Museum of Liverpool

Curriculum topics available: Vocabulary grammar and punctuation.

Little Liverpool KS1 - Students will listen and respond appropriately to adults and their peers, and ask relevant questions to extend their understanding and knowledge.

Liverpool's Best Buildings KS1 - Students will listen and respond appropriately to adults and their peers, and ask relevant questions to extend their understanding and knowledge. They will build their vocabulary, articulate and justify answers and opinions, and give descriptions and explanations for different purposes. They will maintain attention and participate in conversations, staying on topic and responding to comments, as well as using spoken language to develop understanding through imagining and exploring ideas. They will speak audibly and fluently with an increasing command of Standard English, participate in discussions, and select and use appropriate registers for effective communication.

Then and Now: Toys KS1 - Students will listen and respond appropriately to adults and their peers, and ask relevant questions to extend their understanding and knowledge. They will use relevant strategies to build their vocabulary, articulate and justify answers, arguments and opinions, and give descriptions and explanations for different purposes. They will maintain attention and participate in conversations, initiating and responding to comments, and use spoken language to develop understanding through imagining and exploring ideas. They will speak audibly and fluently with an increasing command of Standard English, and select and use appropriate registers for effective communication.

Then and Now: Transport KS1 - Students will listen and respond appropriately to adults and their peers, and ask relevant questions to extend their understanding and knowledge. They will use relevant strategies to build their vocabulary, articulate and justify answers, arguments and opinions, and give descriptions and explanations for different purposes. They will maintain attention and participate in conversations, initiating and responding to comments, and use spoken language to develop understanding through imagining and exploring ideas. They will participate in discussions and use appropriate registers for effective communication.

Gateway to the World KS2 - Students will listen and respond appropriately to adults and their peers, and ask relevant questions to extend their understanding and knowledge. They will articulate and justify answers, arguments and opinions, and participate in discussions and presentations. They will gain, maintain and monitor the interest of the listener(s), and select and use appropriate registers for effective communication.

Victorian Childhood: Rags and Riches KS2 - Students will listen and respond appropriately to adults and their peers, and ask relevant questions to extend their understanding and knowledge. They will articulate and justify answers, arguments and opinions, give well-structured descriptions, explanations and narratives for different purposes, and participate in discussions, presentations, performances, role play, improvisations and debates.

Curriculum topics available: Drawing, Design, Painting.

Liverpool's Best Buildings KS1 - Students will learn that a range of materials can be used creatively to design and make products. They will use drawing and collage to develop and share their ideas and imagination, as well as learning about art and design techniques in using colour, pattern, texture, line, shape, form and space. They will also learn about the work of a significant artist, describing the techniques used and making links to their own work.

Curriculum topics available: Urbanisation.

Little Liverpool KS1 - Students will learn how to refer to key human features, including city, town, village, factory, farm, house, office, port, harbour and shop.

Liverpool's Best Buildings KS1 - Students will learn how to refer to key human features, including city, house, office, port, road and shop.

River Mersey - Gateway to the World KS2 - Students will learn how to describe and understand key aspects of human geography, including types of settlement and land use, economic activity including trade links, and the distribution of natural resources including energy, food, minerals and water.

Little Liverpool KS1 - Students will learn about significant historical events, people and places in their own locality.

Liverpool's Best Buildings KS1 - Students will learn about significant historical events, people and places in their own locality.

River Mersey Gateway to the World KS2 - Students will develop a chronologically secure knowledge and understanding of British, local and world history, establishing clear narratives within and across the periods they study. They will note connections, contrasts and trends over time, and develop the appropriate use of historical terms, as well as addressing historically valid questions about change, cause, similarity and difference, and significance. They will construct informed responses that involve thoughtful selection and organisation of relevant historical information, and understand how our knowledge of the past is constructed from a range of sources. Also relates to a local history study - an aspect of history or a site from a period beyond 1066 that is significant in the locality.

Curriculum topics available: Factories and The Workhouse, Childhood and Schools.

