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This teacher-led resource for schools has been written to help teachers and other group leaders plan a successful visit. These galleries are diverse, covering many different topics within the curriculum.

There is a pack for each of the three new galleries at St Fagans – Wales is…, Life is…, and Gweithdy.

This pack provides you with further information about the displays to help answer any questions your group may have. It also contains links to other displays within the Museum and also to the historic buildings onsite.

We have launched a package of classroom resources to help teach the Age of the Princes.

We worked in partnership with National Library Wales, Cadw and the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historic Monuments of Wales to create the resources. The Age of the Princes resources are split into 6 themes to explore, with suggested classroom activities for up to 5 lessons per theme.

The themes include:
Overview, Evidence, Every Day Life, Castles and Courts, Welsh Rulers, and Conquest of Wales. All the resources use collections from each of the partner organisations to bring to life the Age of the Princes.

Come and practice your Welsh at St Fagans National Museum of History.

Visit some of the museums iconic buildings while practicing your Welsh. This pack has been developed in conjunction with the National Centre for Learning Welsh and is aimed at Welsh learners of all levels.

An interactive iBook about washing clothes before washing machines. Designed to be used by your learners; includes games, archive material and suggested activities.

Created for the Foundation Phase and lower Key Stage 2 although archive material is suitable for older age groups and can be found separately on the People's Collection Wales website. There is also a PDF version (not interactive) if you don't have access to iOS (Apple).

Can be used as a stand alone resource, but best used to complement washday sessions at St Fagans National Museum of History , Big Pit National Coal Museum and the National Slate Museum - where there is a chance to have a go at some of the steps of the process with a facilitator.

Follow this link to download Time for Washing.

Competition 2019/20 now open - see letter below.

Key Stage 4 - National / Foundation

Here are activities and resources created by Ross Thomas and Amgueddfa Cymru to support you in delivering the coursework requirements for the new Welsh Baccalaureate 2015.

The resources consist of a challenge document for your assessed piece of work, along with a trial challenge which can help students prepare and develop skills for their project.

To help you experience business and the world of work you should work together with others in a team of 3-6 members and use skills and knowledge you have developed from researching Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales to design and develop an innovative product based on the collections at the museums. The product must be cost-effective, innovative and suitable for sale in the Amgueddfa Cymru shops.

Additional workshops to support your study are available. Please contact us for more details. Some workshops may be subject to charging.

A new digital resource to support the numeracy framework in primary schools.

22 bilingual activities for year 6 pupils to support geometry, number, data and measuring skills.

The toolkit was developed in partnership with See Science. The toolkit is sponsored by the National Science Academy grant scheme.

The People’s Collection Wales is a website full of fascinating photographs, sound recordings, documents, videos and stories about the history and heritage of wales and its people. Discover trails, collections and stories, or just search for a photo of your favourite place! You can also find learning resources under the Learn tab. Join the site and add your own history!

People's Collection Wales

Llanharan Primary School Trail!

English resources to be used at St Fagans National Museum of History by ESOL learners. The resources are aimed at different levels of English learners and focus on different buildings around the museum. The resources were created as a result of a joint project between St Fagans National Museum of History and Cardiff and the Vale College. The project was funded as part of the HLF (Heritage Lottery Fund) redeveopment of St Fagans.

Background notes extracted from the 'Discovering the Iron Age' CD ROM published by the Museum's Learning Department, including a selection of images from Wales with accompanying notes. A resource aiming to enhance the teaching of 'Iron Age Celtic Society' at Key Stage 2 (ages 7-11).

Iron Age Teachers' Pack

The National Library of Wales and National Museum Wales are leading a project to produce education resources for schools to commemorate the centenary of the First World War. As part of this project we are using items from the collections of both institutions to create digital teaching resources for Hwb.

Traditional Toys from Wales

The voices of women in Wales have largely been absent from its historiography, both as writers of and participators in its history. Publications such as the collection of historical essays Our Mothers' Land, whilst illustrating this imbalance, have laid the foundations for further research. The need to teach women's history as a seperate subject is in itself an acknowledgement of this deficiancy. One reason often cited for the absence of women's history from the school curriculum is a lack of resources. It is this issue that this resource aims to address.

Drawing in the main from the wealth of archive materials at St Fagans National Museum of History, this pack is an attempt to present visual, oral and written resources dealing with women's experiences between 1900-1918. It is only a small selection of the materials available but one that we hope will help you reconstruct a picture of the past, and enable you to dwell on the diversity of women's experiences.

Welsh Women's History