Royal Armouries Museums

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1. KS 1 worksheets

Foundation and Key stage 1 downloadable worksheets for your visit to the Royal Armouries in Leeds.

2. Storybox Sessions

These multi-sensory experiences aim to inspire, develop speaking and listening skills and support citizenship in the classroom.

3. Art and Design and Technology

Get hands-on with a range of resources to make links to the study of materials, form, movement and shape as well as nature and the body.

4. Foundation, Reception and Key Stage 1

Our foundation, reception and KS1 activities are cross-curricular and can be used to support study of a wide variety of subjects including History, Literacy, Technology and Science.

5. KS2: The Tudors

These packs include a QCA planning grid, and six weeks worth of classroom resources. All can be printed and photocopied for your use.

6. Key Stage 2

The Museum contains a global collection that can be explored at first hand in our interactive sessions.

7. AS and A Level

The Royal Armouries education centre in Leeds offers a unique opportunity to students studying at A level and AS level. You’ll have the opportunity to work with archive material and study real objects.

8. History

These taught seminars, combine a presentation with first hand study of original and replica artefacts for a minimum of 15 students. Our Seminar Studies put AS and A2 students in touch with original archives as well as objects.

9. Art and Design

Here at the Royal Armouries our collection provides a challenging environment for artists to explore the wider issues of contemporary society through study, creativity and discussion.

10. Leisure and Tourism

The Royal Armouries makes an excellent case study for exploring the setting up and operation of a major new attraction.

11. Self-Led Visits

Our Museum is an ideal site for exploring topics in History, Art and Design, English and Local History. There is no single route through its galleries giving you the freedom to plan your groups’ activities.

12. KS2 Tudor Gallery Worksheets

Key stage 2 downloadable worksheets for your visit to the Royal Armouries in Leeds.

13. A Dynamic Alliance

A Memorandum of Cooperation between Royal Armouries Museum and the University of Huddersfield will be signed. Knights in armour will join dignitaries to witness the new partnership between the two organisations.

14. Key Stage 3

We offer a wide range of sessions ranging from object-based sessions in our Education Centre which focus on original objects, to handling replica objects in the galleries.

15. History: Conflict Through Time

Study conflict through time using analysis of our objects in hands-on sessions.

16. Studies in Depth: Medieval Realms

Study the Norman Conquest using the Bayeaux Tapestry as evidence and examine early and later Medieval armours in our handling sessions.

17. Studies in Depth: The English Civil Wars

The English Civil Wars are a key period for understanding the changing relationship between Crown and Parliament. Our object based sessions engage pupils as historians and help develop chronological understanding through this unique period of change.

18. Studies in Depth: World War One

Few organisations can offer the range of objects and resources we have available for students of the First World War. We examine the changing nature of society between 1914 and 1918 and look at the home front in some detail.

19. Studies in Depth: Second World War

The fallout from the Second World War casts a long shadow over the second half of the twentieth century. Illuminate the period’s darker and colder corners with a fascinating range of objects from our handling collection.

20. Studies in Depth: Modern World

Our collection is a fantastic way of understanding the major changes in conflicts over the twentieth century, from the War to End All wars to the modern conflicts in Eastern Europe, Asia and Africa.

21. Language and Literacy

We have developed a series of Hands-On interactive sessions in the Education Centre to complement Language and Literacy.

22. KS3: Art Studio

It is an unpleasant reality that humanity has spent large amounts of time designing for doomsday. We have been engaged in a race to perfect some of the most extraordinary weapons and cultivated the conviction they are acceptable to use.

23. Teaching the GCSE History Pilot?

With a large and varied collection available, we can provide support for both core and optional units in the new OCR History Pilot. Our collection is ideal for study of the following elements of the Pilot:

24. Key Stage 4

Our In Depth series can support study of almost any GCSE or KS4 topic in which conflict is a key concern.

25. Studies in Depth: Elizabethan England

Few organisations can offer the range of objects and resources we have available for students of the Tudors.

26. Studies in Depth: Modern World

Few organisations can offer the range of objects and resources we have available for students of the Modern World.

27. Studies in Depth: North America

Our collection can be used to support study of the North Americas at GCSE, either as an introduction or revision.

28. Studies Through Time

Few organisations can offer the range of objects and resources we have available for students of Change Through Time.

29. Leisure and Tourism

The Royal Armouries makes an excellent case study for exploring the setting up and operation of a major new attraction.

30. KS4: Art Studio

It is an unpleasant reality that humanity has spent large amounts of time designing for doomsday. We have been engaged in a race to perfect some of the most extraordinary weapons and cultivated the conviction they are acceptable to use.

31. Art and Design

A specialist art handling collection is available for students to use, including vintage and antique military uniforms, civilian fashions and ephemera. All sessions include objects from our handling collection and are accessible to all ages and abilities.

32. Why do we remember Florence Nightingale?

This new workshop, recently launched for Key Stage One school groups offers a fast-paced and interactive look at the life and work of Florence Nightingale.

33. KS3 World War One Gallery Worksheets

Downloadable World War One gallery worksheets to help you plan your self-led visit to the Royal Armouries in Leeds.

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1. On A Knife Edge: the ethics of weapons display

A seminar discussing the ethics of displaying weapons.

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