School News and Updates

Keep up to date with all the latest updates and case studies for schools provided by our Learning Officers from our Tees Valley Museums partners.

23 December 2025

British Museum in Your Classroom – Arctic Expressions

Kirkleatham Museum partnered with the British Museum to enhance the Museum in your Classroom initiative. The project saw two local primary schools, Green Gates and Errington, being given the unique opportunity to host an authentic object from the British Museum’s famous collections within their own school for a day.

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21 October 2025

Callout for Creative Writer

Tees Valley Museums are looking to appoint a writer who will work alongside Kirkleatham and Preston Park Museums on our KS3 project, "Tees Valley Voices: Identity through Time."

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29 May 2025

Time Odyssey Comes to the Tees Valley

We are delighted to announce that Tees Valley Museums are teaming up with the Art Explora team to bring you Time Odessey to the Dorman Museum and Hartlepool Museum

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08 November 2024

Call for Creatives

Tees Valley Museums are working with Kirkleatham Museum to recruit creative practitioners as part of the British Museum in Your Classroom initiative.

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12 August 2024

Competition for Schools

This Autumn Term Kirkleatham Museum are teaming up with the Tees Valley Wildlife Trust and holding an eco-competition to design a new flag that will fly outside the museum

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06 February 2023

Two amazing school exhibitions

A Stockton and a Middlesbrough primary school have been the first schools to ever choose and host an object from the British Museum.

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