Foundation & Key Stage 1
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From January 2008 London Transport Museum will offer new education sessions to enhance your children's learning and enjoyment of our newly redesigned galleries.
For more information on any of the items below, please email us or call our Bookings Team on +44 (0)20 7565 7298.
2007-2008 Foundation Stage and Primary Schools Programme
Booked education sessions
Join us for one of our education sessions where objects from the collections, costumes and role-play bring transport and related topics to life. Sessions last 45 minutes and cost £1 per pupil, accompanying adults will be free.
Build a bus
(Key Stage 1)
Join our Education Officer in this highly interactive session which focuses on London buses through history. Working in groups, children use brick sets to build replica buses of those they can see in the Museum galleries. Learning covers wheels and axles, as well as investigating quirky features on our historical buses.
Supports the following:
- QCA Design and Technology Unit 2A - Vehicles
- History - Enquiry skills and chronological understanding.
Build a bus teachers' preparation
Platform promenade
(Foundation Stage and Key Stage 1)
Join our costumed actor for a fun tour of buses and Underground trains in our ground floor galleries. With role play, movement songs and counting games, your pupils are sure to enjoy their visit.
Supports the following:
Foundation early learning goals
- Knowledge and understanding of the world
- Mathematical development
- Communication, language and literacy.
Key Stage 1
- History - Enquiry skills and chronological understanding
- Science - Pushes and pulls, Forces and movement, Materials.
Platform Promenade teachers' preparation
All aboard hands-on gallery
In 'All aboard' children will be able to board a specially designed bus, train and boat, taking control as a driver or sitting back as a passenger. When you book a education session or a general visit, you will be allocated a thirty-minute slot in your visit timetable to enjoy this area, free of charge.
Downloadable resources
Activities for your museum visit
Here is a selection of activity sheets for your children to complete when they are in the galleries. The activity sheets will help your children to investigate the vehicles, displays and interactive models in the museum.
Gallery Activity -People
Gallery Activity -Vehicles
Gallery activity - Shape Hunt (supports KS1 Mathematics)
Gallery activity - Measurement (supports KS1 Mathematics)
Please remember to copy enough activity sheets for your group and to bring them on the day of your visit.