Home Ed Day | British Science Week

Thursday 12 March 2026 | 10.30am - 3pm Show all dates and times

Explore the science and engineering behind transport through engaging, flexible activities at Coventry Transport Museum, all inspired by this year’s theme, Curiosity.

Book Online via the From Below | FREE - £12

For ages 0-16 but all are welcome

Celebrate British Science Week with a hands‑on, curiosity‑led learning day created especially for home‑educating families. Explore the science and engineering behind transport through engaging, flexible activities at Coventry Transport Museum, all inspired by this year’s theme, Curiosity.

Led by our friendly Learning Team, inspiring science communicators, and special guests from the University of Warwick, the day offers rich opportunities for children of all ages to learn together through investigation, play, and real‑world exploration. Whether your child loves getting hands‑on, asking big questions, or discovering at their own pace, this event is designed to support home‑educated learners and the way you learn best.

Throughout the day, you can select workshops to attend, drop-in play-based activities and take time to explore the museum.

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What’s in Store?

Choose from the following workshops and activities to attend, giving you a range of experience for mixed ages appealing to varied learning abilities and interests:

Activity	Delivery Team	Ages & Timings
Sensory Stories and Rhymes	CTM Learning Team	For ages 0-5 Set timings
Mini Museum Explorer Trunki Tour	CTM Learning Team	For ages 6-16 but all are welcome 10.30am – 12.30pm
Family Museum Engineers Play Space	Self-led play experience with supervised areas through CTM Learning Team	For ages 0-11 Drop-in
4D Land Speed Record Simulator	CTM Museum Staff	For ages 6-16 (Height restrictions apply)
Land Speed Record Talks	CTM Museum Staff	For ages 6-16 but all are welcome
Maths in the Museum	University of Warwick, Maths Department	For ages 6-11 but all are welcome Drop-in
Car Design in Clay	CTM Learning Team	For all ages Drop-in
Coding Controllers	CTM Learning Team	For ages 6-11

Sensory Stories and Rhymes:
Explore our collections through songs, stories, movement and sensory play. These sessions provide an opportunity for our youngest visitors to engage with our collections in a way that is meaningful to them.

The hands-on nature of these sessions appeal to their imaginations and above all else is fun. Each child will receive a sensory play bag, containing freshly cleaned sensory resources, which helps to keep them engaged for the duration of the session; adds context by using a physical object to give words meaning; extends learning through play and increases their opportunities to develop good listening and language skills.

Mini Museum Explorer Tour:
Join our Mini Museum Explorer Guide on a truly interactive adventure to discover new ways of engaging with our vehicle collection.

Suitable for our home educated children under 5 years old, these tours guide with shapes, colours, numbers, letters and a whole lot of wheelie good fun.

Family Museum Engineers Play Space:
Get playful with loose parts in our museum galleries to create things that go, tall towers, marvellous marble runs, 'robots' and more! This popular open-ended play space will be available to drop into throughout the day. Suitable for all ages.

4D Land Speed Record Simulator:
Experience the thrill of breaking the World Land Speed Record on our 4D Land Speed Record Simulator! Take your seat*, buckle up, and discover for yourself what it's like to drive faster than the speed of sound, across the Black Rock Desert in America.

Get curious about STEM with Rob Bennett:
Our main event of the day invites you to harness your curiosity about the science and engineering within vehicles with STEM Ambassador Rob Bennett.

Learn why curiosity is important in STEM, proudly ask your questions and get stuck into some open-ended and hands-on investigative activities around STEM concepts that might give you answers or the next groundbreaking idea – we are curious to see what happens.

Coding Controllers:
A physical programming taster session where you will have a go at using a Micro:bit and your coding skills to create a remote-controlled vehicle. Get curious about how to improve your controller before we have a go at racing our vehicles.

Car Design in Clay:
An integral step in automobile design is to model the body of the vehicle out of clay. In this drop-in session, you will have an opportunity to shape your own car design using a small block of clay. You can try and recreate one of the cars in the museum or get curious and see if you can imagine a car of the future.

Maths in the Museum:
Joining us from the Warwick University Maths Department, our maths experts will be sharing their own unique takes on the fascinating maths that can be found within Coventry Transport Museum.

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Prices:

Ages 0-2	FREE
Ages 3-5	£4 per child
Ages 6-16	£12 per child
Two Accompanying Adults	FREE
Additional Adults	£3 per adult

 

Full timings of the day to follow.

Following on from your booking, our team will contact you in the lead up to the event to confirm your details and send further information regarding the day to make your experience with us as comfortable as possible.

For further information, please contact our Learning Team: homeeducation@cvlife.co.uk

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