Sarehole
Mill offers a range of FREE teaching
sessions to Birmingham schools, covering
areas across the curriculum. Supported
visits are usually delivered
by the Sarehole Schools Liaison teacher
- Elfyn Morris.
Listed below are details of some
of the most popular teaching sessions available throughout the academic year. |
Victorians
The Sarehole Mop. A role play event
to support a study of Victorian
Britain at KS2. Children come in
19th century costume and learn
the trades of milling, baking and
corn-dolly making while a drama
unfolds around them at the mill.
The session lasts for two hours
and can accommodate 2 classes (max
64 pupils) at one time. (For schools
with a three-form intake, the third
class can double up with another
school) The event is held in the
Autumn and Summer Terms.
Supports National Curriculum History
at KS2- "Victorian Britain" |
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River Study
Start in Sarehole Mill to learn how
people in the past have used rivers
and the water cycle to provide
energy to produce food and other
goods. Spend the second hour of
the session investigating the River
Cole and identifying river features.
Record your investigation with
a digital camera. Follow up your
visit by using the Schools Liaison
web pages to extend your work on
rivers.
Supports QCA Geography - Unit 14
Investigating Rivers or Unit 11 -
Water |
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Buildings, Structures
and Materials
Learn how such materials as clay,
wood, glass, metal and stone were
used at Sarehole Mill. Compare materials
used in the past with those available
today. See how walls, roofs and timber
frames were built. Record investigations
with a digital camera. Combine literacy
and IT skills to insert captions,
labels and notes on the digital images.
Take a disk back to school with the
information on it for follow up work/display.
Supports Science/Technology/IT at
KS1/2 |
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Forces,
Gears, Levers and pulleys.
A session supporting Science and Technology at KS2. Pupils investigate the use
of gears, levers and pulleys in the real life context of a working watermill
with interactive models and computer simulations to help their understanding.
A digital camera is available to record information for use back at school.
Supports National Curriculum Science at KS2 Sc4 Physical Processes - "Forces
and motion" |
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Bread
How Flour is made and baked into
bread in a water mill. How millstones
work, how they are turned by water
power. How flour and bran are separated.
How wheat was grown and processed
in the 19th Century.How bread is
baked in a wood burning oven.
Supports QCA Design and Technology
Unit 5B Bread. |
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The Little Red Hen
Goes to Sarehole Mill
Specially designed for Key Stage
One, this session takes the traditional
tale of the Little Red Hen and adapts
it within the context of Sarehole
Mill. Children follow the process
of bread making from the planting
of the seed to the finished loaf,
helping the Little Red Hen to find
all the things needed. An illustrated
booklet is included for class reading.
Supports Literacy Text Level Work
from Reception to Y2 (e.g.: Traditional
Tales stories with repetitive patterns;
language of time) |
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Investigating around
Sarehole Mill
Practice orienteering, using a compass,
using maps of different scales, using
aerial photographs and using co-ordinates
to investigate the Mill and River
Cole. Investigate changing land use
by examining and comparing old maps.
Supports Geography QCA Unit 6 - Investigating
our local area. |
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