What Home Education Looks Like - 27th August 2018

 Povey and I had a day trip just the two of us to the Mary Rose museum at Portsmouth Docks.

There was a Bright Bricks event happening there where you could build a section of a huge mosaic.

This is what it should look like when finished!

There was also a mosaic of Henry VIII.

After he'd placed his square, he then got to make a model of a crown to take home.

Once the Lego bit was done we had a look around the museum itself, which was excellent!

Really fascinating! I got to have a quick pose with Henry before we left, but we plan to go back and take Papaya too as our tickets are valid for a year.

What Home Education Looks Like - 30th October 2017

Florence Nightingale Museum

What Home Education Looks Like - 29th August 2016

A visit to Porthcurno in Cornwall wouldn't have been complete without seeing the Telegraph Museum. This museum should be compulsory for everyone staying in Porthcurno as really the history of the Valley is completely linked with the first laying of those cables.

What Home Education Looks Like - 14th December 2015

Very interesting workshop on Victorian transport innovations at the Transport Museum in Covent Garden.

With added bonus of Bright Bricks' latest Christmas model of a steam train just outside!

What Home Education Looks Like - 16th November 2015

Mid-week trip to the (obviously highly educational!) Cadbury World! Even the Comedian took a day off for this one ;)

What Home Education Looks Like - 26th October 2015

Two days, three museums!

We had an organised trip to the National Maritime museum so got there on the DLR, with a quick opportunity for acrobatics.

We were there for a Viking workshop but got a bonus talk from this lovely chap all about the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition. He had actually done all the artwork himself.

We also got to use the interactive tablets on the Great Map, a favourite part.

Oh and of course the sailing simulator. Although I couldn't watch as it made me feel seasick!

Finally it was the workshop. Very interesting as we learned things we hadn't known.... like for example that the trading ships were called a Knarr. The children all got to try trading like the Vikings would with replica artefacts. Then two people were chosen to dress as Vikings..... Papaya and Povey! The workshop leader didn't even realise they were siblings when she picked them.

The clothes looked very comfortable and Papaya now wants me to make her a set ;)

As we were in Greenwich we decided to get our dinner at the market.....

...and also did a little shopping. This is the dinosaur Povey got after we took it back to the London flat.

I gave them free reign as to where we went on the Friday and they decided they wanted to take the new dinosaur along to the Natural History Museum to meet the big dinosaurs.

We had a look around the rest of the museum too...

....grabbed an (overpriced ) tea....

...and managed to fit in the Science Museum too; with a space capsule built from Lego...

...and lots of interactive learning.

The thermal imaging camera was particularly interesting, as you can see that Povey, on the right, looks normal, but I have very cold nose and fingertips, showing as blue. No wonder I've always got cold hands.

Nice to get the three museums under our belt before the hordes descend upon them in Half term ;)