Educational Days
Our tutors have decades of experience of working with young people between them and are fully insured and DBS checked.
Risk assessments will be sent for every activity.
We bring history to life at your school, and also run Home Education days at centres we have hired, or your own venue.
We run hands on interactive experiences rooted in specific time periods at museums and outdoor education centres.
See below for the days we currently offer. Please get in touch if you would like to enquire about one of the days below or to ask about another time period or structure of day.
Our tutors at your venue
We will bring all the equipment necessary to run a day of hand-on activities at your centre. Our outreach can run as a stand-alone day visit or part of a longer half-term history exploration of day visits. We use materials and equipment appropriate to the time period being explored so pupils will get an immersive and authentic experience of the past.
We also have a storyteller, Qualified English and Drama teacher, historic roundhouse builders and Bushcraft experts within our tutors. See below for how we bring the old stories of the landscape and from historic literature to life.
All teaching covers National Curriculum standards and some of our tutors are qualified UK teachers with decades experience in school settings. Our days can be devised for your educational needs and timetabling.
Example Timetable
1. Tutors meet all the students for the day in a hall and present the time period with room for questions both for and from the students.
2. Half a class has an hour to explore the 6 or more hands-on activities with period accurate equipment that represent the area of study.
3. The other half of the class swap to begin their exploration of the activities.
4. The students regroup to summarise what their take-aways from the day will be, guided by our tutors.
Example tutoring days:
Stone Age to Iron Age
Pupils see the development of tools, food, housing and clothing through these time periods. Their hands-on-activities could involve:
- grinding grains to make flour
- using clay to make pots
- using stone tools on wood
- handling animal skins and leather clothing
- mixing cream to make butter
- handling metal ores which make bronze and iron.
Other time periods available on request including Roman, Anglo Saxon and Viking Age studies.
Tales from other towns and times
Our fantastic storyteller will bring the text you are studying to life through storytelling performance and inclusive activities for your students.
This day includes:
- Storytelling for pupils to watch.
- Dramatic workshops for your students exploring key aspects of the text.
- Hands-on activities related to the time period of the text.
Stories from the past include:
- Anglo Saxon Beowulf
Working with wood
Our tutors have built roundhouses as school projects. Pupils help to weave the wattle walls with hazel and afterwards put the clay daub on to create the room.
Tutors will thatch the roof independently.
We have a bespoke activity set based on how to use your roundhouse once built.
Our wood experts can also lead your students in crafting hazel woven fences, traditional hurdle making and other woodland crafts.
Resources for schools
Our tutors have experience as qualified teachers in mainstream, SEN, PRU, Waldorf Education, Steiner Schools and Private teaching sectors.
We have put together some free resources to support your delivery of a history curriculum
