Chatham Historic Dockyard Trust
The Old Surgery
Main Gate Road
The Historic Dockyard
Chatham
Kent
ME4 4TZ
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At a glance
Type of organisation:
Heritage
Opportunities:
Advisory, Family learning, Informal activities, Lectures, Outreach, Participation, Performance-based, Play groups, Projects, Schools programme, Work placements, Workshops,
Areas of interest:
We are interested in broadening all our educational functions so as to maximise public interest in the Historic Dockyard here at Chatham. Working with ITT providers will help us to achieve this aim.
A charitable trust takes care of the Historic Dockyard here at Chatham with the aim of both preserving and promoting it for public use. Accordingly the Education Department here has a series of sucessful eastablished programmes for schools.
We have the following on site resources:
WW2 destroyer
Cold War submarine
Victorian Sloop
RNLI Museum
Wooden Walls Gallery
The Museum of the Historic Dockyard
The Kent Police Museum
Victorian Ropery
Historic buildings
Our taught programmes take the form of themed days based around the following topics:
KS1
Pirates
KS2
Living Literacy
Vivid Victorians
Tracking down the Tudors
Windows into War
KS3 and KS4
1700-1900 Package
World War Two Package
Talks/Presentations/Assemblies
Currently we have broadened our options for KS3 and 4 work by working with the Royal Engineers Museum to offer a joint World War Two package. This allows pupils to conduct their own research in the museum as well as experiencing what life was like on a WW2 destroyer, on board a submarine, in an air raid shelter, and during a doodlebug attack.
We are keen to develop links with ITT providers. We have already worked sucessfully in partnership with Canterbury Christ Church University this year to place four trainee teachers within our setting. The trainee teachers all worked within the dockyard and alongside our staff both to observe our educational activities and produce a piece of research for assessment back at university.
