still required. Explore the gardens, woodland and greenhouses as a class in our beautiful gardens
Two children enjoying the artificial rain in the Botanic Garden Greenhouse.

Buddhism

A half-day visit to the Oriental Museum, half-day visit to your school, or one-hour online session. Add Hinduism/ Sikhism to make a full-day visit to the Oriental Museum.
Black seated statue of Buddha

China

Available as a full-day visit to the Oriental Museum, a full-day outreach visit to your school, or a two-hour online session.
Zoomed in view of a detail on an imperial Chinese robe showing a Chinese dragon on a blue background surrounded by various symbols.

Early Islamic Civilisations

Available as a full-day visit to the Oriental Museum or a two-hour online session.
View from above of the inside of a white ceramic bowl, decorated with a style of angular writing known as Kufic.

First World War

Available as a half-day outreach visit to your school or a two-hour online session.
Black and white photograph of a group of 14 British soldiers from the First World War as well as a small dog, presumably a mascot. They are in three rows, the back two of which are standing and are made up of five and six soldiers respectively.  The furthest back row is stood on a bench. The front row of three soldiers is all sat down on a bench.

Hinduism

A half-day visit to the Oriental Museum, half-day visit to your school, or one-hour online session. Add Buudhism/ Sikhism to make a full-day visit to the Oriental Museum.
Colour print of three Hindu gods named Lakshmi, Ganesh and Saraswati. Lakshmi, shown as a woman with four arms and wearing a red sari with a gold crown, is sat on a lotus flower and is holding two lotus flowers and a golden pot, while coins flow from her remaining hand.

Local History

Available as a half-day outreach visit to your school or a two-hour online session.
Cropped portion of 19th century map of County Durham showing Durham City and the surrounding area.

Prehistory in the British Isles

Available as a full-day visit to the Museum of Archaeology, a full-day outreach visit to your school, or a two-hour online session.
Colour photograph of a large rock covered with prehistoric ‘cup and ring’ marks.

Roman Britain

Available as a full-day visit to the Museum of Archaeology, a full-day outreach visit to your school, or a two-hour online session.
Photograph of a fragment of the Lanchester Diploma – a flat piece of corroded and damaged green metal covered in a Latin inscription that has been punched in and written in block capitals.

Shang Dynasty

Available as a full-day visit to the Oriental Museum, a half-day outreach visit to your school, or a two-hour online session.
Photograph of a Shang Dynasty oracle bone – a piece of bone that has been inscribed with early Chinese characters, written in three groups on the surface of the bone.

Sikhism

A half-day visit to the Oriental Museum, half-day visit to your school, or one-hour online session. Add Hinduism/ Buddhism for a full-day visit to the Oriental Museum.
Modern print of Guru Gobind Singh, the tenth guru of Sikhism. He is depicted mounted on a white horse, wearing yellow or gold clothes and a turban, and is wearing necklaces and a turban ornament made of gemstones and pearls.

Tudors

Available as a full-day outreach visit to your school or two-hour online session.
Zoomed in image from a woodcut print, showing three Tudor men working in a leather workshop. Two of the men are bent over a table as they work on pieces of leather. The third is standing and working on a larger piece of leather on a frame, using a curved blade.

Vikings

Available as a full-day outreach visit to your school or a two-hour online session. This session can also be combined with our Anglo-Saxons Session.
Photograph of a replica of a Viking-era bronze statue of Thor holding a hammer while sat on a throne and wearing a conical hat or helmet.

What Makes a Great Artist?

Available as a half-day outreach visit to your school or a two-hour online session.
Photograph of an art display class – a member of the Learning and Engagement Team is holding up an artwork and pointing to it while talking about to a group of students who are gathered around it.

Booking form

Fill out our form to book a session with us. If you wish to discuss any details of your session with us, please feel free to get in touch via email or telephone.
School children exploring in a museum and pointing at the exhibitions