Cheshire

Check out Cheshire's attractions for your next school trip from amazing feats of engineering to working water wheels.

Anderton Boat Lift

Anderton Boat Lift provides children with a unique opportunity to experience what it is like to travel on a Victorian boat lift. It also supplies a superb location from which to conduct a local study, observe wildlife and learn more about the history of the waterways, outside of the classroom environment.

There is an Education Visit Manager, wet weather location for lunch, bag storage and a café and shop all of which will help to ensure your day runs smoothly; making Anderton Boat Lift a great place to bring your class.

The children can observe the boat lift working up close, on a guided boat lift trip and an additional river trip is available to extend your time spent aboard.

The team at the Anderton Boat lift has put together an excellent new education package allowing you to get the most from your visit.

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Quarry Bank Mill

Quarry Bank Mill allows education groups an unrivalled opportunity to immerse themselves in the sights, sounds and smells of the Industrial Revolution.

Quarry Bank Mill is a site of international importance, being the most complete and least altered factory colony of the Industry Revolution. It has been brought vividly back to life today by costumed interpreters, operating machinery and restored garden. Spinning wheels turn, as staff tell tales of life before the mills. Fearsome machinery roars, illustrating the inherent dangers so many young Victorian children faced in factories. The Apprentice House shocks, with strict Victorian school lessons, dirty dormitories, and gruesome medicines to gulp! And the giant water wheel amazes, as children learn how water and steam powered the mill you see, there’s a reason why over 29,000 children a year go to visit – with educational opportunities ranging from textiles sessions to environmental explorations, and geography jaunts to hands on history, there really is something for everyone to enjoy.

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National Waterways Museum

The National Waterways Museum in Ellesmere Port brings the story of the waterways to life. From homes and lives of the past to the atmospheric history of WWII, the National Waterways Museum offers a wide range of hands-on learning opportunities for students of all ages. The museum's learning programmes link to the National Curriculum across a range of subject areas and can be tailored to suit the needs of your group. Click here to download learning programmes. The museum also welcomes groups that have planning their own activities.

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Tatton Park

The opportunities for different kinds of educational visits to the wonderful setting of Tatton are constantly  expanding. It is possible to use a visit to the estate not only to help fulfil the requirements of the history curriculum but also as the basis of creative and imaginative work on language and descriptive writing, mathematics, science, art, design and technology and geography.

Tatton Park’s education department can offer a varied programme of hands-on and living history activities suitable for reception to secondary classes. The education team runs living history days with costumed interpreters such as World War II at the working Farm, Victorians at the Mansion, Anglo Saxons, Medieval and Tudor sessions at the Old Hall. They have Hands-On History Days, which offer whole year groups the opportunity to bring history alive through practical activities. Activities are run by the ranger team in relation to environmental sessions which are science and geography-based educational programmes. There are also a series of study tours of the mansion, gardens and farm are available.The adult learning programmers consists of lunch time lectures, ranger walks, creative sessions, exhibitions, and gardening and animal husbandry courses.

They can adapt the structure and content of the activities to your school's needs to ensure you have a rewarding visit. Tatton’s excellence in the field of historical education and interpretation has been recognised by the Heritage Education Trust who has awarded it 6 consecutive Sanford Awards.

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