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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. History: The Tudors
These exciting interactive handling sessions for KS2 are taught in the heart of the museum’s galleries; building direct connections between objects in the galleries and the themes & topics of the national curriculum.
4. History: The Tudors
These exciting interactive handling sessions for KS2 are taught in the heart of the museum’s galleries; building direct connections between objects in the galleries and the themes & topics of the national curriculum.
5. Storybox Sessions
These multi-sensory experiences aim to inspire, develop speaking and listening skills and support citizenship in the classroom.
6. 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.
7. 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.
8. Leeds
Information for teachers and others planning a group educational visit to the Royal Armouries in Leeds.
9. 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.
10. Family and Local History Groups
We offer hour long sessions for up to 32 participants introducing key themes, ideas and objects from conflicts that local people or relatives may have played a role in.
11. Saturday Art Club
Our ‘Guerrilla Artists’ art club was launched last winter. Using objects in the galleries, exhibitions, and library or study collection as inspiration in creative (often messy) workshops.
12. Key Stage 2
The Museum contains a global collection that can be explored at first hand in our interactive sessions.
13. 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.
14. 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.
15. 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.
16. Leisure and Tourism
The Royal Armouries makes an excellent case study for exploring the setting up and operation of a major new attraction.
17. 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.
18. KS2 Tudor Gallery Worksheets
Key stage 2 downloadable worksheets for your visit to the Royal Armouries in Leeds.
19. 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.
20. 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.
21. 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.
22. Language and Literacy
We have developed a series of Hands-On interactive sessions in the Education Centre to complement Language and Literacy.
23. 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.
24. 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:
25. Key Stage 4
Our incredible collection is perfect for investigating a wide range of subjects at GCSE.
26. Studies in Depth: Modern World
Few organisations can offer the range of objects and resources we have available for students of the Modern World.
27. Studies Through Time
Few organisations can offer the range of objects and resources we have available for students of Change Through Time.
28. Leisure and Tourism
The Royal Armouries makes an excellent case study for exploring the setting up and operation of a major new attraction.
29. KS4: Art Studio
Explore identity and cross-cultural exchange in contemporary and historical arts in Britain, Europe and the wider world.
30. 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.
31. 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.
32. The Golden Ticket
This summer take full advantage of the museum by booking our specially designed day trip for playschemes, scouts, guides, groups and extended schools services. All activities are suitable for ages 7-13.
33. 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.
34. Napoleonic Wars: 1792-1815
Find out what it was really like to serve in the British Army in the Napoleonic Wars.
35. George Francklin Atkinson and the Great Rebellion of 1857
This session tells the story of George Francklin Atkinson, a Captain in the Bengal Engineers who produced a unique and often quoted history of the 1857 rebellion in India.
36. The Boer War 1899-1901: Whalley’s War
Discover the reality of conditions in the Boer War through the eyes of Frederick Whalley, a bodyguard to Lord Roberts, Commander-in-Chief of the British forces.
37. The First World War
What can we learn from photographs from the First World War? What do all those badges, chevrons, cap-badges and uniforms actually mean? This session gives you the opportunity to compare your own material with archival images from our collection.
38. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and the Great War
The creator of Sherlock Holmes campaigned for the introduction of helmets to the British Army in 1915-1916. Discover more about his designs for body armour.
39. Home Front and Front Line: 1914-1918
Investigate the home front with rarely seen panoramic photographs of a national filling factory at Chilwell and discover how Leeds company Greenwood and Batley contributed to the war effort and profited by it.