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Upper key stage 2
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!
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
Hire our local history sensory loan box targeted at pupils with SEND.
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.
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
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.
Barnsley's Industries
Explore Barnsley's industries with our loan box, available to hire to support your classroom learning. Includes objects related to coal mining, glass making and textiles.
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
Virtual Victorians
Bring your Victorians topic to life in the classroom with our live 45 minute online workshop!
Stone Age to Iron Age (Outreach)
Bring prehistory to life in your classroom as your pupils become archaeologists for the day.
Deep Down Underground (Outreach)
Pupils will make a local history study and explore coal mining in Barnsley in your classroom.
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!