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Loans Boxes for 'Hands on Learning'

Loans Boxes

Loan Box - Image Courtesy of Reading Museum Service

The 'Hands-on Learning' programme is run by Reading Museum
Service to provide real objects for learning within the classroom.

Loan boxes with teachers notes

Boxes of objects associated with Windsor and Maidenhead have been chosen from the Windsor & Royal Borough Museum for lending to schools across Berkshire and beyond.

They have been developed and packaged, together with teaching material, in partnership with Reading Museum Service.

Topics covered:

H330 Nineteenth Century: Maidenhead's Victorian Industries
H331 Twentieth Century: Second World War
H332 Twentieth Century: Second World War
H333 Nineteenth Century: Weights and Measures
H334 Twentieth Century: 1950s Home Life
H335 Windsor Great Park
H336 Woodworking
H337 Saxon Settlement
H338 Windsor & The Railway
H339 Windsor Castle

Sessions

Taught sessions in the galleries at the Museum of Reading, and in the classroom are also provided, led by trained museum staff.

Enquiries

All enquiries for these services should be made to Reading Museum Service, not to Windsor & Royal Borough Museum office.

Details of the boxes, sessions and related charges can be found by visiting the Reading Museum Service website:
http://www.readingmuseum.org.uk/ and clicking on 'Hands-on Learning'.

For further enquiries, or to make a booking, telephone 0118 939 9800.