Key Stages 1 and 2
Click on the workshop title for more detailed information, including prices and approximate duration of activities.
All workshops have links to the History curriculum and to the literacy framework.
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Homes in the Past | Dove Cottage as a family home 200 years ago | 1-4 |
Talk for Writing: an event in the past | A variety of approaches to a short piece of prose, leading to the writing of a group story | 1-6 |
Talk for Writing: daily life in the past | A look at short pieces of historical writing that will encourage children to think about how their own lives would have differed 200 years ago | 1-6 |
Dove Cottage Home of William Wordsworth | The life of a famous Cumbrian and the story of his most famous poem | 2-6 |
Dove Cottage and The Wordsworth Museum | A guided tour of Dove Cottage followed by a visit to The Wordsworth Museum | 3-6 |
Readers and Writers (Nov-March) | An opportunity to write poetry in Dove Cottage, a visit to The Wordsworth Museum and a workshop on Wordsworth's Lucy Gray | 3-6 |
Lucy Gray | Using illustrations to explore a classic, narrative ballad | 3-6 |
Talk for Writing: The Leech Gatherer | A fine-art painting of a Wordsworthian figure forms the basis for discussion and descriptive writing | 4-6 |
