National Holocaust Centre and Museum Outreach Workshops

Our museum education team can come to your school and deliver to your students for either a half or full day. Bringing their expertise and creativity, they provide access to our museum collections and the testimony of our family of Holocaust survivors. They interest, engage and encourage students. Our programmes are designed to be fully inclusive for students with special educational needs and disabilities. All of our educators are former teachers in state schools; all have many years of experience and all of our full-time educators have completed the UCL MA in Holocaust Education.

Key Stage 2 children follow the journey of Leo, a German Jewish boy in 1930s Berlin. Leo is a composite character based on Holocaust survivor testimonies. Children learn about how Leo is persecuted by the Nazis and escapes to England on the Kindertransport.

For Key Stages 3-5, students learn about antisemitism, past and present, through sessions based on the contents of our Holocaust Exhibition. We ask students to analyse responsibility for the Holocaust and to critically evaluate social media and our responsibilities today.

Our programmes benefit pupils in History, English, Religious Education, PSHE and Citizenship. Many schools choose us because our outreach programme is focused on the personal development of young people, a key part of the Ofsted inspection framework.

We can visit all regions of the U.K., five days a week! (Except Northern Ireland)

We have the LOtC Quality Badge.

All of our educators are fully DBS checked.

We can accommodate all group sizes at your school.

Our museum’s education team have developed a suite of learning resources for you to use with your own classes before and after we visit you, enabling your students to prepare their thinking and questions as well as to reflect on their experience afterwards and consolidate their new knowledge and skills. These were developed by our educators, using the expertise of Holocaust educators in primary, secondary, Further Education and Higher Education settings. They have all been tested with school groups. Many schools send us examples of their follow-up work and activities – we love to receive these.

Yes.

We come to you.

In-School:

£220 for one educator for a half day, £350 for a full day.

If you want more than one educator, then it would be £440 for two for a half day for example.

We also ask for expenses to be covered, which is an additional £75 (if your school is within 75 miles of the museum), £220 (if your school is further than this) or £250 (if your school is in a London borough).

Online:

£200 for one educator for a half day.

We look forward to meeting you.

We do not have recently trained first aiders amongst our visiting educators.

Five days a week.

Contact us for further information.

“Thank you for making history come alive and providing the pupils with a thought-provoking experience.”

“Thank you to your team, they were very knowledgeable and helpful.”

“Nicola, who delivered our workshop, was excellent. She engaged brilliantly with the children and really had the children engaged throughout the session. Her own subject knowledge was excellent which really came across during the questions the children had at the end of the session.”

“Thank you so much for the opportunity – we cannot rate this workshop highly enough.”

“A huge thank you to Jan for making this such a great learning opportunity. She delivered it in a clear, simple, yet really interesting way and allowed the children lots of opportunity for reflection, peer-to-peer discussion and exploration of some tricky subjects. The terminology was really good too and as we are really working on children’s use of vocabulary and subject specific language, lots of key words were identified and discussed. The children could remember lots when the session was over. Thank you once again for providing this learning opportunity – it has been invaluable.”

“Absolutely brilliant – gave me a real insight into the children’s retained knowledge and helped them to learn so much more.”

“Nicola was wonderful and explained everything to the children in an engaging but truthful way that was age appropriate. She responded to the children’s questions brilliantly.”