THE SALTERS’ COMPANYONE OF THE GREAT TWELVE CITY OF LONDON LIVERY COMPANIES

KS1 KS2 KS3 KS4

www.salters.co.uk | outreach@salters.co.uk

TEACHERS’ PRE-VISIT PACK

To discover the full range of our schools workshops,

please visit our website www.salters.co.uk

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Why visit us?

With a diverse range of interactive, curriculum-linked

workshops for KS1-4, let the Salters’ Company bring

your students’ learning to life.

• Work as a team of scientists to discover

salt’s amazing hidden power by making

your own ice cream.

• Become archaeologists as you search

for Egyptian treasure.

• Discover the remaining wall of Londinium.

With over 600 years of history the

Salters’ Company is at the very heart of

the City of London.

Explore more than 600 years of history with the Salters’ Company, which lies in the heart of the City of London.

Year 5 Teacher, Faraday School

Welcome to the Salters’ Company

We are in the centre of the City of London and have great transport links to help you get to us as easily as possible.

Please ensure you arrive at least 10 minutes before your workshop begins.

AddressSalters’ Hall, 4 London Wall Place, London, EC2Y 5DE

BUSES TRAIN

Salters’ Hall is fully accessible

You can use Google Maps or CityMapper to find us. Make sure they don’t send you to 4 Fore Street. You can also use our map here.

Upon arrival, you will be met by one of our workshop leaders who will ask for the main contact on the day to sign in, before then introducing themselves to the students.

If possible, please keep the students on the grass area outside when the main contact is signing in.

FacilitiesAll sessions take place on the fifth floor, which is accessed by lifts.

TOILETS AND CLOAKROOM

Both toilets and cloakroom are located on the fifth floor. Your group will be shown there upon arrival.

LUNCH SPACE

A designated lunch space is not provided at Salters’ Hall but please do feel free to use the Salters’ garden, located immediately to the right as you exit the building. The garden is fully accessible.

How to bookTO MAKE A BOOKING OR ENQUIRE FURTHER

Please call 0207 826 4060 or email outreach@salters.co.uk

CANCELLATION POLICY AND CONTACT

If you wish to cancel or amend this booking, please call 0207 826 4060 or email outreach@salters.co.uk.

Please note: If you wish to cancel from within 4-2 weeks of the session, there will be a cancellation charge of £35. If you wish to cancel from 2 weeks up until the day of the session, there will be a cancellation charge of £70.

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Getting here

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Key Terms

Kick start your students’ learning before you arrive with these useful key terms. Your students will explore some of these during their workshop.

EVAPORATION

Evaporation is when a liquid is heated and changes to a gas. The process of evaporation is one way in which sea salt was collected using salt pans.

OPEN SALT PANS

This was a traditional way to collect salt. Salt water would be heated in large shallow open pans with the water evaporating, leaving the salt crystals in the pan.

SALT MINING

Rock salt can be obtained from ancient underground salt mines, which still exist today. Mines can vary in size and depth, from 100 metres to a mile underground, and there are different techniques used to mine salt.

PRESERVATIVE

Salt has been used a preservative for centuries. It was used to preserve meat, fish, dairy products and other food. Salt draws the moisture out and prevents dangerous bacteria growing, prolonging the freshness of food.

ENDOTHERMIC REACTION

This is a chemical reaction that takes heat/energy from its surroundings.

STATES OF MATTER

Solids, liquids and gases are known as the three states of matter. These are subject to reversible changes such as evaporation, melting and freezing.

CHEMICAL FORMULA OF SALT

The chemical formula of salt is NaCl. The chemical name for salt is sodium chloride.

LIVERY COMPANY

Livery Companies began to form in the 12th Century to protect the standard and quality of a certain trade. There are currently 110 Livery Companies, with the Salters’ Company ranked ninth among the Great Twelve. Its ranking was due to its economic power when the Order of Precedence was set in 1515.

The Story of the City and the Salters’ Company

King Henry VIII awards the Salters’ Company their Grant of Arms.

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The city of London was founded by the Romans and named Londinium. It even had an amphitheatre and a basilica.

The first ever Licence was granted to the Salters’

Company by King Richard II, allowing them to trade in salt.

By 1300, London was powerful and wealthy and by the middle of the 1500s, the population was about 120,000.

The Salters’ Company occupied its first Hall in Bread Street — they

used to sell salt to bakers.

After Boudicca’s revolt, the Romans built a huge wall around the City for protection. You can still visit a part of this wall in the garden at Salters’ Hall.

Tudor London had become the hub of trade and industry, with 200,000 people living there in 1600.

The Great Fire of London was estimated to have consumed

13,200 houses. It destroyed the fourth Salters’ Hall in

St Swithin’s Lane.

Roman soldiers often had their wages paid in salt

which is where the word salary comes from. ‘Sal’ is

Latin for salt.

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500BC

500AD

1485

1714

50AD

1600

DID YOU KNOW?

DID YOU KNOW?

60 – 6AD

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DID YOU KNOW?

www.cityoflondon.gov.uk

www.museumoflondon.gov.uk

www.saltassociation.co.uk

www.bbc.co.uk

www.iwm.org.uk

www.salters.co.uk

76 members of the Salters’ Company served in World

War One, whilst other members of the Company

donated to the war effort and other charities.

At the outbreak of World War One, 364,000 workers came into the City every day to work in the financial centre.

The Salters’ Institute of Chemistry was set up to help young men whose chemistry studies had been interrupted by serving in World War One.

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DID YOU KNOW?

Food was in short supply and with rationing starting in 1940,

life was hard for Londoners.

London Underground agreed to 79 of its stations being used as

air raid shelters.

1940

The aftermath of the war on London was huge, with 100,000 London homes destroyed and 80,000 Londoners killed or seriously injured.

DID YOU KNOW?

Visit the Salters’ archive and see original documents which survived the Great Fire of London, read hand written documents by members of the Company as they recount that fateful night in May 1941, and much more.

Find Out More

VISIT OUR ARCHIVES

To find out more on the history of the City, the Salters’ Company and other topics discussed here, check out these useful websites:

10th — 11th May The sixth Hall of the Salters’

Company was destroyed in one of the worst air raids of the Blitz.

1941