Location – PICKFORD’S HOUSE 

Duration: 120 mins

Booking and Prices: £6.50 + VAT per pupil. This session allows 25 pupils (minimum) to 35 pupils (maximum)

Key Stage: Key Stage 2

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Session Description:

Step inside Pickford’s House and discover the national and global histories of employment, empire, enlightenment and entrepreneurship that has been witnessed within these walls! Your learners will get to know the people who have lived and worked here, and specifically delve deep into Mary Pickford’s life. Through actively exploring and questioning a range of historical sources, and engaging in exciting hands-on, creative activities, they will uncover her interesting local influence, that tells a greater national story. What will your learner detectives find out? What will they make of Mary?

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National Curriculum Links Include:

• History – Asking questions, collaborative working, communicating ideas, creativity, critical thinking, curiosity, culture, Derby/Derbyshire heritage, discussion, enterprise, evaluating, experimenting, exploring ideas, key vocabulary, local history depth study, making, museum learning, speaking and listening, timelines, tracing aspects of national history in the locality.