Early Years and Key Stage 1 - Durham University

Early Years and Key Stage 1 Sessions

The Learning and Engagement Team offer a range of collections centred sessions and resources across all our venues. Information on each session can be found below.

Find out more about our sessions

Buddhism Session Information

Available as a half-day visit to the Oriental Museum or a half-day outreach visit to your school.

Durham Castle

Available as a full-day visit to Durham Castle.

Great Fire of London

Available as a half-day outreach visit to your school or a one-hour online session.

A 17th-century woodcut print showing how people responded to fires; using buckets of water to douse the flames, hooks on ropes to pull houses down to create a firebreak, letting children and belongings down through windows using ropes, fleeing the flames and praying.

Local History

Available as a half-day outreach visit to your school or a one-hour online session.

Cropped portion of 19th century map of County Durham showing Durham City and the surrounding area.

Lunar New Year

Available as a full-day visit to the Oriental Museum, a full-day outreach visit to your school or a one-hour online session.

Four smiling children are holding up a brightly coloured Chinese parade dragon while standing next to a display case holding Chinese ceramics.

What Makes a Great Artist

Available as a half-day outreach visit to your school or a one-hour online session.

Downwards view of a table covered with bottles of paint, two blue trays filled with different colours of paint swirled together with paint brushes and straws lying in them and a completed artwork made of straws and card in the shape of a heart.

Botanic Gardens

A free self-led visit for EYFS and KS1 classes to the Botanic Gardens, booking is still required. Explore the gardens, woodland and greenhouses in our beautiful gardens.