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The National Coal Mining Museum for England tells the

story of coal mining and its communities. Set in a real

colliery, the Museum brings to life the history of one of

the country’s oldest industries.

A visit to our free Museum can be organised to enhance

and inspire learning in a number of subject areas.

The education team is more than happy to assist you in

planning a visit to suit the requirements of your pupils.

Underground tour

This is the highlight of any school visit

and is a must-do activity. With a

former coal miner as their personal

guide, pupils ride the cage 140 metres

underground to discover first-hand

what life was like as a miner. See

inside to find out about our different

tour options for schools.

Explore authentic

pit buildings

See our steam winding engine in

action, visit the pithead baths where

a miner’s shift started and finished,

or see the ponies in the stables.

Sights, sounds and smells combine

to give each original pit building its

own unique atmosphere.

Galleries and exhibitions

Our galleries and exhibition spaces

show the history of coal mining

and get to the heart of mining

communities, homes and families.

Our changing special exhibitions

programme means there is always

something new to discover.

Nature trail and reed beds

Visit the reed beds and find out how

the Museum’s innovative water-

treatment plant cleans iron-rich

minewater pumped from

underground. Follow the nature trail

and see for yourself how the old

colliery spoil tip has been regenerated

into mixed woodland, providing a

habitat for wildlife, plants and trees.

Hope Pit

How did miners get down the shaft?

How did they breathe underground?

How did they power their machines?

Interactive displays and multimedia

science exhibits explore science

and technology concepts in a real-life

industrial context.

Self-guided visits

You are welcome to organise

a self-guided visit and we have

a number of resources available

to help you do this, including

a KS1 and KS2 gallery trail.

These are available on request

or can be downloaded from

our website:www.ncm.org.uk/learningContact the education team

to arrange a preliminary visit.

School workshops

See inside to find out how Museum

staff can facilitate interactive,

curriculum-based learning

experiences for your class.

For further information

about our inspiring, historic

site please download the document

‘Explore the Museum’ from our

website www.ncm.org.uk/learning

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Education Programme KS1 & KS2

Make Sense of Mining

The underground tour is always the highlight of

any school visit. The Museum is now able to

offer to schools a choice of underground tours,

all of which are led by a former miner and last

about 1 hour and 20 minutes.

Meet a Miner

Subject focus: KS1, KS2, all subjects

Available: 7 days a week

Cost: Underground tour is free

Duration: 1 hour 20 minutes

This chronological tour will enable

pupils to discover mining through the

ages, as the guide takes them on a

journey through mining history from

the early 1800s, when whole families

including young children worked

together underground, right through

mechanisation up to the present day.

This tour is a great introduction

to coal mining, and works well

alongside all the schools’ workshops

on offer, as well as for any

self-led visits.

Hands-On History

Subject focus: KS1, KS2,

with strong links to History

Available: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday

Cost: Underground tour is free,

living history workshops cost £25

per session (17 pupils per session)


A history-focused tour that will give

pupils the chance to get their hands

dirty as they take on the roles of the

trapper, thruster and hurrier in a 19th

century mining family and have a go at

‘feeding’, ‘mucking out’ and harnessing

the model horses in the underground

stables. Pupils will also experience

lighting through the ages, from the

pitch dark of an unlit coal mine right

through to modern electric lighting.

This interactive tour can be

booked in conjunction with one

of our surface workshops, such asSam/Sally Fletcher ‘It’s a HardLife’ or Sir Humphry Davy andthe Flame Safety Lamp.Ask a member of our education

team, or speak to the bookings

officer for more details.

Subterranean Science

Subject focus: KS2,

with strong links to Science

Available: Wednesday, Friday

Cost: Underground tour is free,

living history workshops cost £25

per session (17 pupils per session)


A science focused tour that looks at

two important aspects of science in

mining: lighting and earth-science. The

darkness of the underground provides

the perfect setting to experiment with

light, and pupils will be able to get

hands-on to see how light only travels

in straight-lines as well as looking at

how colours are filtered. Pupils will

also get the chance to see

underground rock formations, and to

identify common rocks and fossils

found in the Coal Measures.

