Key Stage 3

Under Pressure (KS3)

Why don’t pilots die?

Through taking part in experiments and getting to grips with real flight equipment, your students will discover the potentially lethal effects of changing air pressure, examine heat transfers and their effects on flight crews and explore how pilots can train their bodies to fight high G-Forces.

Curriculum links: Science – Atmospheric pressure and pressure in liquids; Describing forces and motion; Heat transfers

Cost: £75.00 per class

Workshop length: up to 60 minutes

Science Show (KS3)

How do aircraft fly and how can we survive up high?

Ever wondered how aircraft fly and just how we can survive up high? Through experiments and demonstrations, find out about air pressure, the forces of flight and how Newton’s third law of motion is applied in aviation in this fast-paced Science Show.

Curriculum links: Science

Cost: £75.00 per class

Workshop length: up to 60 minutes

Suitable for large groups of up to 200 students.

Flight Factory Challenge (KS3)

Can your team design and build the strongest aircraft structure?

Join us for an aircraft construction challenge. Taking inspiration from the aircraft on site, students work in teams to design and build sections of aircraft. These structures are then tested to destruction – which team will win?

Curriculum links: Design and Technology

Cost: £75.00 per class

Workshop length: up to 60 minutes

Hands-on History: First World War or Battle of Britain (KS3/4)

How was the RAF involved in key moments of British history such as the First World War or the Battle of Britain?

Immerse your students in a key moment of British History. Select from the First World War or focus in on the Battle of Britain. Get hands on with objects, uniforms and clothing and analyse historical documents
to piece together stories from the past.

Curriculum links: History

Cost: £75.00 per class

Workshop length: up to 60 minutes

Debate Space (Upper KS3 and KS4/5)

In our purpose-built Digital Interactive Debate Space, we will help your students find out about, and debate, key issues on one of two topics: AI and Drones, or the Environment. Your students will debate these important topics using a range of sources to formulate their arguments. Which team will come out on top in the all-important final vote?

The Environment

Can individuals make a difference in fighting Climate Change? Can aviation be sustainable and are synthetic fuels the solution?

AI and Drones

Should drones be allowed in our skies? Should we be worried about artificial intelligence? Should machines with increasing levels of automation and autonomy be used in combat?

Curriculum links: Debate skills, Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and Drones, The Environment and Climate Change

Cost: £75.00 per class

Workshop length: up to 60 minutes

Flying Colours (KS3/4)

What roles and contributions have ethnically diverse men and women played in the RAF?

Explore the vital contributions of Black, Asian and ethnically diverse men and women who have served in the RAF. Through a range of media, discover some of their inspirational stories from the First World War, Second World War and through to today. Students will consider motivations for joining up, concepts of bravery and instances of racism. They will be involved in thinking through and celebrating the many roles and people that make up the Royal Air Force.

National Curriculum Links: History and Citizenship

Cost: £75.00 per class (suitable for large groups of up to 200 students per workshop)

Workshop length: up to 60 minutes

Flying Colours is also available as outreach to your school.

Offered to schools in the following locations: Alperton, Barnet, Borehamwood, Camden, Chipping Barnet, East Barnet, Edgware, Elstree, Finchley, Hampstead, Harlesden, Harrow, Hendon, Islington, Kilburn, New Southgate, Paddington, Radlett, Shenley, Stanmore, Totteridge, Wembley, Whetstone, Zone 1 Central London.

What schools need to provide: access to electricity supply and to a HDMI connection, a projector, a stage or some form of staging so that the facilitator can be seen by the students.

Please email learning-london@rafmuseum.org if you are interested in having ‘Flying Colours’ at your school.

Cost: £200 per performance. Max two performances. Available mornings only. No maximum number of students.

Numbers: Suitable for large groups or an assembly.

Pilots of the Caribbean (KS3/4) online

A dramatic performance streamed to your classroom, which shares the stories of African and Caribbean people who volunteered to serve in the Royal Air Force during the two world wars, and those who serve today. Shining a light on the vital contributions of young Black men and women, audiences discover what made these brave volunteers fight for the country that had enslaved their ancestors. In the live section which follows the filmed performance, we explore whether a lack of diversity in popular British Culture has written people of African and Caribbean descent out of history, and why this might be.

Curriculum links: History and Citizenship

Cost: £35.00

Workshop length: up to 60 minutes

To view our full range of workshops, click here for the Secondary programme.

To book, please complete the online booking form.

For enquiries, please email learning-london@rafmuseum.org or phone 020 8358 4896.

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Our students worked as a team. They had to talk and think about viable designs and the possible costs. The workshop had a positive impact, they all said that they enjoyed it.