Victorian Childhood: Rags and Riches KS2 - Students will continue to develop a chronologically secure knowledge and understanding of British and local history, and note connections, contrasts and trends over time, developing the appropriate use of historical terms. They will address historically valid questions about change, cause, similarity and difference, and significance. They will construct informed responses that involve thoughtful selection and organisation of relevant historical information, and understand how our knowledge of the past is constructed from a range of sources.

Curriculum topics available: Map and atlas.

Little Liverpool KS1 - Students will learn how to refer to key physical features, including beach, cliff, coast, forest, hill, mountain, sea, ocean, river, soil, valley, vegetation, season and weather.

Liverpool's Best Buildings KS1 - Students will learn how to refer to key physical features including beach, coast, river, weather.

River Mersey - Gateway to the World KS2 - Students will learn how to locate the world’s countries, using maps to focus on Europe, and North and South America - concentrating on their environmental regions, key physical and human characteristics, countries, and major cities. They will also gain place knowledge to understand geographical similarities and differences through the study of human and physical geography of a region of the United Kingdom, a region in a European country, and a region within North or South America.

Then and Now: Toys KS1 - Students will develop an awareness of the past, using common words and phrases relating to the passing of time. They will discover where the people and objects they study fit within a chronological framework, and identify similarities and differences between these in different periods. They will use a wide vocabulary of everyday historical terms, and ask and answer questions - choosing and using sources to show that they know and understand key features. They will understand some of the ways in which we find out about the past and identify different ways in which it is represented.

Then and Now: Transport KS1 - Students will develop an awareness of the past, using common words and phrases relating to the passing of time. They will discover where the people and objects they study fit within a chronological framework, and identify similarities and differences between these in different periods. They will use a wide vocabulary of everyday historical terms, and ask and answer questions - choosing and using sources to show that they know and understand key features. They will understand some of the ways in which we find out about the past and identify different ways in which it is represented.

Curriculum topics available: Everyday materials.

Then and Now: Toys KS1 - Students will learn about everyday materials. They will be able to distinguish between an object and the material from which it is made, and identify and name a variety of everyday materials, including wood, plastic, glass, metal, water, and rock. They will be able to describe the simple physical properties of a variety of everyday materials.

Curriculum topics available: Stone Age, Bronze Age, Iron Age.

Stone, Bronze and Iron Age Britain KS2 - Students will learn about changes in Britain from the Stone Age to the Iron Age, Late Neolithic hunter-gatherers and early farmers, Bronze Age religion, technology, and travel, plus Iron Age farming, art, and culture. Students will be inspired to know more about the past and ask perceptive questions, think critically, weigh evidence, sift arguments, and develop perspective and judgement. They will understand the complexity of people’s lives, the process of change, the diversity of societies and relationships between different cultures, as well as their own identity and the challenges of their time. They will also understand chronological narrative, from the earliest times to the present day: how people’s lives have shaped this nation and how Britain has influenced and been influenced by the wider world. They will understand the methods of historical enquiry, including how evidence is used rigorously to make historical claims, and discern how and why contrasting arguments and interpretations of the past have been constructed.

Curriculum topics available: Invaders and Settlers, Viking Raids and Invasion.

Invaders - Anglo-Saxons and Vikings KS2 - Students will learn about Britain’s settlement by Anglo-Saxons, and Viking raids and invasion. The workshop covers four main topics including everyday life of people who lived at that time, the materials used to make objects, weaving, and clothing and armour.

Curriculum topics available: Geometry.

Liverpool's Best Buildings KS1 - Students will learn to recognise and name common 2-D and 3-D shapes. They will be able to use the language of position, direction and motion, including: left and right, top, middle and bottom, on top of, in front of, above, between, around, near, close and far, up and down, forwards and backwards, inside and outside.

Curriculum topics available: Invaders and Settlers.

Invaders - Anglo-Saxons and Vikings KS2 - Students will learn about Britain’s settlement by Anglo-Saxons, and Viking raids and invasion. The workshop covers four main topics including everyday life of people who lived at that time, the materials used to make objects, weaving, and clothing and armour.