Local History Loan Boxes
These immersive boxes are filled with everything you need to meet your cross-curriculum targets. Dive into an immersive experience that will ignite the imaginations of your students.
The ‘museums in a box’ cover everything from maths, literature, local history, music and drama. They include sensory activities, audio, visual and lesson plans catering to many learning styles and abilities.
Loan Box Themes
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Victorians in Cleethorpes
Explore our Victorian loan box and take your students on a journey into the past.
What could be better than a day out on the Cleethorpes seaside?
Board the train or the tram and travel to the seaside. Take part in a Punch and Judy show, explore the beach and the pier.
Bring all the sights, sounds, and experiences of the Victorian seaside to life in your classroom.
Packed with...
- Books
- Music
- Art
- Spend your pocket money
- Costumes
- Beach huts
- Then and Now
- Magazines, diaries
- Newspapers
- Local area photographs
- Local newspaper clippings
- Punch & Judy Show
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Grimsby Fishing
Discover the fascinating world of our rich fishing heritage without leaving your classroom.
Open up our fishing heritage loan box and find yourself transported onto the Grimsby Docks. Sing Sea Shanties as you become a trawler crew member, learn to create knots, clean the decks, communicate with morse code.
Embark on a dangerous journey to Iceland. Will you make it back alive?
Packed with...
- Books
- Music
- Art
- Artefacts
- Costumes
- Interactive Stories
- Morse Code Machines
- Trawler Life Experience
- Science
- Knot Making
- Local area photographs
- Local newspaper clippings
- The Ship’s Cat!
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Evacuees
Experience life as an evacuee in your classroom with this captivating loan box.
Pack one small suitcase and board a train to the country.
How will you keep in touch with your parents? What will you eat? How different is life to what you are used to?
Packed with...
- Books
- Music
- Art
- Replica war artefacts
- Costumes
- Seed pot makers
- Morse Code Machines
- Shopping experience
- Magazines, diaries
- Newspapers
- Local area photographs
- Local clippings
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The images on this page are interactive and can burst to life with colour, sound and movement.
Augmented Reality
The animations on this page will ‘come to life’ when viewed through a smart phone or device.
- Download the Artivive app from the Google Play Store or Apple App Store and open the app on your phone or tablet.
- Point your device’s camera to the artwork and watch as it comes to life through the Artivive app.
The artwork, music and singing has been developed in collaboration with pupils and staff at Oasis Academy Nunsthorpe, Grimsby and brought to life by The Colour Foundry. Commissioned by Lincs Inspire.
