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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.

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.

Dyma gynllun newydd, cyffrous gan Amgueddfa Cymru sy’n rhoi cyfle i ddysgwyr ymarfer eu Cymraeg yn Sain Ffagan Amgueddfa Werin Cymru. Mae’n bwysig darllen y wybodaeth wrth ddilyn y ddolen isod er mwyn sicrhau eich bod yn cael y mwyaf o’ch ymweliad – rhowch alwad os oes gennych unrhyw gwestiynau.

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.

Abernodwydd is a farmhouse built in 1678 in Llangadfan, Powys.

Ideal for schools or groups doing project work or preparing to go on a bat walk. Contains bat facts and a British bat call quiz.

Here is Beti Bwt. Today is Monday. Beti Bwt hates Monday. Monday is wash day. Let's see how Beti Bwt washes her clothes.

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

This is a farmhouse first built in 1544 in Waunfawr, Gwynedd. We don't know who lived here, but we can guess it was a wealthy family.

Hendre'r-ywydd Uchaf is a farmhouse, first built in 1508 in Llangynhafal, Denbighshire. This farmhouse has a dividing wall. The family lived in one side and cows lived in the other.

This is a cottage, built in 1762 in Rhostryfan, Gwynedd. Cottages like these were used by farm servants and craftsmen.This cottage was used by men who worked in the local slate quarry.

Melin Bompren is a corn mill, built between 1852 and 1853. This mill was built in Cross Inn, near New Quay, Ceredigion, but there were hundreds of similar mills throughout Wales.

This is a row of six cottages from Rhyd-y-car in Merthyr. In 1801, Merthyr was the largest town in Wales, with a population of 7,000.

This is a Catholic church that was originally built near Pontarddulais, outside Swansea. The oldest parts of the building come from around 1150, but it was extended and changed over the years.

The Cockpit was built in the yard of the Hawk and Buckle Inn, Denbighshire, in the seventeenth century. It was used, of course, for cockfighting — a violent and extremely cruel activity by today's standards.

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.

This B2 type prefab (prefabricated bungalow) was built in Llandinam Crescent, Gabalfa, Cardiff in 1948.

This is a tollhouse. It was built in Aberystwyth in 1771 for £40. Tollhouses were built to collect money from travellers. This money was then used for road maintenance.

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