The House, gardens, adventure playground and bird garden are an exciting environment for cross-curricular topics such as 'Plants & Trees' and 'Homes Long Ago'.

KS1 Activities: House
History 'What were Homes like a Long Time Ago?'
Seek out fireplaces, servants’ bells and chamber pots that make historical homes different from today.

To support this unit we can provide:

• An information pack for teachers on how the State Floor fits into this area of the curriculum. It includes information specifically designed to be read out to the children around the House and activities based on the rooms during the tour. Packs are available on request.

• Simple guided tours by the Senior House Guides designed for children around the curriculum. Topics covered include: external and internal features, comparisons with their own homes (size, decoration, heating and lighting), introduction to chronology. To be pre-arranged when a visit is booked through the Bookings Co-ordinator on 0113 2181013.

Cross-curricular Links Literacy: Children can read some of the information themselves.
Numeracy: The tessellating and symmetrical patterns around the House can develop counting and sequencing skills.
Science: What the house is made from, fires and fireplaces.
Art and Design: There are drawing activities in the pack.
Design and Technology: The Below Stairs exhibition provides an excellent resource to looking at how cooking has changed in the last 150 years.
ICT: There are computer based interactive workstations placed around the House

Art and Design
Use the House, gardens and grounds as inspiration for:
• Year 1 / 2 (Unit 2B) “Mother Nature, Designer”
• Year 3 / 4 (Unit 4C) “Journeys”
• Year 5 / 6 (Unit 6C) “A Sense of Place”

A teacher resource pack is available to download at the bottom of this page to support these units or contact us for a copy.

Use the Robert Adam ceilings, classical patterns and printed designs on silk wallpaper as a springboard for work on:
• Year 3 / 4 (Unit 3B) “Investigating Pattern”

Maids and Mistresses
To run alongside our Maids and Mistresses trail about the women of Yorkshire’s Country Houses, the Yorkshire Country House Partnership in conjunction with the University of York and the Heritage Lottery Fund have produced a resource pack. The information in the pack can be applied to Key Stage 1: Homes Long Ago, contact us for a Resource Pack or follow link at bottom of page to download the Resource Pack.

Numeracy Resources: House and Grounds

Numbers are beautiful! Maths is everywhere you look! From the symmetry of patterned ceilings, to clocks and weighing scales, and counting the birds in the Bird Garden as data; numbers can be found in allsorts of places.

We have recently developed cross-site Numeracy trails to support work from Reception class to Year 6. The trails give real life situations in which Maths can be used creatively to solve problems. Beginning on the State Floor looking at repeating patterns and shapes, continuing in the Below Stairs exhibition looking at Roman Numerals and weighing, and ending in the Bird Garden; the trails provide an interesting new way to look at Harewood.

The trails are teacher-led and come with comprehensive teaching notes.

The following trail is for KS1: