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Key stage 1
Medicine Through Time
Learn about medicine through time with our collection of handling objects
Cannon Hall Nature Trail
Explore the biodiversity and green spaces of Cannon Hall Country Park with our nature trail.
Experience Barnsley Museum trails
Have a go at our free self-led trails for KS1 and KS2 including toys, comparing the past and present, scavenger hunts, explorer trails and more!
Sensory loans box
Hire our local history sensory loan box targeted at pupils with SEND.
Elsecar storytelling trail
Explore Elsecar Heritage Centre with your class using our storytelling trail. Your pupils will use Elsecar's rich industrial past to create their own stories, using our story bags as inspiration.
Coal mining
Bring your coal mining teaching to life with our topic box full of real and replica objects relating to Barnsley and beyond.
Cannon Hall Art Sparks trail
Explore Cannon Hall Country Park and get creative with our suggested art activities.
Cannon Hall storytelling trail
Let your imaginations run wild in Cannon Hall Country Park with our storytelling trail for primary schools.
Anglo- Saxons
Explore the Anglo-Saxon period in your classroom with our loan box
Stone Age
Introduce your pupils to their Stone Age topic with our prehistoric loan box
The Mill Mouse
Explore the story of flour from wheat to bread in this half day workshop, focussed on the story of 'The Mill Mouse'
Worsbrough Mill Nature trail
How many birds and animals can you spot around Worsbrough Country Park with our nature spotter's trail?
Worsbrough Mill Storytelling trail
Explore the Country Park and let your imaginations run wild with our spoken storytelling trail.
Toys
Explore toys in the past with our loan box, available to hire to support your classroom learning.
Vikings
Hire our loan box filled with real and replica objects and bring your Vikings topic to life.
WW2 Evacuees
Find out all about life as an evacuee during WW2 with this beautifully handmade loan box, focussing on childhood during the war.
WW2: Evacuees Online
Find out what it was like to be evacuated to Cannon Hall during WW2 in this live 45 minute Zoom session
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Look, Make, Print
Pupils will explore artwork from the Cooper Gallery collection, focussing on colour, line and shape before relocating to Experience Barnsley to develop techniques to create their own linocut prints.
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Portraits and self identity (trip)
Pupils will become immersed in original works, learning new ways of looking at and interpreting art.
Virtual Victorians
Bring your Victorians topic to life in the classroom with our live 45 minute online workshop!
Romans
Find out more about life in the Roman times.
Victorians
Explore life as a Butler or Housekeeper with our Victorian Servant loan box
Portraits and Self-identity (Outreach)
Your pupils will become artists for this two-hour session where they will learn the basics of portraiture including proportion and detailed drawing of facial features.
WW2
Pupils meet the Cook and Land Girl at Cannon Hall and become evacuees for the day in this immersive workshop.
Victorian Kitchen
Your pupils will transform into Victorian servants for the day! Come and join us!