Jersey Heritage Schools Learning

formal learning

Using the Jersey Heritage website, teachers can download valuable learning resources including special worksheets, lesson plans and group activities which can be completed both in the class room and by arranging class trips to the Jersey Heritage visitor sites.

Whether it’s plundering pirates, exploring the Island’s Occupation or finding out how Victorians lived their lives, all of the information you need to plan your trip is available to you within this section of the site. Stage curriculum and offers teachers (and parents) the materials they need to give learning a local relevance. In order to facilitate the better use of Jersey Heritage sites by self-guided classes, these learning materials are based upon the Jersey Heritage sites and collection, tailored to different Key Stage groups.

Take a look at the 'Let us help you' page for more information, or if you are planning a school visit then all the information can be found here.

Topics available for download:

Key Stage 1 (Reception, Year 1 & Year 2):
Houses & Homes Merchant’s House
Toys Jersey Museum
Pirates Maritime Museum

Key Stage 2 (Year 3, Year 4, Year 5 & Year 6):

Castles Mont Orgueil
The Victorians Jersey Museum
The Occupation Occupation Tapestry Gallery

Learning Resources

Take a look at the additional Learning Resources available through Jersey Heritage and other partners.

Exhibitions

Exhibitions

Jersey Heritage hosts a number of new exhibitions every year. Access the teacher resource packs and other information for students here.

Key Stage 2 Neolithic Period

Key Stage 2 Neolithic Period

About 7,500 years ago rising sea-levels caused by the gradual melting of the ice caps and glaciers of the last Ice Age resulted in the place we now know as Jersey becoming an island. Download the free educational worksheets on the Neolithic period here.

Key Stage 2 The Victorians

Key Stage 2 The Victorians

Victoria was Queen of the United Kingdom for over 60 years - from 1837 until 1901 - and so what was normal at the beginning of her reign was not necessarily true at the end. Download the free educational worksheets on the Victorians here.

Key Stage 2 Castles

Key Stage 2 Castles

Jersey became part of the Duchy of Normandy in 933 when Duke William II - Longsword - annexed the land of the Bretons next to the sea. This included the Channel Islands. Download the free educational worksheets on castles here.

Key Stage 1 Pirates

Key Stage 1 Pirates

The Jolly Roger, walking the plank, treasure maps, parrots and wooden legs – today’s stereotypical image of a pirate has been somewhat tainted by fiction. Download the free educational worksheets on pirates here.

Key Stage 2 The Occupation

Key Stage 2 The Occupation

The Occupation of the Channel Islands by the Germans between 1940 and 1945 was such a momentous event that it probably defines the Islands identity in the 20th century. Download the free educational worksheets on The Occupation here.

Key Stage 1 Toys

Key Stage 1 Toys

The word ‘toy’ first appeared in the context which we now know in the 1580s, referred to as a “thing” (object) for a child to play with. Download the free educational worksheets on toys here.

Key Stage 1 Houses and Homes

Key Stage 1 Houses and Homes

What is the difference between a house and a home? There are several different period houses to see on Jersey Heritage sites around the island. Download the Jersey Heritage free educational worksheets here.

Let us help you

Let us help you

Jersey Heritage can help you make the most of your visit to the Jersey Heritage sites by bridging the gap between formal and informal learning.

Planning a Visit

Planning a Visit

Jersey Heritage can advise how to make the most of a visit to one of our museums or sites, and we can show you how to link these visits to the curriculum. We can also provide talks and tours to many different places on the Island.

Jersey Heritage Learning Together

learning together

We can offer advice on how to best use the museums and sites, how to fit the curriculum in with what we offer and if resources allow we can provide talks and tours to many different places on the Island.

Community

Other community organisations, such as youth clubs and residential centres can enquire about what we have to offer. We are always developing events and exhibitions for everyone who visits our sites.

Families
If you like a bit more action on a visit, we also arrange Discovery Cart days for entertaining the family with a learning ‘twist’.

Living History
If you have ever found yourself at a museum talking to a person from the past and finding out all about life in their era, that’s thanks to us!

The Jersey Heritage Community Learning Team

We make the sites and museums that we look after fun places to be. We make sure there are activities for you to do, people to see, action to ‘WOW’ at, with plenty of learning for schools and families. We also research different aspects of the Island’s history to provide an accurate basis for all the fun things and exhibitions we do. Jersey Heritage uses the collections and the sites to give meaning to the past. We tell the stories of Jersey and its people and help you to create your own history.

Heritage Magazine

Heritage Magazine

These articles have all be researched and written by staff or researchers working for Jersey Heritage and were first published in the in-house magazine Heritage.

La Cotte

La Cotte

Jersey has been a magnet for Neanderthals and other hunter gatherer groups for over the last half million years. The Quaternary Archaeology and Environments of Jersey (QAEJ) project aims to investigate this past on different locations on the island.

Archaeological Apprentice at La Hougue Bie

Archaeological Apprentice at La Hougue Bie

Become an apprentice archaeologist at La Hougue Bie and learn the skills you need to be an archaeologist. At La Hougue Bie you have the chance to become an apprentice archaeologist and to have a go at some skills that are needed when taking part in any archaeology dig.

Learning Resources

Take a look at the additional Learning Resources available through Jersey Heritage and other partners.

Discovery Days with Jersey Heritage

Discovery Days with Jersey Heritage

Discovery Days are days dedicated to family fun and learning; an opportunity to find out more about Jersey’s history at every Jersey Heritage site. Discovery Days are aimed at children from reception to Year 6. They are an interactive, fun and family friendly way of exploring Jersey’s past.

The 2013 Jersey Heritage My History Scrapbook

The 2013 Jersey Heritage My History Scrapbook

As a top adventurer, your quest is to use this scrapbook to discover all the secrets, stories and brilliant facts that you can find at the Jersey Heritage Sites, At each Discovery Day you will get a special stamp for your My History Scrapbook.Sponsored by Mourant Ozannes.

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