Continue your learning journey with a variety of sessions professionally crafted for Key Stage 2 pupils. Our passionate staff and volunteers are experienced historians, teachers and educators. We can work with you to build immersive education days that complement your curriculum and deliver outstanding teaching and learning outcomes. Explore our sessions and resources below.
Key Stage 2
Continue your learning journey with a variety of sessions professionally crafted for Key Stage 2 pupils. Our passionate staff and volunteers are experienced historians, teachers and educators. We can work with you to build immersive education days that complement your curriculum and deliver outstanding teaching and learning outcomes. Explore our sessions and resources below.
Children of the Mills
Duration: 5 hours
Structure: Fully led
Price: £7.50 per child
Curriculum links: Local History, Themes in British History
‘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: The lives of workers and the impact of the Mills
- The Industrial Revolution
- Water Power
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)
Suitable for: For groups of up to 32 pupils – multiple groups are possible
Pupil to School Staff Ratio: ideally 1:6
For booking enquiries please contact – learning@arkwrightsociety.org.uk
Wonderful waterwheels STEM
Duration: 5 hours
Structure: Fully led
Price: £7.50 per child
Curriculum links: Geography, History, Design & technology, STEM
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 waterwheel and how 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.
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 (waterwheels) 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).
Suitable for: For groups of up to 30 pupils – multiple groups are possible.
Pupil to School Staff Ratio: ideally 1:6
For booking enquiries please contact – learning@arkwrightsociety.org.uk
Cromford Geographers
Duration: 5 hours
Structure: Part-led by Cromford Mills staff (can be fully led for an additional cost—please let us know when booking)
Pricing Options:
- £6.00 per child – Half-day (part-led) including the 3D presentation ‘The Arkwright Experience’
- £5.50 per child – Half-day (part-led) without The Arkwright Experience
- £7.50 per child – Fully led day (up to 5 hours)
Curriculum Links: Geography
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 Sir 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, use fieldwork to observe, measure, record and present the human and physical features in the local area using a range of methods. (key stage 2 Geography)
Suitable for: For groups of up to 33 pupils – multiple groups are possible
Pupil to School Staff Ratio: ideally 1:6
For booking enquiries please contact – learning@arkwrightsociety.org.uk