Programme Packages
If you have a group larger than 30 students or you want to make the most of your day at Beaulieu the team have put together some packages linked to curriculum subjects that will take you to different areas of the attraction.
Package 1 – Key Stage 1
Don't Scare the Horses with At Home with the Governess
- Events beyond living memory that are significant nationally or globally.
- History and English
Package 2 – Key Stage 2
Covert Operations with From Rush to Hush-Hush
- Understand the methods of historical enquiry, including how evidence is used rigorously to make historical claims.
- Local history study, WW2
Package 3 – Key Stage 2
Reinventing the Wheel with Marvellous Maids and Fabulous Footmen
- Change and continuity, significance, cause and consequence.
- History, Science and Art, Victorians
Package 4 – Key Stage 2
Motoring Marvels – ideas that changed our world with From Rush to Hush-Hush
- Use discussion in order to learn.
- History, Science, Sociology, Citizenship
Key Stage 1
Key Information:
- Minimum group charge is 15 students
- Maximum group size 30 students per session
- For group sizes larger than 30 please see our packages
- £8.00 per head including entrance to the attraction
- All programmes include access to a pre-booked lunch space
Don’t Scare the Horses
This hands-on fun programme lifts the lid on some of the more unusual and entertaining aspects of the story of motoring.
Just how dirty were the streets of 19th century London? What was the Great Horse Manure Crisis of 1894? What do either of these have to do with early motoring?
Join our journey around the museum, sound the horns, wave the flag and model the fashion as we delve into the motoring archives to discover the people behind the stories, the vehicles they invented and how well those inventions were received.
Curriculum links: History, English, Science
At Home with the Governess
Travel back in time and experience the atmosphere of a Victorian country house under the watchful eye of the Governess, Miss Clarke.
Based on the tales of the people who lived and worked at Beaulieu in the 19th century, let our expert costumed interpreters lead you though the story of Palace House as you discover some of the more familiar and unusual objects of Victorian times in this ‘hands-on’ programme.
Do you think you can lift a saucepan? Why are there bells hanging on a board? Who were the people that lived here?
Discover the answers to all these questions and more with help from the Governess.
Curriculum links: History, English
KEY STAGE 2
Key Information:
- Minimum group charge is 15 students
- Maximum group size 30 students per session
- For group sizes larger than 30 please see our packages
- £8.00 per head including entrance to the attraction
- All programmes include access to a pre-booked lunch space
Motoring Marvels – ideas that changed our world
Meet the people behind the ideas that revolutionised motoring and investigate how they transformed the humble motor car from the early Benz Motorwagen to the modern marvels of today.
Told through stories, this engaging museum-based session will take the pupils on a journey through time exploring the ideas that led to change, why these changes came about, and if these changes made a difference.
It is almost impossible to have a fresh idea, but Motoring Marvels opens the door to the creative thinking in motoring that continues to shape our world.
Curriculum Links: History, English, Science, Art, Design & Technology
From Rush to Hush–Hush
Three extraordinary men, two exciting careers, one spellbinding story.
Being a world champion racing driver, or an undercover secret agent are usually the stuff of fiction, but in this source-based session we meet three men who did both. Using multiple sources from our archives and clues hidden throughout the motor museum uncover an unbelievable story that takes you from the pre-war racetracks of Europe via peaceful Beaulieu to the occupied territories of Northern France during World War 2.
Curriculum Links: History, English
Reinventing the Wheel
The Victorians were great inventors, and many of their innovations have left a lasting impression, but few of their inventions have been reinvented as much as the motor car.
Join us on this object led museum session as we investigate how many motoring inventions we still use today, why some took longer than others to be accepted and even how some “improvements” completely failed to move things forward at all.
The Victorians didn’t invent the wheel but they mechanised it, added a few cogs and kick started the re-invention of it we still see today.
Curriculum Links: History, English, Science, Art, Design & Technology
Covert Operations
What do the words “sabotage” and “subversion” have to do with sleepy and peaceful Beaulieu?
Discover the best kept secret of the estate in this hands-on role play programme and gain an insight into the methods taught at The Beaulieu Finishing School where secret agents learnt their craft during World War 2. Practice code breaking, learn the art of subterfuge and work as a team to solve problems using the skills of the master agents.
Sometimes being quiet has its advantages.
Curriculum links: History, English
Marvellous Maids and Fabulous Footmen
Have you got what it takes to secure a job at Palace House?
Do you know your place? Are you strong enough to be a housemaid? Can you balance on a footman’s chair? Take on the role of Victorian school children seeking employment as housemaids, kitchen maids, footmen or chauffeurs and discover how servitude is not as simple as you might think.
Find the secrets of etiquette, spittoons and iron ranges as you explore a variety of aspects to life in a Victorian country house, both below and above stairs.
Curriculum links: History, English
Ships and Seafarers
- Maximum group size 30 students £5.50 per head including entrance to the Maritime Museum
- Head over to our sister site, Bucklers Hard and take a tour.
Would you want to be ‘Top Dog’? Which ships built here went on to battle at Trafalgar? Who was Nicolas Cory and why were the villagers so wary of him?
Led by our expert costumed guides this programme invites you to travel back to the 18th century to see the village where ships for Nelson’s navy were built. Learn about the Admiral himself including his ship the Agamemnon and why it was his favourite. Uncover the story of Master Shipbuilder Henry Adams, find out why the cat-o-nine-tails should be feared and unearth the full story of the life and work of this unique 18th century village, and its ships which sailed to all corners of the world.
Curriculum links: History, English