Self-guided school visits

We have a selection of pre-visit, visit and post-visit resources on a range of themes which you are welcome to use free of charge both in the classroom and onsite.

These resources provide a variety of options to suit different abilities and learning styles. These resources offer schools cross-curricular learning links supporting a range of KS1-4 subjects including:

  • History
  • Citizenship
  • Art and Design
  • Geography
  • Science

Access the resources via the boxes below. If you’d like to use these alongside a self-guided visit, please book your visit via the group visits page.

An unfinished painting from our collection, showing people beside a waggon and horses.

The Long Road: Robert Dawson Romany Collection Learning Resource

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What is the future of our countryside?

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Woman making butter in the Little Dairy, at the farm of Mrs Spottiswood, Berkshire

How did rural work change over the 20th century?

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A group of schoolchildren watching a threshing machine in action. The image is in black and white and is from during World War Two.

What was it like moving from town to country as an evacuee?

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A bird standing on some soil.

Where have all our songbirds gone?

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A grey Ferguson tractor on a low pedestal.

How are different machines, tools and objects, past and present, used in country life?

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A group of men, women and children stand above a hammock full of harvested hops.

What industries have put Reading on the map?

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Black and white photograph taken in the 1940s of a man and boy sawing a tree trunk.

What was it like to be a child in the countryside?

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Three farmers haymaking in a Berkshire field. Black and white photo taken in the 1940s.

What was farming like before modern technology?

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An English landscape with fields in the background, fence and gate in the foreground.

Why does the countryside look like it does?

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An image of harvested beets with green leaves laid in a row in a growing bed, with soil taking up the rest of the image.

How diverse is your diet?

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What is selective breeding and why is it still relevant today?

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Black and white photograph showing a Fowler steam engine powering a cable plough in a field.

Why is farming a risky business?

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What can objects tell us about Superstitions and Folklore in Rural Life?

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Still from the Seasons film

Everybody Outdoors (PMLD/ Complex Needs)

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