Education
Planning a Visit | Free Worksheets | Fun Activities | Cross-Curricular - Design Technology | Further Ideas
Welcome to our exciting new education page, inspired by the rich history and traditions surrounding the world-famous Grasmere Gingerbread Shop.
Each year hundreds of thousands of people visit us to buy delicious Grasmere Gingerbread® and to learn about the shop’s fascinating provenance stretching back over three centuries.
Interestingly, its Victorian founder, Sarah Nelson, was an early educationalist who used giant gingerbread letters to teach the alphabet to local children.
She is buried in neighbouring St Oswald’s Churchyard, also the resting place of Romantic poet William Wordsworth.
Grasmere village and The Gingerbread Shop present numerous educational opportunities for teachers and schools. These encompass geography, social history, art, literature, tourism, business and food technology.
We welcome students of all ages and from all educational disciplines and hope that these pages will help you to prepare lesson plans and to make the most of your visit to the shop.
Click on the link to find prepared work booklets for KS1 & KS2 and fun puzzles and poetry ideas which are all free to download.
Please send us examples of your work to display on our website and tell us how we can make it even better!
Planning a Visit
A visit to The Grasmere Gingerbread Shop can really engage your students.
We can add to your curriculum whether it concerns local history, literature, poetry or
writing.
Free Visits
You can visit our shop at any time during opening hours - check ‘Our Shop’ page for opening hours and location.
Please inform us of the date and approximate time to enable us to staff our shop accordingly.
You can email us details or Tel: 015394 35428.
Special Visits
Educational groups can book special visits which include a 15-minute history talk and Q & A session; refreshments (squash) (tea/coffee for leaders), a piece of
Grasmere Gingerbread and a special Cumberland pencil at £1.50 a head. To book
click here
If you have any queries please speak to our education adviser on Tel: 015394 35428.
Read what previous schools had to say
Click
on the links below to download the worksheets - they are in Adobe Acrobat
Format (PDF)
Adobe Acrobat Reader can be downloaded for free here
| Key Stage 1 |  |
| Key Stage 2 | |
To download them to your computer right click the link and choose 'Save As...' and save to a location on your computer.
Fun
Activities
Delve inside inside the
Grasmere Gingerbread tin for fun activities by clicking on the activity
headings to keep your synapses firing!.
Click on the words to view activity.
Cross-Curricular - Design Technology
This project enables children to investigate and explore product and package design.
(Click the link below to view the Key Stage 2 Design Technology Worksheet)
| Key Stage 2 - "Investigating Product Design and Packaging" | |
Acknowledgments
Thank you to Tina Cooper, Leading Teacher in Literacy in Cumbria for the development of the worksheets.
Further Education ideas to make your visit to Grasmere even more special:-
The home of William Wordsworth
www.dovecottage.co.uk/education
The Storyteller’s Garden at the Northern Centre for Storytelling –
www.taffythomas.co.uk
St.Oswald’s Church (12th Century)
www.grasmereandrydal.org.uk
Tel:
015394 35326
