Swarthmoor Hall offers tours for schools, below is an outline of what a trip to the hall can offer to your school. We also offer a visit to your school by a member of staff (Barrow and South Lakeland only) please see below for more information.
 

• What we offer
   
• Potential curriculum areas
   
• Support materials
   
• Available rooms / Accessibility
   
• Charges
   
• Contact details

What we offer

We welcome visits from school parties and staff are available to lead guided tours and help to run activities related to the building, its history and its contents. Staff can help you plan your trip. They also make preliminary visits to local schools, to tell the story of the
 Hall and explain a little about the Quaker movement both in the past and the present.


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Potential curriculum areas

A visit to Swarthmoor Hall can be a useful resource for many different curriculum areas.

e.g. Local studies, History, Religious Education, Literacy


The Hall (and the stories associated with it) also provides an ideal setting in which to explore some of the issues relevant to the PHSE and Citizenship curriculum e.g. fairness. justice, peer pressure, and the exploration of moral dilemmas and decision-making processes. More details of this approach can be found on www.sapere.net


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Support materials  include:

• Blank template of the south and east elevation of the Hall. The south and east elevation of the Hall show typical Tudor building features, which pupils can sketch into the templates. 
• Hall  Quiz, taking the pupils around the six historic rooms. They need to use observation skills to find the answers to the quiz questions..

Free copies of most of these activities are available to teachers for duplication in school.
 

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Accommodation / Accessibility :

School parties may have the use of our large seminar room as a classroom/lunch room for a 
small charge. We can comfortably accommodate an average class. Our seminar room is fully 
accessible to wheelchair users though unfortunately the historic house is not.

We suggest you allow up to an hour and a half for a guided tour of the Hall, with additional time for activities in the seminar room and around the site. You need a further 45 minutes if you wish to visit the local Quaker Meeting House, also a historic building, and only 400 metres away. We can help you to arrange this.

Packed lunches can be eaten in the garden or in the seminar room if used.
 

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Charges:

Tour of the historic house £2.50 per child, accompanying teachers and adults: no charge.

Use of the seminar room (includes squash and tea/coffee For teachers and accompanying adults): additional 75p per child.


Visit by Hall staff member to school: (Barrow and South Lakeland only); reimbursement of travel costs.
 

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