Hands-on History: Summer course for primary school teachers

Our work with schools includes school tours, teacher resources, history workshops and collaborative history projects. Our projects and programmes for schools, including at 14 Henrietta Street, Richmond Barracks, and across the city with our Historian in Residence for Children, were all developed with and for children.

It’s an ongoing, iterative process, as we continue to have these conversations with children in order to make improvements and develop new projects. We also gather feedback from teachers throughout this process, and make sure we are linking our content to the school curriculum.

From all of these ideas we create interactive, engaging history programmes for primary schools, designed to be as inclusive and fun as possible.

On our new primary teacher summer course, we’ll be taking part in some of these tours, workshops and activities. Primary teachers will be finding out about the Culture Company buildings and resources they can use in their history teaching.

They’ll have a go at doing their own research in preparation for teaching local history, and they’ll also get a chance to try out different types of interactive history workshops that can be adapted for different history topics and levels.

The course runs from Monday 28 July to Friday 1 August. The venues will be 14 Henrietta Street, Dublin 1, Richmond Barracks, Dublin 8, and the Central Library also in Dublin 1.

The course fee is €45, including all tours, resources and materials.

Full details on the course can be found by clicking here or below: