Site Visits and Bookings

Strutt's North Mill is an interactive learning resource that offers a wide range of activities designed to support subjects across the National Curriculum and QCA Schemes of Work. The North Mill will tailor activities to suit each visiting group and can offer activities suitable for pupils with special educational needs. The North Mill will always book one visiting party per day, therefore offering the site and facilities exclusively to each group.

Site Highlights:

• Experience life as a cotton mill worker
• Explore the watercourse
• Examine the building including the wheelpit
• Discover cotton spinning machinery
• Find out how the mill workers lived
• Try to knit and spin cotton

The North Mill has designed its site visits for maximum flexibility.  A wide range of activites are offered that can be combined to cover different topics, depending on the needs of each group.  The actvities make links across subject areas, creating truly cross-curricular visits. A pre-visit is offered to teachers to ensure the needs of each group are met. 

Some of the activites available include:

1. Guided tours of the museum, watercourse and mill yard.
2. Guided walk of the workers housing, community and chapel.
3. Activity trails around the museum and surroundings.
4. Role-play e.g. Pupils can dress as mill workers and work the machinery to experience life as a Belper cotton mill worker.
5. Hot-seating and questioning e.g. A visit from Mr. Strutt, owner of the Belper Mills.
6. Observation, reasoning and discussion e.g. Handling Victorian artefacts.
7. Victorian crafts.
8. Parlour games.

For further information about the site visits at Strutt's North Mill and more detailed curriculum links download:Site Visits and Bookings (435 kb)   

Alternatively contact the Museum Manager.  See 24 Hour Museum for contact details.