This interactive tour works well

with our workshops: Coal Seam:Time Machine and Sir HumphryDavy and the Flame SafetyLamp. It also supports the Rocks trail.

Underground

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Rocks trail

Why is gravel used on locomotive

tracks? Why have the steps eroded?

An interactive trail that involves

pupils locating and investigating rock

samples at several trail stops around

the site.

Subject focus: Science

(The Earth and beyond)

Available: Monday -Friday

Cost: Free

Duration: 45 minutes

The Rocks Trail and Teachers’ Notes

are available on request or can be

downloaded from:

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Materials trail

Why is steel used for making

horseshoes? What are the tiles

in the pithead baths made from?

An interactive trail that involves

pupils locating and investigating

materials used in the mining industry.


(Materials and their properties)

Available: Monday - Friday

Cost: Free


The Materials Trail and Teachers’

Notes are available on request

or can be downloaded from:


Habitats trail

Based on the Museum’s nature trail,

pupils explore and observe different

habitats and learn about life

processes, feeding relationships and

classification.


(Living things in their environment)

Available: Monday-Friday

Cost: Free


The Habitats Trail and Teachers’

Notes are available on request

or can be downloaded from:


The following demonstrationsmay be requested (availabilitycannot always be guaranteed):

Steam winder

demonstration

See an original Victorian steam

winding engine in action.


Cost: free

Horsekeeper talk

Visit the stable yard and listen while

our horsekeepers tell you about the

working lives of the ponies.


Cost: free


Explorer Trails

Our explorer trails lead pupils around site on a trail

of discovery. They are free to use and are led

by group leaders.

Talks and

demonstrations

Self-ledactivities

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Coal Seam: Time Machine

Pupils can find out what coal is and how it was formed,

explore sedimentary and igneous rocks and make their

own fossil to take back to the classroom. Make rocks

more memorable with this new hands-on classroom

workshop.

Subject focus: Science (grouping and classifying materials),

Geography (environmental change

and sustainable development)

Available: Wednesdays and Fridays

(with Subterannean Science Underground Tour)

Cost: £25 per workshop

(17 pupils per session)


Why not borrow a Coal Measures Fossils loans box to

complement this session?

Dig Deeper

Dig deeper and uncover the layers of Caphouse Colliery

with one of our mining guides. Using a scale model of the

site, museum objects and Coal Measures fossils, pupils find

out about the social and technological history of coal

mining over the last 100 years.

Subject focus: History

(Britain since 1930), Geography (understanding of places)

Available: Tuesdays and Thursdays




Why not borrow the Coal Measures Fossils loans box

or a 1980s-themed loans box to complement this

session?


“Brilliant delivery, confident staff with extensive knowledge. Pupils engaged and interestedthroughout.”Lyndhurst School

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Workshops

“A fantastic session... Sally Fletcher really broughthistory to life. ” Airedale Junior School


Fred at the Pithead Baths

Fred is the pithead baths attendant at Caphouse Colliery

in 1938, where he demonstrates the use and benefits

of the ‘new’ baths and discusses the impact of welfare

provision for miners in the 1930s. Pupils use their enquiry

skills to help Fred sort out some ‘lost property’ from the

1930s.

Subject focus: History (Britain since 1930)





There are 1930s-themed loans boxes available to

complement this session.

Sally/Sam Fletcher,

‘It’s a Hard Life’

Meet Sally or Sam Fletcher in

the Victorian area of Caphouse Colliery during the

Industrial Revolution. Listen to their stories

of working underground as children, before the 1842

Coal Mines Act changed their lives.

Subject focus: History (Victorian Britain)





A themed resource pack and loans boxes are available

to support this session.

