Workshops
© Andy Brown
© Andy Brown
Our workshops use the best of the city’s museum collections to enhance the curriculum.
Whether it’s experimenting with gears, levers and pulleys, hands-on sculpture-making or meeting an Ancient Egyptian, we have a workshop to inspire your group and their learning.
Workshops run at all six of our sites – they include a range of whole-day and half-day sessions and are primarily designed for KS1 and KS2 participants, unless specified otherwise. Browse through the list below to find a workshop that meets your learning objectives – and if you’d like to know more, just get in touch.
We also offer a range of workshops specifically designed for pupils with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND). These sessions are carefully planned and resourced to allow your class to access and interact with museum collections and can be adapted to meet pupils' needs.
Weston Park Museum workshops
Bronze Age: A Prehistoric Party
Half day | Weston Park Museum
Suitable for KS1/2, up to 35 children
Curriculum area: History / Art
Toys: Be a Curator
Half day | Weston Park Museum
Suitable for KS1, up to 35 children
Curriculum area: History / Art / Science
Adaptation: Surviving Change
Half day | Weston Park Museum
Suitable for KS2, up to 35 children
Curriculum area: Science / PSHE
Meteorology: Using a Weather Station
Half day | Weston Park Museum
Suitable for KS1/2, up to 35 children
Curriculum area: History / Science / Design & Technology
Habitats: A Home for a Harp Seal
Half day | Weston Park Museum
Suitable for EYFS/KS1, up to 35 children
Curriculum area: Science / Art
Print Makers
Half day | Weston Park Museum
Suitable for KS1/2/3, up to 35 children
Curriculum area: Art / History
Anglo-Saxon Invaders & the Benty Grange Helmet
Half day | Weston Park Museum
Suitable for KS2, up to 35 children
Curriculum area: History / Art / PSHE
Meet an Ancient Egyptian
Half day | Weston Park Museum
Suitable for KS2, up to 35 children
Curriculum area: History / Art / PSHE
An Ancient Egyptian’s Story
Full day | Weston Park Museum
Suitable for KS2, up to 35 children
Curriculum area: History / Art / PSHE
Create Cartoons like Pete McKee
Half day | Weston Park Museum
Suitable for KS1/2/3, up to 35 children
Curriculum area: Art / Speaking and Listening
Kelham Island Museum workshops
If part of your visit to Kelham Island Museum will be teacher-led, you are welcome to download our free teaching resources for Key Stage 1, Key Stage 2 and Key Stage 3 to support teaching and learning on the day.
Sheffield Designers: Plan Like an Expert
Half day | Kelham Island Museum
Suitable for KS1/2/3, up to 35 children
Curriculum area: History / Design & Technology / Science
Steel City
Half day | Kelham Island Museum
Suitable for KS1/2, up to 35 children
Curriculum area: Science / History
Gears, Levers & Pulleys
Half day | Kelham Island Museum
Suitable for KS2, up to 35 children
Curriculum area: History / Design & Technology / Science
Harry Brearley: The Man of Steel
Half day | Kelham Island Museum
Suitable for KS1/LKS2, up to 35 children
Curriculum area: Science / History
Sheffield Designers: Tools for the 21st Century
Full day | Kelham Island Museum
Suitable for KS2/3, up to 35 children
Curriculum area: History / Design & Technology / Science
Millennium Gallery workshops
Clay Sculpture
Half day | Millennium Gallery
Suitable for KS1/2, up to 35 children
Curriculum area: Art / History
Print Makers
Half day | Millennium Gallery
Suitable for KS1/2/3, up to 35 children
Curriculum area: Art / History
Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet workshops
If part of your visit to Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet will be teacher-led, you are welcome to download our free teaching resources for Key Stage 1, Key Stage 2 and Key Stage 3 to support teaching and learning on the day.
These teaching resources have been made possible as part of Embrace Abbeydale, with The National Lottery Heritage Fund. Thanks to National Lottery players, we have been able to create these free resources for teachers, which give information and guidance on supporting children and young people on a self-guided visit to Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet.
Abbeydale’s Victorians: Danger, Destruction and Drama
Half day | Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet
Suitable for KS2, up to 35 children
Curriculum area: History / PSHE
World War II: Abbeydale to the Rescue
Half day | Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet
Suitable for KS2/3, up to 35 children
Curriculum area: History / PSHE
Graves Gallery & Shepherd Wheel workshops
Portraits & Identity
Half day | Graves Gallery
Suitable for KS1/2/3/4, up to 35 children
Curriculum area: Art / History / PSHE
Inventing Stories
Half day | Graves Gallery
Suitable for KS2/3, up to 35 children
Curriculum area: Art / English / Drama / PSHE
Abstract Art: Exploring colour, line and form
Half day | Graves Gallery
Suitable for all key stages, up to 35 children
Curriculum area: Art
The Power of Water
Half day | Shepherd Wheel Workshop
Suitable for KS1/2, up to 35 children
Curriculum area: Geography / Science / History
