Here are our recommendations for activities and resources to maximise the learning from this object. Use the Activities to get to know to your object first, then Get Creative!
This is a poss stick, also known as a posser. It was used to submerge and pound laundry in a wash tub, to agitate the soapy water and make it pass through the fabric to clean it.
It has a wooden handle and the rest of the posser is made from a metal called copper. They were used throughout the 1800s.
In your first online session your Education Officer will introduce students to the object and get them thinking and talking about it.
You could follow that up with these activities from the ‘Object activity ideas’ pdf, on the Introduce your object page.
1. Looking Closer
2. Questioning and Hypothesising
3. Drawing for Looking and Recording
We suggest you try these activities on the Get Creative page
1. Making a Word Cloud
2. Let’s Pretend!
3. Vocabulary of the Time
Role play being a maid at Preston Hall. Think about the tasks you would need to do during the day. How would you clean the rooms and help the family who lived here?
Museum name: Preston Park Museum & Grounds
Contact name: Joanne Rowcliffe
Phone number: 01642 526369
Email: joanne.rowcliffe@stockton.gov.uk
Learning from home? This download is full of ways to explore this object for students who can’t be in school.
KS1 Sheet Coming Soon
This is a poss stick, also known as a posser. It was used to submerge and pound laundry in a wash tub, to agitate the soapy water and make it pass through the fabric to clean it.
It has a wooden handle and the rest of the posser is made from a metal called copper.
They were used throughout the 1800s.
In your first online session your Education Officer will introduce students to the object and get them thinking and talking about it.
You could follow that up with these activities from the ‘Object activity ideas’ pdf, on the Introduce your object page.
1. Looking closer
2. Questioning and hypothesising
3. Drawing for looking and recording
We suggest you try these activities on the Get Creative page
Role play
Collecting Memories
The oldest thing in your house
Write a diary entry for a Preston Hall maid. Think about the jobs she would have had to do, the long hours that she would have worked and what working for a rich family like the Ropners at Preston Hall would have been like.
Museum name: Preston Park Museum & Grounds
Contact name: Joanne Rowcliffe
Phone number: 01642 526369
Email: joanne.rowcliffe@stockton.gov.uk
Learning from home? This download is full of ways to explore this object for students who can’t be in school.
Literacy Loans Home Learning – Preston Park Museum Poss Stick KS2
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