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CHILDREN will step back in time on board Brunel’s ss Great Britain to be the first to take part in a stunning new workshop on Friday (October 10) – called ‘Sketch and Sea!’.
The Key Stage 2 group from Kings Stanley C of E Junior School will join the ss Great Britain Trust’s education team on the ship’s Promenade Deck.
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The new workshop is the latest in a series of special programmes for schoolchildren. Workshops, already popular with schools from across Bristol, the southwest, and beyond include ‘Passenger Investigation’ and ‘Victorians at Sea’ and ‘Salvaged!’.
All workshops, are thoroughly planned, tested, and are linked to the National Curriculum.
Dressed in Victorian costume the children will explore the First Class cabins, and discover what life must have been like for passengers on a long voyage 150 years ago.
They will discover some of the everyday experiences of the ship’s passengers and crew including Mr Jones, amateur poet and barber, the ship’s surgeon Samuel Archer, Georgina Bright, and Captain Matthews. There will even be a chance to dress up as Isambard Kingdom Brunel, with his sons Henry and Isambard Junior and his daughter Florence.
Inspired by written descriptions, photographs and drawings, including one by a child from 1874, the youngsters will sketch their own pictures.
Many of the activities are also featured in the ss Great Britain Trust’s Education Pack. Every year 16,000 children visit the ship as part of organised school groups. During the academic year 2007/08 the Trust ran 188 workshops, and has also worked in partnership with schools to deliver bespoke educational activities.
The ss Great Britain Trust Education and Access Officer Helen Horler said: “We are very excited to work with teachers and schoolchildren from Kings Stanley C of E Junior School on this exciting new workshop.
“From experience, we know that children love to dress up, and it helps them to learn what it must have been like for Victorians, whether they were rich or poor, to travel on board the ss Great Britain en route to Australia.
“Many children learn through being creative, and we are expecting some fabulous sketches from drawing from life!”
Kings Stanley C of E Junior School is in Stonehouse, South Gloucestershire.
Children who are not pupils of Kings Stanley will have the chance to draw their own pictures in ‘Psychic Sketch’, on October 28 and 29 and November 3, as part of the ‘half-term’ break events at Brunel’s ss Great Britain. And on October 31 families can make clothes and dress life-sized cut outs of Victorian passengers on the Promenade Deck as part of The Big Draw – a nationwide campaign to encourage drawing.
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