Experience the magic of ancient Egypt in the comfort of your classroom. The Egypt Centre offers outreach sessions to schools in the form of half or full-day visits where trained museum staff travel to schools across South Wales and deliver some of our most popular education activities.
How does outreach work?
Designed for pupils aged 6–16 years, the sessions involve a *minimum of two Egypt Centre staff visiting schools with specific museum activities that are portable and available to be presented outside the museum surroundings.
Activities available include:
Mummification
Pyramid building
Senet
Costume and clothing
Introduction to Archaeology (including examining museum loan boxes)
Following the same process used for a museum visit, prior to an outreach session teachers complete a detailed booking form. On the form they select their chosen activities and indicate the number of children involved. Based on this, we carefully plan outreach sessions to ensure we fit in with the school’s timetable and that all pupils participate in each chosen activity. On the day of the visit, Egypt Centre staff will arrive early to set up activities in the agreed classroom(s) and throughout the sessions they will ensure that all pupils have a fun, informative, and memorable ancient Egyptian experience.
How to book?
Contact Phil Hobbs (p.h.j.hobbs@swansea.ac.uk or phone 01792 295960) for further information, including **costs and the travel boundaries which are in place for museum outreach sessions.
*Depending on the number of pupils booked for specific outreach sessions, and based on museum capacity, three members of the Egypt Centre staff may go to schools instead of two. This is to ensure museum staff to pupil ratios are kept at a level where children can learn as effectively as possible.
**Please be aware that schools will incur travel costs for outreach sessions based on pence per mile travelled from the Egypt Centre to the school and back.