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

Field to flour

Explore the journey of wheat to flour in this hands-on workshop

The Miller's Apprentice

Learn all about life as a Miller in this half day workshop for Upper KS2

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

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.

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.

Stone Age to Iron Age (Outreach)

Bring prehistory to life in your classroom as your pupils become archaeologists for the day.

Stone Age to Iron Age

Bring prehistory to life as your class discover how to be archaeologists for the day.

Deep Down Underground

Pupils will explore coal mining in Barnsley using objects and maps from our inspiring archive and museum collections.

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!

Keystages: Key stage 2