Sensory Session: A Musical Adventure
Use your imagination to join in with an interactive story. Travelling to Nigeria, singing a Yoruba song of welcome, and then onto Brazil in search of musical instruments to wrap up and bring back to the Museum. Explore and play the instruments you choose along the way!
This session will be tailored for your pupils; we’d be grateful if you could share some information about your pupils’ needs when you book the session.
Please visit our SEN/D Groups page for more information about the facilities availble at the Museum (including changing tables and onsite parking for minibuses), a link to our visual story, and our sensory backpacks.
Maximum group size: 12 pupils
In this session, your pupils’ experience will include:
-Sitting on the carpet, if appropriate (cushions available)
-Listening to and engaging with a sensory story
-Experiencing a range of sounds and objects they may not have encountered before
-Touching and playing real museum objects
-Taking turns and sharing instruments with classmates
-Making independent and supported choices
To complement your session please make sure you visit the Music Gallery and the Sound Garden in the Gardens.
To prepare your pupils for their visit please look at our Social Story for a preview of the Museum and to meet some of our Learning staff.
Please note that our Natural History Gallery is now closed as part of a major 2 year redevelopment, Nature + Love. The rest of our Galleries, displays and Gardens will be open as usual, with plenty across the site to support your topic (including our Music and World Galleries). Our schools workshops are unaffected.
We will be opening a new, free temporary exhibition about the natural world, animals and their habitats, in September 2024.
Resources
Workshop information
How to book
Booking a taught session includes a welcome briefing on arrival, timed access to a lunch space, cloakroom facilities and access to toilets for the exclusive use of school groups.
Contact us to make a booking:
schools@horniman.ac.uk
020 8291 8686
When you contact us please have ready:
– the name of the taught session you would like to book or topic you are studying,
– 1st/2nd/3rd choice of date and preferred session time,
– the number of pupils and adults attending.
Costs
Entrance to the Horniman Museum and Gardens is free of charge. Taught sessions and access to some exhibitions are charged for. We invoice after your visit.
The following charges apply:
£45 including VAT, £37.25 excluding VAT
We offer a bursary scheme for schools that meet a set criteria.
Planning your visit
See the School Trips page for other essential information including our risk assessment.
We are open from 10am-5.30pm. Entrance to the Museum and Gardens is free of charge but must be booked in advance by emailing schools@horniman.ac.uk.
We offer reduced educational rates for our Aquarium, Butterfly House, and Temporary exhibition. See the School Trips page for further information.
Charges apply to all children aged 3 years and over, and all accompanying teachers and adults, unless they are specific 1:1 carers.