Wakefield Museums and Castles

When you contact us to make a booking you will need to let us know:

• Which workshop or resource you are interested in

• Where you would like the workshop to take place – at one of our sites, in school, or virtually

• Your preferred dates and timings (we cannot always accommodate your first choice of date so please have two or three potential dates in mind)

• The number of pupils in your class

• The year group

• Any additional needs or sensitivities within your class

• Any other information you think we should know before working with your pupils

Before contacting us, you may want to ask other teachers in your school if they would also like to book anything with us too. Booking multiple sessions at the same time can save your school money. 

Once the details of your booking have been confirmed with museum staff you will be sent:

• A booking form which you must sign and return

• A teachers’ pack for your chosen workshop

• Any additional resources required for delivery, dependent upon what you have booked

• £80 for standard workshops delivered at one of our sites, school dungeon tours at Pontefract Castle or virtual sessions delivered online

• £135 for whole day workshops at our sites

• £130 for one outreach session delivered in-school

• £190 for two outreach sessions delivered in-school on the same day

• £215 for three outreach sessions delivered in-school on the same day

Book 5 sessions in a school year and get a sixth free, if all booked at the same time.

Please note that outreach sessions delivered beyond the Wakefield district will incur a small additional mileage charge.

Please be aware that there are no dedicated indoor lunch spaces at our venues.

You may be able to book one of our learning spaces to eat packed lunches, depending on availability.

Please enquire at the time of booking.

If you need to rearrange or cancel for any reason you must do so by email as soon as possible.

If you reschedule your workshop within 2 weeks of the original delivery date to another day within the same term, then you will incur an additional charge of 25% of the cost of your booking.

If you cancel within 2 weeks of your workshop you will be charged 75% of the cost of your booking.

If you omit to cancel and you do not attend, you will be charged the full session fee.

This stands for any agreed booking, even if we have not received a signed booking form from you.

If a booking form has not been signed and returned two weeks before a requested delivery date, and the school has not contacted the Museums and Castles Team to amend the original booking request, then the booking will be assumed to be confirmed and the school will be liable for any related fees.