EDUCATIONAL VISITS
Make a visit to The Kent Mining Museum the highlight of your school year. With excellent facilities and a programme of activities tailored to your school's needs and delivered by our on site qualified teachers, we guarantee a visit that will keep your students engaged and excited about local history. We can accommodate groups from EYFS right through to undergraduate and beyond. Bespoke sessions for small groups and SEN visitors can be tailored to your specific needs.
WHAT MIGHT YOUR VISIT LOOK LIKE?
We offer an action packed day, including free time to enjoy the park too! Parking for educational groups is complimentary, and we can also provide a risk assessment and sensory map ahead of your journey to make your trip planning even easier. Take a look below at what a typical day-long visit might look like...
A Day in the Life of a Miner
For our younger visitors this session is a fun way to learn about what was like for a miner in the Kent Coalfield. Through role play and prop handling, your students will start their day by 'clocking on' with their pit check and heading down to the coalface. Delivered by qualified teachers and ex-miners, this session is engaging, fun and informative!​
Older students examine authentic mining objects and engage in dialogue with the miners in order to discover the details of their daily lives
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Exclusive museum tour & activites
Our accessible museum offers learners a safe space to explore and exclusive access for the duration of your visit. Students can dress up, engage with the interactive exhibits, take part in challenges and scavenger hunts - all designed specifically for the age and ability of your group. Older students may also enjoy sketching, code breaking and examining items from our archives that are usually locked away!
Choose from a range of workshops
After lunch and free time in Betteshanger Park and playground, finish your experience with a workshop in our bright and spacious learning space. From fossils to pit poetry we have workshops to suit all ages and abilities. Our workshops are carefully designed to compliment many areas of the curriculum including, STEAM, Citizenship, Literacy and PSHE. These sessions are hands on and embody our core learning and engagement values of collaborate, investigate, learn, support and play.
"EXCELLENT DAY!
The children enjoyed the dressing up and meeting the real miners. They were keen to look around the museum because they were keen to find the mice. They all enjoyed getting messy with the clay and making the fossil rubbings."
-Eastling Primary School
"It was exceptional. The team there are doing a wonderful job and I would return every year with a class, or classes. I will be telling all of my peers and colleagues about Betteshanger and the Kent Mining Museum. A brilliant and educational trip."
-Ellington Infant School
TRAVEL BURSARY & DISCOUNT
Bursary funding is available now!
Arranging travel for school trips can be costly and prohibitive, that's why we have teamed up with Hyundai's Great British School Trip. Register your school to see if you qualify for a free travel bursary.
Our friends at Bayliss Executive Travel may be able to offer competitive coach hire to local schools. To find out more, simply contact the team at Bayliss quoting "Kent Mining Museum" to take advantage of this offer.
