Education Visits & School Groups

From solid wheels to pneumatic tyres; follow the development of the car from the dawn of motoring to the present day or focus on specific periods in motoring history.

A programme which introduces the principles of design and engineering, as well as the inspiration and history behind Land Speed Record vehicles, Formula 1 and Rally Cars. It also looks at how these ideas are applied to modern car design and safety.

Children take on the role of Victorian school children seeking employment as housemaids, kitchen maids, footmen or chauffeurs. Dress up in smocks and collars and find out about etiquette, spittoons and iron ranges alongside many more aspects of life in a Victorian country house. . Combine with sessions on Victorian Motoring, Victorian Toys, and Kitchen Gardens

Experience the atmosphere of a Victorian country house with one of our Victorian household servants. Based on people who lived and worked at Beaulieu in the 19th century. Dress up in smocks and collars and learn about familiar and unusual objects of Victorian times in this ‘hands-on’ programme. Link with a visit to Buckler's Hard to compare houses and homes in the 1700s and 1800s.

Experience the atmosphere of Christmas celebrations in this role-play activity day based in Palace House. Invited as guests by Henry, Lord Montagu, ‘meet’ some of the people who lived and worked here during the Victorian era. Discover something of their home, family, life and work. Perform your own entertainment for Lord Henry. Minimum number of children: 20.

Groups participating in this hands-on role play programme gain an insight into the sabotage and subversion methods taught at ‘The Beaulieu Finishing School’ and find out about the role of the ‘secret agent’. Code breaking and problem solving are just some of the ‘working together’ activities involved.

Put secret agent training to good practise by completing our offline puzzle trail around the Beaulieu Visitor Complex.

Learn about a Grand Prix winning racing driver who became a Beaulieu-trained SOE agent and take part in a code-breaking challenge, Mission Motor Museum.

Use our buildings, collections and the people who once lived and worked in them to develop communication, literacy and technology skills. Working in groups you could write a quiz trail, produce a young person’s guide, create a virtual museum, gather evidence for a class debate, create and plan a piece of artwork, a story, photo-journal, advert or poem. Bring your school tablets and find the material to make a film or documentary back at school.

Use maps to follow an offline puzzle trail around the Beaulieu Visitor Complex or Buckler’s Hard Historic Village. Working together in teams, pupils learn to use co-ordinates and code-breaking to reach the target location.