School Services
The Beacon is undergoing a total refurbishment and the main museum floors will be closed until 5th October 2007.
Services to schools are continuing as normal, with all activity sessions being offered as outreach sessions in your schools rather than being at The Beacon. To request an education pack detailing School Services, please contact The Beacon.
Activity Sessions - Schools
The Beacon offers a full series of Educational Resources under the separate brand of Learning Links.
Key stage linked Activity Sessions can be arranged for delivery either at your school or in The Beacon. £25 + VAT (travel charged for visits outside Copeland).
- Wash Day Blues
- The Weather
- Keep the Home Fires Burning WWII
- Town Trails (Harbour or Town)
- Roman Mosaics (by special request, please phone)
- What the Victorians Looked like (by special request, please phone)
Loan boxes
Full of real and replica objects together with teachers notes on interpretation and classroom use.
Loan Boxes can be borrowed on a weekly basis £10 + VAT per week.
Teachers to collect and return the boxes to the Beacon.
- Coal Mining
- Measuring the Weather
- Famous Victorians and Sal Madge
- The Romans
- Victorian Artefacts
- Victorian Toys
- Victorian School Room
- WWII
Art, Viking, Egyptians, The Seaside - will be available in 2007.
Document Loan Packs
Bumper packs of copies of original documents to bring teaching alive in the class room. Presented in easy clean folders in bumper A3 size. £5 + VAT per week. Teachers to collect and return the boxes to the Beacon.
- Old adverts
- The Workers and Poor in Victorian Whitehaven
- Coal and Iron Mining
- Ships and Shipping
- Settlement and Change in Whitehaven
Contact us to request the full Education Pack.
Video Conferencing
In partnership with CLEO (Cumbria Lancashire Education Online),
The Beacon is proud to be able to provide special video conferencing sessions by costumed characters on the following subjects:
- World War II Home Front (KS2 or KS3)
The year is 1942 and the air raid siren is sounding. Meet Averil in her Anderson air raid shelter to discover what she’s rescued in her bag of life’s essentials. - Victorians (KS2)
Meet Hannah, housekeeper for Lord Lowther. Find out about her work, her family and the influence of coal mining on the community.
For video conferencing bookings, pleas contact CLEO directly on 01524 592800 or email:
