Primary Programme

Keeping Well with Wimbledon

Designed for Key Stage 1 or pupils age 5-7

Keeping Well with Wimbledon introduces young learners to some of the essentials to growing up strong and healthy. The session covers the importance of physical activity and exercise, the seasons, appropriate kit, time in the nature, and nutrition through stories from Wimbledon and The Championships’ long heritage.

Following a light-hearted lesson, pupils will participate in small group activity centres where they will take on tasks together like designing a balanced and colourful meal, understanding how the heart and lungs work, and matching different kinds of activities and seasons. A tour connects the lesson and activities to our world-famous Grounds, ending at Centre Court where Wimbledon’s Champions have played for over 100 years.

Alignment with KS1 Curriculum

History: Developing an awareness of the past, using common words and phrases relating to the passing of time. Significant events/places in their own locality.

Science: Identifying and classifying plants, naming main body parts, seasonal changes, plants need water/light/suitable temperature, importance for humans of exercise, eating the right amounts of different types of food.

Physical Education: basic movements including running, jumping, throwing, catching.

Session length: 4 hours, including lesson, tour, lunch break and Museum visit.

Session timings: 10:00-14:00.

Minimum group size: 15 pupils, required 1 chaperone for every 5 pupils.

Maximum group size: 35 pupils, required 1 chaperone for every 5 pupils.

Price per group: £185. Payment is due immediately online via credit or debit card.

Tennis Time Travellers

Designed for Key Stage 2 or pupils age 7-11

Our interactive Tennis Time Travellers package takes pupils back to life in the Victorian era to the 1920s for a day of storytelling, costumes, and studying archival materials.

In addition to learning about Wimbledon’s role in the creation of lawn tennis, pupils will learn how the development of the All England Lawn Tennis & Croquet Club reflected the wider growth of the railways and changes to the surrounding area. Our Learning Facilitators will guide the group through a look at the fashions for men and women of the time, reading parts of the 1901 census to understand how the region was changing as result of the extension of the railways, and dressing up and participating in a town meeting to discuss the possibility of new grounds for the tournament.

The visit also includes a tour of the famous Grounds and visit to the Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Museum.

Alignment with KS2 Curriculum

Human Geography: land use, economic activity, map reading with physical and human features, sense of place between Wimbledon and Greater London

History: continuity and change, similarities and differences, use of evidence to interpret and make conclusions, understand a range of sources, Queen Victoria, Victorian social practices, impact of new transportation.

Session length: 4 hours, including lesson, tour, lunch break and Museum visit.

Session timings: 10:00-14:00.

Minimum group size: 15 pupils, required 1 chaperone for every 5 pupils.

Maximum group size: 35 pupils, required 1 chaperone for every 5 pupils.

Price per group: £185. Payment is due immediately online via credit or debit card.