Educational Visits
Staffordshire Arts and Museums Service offer a range of educational services including programmes for schools and colleges, children's activities and community events.
County Museum Service|||: Connect with museums across Staffordshire, book the mobile museum and find out about our resource packs and loan boxes!
Shire Hall Gallery|||: Work with professional artists, see an exhibition, re-enact a trial in our historic Victorian Courtroom or find out about the Arts Award!
You can see County Museum collections on display at the Shugborough estate. The estate offers a wide range of hands-on, curriculum based sessions for schools as well as tours and demonstrations, from early 19th century corn milling to World War II and the Blitz. Visit Shugborough's education pages||| to find out about the packages on offer! Alternatively, click here||| to find out about SMART, a website connecting teachers with museums across the county.
Did you know that we can bring our museum to your school, community or event? Museum on the Move is a fully equipped exhibition on wheels! Click here||| to find out more!
Young Curators is the result of a partnership between Staffordshire museums and local schools to create displays using the museums' reserve collections. The displays have been touring Staffordshire since April 2010. |.
Education Packs
'Yes, We have No Bananas: Rationing and Austerity in Staffordshire During the 1940s and 1950s' is a KS2 resource which takes a look at life on the Home Front in Staffordshire with the help of 'The Woman From The Ministry'. A full teacher's pack including a film demonstrating war-time recipes, lesson plans, activities and learning resources is available.
'In Memoriam' is a CD-Rom and resource pack for KS3 which explores changing attitudes toward life and death from the Victorian period to the First World War.
Investigating methods of mourning through dress, public and private memorials and symbolism - and telling the story of the Unknown Soldier, this pack is supported by lesson plans and a set of artefacts from the museum collection which are available for loan.
Related Resources: 'In Loving Memory'|||: an online exhibition commemorating death in Staffordshire on the Staffordshire Past Track online resource.
Training for the Trenches is a Keystage 2 and 3 package based around the recently reconstructed original hut from Brocton Army Training Camp on Cannock Chase. The project's aims were to look at ideas of remembrance and citizenship through studying issues around the Great War.
Click here||| to find out more about the project and online resource.
For more information on these resources, contact Helen Johnson, Museum Development Officer on 01889 881 388 or e-mail helen.johnson@staffordshire.gov.uk|||
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The Shire Hall Gallery is a Learning Outside the Classroom Quality Badge Holder! The Quality Badge is awarded to organisations which deliver good quality teaching and learning experiences and manage risk effectively.
We develop and facilitate learning experiences in Art, Design, History and Citizenship for all ages from Early Years to Lifelong Learners. We're happy to work with Special Needs settings, ESOL, Skills for Life and can develop packages to suit your requirements. Contact us to find out more!
If you're thinking about arranging a visit, download our 
||| School Visit Guide||| (PDF, 8MB) for the answers to your questions about our educational packages, facilities and spaces.
What can we do?
Self directed visits to our Contemporary Art exhibitions and Historic Victorian Courtroom are free of charge! Please contact us in advance so we can avoid any schedule clashes.
Schools can work with professional artists and experts in January/February and September/October during our schools exhibitions. Click here||| to find out more!
Play the judge, jury and defendant as you re-enact a trial in our Victorian Courtroom! Download resource packs for for KS2 or KS3||| or get in touch if you'd like to use our courtroom as a setting for your own drama!
Schools Participating in the annual Magistrates' Mock Trial Competition||| (Years 8-9) or the Bar National Mock Trial Competition||| (Years 10-13) are welcome to use the courtrooms at the Shire Hall Gallery for rehearsals.
People in Paintings is a resource pack for teachers which uses the paintings of local artist Mabel Layng (1881 - 1937) to deliver Art & Design for KS1&2. Mabel's paintings show everyday life in the early twentieth century and the fashions and styles of the 1920s - get your free pack today!
We can help you to gain your Arts Award! You'll find more information about the scheme here!|||
We're here for Scouts, Cubs, Beavers, Brownies, Guides & Rainbows too and can help you to complete a whole range of badges.
"We brought a group of Cubs and Beavers to the Gallery. We covered enough in the visit to be able to award the cubs their artists badge. This included real life drawing, imaginative drawing, making cards, exploring the sensory room and viewing the contemporary gallery display. In achieving this the Gallery were very supportive giving us the space and support throughout the visit, as well as supplying the components for the card making session. The visit was all the more enjoyable because of the old Crown Court room. This was our base for the visit and we re-enacted a real court case. Its no surprise to anyone that the Cubs in the Jury found the defendant guilty, especially as they were one of the leaders! This was both enjoyable and the start of our 'Local Knowledge' badge."
Mick 'Kaa' Dodd - 1st Heath Hayes Cub Scouts, Chase district, Staffordshire.
If you would like to discuss any of the educational activities on offer at the Shire Hall Gallery, contact Jackie Bradbury, Education Co-ordinator on 01785 278170, or email jackie.bradbury@staffordshire.gov.uk|||.
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