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About Jane Austen's House

If you are planning a visit for your school, please phone ahead to speak to the Education Officer to organise a visit directly tailored to your needs.

We support the curriculum in the following areas:

Key Stage 1

Teachers' Pack
• Images, Activities and Resources to use in the classroom
• Real and replica objects for handling and display

School visit by staff member

Visit to Jane Austen's House

• Dress in period costume
• Tour of the house
• Writing workshop

Optional: Dance workshop at Chawton House

Gifted and Talented Programme, years 7-9
All at Jane Austen's House Components of visit:

- Philosophical enquiry using Jane Austen letters
- Textual analysis
- Research using Jane Austen's House and reference library
- Script writing
- Choosing location
- Acted scene (either here or to be developed further in school)

GCSE and 6th Form

Choose from all or some of the following...

At Jane Austen's House

• PowerPoint presentation on background to Jane Austen
• Tour of house
• Workshops relating to dress, manners and use of herbs
• Handling of real objects

At Chawton House Library

• Dance workshop in replica clothes
• Short Tour of ground floor rooms
• Talk in the library

 

 

 

Games Table

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Dance

 

 

Jane Austen's House Museum, Chawton, Alton, Hampshire GU34 1SD ~ Tel: +44 (0)1420 83262
Jane Austen's House Museum © 2007

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