Learning at home with Norwich Castle

We've compiled some resources below which you may find useful while you're learning at home. We'd love to know what you think of them. You can let us know by filling out a very short survey about our learning at home resources.

Additional resources and teacher-led trails 

Early Years

Watch Snap at Home! videos on YouTube.

Get Curious! Animal Senses (suitable for ages 3-7)

A series of inspiring cards to encourage imagination and conversation.  Find out about different animals and the senses they rely on, look closely at the pictures to develop enquiry and questioning, and use the craft, drama, games and song ideas to develop your imagination.

• Animal Senses: Hearing - Barbastelle Bat (PDF, 911 KB)
• Animal Senses: Sight - Barn Owl (PDF, 2 MB)
• Animal Senses: Smell - Polar Bear (PDF, 3 MB)
• Animal Senses: Taste - Vervet Monkey (PDF, 1 MB)
• Animal Senses: Touch - Wolf (PDF, 5 MB)
• Animal Senses: Animal Songs (PDF, 1 MB)

Get Curious! Super Seasons (suitable for ages 3-7)

A series of inspiring cards to encourage imagination and conversation.  Look closely at some of the amazing artworks from the museum's collection and develop questioning and counting skills.  Use the craft, drama, games and song ideas to develop your imagination.

• Super Seasons: Spring (PDF, 3 MB)
• Super Seasons: Summer (PDF, 2 MB)
• Super Seasons: Autumn (PDF, 3 MB)
• Super Seasons: Winter (PDF, 4 MB)
• Super Seasons: Songs (PDF, 187 KB)

KS1

Watch the Great Fire of London video on YouTube and see our other resources for KS1

KS2

• Watch Get Active in Ancient Rome with Josephus Wickus on YouTube
• Watch The Shining Ones - The 4 Sons of Horus on YouTube
• Anglo-Saxons and Vikings resource pack (PDF, 8 MB)
• Watch A Visit from a Viking Trader on YouTube
• Kett's Rebellion resource pack (PDF, 6 MB)
• See our other resources for KS2

KS3

• Castle Keep resource and activity pack (PDF, 396 KB)
• Watch a virtual tour of the Castle Keep on YouTube
• Slavery - virtual trail (PDF, 329 KB)
• Industrial Revolution - Virtual trail at the Museum of Norwich (PDF, 340 KB)
• First World War - virtual trail (PDF, 358 KB)

KS4

• Crime and Punishment resource and activity pack (PDF, 442 KB)
• Medicine - pharmacy virtual trail (PDF, 255 KB)
• Anglo-Saxon and Norman England - virtual trail, tour and film (PDF, 252 KB)
• Edexcel Medicine - The First World War British Sector display and handling objects (PDF, 141 KB)
• Historic Environment - Norwich Castle gaol, prison and courtroom virtual trail (PDF, 328 KB)