SECONDARY SCHOOLS

Secondary School Learning at the Ashmolean Museum

'Great for students to interact with objects, especially the opportunity to handle them.’

Our world class collections can transport your students to an array of times, places and cultures through inspiring and memorable learning experiences.

Choose from our extensive range of taught gallery sessions led by creative and experienced learning staff. Take advantage of unique access to The Ashmolean’s collections with curators and Oxford academics at our A Level Study Days. Booking is essential.

Designed to cater for all learning needs, we also offer free school visits to our highly acclaimed exhibitions, teacher CPD opportunities and downloadable online resources.

Download our 2019-20 Secondary & FE programme

Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND)

We welcome and support children with SEND in mainstream schools. We also design and deliver free sessions for students from special schools, as well as outreach sessions for children who can’t get to the Museum eg hospital schools.

Our taught gallery sessions are planned as inclusive learning opportunities and activities can be adapted for students with SEND if flagged up at the time of booking. We can provide visual description for blind and partially sighted children as well as large print resources, raised images and handling resources including, in some cases, original archaeological artefacts as well as replicas. We are able to talk through the museum context and aspects of a visit that may affect children with autism.

Visit our Access page for further information and to download our social guides to support school visits to the Museum.

Our experienced educators can make suggestions to help with planning for your trip. Contact us to discuss your requirements.

Exhibitions

Teacher training and CPD

We offer an extensive programme of teacher CPD across a range of curriculum subjects which are tailored to each school’s needs. We can arrange pre-visit planning sessions, including exhibition previews.

We also deliver specially designed programmes each year for trainee teachers from a range of institutions including Oxford University, Oxford Brookes University, local School Direct programmes and Bath Spa University on subjects including RE, history, art and design, science and English.

Topics covered in our bespoke training sessions include: