SSI UK Helmet

This is a helmet which was used between 2012 – 2015 during SSI UK’s ownership of the Redcar steelworks.

Ear-defenders are attached to help reduce noise impact of working on the site. Historically, workers would have had no protection and will have suffered hearing loss (and other ailments) due to lack of protection.

This helmet looks like it would only be for staff undertaking physical work, but in reality all members of SSI UK had to have a helmet like this (even IT workers) due to strict health and safety regulations.

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. Let’s Pretend
2. Make a Sound track
3. A week in the life

Design a piece of protective equipment for an activity you do. Write a description of how it would keep you safe and what it would protect you from.

Museum name: Kirkleatham Museum
Contact name: Liz Vine or Ellen Bissell
Phone number: 01642 479500
Email: liz.vine@redcar-cleveland.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 – Kirkleatham SSI Helmet KS1