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Bring learning to life with a Mrs Smith's Cottage loan box.
Full of resources and activities designed to provide participatory learning opportunities.

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You can use our matterport digital model to explore the cottage as a group, we have some activity plans using this model you can try out.

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Early 19th century vernacular Lincolnshire cottage open to the public as a visitor attraction.

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Please find below our Risk Assessment, Accessibility Guide, Parking, and Site Map. We do advise booking a pre-visit to meet with our team and explore the site to get the best from your trip.

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If you have booked a trip, or are interested in booking a trip, to the cottage we recommend coming for a pre-visit.

This will help you to get an idea of our unique site, and can help greatly when creating your risk assessment.

To book your pre-visit please email: mrssmithscottage@n-kesteven.gov.uk

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Bringing your class to Mrs Smith's Cottage allows them to get hands on with history.
The immersive environment of the cottage creates a lasting impression, helping pupils to better understand the reality of daily life in the distant (and not so distant) past. Workshops run at the cottage are designed to create a personal and emotional experience, while offering fun and practical activities.

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"The staff at Mrs Smith's Cottage helped the children to feel as though they had actually travelled back in time. We are grateful to them for the way that they brought this learning to life for our pupils." - Waddington All Saints Primary School

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Key Stages 1 and 2
- Exploring stories within living memory.
- Local history study.
- Victorian Childhood.
- Comparing, grouping, and describing weights, sizes, textures and colours.
- Identifying materials and their suitability for different uses.

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Use this information to select the workshops you are interested in, staff at Mrs Smith's Cottage can help you build a really brilliant trip.
Email them on: mrssmithscottage@n-kesteven.gov.uk

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Half Day Visit - 3 workshops for up to 30 pupils - £180.60

Full Day Visit - 6 workshops for up to 30 pupils - £321.30

We are able to offer favourable rates for exceptionally small classes - please contact us for a quote.

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"The children spoke about all of the noises that were able to hear inside the house after a session with the sound boxes.  Moreover, the Wash Day Workshop and Rag Rug making gave the children a chance to use the Victorian artefacts and step back in time" - Navenby Primary School

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All of our workshops are designed to make use of these key skills:
- Speaking and listening
- Team working
- Problem solving
- Communication
- Empathy

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Early Years & Foundation Stage Nature Explorers Basket

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"Y1 children were absolutely fascinated by the artefacts in the box! They loved finding out about what they were used for, after guessing first." - St Faith's School, Lincoln

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- Exploring stories within living memory.
- Local history study.
- Toys from the Past.
- Comparing, grouping, and describing weights, sizes, textures and colours.
- Identifying materials and their suitability for different uses.
- Describing habitats and food chains.
- Introduction to how plants and animals grow.

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£7.40 per week

£17.90 per 6 week half term

Mileage will be charged for delivery of boxes, collection options are available.

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"We found the wash day cards particularly useful as they cemented the learning that we had completed on the trip." - Navenby School, 2021

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Use this to select the box you would like to book while completing the booking form. A member of the Mrs Smith's Cottage team can let you know what is available, simply email them: mrssmithscottage@n-kesteven.gov.uk

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Handling historic objects is a wonderful way to engage with the lives of people in the past.
All of our Loan Boxes come with lesson ideas to help you make the most of the objects.
These lessons are designed to cover these key skills:
- Speaking and Listening
- Team Working
- Problem Solving
- Communication
- Empathy
- Imagination

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We are able to bring workshops and objects from the cottage into school. Allowing us to work with multiple classes throughout a day, and making our learning offers more accessible by removing the restrictions of our small site, as well as the potential cost of transport.

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Key Stages 1 and 2
- Exploring stories within living memory.
- Local history study.
- Victorian Childhood.
- Toys from the Past.
- Comparing, grouping, and describing weights, sizes, textures and colours.
- Identifying materials and their suitability for different uses.

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We are in the process of re-developing our outreach offer.

For a quote and current details of what we can offer please email us:

mrssmithscottage@n-kesteven.gov.uk

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While you can use this Risk Assessment as a basis for your own, we do advise a pre-visit to explore the site and meet with our team.

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We encourage coaches to use our parking space on East Road to keep your pupils safe and to avoid blocking our neighbour's driveway. As East Road has no pavement outside our site, we recommend coaches drop off pupils into our parking space (1) where our staff will be on hand to lead them through our gate (2) to line up on the grass outside our learning centre (3) for our welcome.

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Learn more about what school might have been like for Mrs Smith by following our Victorian Lesson Plan.

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In this activity challenge your class to find their own poem using Mrs Smith's diary! This activity can be applied to any text you have available.