Key Stage 2
Brooklands Museum supports learning outside the classroom through a range of workshops, tours, activity days and resources that will inspire and engage pupils of all ages.
Use the drop-down below to explore our different workshops, guided tours and visit options or download our learning brochure here.
“The Downhill Racers workshop ties in brilliantly with [our students’] design technology work at school. Both testing for them and very entertaining. Parents … said that their children raved about it at home.”
Booking Information
Admission Charges
The general admission price per pupil is £7. One adult FREE per five pupils.
Prices for individual workshops quoted below are in addition to the General Admission price.
From penny farthings to motorbikes, from biplanes to jet airplanes, Brooklands is packed with opportunities to broaden your class’s scientific and technological knowledge and help them develop ideas. If you’d like to keep your visit simple, try a self-guided visit, without any additional workshops or guided tours, for the cost of our General Admission fee of £7 per head.
Workshops and guided tours are an additional cost perclass of up to 32 pupils'
45 mins / £95 per class
Trace the lessons learned by our pioneers at Brooklands and others like them, as they perfected bicycle and car designs to work with forces like friction, air resistance and gravity in the search for safety, stability and speed. Discover the giant leaps made in the 20th and 21st centuries, from creating a ‘safety bicycle’ to developing a McLaren Formula One racing car. Concludes with a racing track visit to learn about centrifugal force.
National Curriculum Links
- Science (Forces / Levers, Pulleys and Gears)
- History (Local History)
45 mins / £95 per class
Learn about man’s battle to master the challenges of air resistance, friction and gravity in this guided tour of some of Brooklands Museum’s most memorable aeroplanes. Find out how aircraft were made and tested on this historic site and follow the search for ever more efficient materials in the search for aerodynamic speed. Walk through a real Wellington Bomber fuselage and discover Barnes Wallis’ Stratosphere Chamber.
Teachers can book a walk through on Concorde for an additional £40 per class
National Curriculum Links
- Science (Forces / Levers, Pulleys and Gears)
- History (Local History)
45 mins / £95 per class
Harness one of our key forces here on this planet - gravity - to create the energy for your own racing car made from recycled materials! Join your class in this learning-by-doing workshop, to discover the challenges of acceleration on a downhill slope. Your students will learn how to create better aerodynamics and minimise the forces of friction and air resistance in their search for speed. Concludes with a race on the historic Brooklands circuit.
National Curriculum Links
- Science (Forces / Working scientifically)
- Design & Technology
45 mins / £95 per class
In this hands-on, engaging workshop, learn about three mechanisms used in engineering: pulleys, levers and gears.
Discover how these mechanisms use forces, situations where they might be used, and how they can make life easier for everyone!
National Curriculum Links
- Science (Forces including gravity / Mechanisms / Working scientifically)
- Mathematics (Measure and compare lengths and masses)
- Design & Technology (Mechanical systems / Investigate existing products)
45 mins / £95 per class
Consider the need to travel slowly: a slow parachute will result in a safelanding.
Your class will use a choice of materials or shapes to create a parachute and test it on the floor of the Barnes Wallis Stratosphere Chamber! Determine which parachute is the most effective through compariosons and measuring time taken to land.
This workshop can be differentiated to suit pupils aged 5-14yrs.
National Curriculum Links
- Science (Working Scientifically / Fair Testing / Forces)
- Mathematics (Problem Solving / Measure and Record Time / Data Handling and Statistics)
- Design & Technology (Materials and their characteristics / Testing and Refining Ideas against a specification)
45 mins / £95 per class
Every object tells a story: our experienced facilitator explains the experiences of people living around Brooklands during the Second World War using original artefacts. Learn about the many fascinating objects from Brooklands Museum’s collection and hear stories of the people who worked at the Brooklands aircraft factories during WWII.
National Curriculum Links
- History (Local History)