Geevor Tin Mine

Geevor's Learning Team have developed a flexible timetable of activities for school group visits that aims to make the best use of your time at Geevor, whilst still giving you the option to choose a workshop of most relevance to you and your students.

Geevor is a cross-curricular site and encompasses topics such as the industrial revolution, social history, even environmental science. Knowing that time out of timetable is valuable to secondary students, we aim to provide a bespoke service which uses the site as inspiration for long-term projects to make the most of your visit experience. Topics as broad as Music, Design & Technology, Art, English and Geography can be applied onsite.

Support can be given to all visiting groups, even if you decide to self-guide whilst onsite. Specific workshops can be delivered either at school or onsite; resources can be provided to help your learning before, during and after your visit, such as photos, objects, sugggested classroom activities and site trails; extra activities, like hand-drilling, can be made available to you through Geevor's Learning Team; there may even be the possibility of exhibiting your students' final creative products to the public onsite at Geevor!

For primary school workshops, we recommend one class (up to 30 students) is practical, as for most activities we split into two groups of up to 15 each. We have regularly accommodated up to 60 students (i.e. 2 classes) at one time onsite, by swapping activities at lunchtime, but please be aware that this may limit the range of activities available to you.

Full First Aid facilities onsite.

there are ramps for most of the surface buildings, including the museum, shop and cafe, and there are wheelchair-accessible toilet facilities onsite. However, due to the industrial nature of the site, the Processing Mill and the Underground are not wheelchair accessible. Please note also that the site is situated on a steep incline. Geevor staff endeavour to be as accommodating as possible for any visitor's access needs and can suggest alternatives.