School Visits

School Visits

Inspire your students with dazzling objects, fascinating stories and world class art, with workshops linked directly to the national curriculum.

  • Support your students to become lifelong cultural learners.
  • Develop your students’ enquiry and oracy skills with experiences that can’t be replicated in the classroom.
  • Enhance your teaching in the classroom with memorable activities that support your Cultural Capital aims.
  • Access historical objects and original sources of evidence that aren’t on display to the public.
  • Enjoy exclusive use of the Simmons Learning Room as your base for workshops and lunch space.

How do I book a school visit?

All schools visits must be booked at least one month in advance. Please take a look at our sessions below and use the online form to make your booking.

To help you to get the most from your schools visit, we recommend that you make a planning pre-visit to The Box. You can also download our Teachers Hazard Assessment below to help you to write your own risk assessment.

Early Years
Science and Species: Marine life | School Visits

Science and Species: Marine life

From tiny plankton to enormous whales, introduce your students to the science behind the marine species that have populated Plymouth over thousands of years!

SENsational workshops | School Visits | The Box Plymouth

SENsational workshops

Our SENsational workshops for students with special educational needs and disabilities, including those with profound and multiple disabilities and ASC, are open to visits from a range of educational settings.

Artist workshops | School Visits | The Box Plymouth

Artist workshops

Give your students the chance to work with a practising artist to explore our visual arts collections, learn artistic techniques and develop their own creative responses.

Photograph of school group in a workshop

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