Educational Visits

Free Education Service

Yate Heritage Centre offers a free education service to Yate & District Schools. This can be provided via in-class visits or trips to the Centre.

The Education Assistant is Pat Lacy, a qualified teacher. She works at the Centre on Wednesdays and Fridays and can be contacted by completing the form on our contact page.

Schools outside the civil parishes of Yate, Dodington, Frampton Cotterell, Horton, Iron Acton, Little Sodbury, Sodbury, Westerleigh and Wickwar can book the education service but will be charged as follows:

• £13 per hour (including time spent travelling to and from the Heritage Centre)
• mileage @ 40p per mile
• cost of consumables supplied (worksheets etc.)

Workshops

We have already developed the workshops/activities listed below:

KS1

1. Homes including artefact handling and practical washing
2. Seaside Holidays
3. Toys and Games

KS2

1. The Romans in S. Gloucestershire
2. Alexander Staples, a Tudor wheeler dealer and his family
3. Different classes of children in Victorian Yate
4. Change in Yate in Victorian times
5. Yate during World War II
6. Change in Yate since World War II

We now have enough Victorian/Edwardian pinafores, waistcoats and caps to kit out an entire class thanks to the local Quilters’ group.

We would be happy to develop more workshops/activities….. just tell us what you would like and we will do our best to oblige.

As Pat used to teach in secondary schools, it would be especially good for her to work on some KS3, KS4 or 6th form units.

REMEMBER……

If you are “doing” World War Two or the Local History Unit, that you have been given an interactive CD Rom on 'Yate during WW2' (produced by the Heritage Centre) and a pack on 'Evacuees in South Gloucestershire' (produced by S. Glos. Museums and Avon Valley Railway).

There is also a 'Romans in South Gloucestershire' artefacts box with accompanying posters. This is available from S. Glos Museums and Heritage. They are based at the Council offices in Kingswood.