School trips

We run half or full day events for schools which can be tailored to suit the individual needs of the children attending. Schools can choose from a tour of the centre with question trail and worksheets, guided town trail and/or costumed drama workshop.

Museum Tours

Allow about one hour for your class group to explore the Centre, following our question trail on each floor, and completing our worksheets.

Each floor has interactive exhibits to engage and inform the children. Our Dream Cave is a particularly popular exhibit. It can take some considerable time to get the children to leave!

Guided walks around Wirksworth

We also run guided tours of the town. These take around an hour, starting out at Crown yard, continuing to the market place, touring the notable buildings on the main street, stopping off at Church walk and St mary's before passing the old grammar school and touring Coldwell street before returning to the heritage centre.

Drama Workshop.

We offer costumed drama workshops, usually on the theme of life for leadminers and mine owners. These encourage children to use their imaginations to think about the lives and roles of people in the past. They can be tailored to other areas of the curriculum by arrangement

Recording and interviewing

We encourage the children to make use of digital cameras and camcorders to record their experiences on the school visit and can arrange for a qualified I.T instructor to visit the school after the trip to help the children to compile a web page about their experiences at the heritage centre. this page can then be published on our website.

Previous visits

• Wirksworth Junior School