Key Stage 2
Visits to Milton Keynes City Discovery Centre can be booked on 01908 227229
Geography
A Contrasting Locality
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£4.50 per student (accompanying adults free)
10am - 1pm (lunching areas are available upon request)
Linking in with the National Curriculum’s Key Stage 2 Geography “Breadth of Study” Milton Keynes is used as both the focus of study and a comparison with the pupils home town. This three-hour session is built around the NC suggested themes for study:
- Water and landscape
- Settlement characteristics
- Environmental issues
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IntroductionThe first hour begins with an interactive PowerPoint introduction to Milton Keynes which includes:
- The reasons why Milton Keynes is located where it is (settlements, water and regional perspectives)
- The impact of a new city on an area which was formally mainly agricultural (environmental issues).
- The features which make Milton Keynes different from most other British locations such as the road system, general layout, energy efficient housing and lots of green space (settlement characteristics)
- The natural tendency of this part of Britain to flood and how a system of parks and lakes has been created to meet this threat (environmental issues)
During this introduction pupils are encouraged to contribute views and facts about their home town using an activity sheet to help structure comparisons.
Study tourThe next two hours comprise a study tour of the new city. The itinerary for this tour includes:
- A range of housing estates to illustrate contrasts of age, design and socio-economic characteristics
- Locations which show the transition from agriculture to urban or from an industrial past to a modern city
- A range of shopping centres
- Examples of balancing lakes for flood management
During the study tour, a general environment survey will be undertaken unless directed otherwise by the teacher.
Schools to provide their own coach, which must include a public address system in good working order. Please stress the importance of this feature when booking your coach.
Contrasting Housing in Milton Keynes
Hands on History
£6.00 per student (accompanying adults free)
Morning session 10 a.m.- 12.30 p.m.
Lunch
Afternoon session 1.30 p.m. - 2.30 p.m.
Hands-on History days provide an opportunity for your students to experience history brought alive. We offer well structured sessions in a heritage setting which meet a range of learning styles. Please contact us for available dates.
Roman
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Students will take part in 3 workshops which may include:
Life in the Roman Army Your pupils will meet and hear from a fully equipped Roman soldier
Roman Cooking Your pupils will help prepare a typical meal from 2000 years ago
Roman Banquet Students attend the centrepiece of Roman celebration - the banquet.
Visit to a Roman Villa We will visit nearby Bancroft Villa and experience the exact dimensions
and layout of a Roman villa.
Precise programmes will vary according to the availability of personnel and
the weather
Please note: in order to visit Bancroft Roman Villa your coach will be required to stay all day |
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Children enjoying a Roman banquet
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Tudor
Students will take part in 3 workshops which may include:
Tudor Food
and Cooking Your pupils will investigate Tudor foods, herbs, help prepare a typical Tudor meal
Tudor Crime and Punishment Pupils find out all about some of the gruesome punishments of Tudor times
Tudor Beliefs, Superstitions & Medicine Pupils discover how people in Tudor times sought
solace through superstition and magic
Tudor Costume Students will learn how a person's rank
and status could be read at a glance of their clothes.
Precise programmes will vary according to the availability of personnel
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