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“The students who all havesevere learning difficultieswere captivated. Peggy heldtheir attention right throughto the end.” Oakfield Park School

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“Absolutely fabulous – John Davy fired the children’simagination. It generated awe and wonder of Science.”Mrs A Hussain, Parkinson Lane Primary School

Sir Humphry Davy and

the Flame Safety Lamp

Sir Humphry Davy was one of the most important

scientists of his time and provided miners with a way of

safely lighting their dark working world. The story of his

invention of the flame safety lamp is told by his brother,

John, or his sister, Kitty, who will demonstrate some

important scientific principles and talk about their life in

nineteenth-century England.

Subject focus: History (Victorian Britain),

Science (Materials and their properties)





Peggy Thorpe,

‘Keep the Home Fires Burning’

Peggy Thorpe’s life in war-torn Yorkshire has never been

so busy – she works part-time in the pit canteen,

is a mother and miner’s wife, and will be taking in some

evacuees too! Set in 1944, Peggy introduces pupils to life

on the Home Front in a pit village, and discusses the

important work that her husband, and the Bevin Boys

down the street, are doing for the war effort.






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“The kinaesthetic approach tolearning really made themechanisms more memorable for the children, thank you.” Farnley Tyas First School

Wind Me Up!

Pupils see pulleys and axles in action

through watching a demonstration

of the Museum’s original belt-driven

machinery. After an exploration of

how winding mechanisms work at

Hope Pit, pupils design and make

their own mechanism to wind the

miners out of the shaft.

Subject focus: Design and Technology

(materials and components)





Gearing Up!

Pupils see how gears and drive belts

can be used to transfer energy and

change the speed and direction

of a machine, through watching

a demonstration of our original

belt-driven machinery. Pupils then

apply these concepts to their own

working model.

Subject focus: Design and Technology

(materials and components), Science

(forces and motion)





Science and D&T workshops at Hope Pit


These workshops take place at Hope Pit, where

interactive exhibits support learning in Science and

Design and Technology. Hope Pit is a five-minute walk

from the main site.

Make sure you explore our original colliery buildings

including the compressor house, electric winding house

and fan house.

Don’t forget...to look out for special

activities during

National Science &

Engineering Week

14-23 March 2014

Why not look at our

CD ROM ‘The Science

of Mining’, which includes

lots more resources

for teaching primary science?

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OutreachThe Museum has an exciting range of workshops to

bring to your classroom, including science

investigations, living-history sessions and object-

handling workshops. Activities are directly linked to the

National Curriculum and can be adapted to suit the

needs of your class.


Sally Fletcher and the 1842

Royal Commission

Discover what life was like for

Sally, a Victorian miner. Find out how

her life changed when the 1842

Mines Act was passed, prohibiting

women and children from working

underground. This interactive

workshop includes role-play and

a historical investigation using

primary evidence.

KS1/KS2 History (Victorian Britain,

Historical Enquiry), Literacy (reading for

information, speaking and listening).


Cost: £60

Duration: Half-day

Lights Out!

What is light? Where does light

come from? How do miners see in

the dark? This interactive workshop

explores reflective, transparent

and opaque materials, as well as

introducing pupils to the various

light sources used by miners past

and present.

KS1 Science (Physical processes)


Cost: £60

Duration: Half-day

Seeing the Whole Picture

Pupils will use their skills of

observation to understand that

pictures have meanings and can tell

stories. Using a range of visual

resources, pupils build up their own

picture of what a miner is and does.

In the second part of the session they

produce a group or individual piece

of artwork.

KS1 Art, History (Historical Enquiry

and Interpretation)


Cost: £60

Duration: Half-day

A Very Victorian Christmas

The housekeeper at the Grange,

owned by local colliery owners,

takes you back to 1860 to

experience a very Victorian

Christmas. Your class will be involved

in making Victorian decorations,

playing parlour games and singing, in

this object-handling workshop that

aims to compare the lives of the

rich and the poor.

