Low Parks Museum is housed in beautiful and historically significant buildings which were once part of the Duke of Hamilton’s estate. The 18th century Assembly Room, with its original plasterwork and musicians’ gallery, forms a striking centrepiece to the buildings.
PSHE (Personal, Social and Health Education)
PSHE (Personal, Social and Health Education)
Personal, Social, Health and Economic education (PSHE) can mean all things to all people, but in a positive way. It enables schools to analyse what they offer to students and to use PSHE programmes to provide the final rounded curriculum. This is not easy as PSHE is not so much a ‘subject’ as a group of learning experiences that need careful binding together lest they become amorphous.
PSHE at its best brings emotional literacy, social skills and healthy attitudes to the core studies of the history, economic state and social make-up of the local and wider community
Ofsted has praised some schools’ multi-faceted approaches to creating a caring and coherent school and reaching out to the local communities, and some schools for delivering sex and relations programmes effectively, and some for their commitment to equality and diversity. Visits and activities outside the classroom can act not only as focal points for a school’s work but as catalysts to reinforce the messages contained in the courses.
In some ways it does not matter where the visit is to. The importance is how well they are planned, the matching of the experiences to the aim, and the enthusiasm staff and students bring to it.
So, typically learning for PSHE takes place whilst undertaking other activities. Here we list a range of ideas which the Council for Learning Outside the Classroom suggest as activities which can engender excellent experiences to benefit students in this area.
Attitudes and values
- Talking about an object in a museum, or visiting a place of worship can give insight into issues, other cultures or periods of history.
- Creating your own work of art can give rise to explorations and understandings about the world and our place in it
- A visit to a farm can stimulate debate about animal husbandry and food production, and provide a context for designing a Fairtrade enterprise.
- Adventure education can provide opportunities to show different skills, such as leadership or teamwork.
- Seeing a play on the stage can bring a text alive and stimulate conversations about the values and actions of the characters.
- A residential can provide a different setting for conversations about what we believe and what we think is important.
Confidence and resilience
- Learning a new skill, such as map-reading or how to look at a painting, builds independence and confidence.
- Adventure education enables young people to test themselves in various ways and develop new aptitudes and dispositions.
- For young people with disabilities, a residential trip can foster independence and give them a rare opportunity to build close relationships outside the family.
- Planning their own experience or activity helps young people to gain confidence in a wide range of project planning skills. It can develop resilience in dealing with conflicting opinions, and in finding solutions to project challenges.
Communication and social skills
- A drama workshop requires teamwork and helps, to strengthen friendship groups.
- A residential experience enables staff to get to know young people, and young people get to know each other, discovering different aspects of each others’ personalities.
- An experience, such as visiting a power station, stimulates discussion and encourages young people to share ideas and opinions.
- A musical performance gives young people a feeling of achievement and a sense of personal success.
- Young people planning their own programme or activities gives them voice and choice and ensures their active involvement.
- Undertaking voluntary work in the community gives young people a sense of making a positive contribution.
Knowledge of the world beyond the classroom
- Young people who live in the country may encounter a town or city for the first time or vice versa.
- Environmentalists, town planners, artists, curators, scientists, politicians, musicians, dancers and actors can all act as new and powerful role models.
- Going to an arts venue can encourage young people to try the experience again.
- Recording the reminiscences of older people gives young people new insight into their community, and brings historical events alive.
- Going to a local civic institution like a town hall builds knowledge of how communities function.
- A school or youth council enables young people to learn about and participate in democratic processes
- Visiting the library enables young people to find out what they have to offer – apart from lending books.
- Children and young people with profound learning difficulties and disabilities may not often experience visits to galleries, concerts or the countryside because of the difficulties of transport and personal care which parents have to consider and cannot always manage alone. Educational visits may provide the only means for these young people to have such experiences.
Physical development and well-being
- Visiting a park, field studies centre or making a school garden all provide physical activity and develop an interest in the environment.
- Participating in recreational activities help to develop physical well-being and the growth of confidence.
- Many learning outside the classroom activities can also provide attractive alternatives to competitive sports and can lead to a lifelong interest in healthy physical recreation.
Emotional spiritual and moral development
- An integrated dance workshop with able bodied and disabled participants can help young people empathise and develop awareness of disability.
- Activities in the natural environment can encourage a feeling of awe and wonder, and an appreciation of silence and solitude.
- Visiting a place of worship develops an understanding of religion, reflection and spirituality.
- Engaging with young people in conversations about values and beliefs, right and wrong, good and bad supports their moral development.
Main organisations:
National Centre for Citizenship and the Law
Inclusion: NASEN
Venues for this Curriculum
Housed in a stunning modern building at the top of Hamilton Road, just opposite the station, Motherwell Heritage Centre features Technopolis, an award-winning interactive experience on the area’s past from the Romans to the great days of heavy industry.
The heritage centre is within the town library. Displays focus on the area’s strong 17th century covenanting heritage and the rise and fall of local heavy industries in the 19th and 20th centuries.
