School News

Calling all teachers, we need your help! The Museum is currently reviewing its offer to schools and we’d like your views on the service you’d like to see from us…

Still at home? Pick a nice day and open one of your windows (or go out into your garden). What can you smell? Hopefully your nose will pick up some…

Lots of us are currently stuck at home! Pick a nice day and take a little time to sit by an open window – what can you hear outside? Make…

With the rain feeding our gardens and the sun getting ready to reappear, many of us are currently stuck inside! Why not take a little time to sit by a…

Easter has been an important time of year for centuries, especially when religion strongly influenced people’s lives. It is easy to imagine people decorating many of the buildings that we…

We have a number of egg-citing activities and competitions to keep you creatively active over the two-week Easter holiday break whilst at home. Why not create a piece of art…

Are you imaginative and creative and do you like writing? Why not take part in our historical fiction short story competition? The judges will be looking for an engaging historical…

Waste not want not. Got some overripe bananas to use up? Why not try this recipe from our Bakehouse for a delicious banana cake. Banana cake recipe (makes 12 large…

On Saturday, 7 March 2020, you are invited to our Spring Teacher Preview Day to find out more about the Museum, what we offer for school groups and opportunities for…

During a couple of weeks in October 2020 we are inviting school groups to put up an exhibition inspired by the Weald & Downland Living Museum and steward it in…

Blood suckers. Parasites. Ten stomachs. Thirty two brains. Three sets of jaws. Three hundred teeth… Hard to like based on those features? Yet those very features have led to an…