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Keystages: Key stage 2

Experience Barnsley Museum trails

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!

Miners' Strike trail

Miners' Strike trail

Have a go at our self-led trail for KS2 pupils at Experience Barnsley all about the Miners' Strike and Women Against Pit Closures movement.

Sensory loans box

Sensory loans box

Hire our local history sensory loan box targeted at pupils with SEND.

Elsecar storytelling trail

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

Coal mining

Bring your coal mining teaching to life with our topic box full of real and replica objects relating to Barnsley and beyond.

Anglo- Saxons

Anglo- Saxons

Explore the Anglo-Saxon period in your classroom with our loan box

Stone Age

Stone Age

Introduce your pupils to their Stone Age topic with our prehistoric loan box

Field to flour

Field to flour

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

Toys

Toys

Explore toys in the past with our loan box, available to hire to support your classroom learning.

Vikings

Vikings

Hire our loan box filled with real and replica objects and bring your Vikings topic to life.

WW2 Evacuees

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

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

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.

Earl Fitzwilliam: Raising water by fire

Earl Fitzwilliam: Raising water by fire

Explore Elsecar, handle objects and find out more about the Earl Fitzwilliam and the Newcomen Beam Engine in this half day STEM and Local History workshop.

Virtual Victorians

Virtual Victorians

Bring your Victorians topic to life in the classroom with our live 45 minute online workshop!

Romans

Romans

Find out more about life in the Roman times.

Victorians

Victorians

Explore life as a Butler or Housekeeper with our Victorian Servant loan box

Portraits and Self-identity (Outreach)

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

Stone Age to Iron Age

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

Deep Down Underground

Deep Down Underground

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

WW2

WW2

Pupils meet the Cook and Land Girl at Cannon Hall and become evacuees for the day in this immersive workshop.

Victorian Kitchen

Victorian Kitchen

Your pupils will transform into Victorian servants for the day! Come and join us!