KS1/KS2 History (Victorian Britain), Art

Available: 7, 12, 14, 19, 21, 26, 28

November and 3, 5, 10, 12, 17

December 2013

Cost: £60 (or book a full day for £100)

Duration: Half-day

Essential Information

• Half-day outreach sessions cost

£60 or book a full day for £100

• We will travel to schools within a

30-mile radius of the Museum

• We can tailor sessions to meet

the needs of your group, depending

on age, ability and group size

• Please contact the Assistant

Education Officer (Outreach)

to make a booking.

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A Bevin Boy Remembers

One of our living history interpreters takes on the role

of an ex-Bevin Boy, Jeff. Opening a suitcase he has found

in his loft, full of objects and documents from his past,

unlocks Jeff ’s memories of World War II, which he

shares with his listeners. Jeff explains how he was

conscripted to work in the mines during the War; why

coal mining was so important to the War effort; and

what it was like to work underground. Pupils will also

be able to ask their own prepared questions at the end.


Available: Mondays

Cost: free


Meet a Real Miner

Take the opportunity to meet one of our mining

guides, and hear at first hand what it was like to work

underground. Our mining guide will take you through a

typical working day: explain the dangers and thrills of

working in a mine and give pupils a powerful insight

into the mining industry. Pupils will also be able to ask

their own prepared questions at the end.

Subject focus: History (Britain since 1930, Local History)

Available: Thursdays

Cost: free



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“It was a fantastic morning;the children and I enjoyed it.I feel the children learnedsomething new about thewar that we would notnormally cover.”

Y6 Teacher, Hindsford CE School

VideoconferencingFor pupils who are too far away to visit the Museum

or for teachers wishing to consolidate learning

following a visit, a videoconference workshop is an

exciting and interactive way for pupils to learn about

coal mining.

To take part, we recommend that schools register

with JVCS (JANET Videoconferencing Service).

See http://www.ja.net/services/video/jvcs/ for more

information.

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Supporting your Visit We understand that you don’t make a Museum visit in

isolation and so have a range of resources to support

pre- and post-visit activities in the classroom. The

Education team are happy to advise you about how best

to explore coal mining back at school.


Coal Measures Fossils

Six Coal Measures fossils, which pupils

can handle and explore. A resource

which supports the ‘Coal Seam: Time

Machine’ workshop.

1980s Mining Safety

A selection of miner’s protective

clothing and equipment focusing on

working conditions underground. A

great resource for studying health

and safety or as a follow up to the

‘Dig Deeper’ workshop.

1980s Mining Tools

Objects relating to modern mining.

1980s Mining Life

Objects relating to the life of a miner

in the 1980s

1930s Family

Objects and photographs that relate

to life in a mining family in the 1930s.

1930s Work

Objects and photographs to follow

up a ‘Fred at the Pithead Baths’

workshop.

Victorian Work

Objects, framed photographs, and

copies of sources from the 1842

Children’s Commission. A great

resource to support a ‘Sam/Sally

Fletcher workshop’.

Victorian Home

A selection of objects that relate to

the Victorian mining home. A great

resource to support a ‘Sam/Sally

Fletcher workshop’.

The 1842 Children’s

Employment Commission

Interpret primary evidence from the

1842 Commission and discover what

it was really like for children working

underground. Take on the roles of

mine workers, mine owners, and

commissioners and discuss the

consequences of the 1842 Coal

Mines Act.

Mining Portraits

Access fantastic images of paintings

from the Museum’s art collection as

well as photographs, handling

objects, mining artist interviews on

audio CD and information sheets.

This is an invaluable resource for

pupils looking at portraiture or

exploring themes around figures,

faces, industry and work.

Striking Images: 1984/85

Miners’ Strike

Powerful historic photographs taken by

Guardian newspaper photographers

tell the story of the 1984/85 Miners’

Strike and those who were affected by

it. Resources also include trade

newspapers, leaflets and oral history

recordings. The teachers’ notes will

guide you through activities.

Loans boxesOur loans boxes contain real Museum objects

from across our collections for pupils to handle,

contextual information and ideas for classroom

activities. They provide a tangible link with the

past, stimulate curiosity and encourage a hands-on

approach to learning. Use the boxes to develop

historical enquiry and interpretation skills,

communication skills and creative projects.

