Overview

COVID UPDATE: Due to the teaching spaces needed for this session, capacity has been reduced to one class only for Summer 2021 term. This session is available from April 2021 onwards.

Please contact the Education Team at schools@cityculturepeterborough.org.uk for more information about how we will deliver this session in a Covid pandemic.

Peterborough Museum is built on the site of a Tudor mansion, Neville Place, built by Sir
Humphrey Orme, a courtier to King Henry VIII. Part of this original building is visible today down
in the museum’s vaults. We offer a half day or full day visit.

• Visit Neville Place
  • Go down to the vaults of the museum and walk inside part of the original Tudor
    building. Meet the ghost of Sir Humphrey Orme the younger and receive a local
    perspective on a significant national event.
• Dress like a Tudor
  • Get up close to some of our Tudor portraits and, through questioning and close observation, discover what these portraits tell us about the sitters and the Tudors. 
• Meet a Tudor Barber Surgeon 
  • The Tudor period was a time of very nasty diseases and even nastier cures. Travel back to 1574 learn how your own Tudor ailment might have been cured. Each class will take a pomander back to school and may even be able to use the museum's 'Medicine through Time' garden to collect the necessary herbs.
• Discover Tudor Peterborough
  • With a Tudor costumed guide, go on a guided tour of the city following a Tudor map of the city. Look out for evidence of Tudor Peterborough and imagine life in a different time.

National Curriculum links: History, English, Science.

Learning objectives:

In this 'Tudor day', pupils will:

• Explore a historical site that is significant in the locality.
• Discover how several aspects of national history (the reformation, the plague) are reflected in the locality.
• Study an aspect or theme in British history that extends pupils’ chronological knowledge beyond 1066.
• Experience through role play, an aspect of social history, such as health from the romans, Tudors to the present.
• Discover how we can find out about the past by studying portraits.
• Discover what portraits can tell us about the lives of significant historical people in their locality.
• Show an understanding of aspects of Tudor life and be able to note change, cause, similarity and difference, and significance.
• Understand how past knowledge of medicinal herbs has been useful in developing modern drugs.
• Understand how our knowledge of the past is constructed from a range of sources.
• Participate in discussions, role-play, improvisations and debates.

Available as a half day or full day.

Please also see our Tudors: Monks, Monarchs & Medicine session which is a dual-site visit with Peterborough Cathedral.