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.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/fF_K3zgmFZQ

 

 

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.
KS1 Space Explorers
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

 

 

KS2 From Typhoid to Covid: Oxford and Vaccines
Key Stage 2: From Typhoid to Covid: Oxford and Vaccines
Length: 30 minutes
Cost: Rates for virtual and in-person learning
  • How did a disease like Typhoid affect people in the past and what did the Victorians do to stop its spread?
  • What role do vaccines play in stopping the spread of disease?
  • How do vaccines work?
  • 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

Luke Jerram's COVID-19 Vaccine glass sculpture

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.
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Teacher, Year 5
 
KS2 House of Wisdom
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
https://www.hsm.ox.ac.uk/files/teachersnotesks2earlyislamiccivilisationpdf

 

55331 Astrolabe, by Ibrahim ibn Sa'id al-Sahli, Toledo, 1068

55331 Astrolabe, by Ibrahim ibn Sa'id al-Sahli, Toledo, 1068

 

KS2 Maths Innovators
Key Stage 2: Maths Innovators: Lovelace, Napier, and al-Kwharizmi
Length: 60 minutes + post session activity
Cost: Rates for virtual and in-person learning
  • How did Ada Lovelace write the first computer programme?
  • What are Napier’s Bones?
  • 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 portrait

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