Loans boxes are free to borrow for up to a

month. Please book through the Assistant

Education Officer.

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Supporting your Visit


The following resources are

available to buy from the

Museum shop.

What is coal?

£1.25

Fact sheet showing simple

geological changes through time.

Coal Forest Fossils poster

£1.50

A poster showing the formation

of different fossils found in coal

bearing rocks.

Nature Trail

activity cards

£3.00

A range of stimulating and fun

seasonal activities which link to

the Museum’s Nature Trail.

Peggy Thorpe

Resource Pack

£4.00

Ideas, images and activities to

support the Peggy Thorpe

workshop.

Sam/Sally Fletcher

Resource Pack

£2.45

Ideas, images and activities to

support the Sam/Sally Fletcher

workshop.

Resource Packs

Museum websiteVisit www.ncm.org.uk/learning to download gallery trails and fact sheets.

Visit www.ncm-collection.org.uk to explore the Museum’s online

collections or search the library catalogue. We have recently digitised

Coal (editions from 1947-1959), the National Coal Board’s magazine,

which gives a fascinating insight into life in a coal mining community.

My learning website Visit mylearning.org.uk to explore resources

and activities relating to Victorian children working

in coal mines and the role of women in the coal

mining industry.

Science of Mining CD ROM - £4.99A digital resource that supports

science topics using coal mining as

a theme. Games, worksheets ,

video clips and images enrich

learning about rocks, electricity,

energy, materials and habitats.

Exploring Urban and RuralLandscapes art resource -£4.00An art resource which focuses on

the Museum’s industrial and rural

landscape and includes

reproductions of landscape pieces

in the Museum collection. Video

tutorials by professional artist, Jake

Attree teach technical drawing

skills and give tips for getting pupils

drawing around the Museum site.

Online LearningDigital and

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How to book

Practical information

We have a dedicated picnic area,

indoor lunch spaces, toilets and

lockable storage cupboards for

school groups. There are coach

parking spaces available and an

outside adventure playground.

Our risk assessment advice

document can be downloaded

from the website.

Local schools initiative

For local schools (5 mile radius

only) we offer a 'parent drop-off'

or 'minibus run' facility. Please let

our Bookings Officer know if you

require this.

Shop

The Museum shop sells resources

for teachers and a range of

souvenirs and reference books.

Goody bags for schools groups are

available on request.

Supervision requirements

School groups have underground

tours in groups of seventeen pupils

and two adults. Around the rest of

the Museum site, we recommend

a ratio of one adult to every ten

children.

Booking the

Education room

You can book the Education

Activities Room in the Learning

Curve, equipped with interactive

whiteboard, for the day. The

charge for this is £40.

Cancellation

Please let us know as soon as

possible if you wish to cancel

your visit. If a booked workshop

is cancelled with less than five

working days’ notice, the full

amount will be payable.

Museum information

National Coal Mining Museum

for England, Caphouse Colliery,

New Road, Overton,

Wakefield, WF4 4RH

Tel: 01924 848806

Fax 01924 844567

Email: [email protected]

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Registered in England & Wales

as a Limited Company

by Guarantee No. 1702426.

Reg. Charity No. 517325.

VAT Reg. no. 457 548 314.

Reg. Office: Caphouse Colliery,

New Road, Overton, Wakefield,

West Yorkshire, WF4 4RH

Contact the Booking Staff to make

a provisional booking on

01924 848806 or by email:

[email protected].

We will need to know the size of

your group and preferred visit

date. If you need an indoor lunch

space, please ask at this point.

We will then send you a booking

form; please return this within two

weeks.

Once your booking is confirmed,

you will be notified in writing.

We advise all teachers to make a

preliminary visit. The education

team is happy to help with

planning your day.

If you have any specific enquiries,

please contact the education team

on 01924 848806 or [email protected].


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