Plan your primary school visit
Plan your Primary school visit to the Soldiers of Oxfordshire Museum
Plan your Primary school visit to the Soldiers of Oxfordshire Museum
Plan your secondary school visit to the Soldiers of Oxfordshire Museum
Family fun at SOFO Family fun is at the heart of our museum experience here at SOFO. There are bags of interactive exhibits and walk in experiences to bring our stories alive – and check our family programme, which reinforces the musuem’s learning with enjoyable, hands on activities run by our experienced facilitators.
Learning at SOFO Here at the Soldiers of Oxfordshire Museum, we’re passionate about learning through experience. Whether you’re a family, a school or a lifelong learner, there’s something for everyone.
What shall we do at SOFO today? Year-round gallery activities for families.
STEAM LEARNING ACTIVITIES & RESOURCESThese resources, aimed at Key Stages 1 to 3 have been made available with support from The Army Museums Ogilby Trust. Discover a range of activities with curriculum links to use in the classroom, at home and settings such as Brownies and Scouts. All of them come from our museum resources and we hope you enjoy finding out more about STEAM in our archive. If you…
Oral Histories – Air Raids, Anderson Shelters and Evacuation Since SOFO began we haven’t just collected objects and records. Volunteers have helped us record the memories of Oxfordshire people affected by historic conflicts in the form of recorded oral history interviews. You can hear some of these in use in the museum’s galleries when you visit (such as in our Liberation of Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp, Airpower and D-Day displays), and…
SOFO Museum’s Reminiscence Pod A successfully funded project – with help from the local community! With support from West Oxfordshire District Council and the Tesco Bags of Help scheme, SOFO installed a Reminiscence Pod in the main gallery in 2019. The pod was unveiled during a special Collections Day event held at the museum on 2 November 2019, with content developed and curated by our Collections Manager Peggy, along with…
How You Can Help Build a Second World War Air-Raid Shelter At SOFO we tell stories of everyone affected by war in the county of Oxfordshire; from the soldier on the front line to ordinary families on the home front. Our small but dedicated team of staff and volunteers work hard to tell these stories of conflict and county in many different ways, including museum displays and learning sessions. Our latest…
ROMANS TO ROUNDHEADS 43 – 1649 ROMANS The Romans, from a city state in what is now Italy, arrived in Britain in the year AD43. By the end of the 2nd century most of Britain was ruled by the Romans. The Romans had to fight to keep control and built forts and walls to guard the lands they had conquered. The most famous of these is Hadrian’s Wall, which stretches…
