Online sessions
Can’t make it to Hillsborough Castle & Gardens but wish to explore the site’s rich history with your students? Why not take part in one of our online sessions for schools?
If you have any questions, wish to check availability or amend a booking request form you have already submitted please contact the Hillsborough schools team via email at hillsboroughlearning@hrp.org.uk.
School in the past
Explore the ways in which rich and poor children in 19th and 20th Century Ireland were taught in comparison to schooling today.
Key Stage 2
Curriculum Links: The World Around Us, PHSE and Citizenship, History, Language and Literacy
Topic: Victorian, Education
Session Type: Online session
Crime and punishment
A serious crime has been committed against the Marchioness of Downshire. A vast sum of cash and precious jewels have been stolen from her home in the dead of night. Will the punishment fit the crime?
Key Stage 3
Curriculum Links: History (Environment and Society), Personal Development & Mutual Understanding
Topic: Crime and Justice
Session Type: Online session