Schools Continued
Typical activities on offer at the Brickworks:
- Life at Bursledon Brickworks (cross-curricular, Science, Geography and history - Victorianns or WWII themes)
- brickmaking - each child makes a brick in the traditional way
- miniature narrow gauge railway ride
- brick clay preparation
- washday at Brickwork Cottages
- Travelling brickmakers: (cross-curricular, Science, Geography, social history themes including Tudors and Victorianns)
- shelter building
- brick clay preparation
- brick and tile making
- drying bricks and setting up a brick clamp
- Inventers, innovators and engineers: (Suitable for Geography, Art, Design and Technology, Science, history, cross-curricular learning)
- building a temporary artscape using brickworks materials
- toy and model making - exploring power, forces and machinery
- 'trains, planes, boats, automobiles and aerial ropeways' - exploring diverse transport methods
- hand-brickmaking and mass production: competition and team-working:
Traditional buildings (particularly recommended for the older child (9+)
- cob walls and bricks
- wattle and daub
- thatching
- setting up a basic lime kiln
- Shapes, Colours and Patterns at the Brickworks
- building brick bonds
- creating geometric floor patterns
- artscape from brickworks materials (Art & Design: Geology: Chemistry - clay and particle theory)
- exploring 3-dimensional shapes - make a brick and name its faces!
Our half day activities run from 10.00am until 12.00 noon and we charge £4.50 per child. Our full day activities are designed to run from 10.00am until 2.00 and we charge £7.50 per child. Owing to the complex nature and scale of this former industrial site group activities and access on site are led by our highly trained, experienced and CRB checked professional site interpreters at all times. Visiting children's groups must be accompanied and managed by their own responsible adults (at a ratio of approximately 1 adult: 8 children depending upon ages) - accompanying adults are admitted free of charge. Parking is also free of charge. Access to the site is from our main visitor entrance situated on Swanwick Lane and there is room for coaches.
Risk assessments for each activity can be supplied upon request.