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Education and Schools
Bring Curriculum for Excellence to life with the help of Museum & Tasglann nan Eilean collections and exhibitions. Either through class visits to the museum or archive, loan boxes, online bilingual education packs or lessons.
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Bring your Class to Visit
A visit to the museum can be a unique, exciting experience for your pupils and can be used to explore a wide range of topics from our permanent or special exhibition galleries. If your school would like to visit us we have two options:
- General self-led visit The museum is available to visit free of charge for pre-booked school groups. Please contact us in advance to book a timeslot so that we can advise you if it will be a busy time.
- Supported visit Bring your class topic to life with a visit to the Museum or Archive. Our supported visits provides support from a member of our small team. Upon arrival, your class will be welcomed and receive an introduction, clipboards and pencils to use throughout your visit and pre-printed copies of a trail for Primary Schools.
Please note this is only available when staffing allows so please provide plenty of notice.
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Loan boxes for your classroom
If your school or nursery would like to borrow one of our self-led loan boxes, for learning purposes in the classroom, please get in touch to book. We have the following boxes on offer:
- Vikings & Lewis Chessmen
- Granny’s Attic
- Childhood Toys
- Herring Girls
- WW2
Loan Period
The loan period is usually one term but can be extended towards the end of your loan, if no one else has booked the box.
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Booking Visits or Loan Boxes
When booking please supply the following information:
- Type of request: General self-led visit, Supported visit or Classroom Loan box
- Name of School
- Contact name, email and telephone number
- Year and age group of your class(es)
- Number of pupils in the group
- Number of accompanying adults if applicable (Please note the minimum required ratios are: Nursery 1 adult to 5 children; Primary 1 adult to 10 children; Secondary 1 adult to 15 children)
- Any additional needs or requirements we should be aware of
- Preferred date(s) for visit or loan box
- Preferred start and finish times for visit (if applicable)
- Topics or focus of your visit or loan box
- Any additional questions or information you’d like to supply
Please send bookings or enquiries to museum@cne-siar.gov.uk
Education Packs
Our bilingual education packs focus on aspects of the Outer Hebrides’ rich heritage and culture and promoting access to Museum & Tasglann nan Eilean collections. Therefore, if you can’t come and visit us in person you can download the following resources for use with your classes.
Note: The packs can take a few minutes to download due to file size.
Herring Girls: Clann Nighean an Sgadain Navigation & Constellations Seals: Na Ròin Lighthouses: Na Taighean-Solais Vikings: Na Lochlannaich Castles Quiz