These visits have the same level of individuality as
visits to the Record Office and activities are tailored to your school and your needs.
Our documents are unique and irreplaceable, so unfortunately we can’t take them away from the Record Office. What we can bring are high quality printed and electronic copies. Combined with our professional knowledge and experience, these sessions work very well indeed and offer a more practical alternative to a Record Office visit, particularly where timetabling or other constraints make a visit out of school difficult or you wish to include several classes or a whole year group.
We can deliver outreach visits on the same wide range of topics as Record Office based visits.
Outreach visits work particularly well when combined with a Record Office visit, either as a pre-visit introduction or a post-visit follow up.
Recent Visits
Consett Community Sports College, Year 7
These visits took place in the students’ normal history lessons as part of the Learning Links project. Each session was a general introduction to archives and local history. Electronic copies of maps and documents were displayed on the Interactive Whiteboard and the students also used printed copies of the 1901 census to find out more about who was living in their area in the past. The teacher built on these sessions in later lessons with more local history work, including a walk around several nearby streets that the students had studied on the census. These sessions were very successful and resulted in the production of a
resource pack, ‘Local History’.
Wolsingham Primary School, Year 5
This visit was part of a Heritage Lottery funded project, Semi-Precious: Migration in Weardale and took place in September 2008. The session was based around quarrying and began with the children brainstorming what they currently knew about the topic. Then they looked at copies of photographs of men working in quarries and were asked to add speech bubbles to each person, imagining what that person was thinking. After a break, they looked at emigration and looked at adverts from the early 20th century, encouraging people to emigrate. They then looked at extracts from letters of the Graham family, who emigrated from Weardale in the 19th century. Finally, they chose a country and designed their own poster encouraging people to emigrate there.
