November 2010
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Tourism and Business studies workshops at the...
Bring your students to one of London’s most popular and iconic tourist attractions. With over 2 million visitors a year, the Tower of London is the nation’s leading historic visitor attraction. We offer workshops on customer service and marketing to inspire leisure, travel, tourism and business students. For details on the content of these workshops please click here.
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Availability for school visits to the Tower →
Thinking of visiting the Tower of London with your class? If you want to do a self directed visit check our up to date availability calendar then call us on 020 3166 6654 to make your booking.
Sarah at the Tower
Jiggery Pokery at Kensington Palace!
As part of the ERCG Creative Quarter event on Friday 19th November we ran an art installation workshop in collaboration with the Serpentine Gallery and artists Jiggery Pokery. Inspired by the Room of Palace Time in Kensington Palce, our workshop was a fun activity where students could come into the palace and work in a group to create a headdress. We then photographed them modelling their...
Bexley Grammar School to perform 'A Midsummer...
On New Year’s Day 1604, ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ was performed in the Great Hall at Hampton Court for the new King, James Stuart.
407 years later, Bexley Grammar School will perform their own 30 minute version of the play in the same space on 15th December. Following their successful production at the Unicorn Theatre, Southwark, on the 9th of November as part of the...
New slideshow of Hampton Court now available!
We’ve recently taken photographs of Henry VIII’s Apartments and the Tudor Kitchens at Hampton Court and uploaded them to our website as a slideshow to help teachers plan their visit and use as a resource back in the classroom. Just use the following link and choose ‘School visit information’. Enjoy a privileged peek into Henry VIII’s world!
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Traitors at the Tower!
On Saturday 6th November, around 350 family visitors took part in our free “treason” themed activities in the White Tower. Lantern window wobblers and Guy Fawkes hats were the most popular craft activities, with our volunteers doing a great job to make sure that everyone had the opportunity to make their own souvenir to take home.
Adults and children alike enjoyed learning about the story of...
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New Tower trails for KS 2 teachers
We have four new interactive trails designed to enhance a visit to the Tower of London for KS2 pupils:
Henry VIII at the Tower
The Tudor Tower
Tudor and Elizabethan Prisoners
The King’s castle
These trails are intended for the use of teachers and accompanying adults working with small groups of pupils. They include directions, suggestions for things for pupils to look for, think about and...
Big Draw at Kensington
Patchwork Palace
On Saturday 23rd and Sunday 24th October the education team worked with children and their families to create a patchwork palace quilt for the Big Draw event. The Enchanted Palace provided the perfect backdrop for us to look at examples of 18th and 19th century silhouettes of palace characters. Children cut out these shadowy forms and then enchanted them, fixing them on to the...