Online Learning Primary
Bring museum learning alive in your Primary classroom
Our live-streamed, online workshops bring the wonder of museum learning direct to your classroom
Ranging from 30-60 minutes, these live, interactive sessions are tailored to the needs of your students and slot in alongside National Curriculum topics.
Helen Pooley, our Learning Producer, facilitates each session, using objects and stories from the Museum to bring the topic to life onscreen.
The session, expertly led by Helen, engaged all pupils in class. The content was at a perfect level for the children and the session was perfectly timed, very well paced, and engaging.
Teacher, St Barnabas C of E Primary School (KS2 Maths Innovators Session)
Want to book a session?
Take a look at the sessions and get in touch with Helen Pooley to book a date.
Sessions normally take place on Mondays and Wednesdays.
Key Stage 1: Space Explorers
Length: 40 minutes + post session activity
Cost: Rates for virtual and in-person learning
Find out about the inventor, Galileo Galilei, and the stories behind star patterns.
Create your own star picture.
Teachers' Notes include:
- outline
- learning aims
- curriculum links
- classroom resources needed
- suggestions for further pre- and post-session activities
https://www.hsm.ox.ac.uk/files/teachersnotesks1onlinespaceexplorerspdf
Key Stage 2: From Typhoid to Covid: Oxford and Vaccines
Length: 30 minutes
Cost: Rates for virtual and in-person learning
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How did a disease like Typhoid affect people in the past and what did the Victorians do to stop its spread?
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What role do vaccines play in stopping the spread of disease?
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How do vaccines work?
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What are scientists in Oxford doing now to develop life-saving vaccines?
Teachers' Notes include:
- outline
- learning aims
- curriculum links
https://www.hsm.ox.ac.uk/files/teachersnotesforfromtyphoidtocovidks2128kbpdf

Glass sculpture of one nanoparticle of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine
© Luke Jerram
The pitch was brilliant and half an hour was just about right.
It's a heavy subject for KS2 and they learnt a lot but weren't overwhelmed.
Teacher, Year 5
Key Stage 2: House of Wisdom: Science, Maths and Medicine in Early Islamic Civilisation
Length: 60 minutes + post-session activity
Cost: Rates for virtual and in-person learning
Discover some of the amazing inventions and discoveries from the Early Islamic World.
Make your own pinhole camera.
Teachers' Notes include:
- outline learning aims
- curriculum links
- classroom resources needed
- suggestions for further pre- and post-session activities

55331 Astrolabe, by Ibrahim ibn Sa'id al-Sahli, Toledo, 1068
Key Stage 2: Maths Innovators: Lovelace, Napier, and al-Kwharizmi
Length: 60 minutes + post session activity
Cost: Rates for virtual and in-person learning
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How did Ada Lovelace write the first computer programme?
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What are Napier’s Bones?
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How did al-Kwharizmi improve on the Egyptian and Roman ways of counting?
Find out more about these maths innovators and make your own binary beads in this engaging, interactive session.
Teachers' Notes include:
- outline
- learning aims
- curriculum links
- classroom resources needed
- suggestions for further pre- and post-session activities
https://www.hsm.ox.ac.uk/files/teachersnotesks2mathsinnovatorspdf

Ada Lovelace (Alfred Edward Chalon, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)