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1. Learning
Information for teachers planning a group visit, INSET, online resources, and interesting facts and stories about arms and armour.
2. KS 1 worksheets
Foundation and Key stage 1 downloadable worksheets for your visit to the Royal Armouries in Leeds.
3. Storybox Sessions
These multi-sensory experiences aim to inspire, develop speaking and listening skills and support citizenship in the classroom.
4. Art and Design and Technology
Get hands-on with a range of resources to make links to the study of materials, form, movement and shape as well as nature and the body.
5. Foundation, Reception and Key Stage 1
Our foundation, reception and KS1 activities are cross-curricular and can be used to support study of a wide variety of subjects including History, Literacy, Technology and Science.
6. Leeds
Information for teachers and others planning a group educational visit to the Royal Armouries in Leeds.
7. KS2: The Tudors
These packs include a QCA planning grid, and six weeks worth of classroom resources. All can be printed and photocopied for your use.
8. Gallery Worksheets
Gallery worksheets for you to download and use during your visit to the Royal Armouries in Leeds.
9. Fort Nelson
Information for those planning a education group visit to the Royal Armouries at Fort Nelson.
10. Uniform Groups
The Royal Armouries is a fantastic environment for Brownies and Scouts hoping to achieve their world cultures badges.
11. Key Stage 2
The Museum contains a global collection that can be explored at first hand in our interactive sessions.
12. AS and A Level
The Royal Armouries education centre in Leeds offers a unique opportunity to students studying at A level and AS level. You’ll have the opportunity to work with archive material and study real objects.
13. History
These taught seminars, combine a presentation with first hand study of original and replica artefacts for a minimum of 15 students. Our Seminar Studies put AS and A2 students in touch with original archives as well as objects.
14. Art and Design
The museum in Leeds offers a range of innovative and creative educational workshops for students of art and design. This multicultural collection can provide inspiration for a huge range of topics, themes and processes to be researched and re-interpreted.
15. Leisure and Tourism
The Royal Armouries makes an excellent case study for exploring the setting up and operation of a major new attraction.
16. Self-Led Visits
Our museum is an ideal site for exploring topics in History, Art and Design, English and Local History. There is no single route through its galleries giving you the freedom to plan your groups’ activities.
17. KS2 Tudor Gallery Worksheets
Key stage 2 downloadable worksheets for your visit to the Royal Armouries in Leeds.
18. Key Stage 3
Our collection is ideal for exploring conflict through time. We offer a wide range of sessions ranging from object-based sessions in our Education Centre which focus on original objects, to handling replica objects in the galleries.
19. History: Conflict Through Time
Our collection is ideal for exploring ideas of continuity and change over long periods of time, and the similarities and differences between people from different social classes.
20. Studies in Depth: Medieval Realms
These engaging sessions are great for exploring power and control in the medieval period. Students get the chance to try armour for size as they examine a range of objects from our fantastic handling collection.
21. Studies in Depth: The English Civil Wars
The English Civil Wars are a key period for understanding the changing relationship between Crown and Parliament. Our object based sessions engage pupils as historians and help develop chronological understanding through this unique period of change.
22. Studies in Depth: World War One
Few organisations can offer the range of objects and resources we have available for students of the First World War. Our collection is wide ranging, engaging and safe to handle.
23. Studies in Depth: Second World War
The fallout from the Second World War casts a long shadow over the second half of the twentieth century. Illuminate the period’s darker and colder corners with a fascinating range of objects from our handling collection.
24. Studies in Depth: Modern World
Our collection is a fantastic way of understanding the major changes in conflicts over the twentieth century, from the War to End All wars to the modern conflicts in Eastern Europe, Asia and Africa.
25. Language and Literacy
We have developed a series of Hands-On interactive sessions in the Education Centre to complement Language and Literacy.
26. KS3: Art Studio
It is an unpleasant reality that humanity has spent large amounts of time designing for doomsday. We have been engaged in a race to perfect some of the most extraordinary weapons and cultivated the conviction they are acceptable to use.
27. Teaching the GCSE History Pilot?
With a large and varied collection available, we can provide support for both core and optional units in the new OCR History Pilot. Our collection is ideal for study of the following elements of the Pilot:
28. Key Stage 4
Our incredible collection is perfect for investigating a wide range of subjects at GCSE.
