Just how beastly are minibeasts? Using the Natural History Museum’s collection, students will investigate different types of arthropods (which make up over 80% of all known living animal species) and get some hands-on experience classifying minibeasts.

National Curriculum links: identifying and classifying, identify and name a variety of common animals, describe and compare the structure of a variety of common animals, recognise that living things can be grouped in a variety of ways, explore and use classification keys to help group, identify and name a variety of living things in their local and wider environment.

What makes a dinosaur a dinosaur? How are fossils made? Go on a dinosaur hunt in the Natural History Museum and discover answers to these questions. Also available as a Zoom session!

National Curriculum links: describe in simple terms how fossils are formed when things that have lived are trapped within rock; recognise that living things have changed over time and that fossils provide information about living things that inhabited the Earth millions of years ago.

What are the differences between types of animals? Students will explore the many and varied exhibitions in the Natural History Museum to answer this question. Choose from: animals and their structures, habitats and adaptation, life cycles, food cycles. Also available as a Zoom session!

National Curriculum links: identify and name a variety of common animals; describe and compare the structure of a variety of common animals; describe the differences in the life cycles of a mammal, an amphibian, an insect and a bird.

How long did the Stone Age last? Practise your deductive skills like an archaeologist and get hands on with some real Stone Age hand axes. Also available as a Zoom session!

National Curriculum links: changes in Britain from the Stone Age to the Iron Age.

Why mummify? What might you need in the afterlife? What gods were important to the Ancient Egyptians? Students will investigate these questions and more through activities and objects at the Museum of Antiquities. Also available as a Zoom session!

National Curriculum links: the achievements of the earliest civilizations – an overview of where and when the first civilizations appeared and a depth study of Ancient Egypt.

Discover the connection between Eton and Henry VII. Investigate Tudor portraits and illustrations and learn about the daily life of a boy at Eton during the Tudor period.

National Curriculum Links: significant historical events, people and places in their own locality, a local history study, a study of an aspect or theme in British history that extends pupils’ chronological knowledge beyond 1066.

Many Eton boys in the second half of the 19th Century may have been the sons of the nobility and the gentry, but they were still just boys. Students will investigate the lives of more privileged Victorian children through documents, images and objects. Discover what it was like to sleep, eat and learn at Eton during the reign of Queen Victoria. Also available as a Zoom session!

National Curriculum Links: significant historical events, people and places in their own locality, a local history study, a study of an aspect or theme in British history that extends pupils’ chronological knowledge beyond 1066.

Why do we commemorate Remembrance Day? This session investigates the story of an Old Etonian who fell on the Western Front through his childhood drawings, school records, letters and objects. Students will then have the chance to make their own poppy. The aim of the session is for students to understand that the soldiers who served and died are not abstract concepts, but real men, who were once students themselves.

National Curriculum Links: significant historical events, people and places in their own locality, a local history study, a study of an aspect or theme in British history that extends pupils’ chronological knowledge beyond 1066.

Although an Eton student may not fit the typical image of a child from the Second World War, the boys at the College battled through rationing, bombing and loss, just as other children did. In this session, learn how Eton boys dealt with the difficulties of life on the Home Front and discover, through discussion, images, artefacts and hands-on activities, how children supported the war effort.

National Curriculum Links: changes within living memory, significant historical events, people and places in their own locality, a local history study, a study of an aspect or theme in British history that extends pupils’ chronological knowledge beyond 1066.

What can we learn from an old pot? Explore Ancient Greek art, myth and language. Also available as a Zoom session!

using artefacts from the Museum of Antiquities. National Curriculum links: Ancient Greece – a study of Greek life and achievements and their influence on the western world

Explore aspects of Shakespeare’s life and works through a variety of cross-curricular activities. Students will practise writing like Shakespeare in secretary hand with a quill, analyse a Tudor document from the Eton Archives and get dramatic with some theatrical exercises — choose to focus on The Tempest, Macbeth or A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

National Curriculum links: develop positive attitudes to reading and understanding of what they read by: listening to and discussing a wide range of fiction, poetry, plays; interpret and present discrete and continuous data using appropriate graphical methods; recognise, find, name and write fractions.

A unique opportunity to have a session with Eton students! Every year between November and March, Lower Sixth Eton boys lead activity-based curriculum sessions in each of the three museums, supervised by adult facilitators.

For details of current sessions and booking, please click here.