Key Stage Two
Children of the Mills
‘Children of the Mills’ is our award-winning interactive day in which children explore the role of workers at the 18th Century mills, including costumed role-play.
Focus:
Curriculum Links:
This session will support both a local history study or the study of an aspect or theme in British history that extends the pupils’ chronological knowledge beyond 1066 (KS2 History).
Pupils will “construct informed responses that involve thoughtful; selection and organisation of relevant historical information” and “devise historically valid questions about change, cause, similarity and difference, and significance” (KS2 History)
Duration: 5 hours, ideally
Suitable for: This offer is targeted at KS2 classes, however we can adapt content as required.
For groups of up to 32 pupils – multiple groups are possible
Pupil to School Staff Ratio: ideally 1:6
Structure: Fully led.
Price: £7.50 per child.
Learn how one man and the power of water changed the world, before completing an engineering challenge of your own!
Enjoy a fully resourced, practical, enquiry-based STEM day of learning. Your pupils will use a variety of historical sources and investigate both Cromford Mills and Cromford Village to understand the efficiency of different power sources, the types of water wheel and how Richard Arkwright harnessed waterpower on a large scale, for the first time at Cromford.
Pupils will use their learning to work in groups on a ‘design and make’ challenge. This will involve building a waterwheel housing, creating water channels and ensuring the waterwheel can transfer power and movement.
Focus: STEM / Design & Technology
Curriculum Links:
As well as Design & Technology and Science, this programme supports Geography and History.
Pupils will understand how key events (the Industrial Revolution) and individuals (Sir Richard Arkwright) in design and technology have helped shape the world. They will explore natural resources including forms of energy; use research and develop design criteria to inform the design of innovative, functional, appealing Products (water wheels) that are fit for purpose; generate, develop, model and communicate their ideas; select from and use a wider range of materials and components; show an understanding of mechanical systems in their products [for example, gears, pulleys, cams, levers and linkages]; evaluate their ideas and products against their own design criteria and consider the views of others to improve their work.
They will also develop contextual knowledge of the location of globally significant places, including their defining physical and human characteristics (KS2 Geography).
Duration: 5 hours ideally
Suitable for: This offer is targeted at KS2 classes; however, we can adapt content as required.
For groups of up to 30 pupils – multiple groups are possible.
Pupil to School Staff Ratio: ideally 1:6
Structure: fully led
Price: £7.50 per child
Build your own Geography trip with our pick ‘n’ mix selection of activities to suit all topics. Brush up on your map skills, compare Cromford to your locality or learn new field skills. This visit can enrich your learning around Cromford Mills and Richard Arkwright, or act as a stand alone day.
Curriculum Links:
This session supports the Geography curriculum. Pupils will interpret a range of sources of geographical information, including maps. They can use the eight points of a compass, map symbols and keys to build their knowledge of the locality, comparing it to other parts of the United Kingdom and the wider world. (KS2 Geography); use fieldwork to observe, measure, record and present the human and physical features in the local area using a range of methods.
Duration: 5 hours ideally
Suitable for: This offer is targeted at KS2 classes, however, we can adapt content as required.
For groups of up to 33 pupils – multiple groups are possible
Structure: Part-led. Can be fully led by Cromford Mills staff for an additional cost, please let us know when booking.
Pupil to School Staff Ratio: ideally 1:6
Price: £6.00 per child for a ½ led day, including a visit to the 3D presentation ‘The Arkwright Experience’
£5.50 per child ½ day without the Arkwright Experience
£7.50 per child for a fully led day up to 5 hrs.
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