Social History
These collections are wide ranging in most aspects of social history:
Moorside Mills was built around 1875 as a small worsted spinning Mill by John Moore. Ownership of the mills changed many times, and they developed and grew. In 1970, Bradford Council bought Moorside Mills from Messrs. W & J Whitehead to create an innovative museum.
With the reopening of the museum there are a host of new and exciting displays and activities for you, including re-displayed period reception rooms featuring sparkling, restored chandeliers and new historic light fittings, and a new Dining with the Butterfields display which will give you a glimpse into how the family would have wined and dined their important guests.
Cartwright Hall is Bradford's civic art gallery and offers an exciting programme of contemporary exhibitions, with four permanent galleries displaying works from our art collections. The collections consist mainly of 19th and 20th century British art, with strong collections of international contemporary prints and contemporary South Asian art and crafts.
An evocative and unique collection of over 5000 artefacts established over 77 years ago, set within the garden and buildings of a 16th century Miller's cottage and watermill. Trewey Mill is a rare example and one of only two watermills in Cornwall producing flour today.
Wickedly Wonderful is a summer camp in the UK for children, it regularly receives top reviews in the national press, The Sunday Times and Daily Telegraph.
We offer residential summer camps during the summer and Easter holidays and skiing trips during the February half term holiday for children aged 6 to 13 years.
The Museum is located in the heart of the old St Ives fishing community of Downlong.
Formerly the building housed a Pilchard Curing Cellar, Bible Christian Chapel then a laundry and cinema.
The Centre occupies the recently restored Old School building and documents the rich history of its area and of St Hilary Church. This sits in a stunning location which time forgot and has a unique collection of Newlyn-school paintings from the 1920's, formed by the then vicar, Bernard Walke.
An award-winning volunteer-run Museum comprising information, artefacts and curios relating to the Parish of St. Agnes.
'The Royal Cornwall Museum is an essential place to come to if you are fascinated by Cornwall' Kurt Jackson, artist
If you want to see an unwrapped Egyptian mummy, explorers medicine chest and a wide range of Cornish and British art then head to the Royal Cornwall Museum.
Redruth Old Cornwall Society Museum is part of Cornwall Gold and is located on New Portreath Rd, between Redruth and Portreath.
The Mining Section
The mining section contains a number of mine lamps including some carbide lamps which produce and burn acetylene (C2H2). These were used in the tin mining industry from about 1900.
The Mineral Collection
Porthmeor Studios is a complex of artists' studios, built on top of eighteenth century pilchard cellars below. It is the oldest, possibly the only such complex in Britain and is unique in its combined heritage of fishing and art.
This museum of curiosities is housed in Penryn's old Market House. Penryn has been a thriving port even before its neighbour Falmouth had sprung up. The town was mentioned in the Doomsday book in 1086 and has a rich and varied history.
The museum houses a wealth of heritage and showcases the characters and objects that make up Penryn's past.
The Caradon mining area is a magnet for industrial heritage enthusiasts. The remains of engine houses on the south eastern edge of Bodmin Moor tell of 19th century mines producing copper, tin and other minerals. The mines circle the dramatic Cheesewring quarry which eats into the dark grey granite of Stowes Hill.
History of the County Regiment from 1702 to present date including a fine display of medals, uniforms and weapons plus a superb research facility manned by willing volunteers.
Housed in one of only two existing Keeps, a landmark, Grade II building in the Town of Bodmin, constructed at the time of the Napoleonic threats.
Constantine is one of the largest villages in Cornwall and has had its own local history museum since June 2005.
The Constantine Heritage Collection is dedicated to the agricultural, mining, quarrying and social history of the area.
The Heritage Centre is housed in an old chapel within the Town Cemetery. This building dates from the latter half of the 19c but has recently been refurbished.
Housed in the former butter and meat markets, now also the Drill Hall, the museum was established in 1949. The collection is mainly Victorian and covers all aspects of life on the Lizard Peninsula. Additions in recent times include an Early Learning Area, art and costume galleries and a shop. New displays in 2009 included serpentine and wartime.
Falmouth Art Gallery has a vibrant exhibition programme. We change exhibitions regularly and hang works from our permanent collection alongside major museum loans, work from local artists, community groups, school children and students.
Bodelwyddan Castle has over 500 years of history to discover. We are an independant charitable trust and a regional partner of the National Portrait Gallery with a mixture of UK and National Collections to discover. Our free, state of the art multimedia guides will take you on a fascinating journey through this historic house and will bring its stories and characters to life.
The Bluebell Museum collects, preserves, interprets and makes accessible to the public, artefacts, history, customs, practice and skills relating specifically to the Bluebell Railway and generally to the railways in the South of England.
Blists Hill is an open-air museum, one of ten museums operated by the Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust, built on a former industrial complex. It is one of the ten Ironbridge Gorge Museums. Enjoy a truly memorable day out at this recreated Victorian Town. An enjoyable way for all ages to discover more about Victorian life.
Come and see our wonderful collection of fashions dating from the early 18th century to the 1970's. Lime Tree House is a beautiful Georgian house built by John and William Bastard after the great fire of Blandford in 1731.
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