Travel and Tourism
Talking to the members of staff from our operations and education team, pupils will look at how customer service is delivered at Hampton Court Palace and what we look for in our front of house staff.
Students will then take a tour of the palace looking at the building as a visitor attraction. An interactive lecture on health and safety in tourist attractions will conclude the taught element of this session.
Other particular areas can also be covered including marketing and managing visitor attractions.
3 hours, including palace tour
£10 per student (£150 minimum)
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Drama and theatre studies
This interactive and lively drama session will explore the theatrical court masque as a ‘mirror of man’s life’ (Ben Jonson 1631).
A mixture of dance, spectacle and drama, the masques were political instruments that explained how a world of chaos was brought into harmony and peace by the good governance if the King. Students will work with a drama specialist to consider the social, cultural and historical factors that influenced masques under the Stuarts.
They will be encouraged to draw comparisons between 17th century and contemporary Britain, interpreting and devising their own modern-day court masque!
Subject to availability, students will have the opportunity to perform their modern masques in the Great Hall at Hampton Court Palace.
2.5 hours
£10 per student (£150 minimum)
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English literature
Join a drama specialist to explore the cultural and historical factors which influenced William Shakespeare. This interactive session will look at traditions of performance in the Jacobean and Elizabethan courts.
Students will consider how form, structure and language are used to shape meaning, and identify how attitudes and values are created and conveyed in dramatic texts. There is an opportunity for input into the selection of texts to meet the needs of individual groups, choosing between: Hamlet, Othello, Henry V, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Measure for Measure, As You Like It and King Lear.
2.5 hours
£10 per student (£150 minimum)
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Where history happened
History workshop
Why do we study history? Students will have the opportunity to look at primary sources including the architecture of Hampton Court Palace, handle replica objects and become history detectives.
How are facts made? Have the opportunity to look at primary sources, handle replica objects. This practical introductory session to the Tudor court and Henry VIII allows students the opportunity to work as historians by analysing evidence.
There will be the opportunity to try on replica Tudor costume for all students during this session. Students will have the opportunity to explore the palace in the afternoon of their visit for no extra charge.
1 hour
£70, plus education admission
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Wolsey: A faithful servant?
History workshop
The Tudor palace of Hampton Court was one of the finest palaces in Renaissance Europe; a telling symbol of the power and wealth of those who owned it.
Students will be able to look at primary sources including the palace itself to decide whether Wolsey was a faithful servant or a manipulative mercenary. Top help students look closely at the Tudor court the characters of Henry and Wolsey will be set in context with an object-handling session and the opportunity to try on replica costumes.
A tour of the palace will be included as part of this session.
2.5 hours
£10 per student (£150 minimum)
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National Archives-Hampton Court Palace study days
Each study day will work towards developing students’ historical skills as needed for source investigation and document study papers.
Themes available:
- Suffragettes
- Civil War
- Mid-Tudor Crisis
5.25 hours
£10 per student (£180 minimum)
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