29. Studies in Depth: Elizabethan England
Few organisations can offer the range of objects and resources we have available for students of the Tudors.
30. Studies in Depth: Modern World
Few organisations can offer the range of objects and resources we have available for students of the Modern World.
31. Studies in Depth: North America
Our collection can be used to support study of the North Americas at GCSE, either as an introduction or revision.
32. Studies Through Time
Few organisations can offer the range of objects and resources we have available for students of Change Through Time.
33. Leisure and Tourism
The Royal Armouries makes an excellent case study for exploring the setting up and operation of a major new attraction.
34. KS4: Art Studio
Explore identity and cross-cultural exchange in contemporary and historical arts in Britain, Europe and the wider world.
35. Art and Design
A specialist art handling collection is available for students to use, including vintage and antique military uniforms, civilian fashions and ephemera. All sessions include objects from our handling collection and are accessible to all ages and abilities.
36. Why do we remember Florence Nightingale?
This new workshop, recently launched for Key Stage One school groups offers a fast-paced and interactive look at the life and work of Florence Nightingale.
37. KS3 World War One Gallery Worksheets
Downloadable World War One gallery worksheets to help you plan your self-led visit to the Royal Armouries in Leeds.
38. Teachers notes: Littlecote House
Teachers notes to accompany the Royal Armouries English Civil War module on Littlecote House.
39. Task 1: Exploration of Littlecote House
Task 1: Exploration of Littlecote House.
Teachers notes to accompany the Royal Armouries English Civil War module on Littlecote House.
40. Task 2: Inside Littlecote House
Task 2: Exploration of Littlecote House.
Teachers notes to accompany the Royal Armouries English Civil War module on Littlecote House.
41. Task 3 Popham portrait
Task 3: Popham portrait.
Teachers notes to accompany the Royal Armouries English Civil War module on Littlecote House.
42. Task 4 Change over time
Task 4: Change over time.
Teachers notes to accompany the Royal Armouries English Civil War module on Littlecote House.
43. Curriculum links: Littlecote House
Curriculum links: Exploration of Littlecote House.
Teachers notes to accompany the Royal Armouries English Civil War module on Littlecote House.
44. Resources: Exploration of Littlecote House
Resources: Exploration of Littlecote House.
Teachers notes to accompany the Royal Armouries English Civil War module on Littlecote House.
45. Be Inspired-by some of our projects
We thought you might find inspiration in some of the projects we have been involved in recently. If you are interested in working with us on a project please contact us.
46. Leeds Hippo Project
This project was organised by the University of Leeds and funded by the HLF. It was designed to encourage local families to engage in this little known Leeds treasure.
47. Scouts and Brownies
The Royal Armouries is a fantastic environment for groups of Rainbows, Brownies, Guides, Beavers, Cubs or Scouts.
48. Shop items for school visits
This page lists some of the items suitable for visiting schools and students that are available from our shop.
49. On-site Learning
On-site learning is available at all three of the Royal Armouries sites through our specialist Education Teams.
50. Online Learning
This area presents various activites for use online by learners of all ages.
51. Creative Spaces
Creative Spaces is a social media space aimed young to older adults. It is a collaboration between 9 national museums who have opened up their collections to the public online.
52. Education-Led Visits
Lessons led by the Royal Armouries Education Team, suitable for students from Foundation to A-Level, including subjects such as History, English, Citizenship, Science, Technology, Geography and Art.
7 Events
1. On A Knife Edge: the ethics of weapons display
A seminar discussing the ethics of displaying weapons.
2. Easter Eggs with Bite!
Guerrilla Artists: Creative family art workshops. Inspired by the Museum’s collection.
3. La Danse Macabre
Guerrilla Artists: Creative family art workshops. Inspired by the Museum’s collection.
4. Kites and Kingdoms
Guerrilla Artists: Creative family art workshops. Inspired by the Museum’s collection.
5. Never mind the Pollock’s
Guerrilla Artists: Creative family art workshops. Inspired by the Museum’s collection.
6. Festival of Light
Guerrilla Artists: Creative family art workshops. Inspired by the Museum’s collection.
7. Guerrilla Artists
Guerrilla Artists Creative family art workshops. Inspired by the museum’s collection.