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Key stage 2

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


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

Creative Writing
Let your pupils’ imaginations run wild, inspired by the wonderful objects and artworks at Cannon Hall or the Cooper Gallery.
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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 from the Cooper Gallery collection, learning new ways of looking at and interpreting art.

Mill Tour
Discover the history of the Mill through the ages and explore the stories of the people who have lived and worked here.

A Material World
Explore Elsecar, handle objects and see the magnificent Newcomen Beam Engine in action in this full or half day STEM workshop

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

Wellbeing Resources
Support the wellbeing of your pupils with our specially created pack of lesson plans, videos and audio tracks created by experts in their field.

Have Your Say
Bring your class to the Town Hall – heart of Barnsley’s democracy – to learn all about how to create a successful political campaign

Portraits, Art and Design
Have a go at a range of art and design techniques including sketching, oil painting, sculpture and watercolour and practice creating your own portrait.

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.
Industry and Physical Processes
Learn about the coal mining and ironworks processes at Elsecar through practical experiments and discovery of important inventions which helped put this village on the international map.

Life at Cannon Hall
Find out about jobs through the ages at Cannon Hall from the Victorian Cook to the modern-day gardener.

Coal Mining
Discover Barnsley’s mining heritage from protests to pit ponies with our interactive 'talking’ loan box.

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!