Key Stage 2

1. Self-guided visit (£7 per pupil)

   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, you can book a self-guided visit without any additional workshops or guided tours.

Workshops and Tours

1. Workshop: Downhill Racers (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.

2. Workshop: Pulleys, Levers and Gears (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!

3. Workshop: How slow can you go? (45 mins / £95 per class)

   NEW FOR 2025 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 comparisons and measuring time taken to land.

4. Guided Tour: Automotive Innovations (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.

5. Guided Tour: Aviation Innovations (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.

6. Collection Handling: WW2 - Life on the Brooklands' Home Front (45 mins / £95 per class)

   Every object tells a story: In this workshop, 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.