Stone to Iron Age Day Trips

Celtic Harmony School Trips

Why book 'Stone to Iron Age Day Trips' with Celtic Harmony for School Trips and Educational Visits?

Celtic Harmony Camp, the largest reconstructed Iron Age settlement in the UK has seven roundhouses located in a beautiful working woodland setting and has been offering hands-on heritage education for over eighteen years. Your class will learn more about the natural world and life in ancient Britain first-hand. Pupils also experience a more sustainable way of life for the future with sustainable facilities such as a solar powered green toilet.

Enjoyment: Children enjoy being outdoors and often face new challenges with positive attitudes, helping each other and working as a team.

Self Confidence: Children develop in confidence as they try new activities and progress towards successfully participating in new activities or seeing the visual results of a craft.

Social Skills: Children and young people appreciate the need to work together in challenges and the role in the group.

Appreciation for the Natural World: As children experience first-hand how the ancient Britons lived in harmony with the natural world, their appreciation, respect and belonging to their natural environment grows.

New Skills: Children learn new skills from weaving on a warp-weighted loom to shooting with a wooden longbow, and learn the importance of training to improve performance. Other skills include understanding how to dress appropriately for the outdoors and to feel comfortable being outside in a range of weathers.

Personal Development: Children learn self-reliance, how to take responsibility for their role in a group and work to succeed at new challenges whilst keeping a good humour in moments of discomfort.

Life Skills: Children and young people develop their skills to work cooperatively, communicate with each other and help their group achieve its goal.

Healthy Lifestyle: Children learn the benefits of outdoor activities and healthy leisure pursuits such as walking in the woods to Longbow Archery.

Motivation for Learning: Children are stimulated and remember an emotive hands-on experience, they learn to always try to achieve their best even in other areas of school and home life.

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What activities are available during group visits?

Stone Age Day: Experience life as a Neolithic Hunter Gatherer with Den Building, Soap Knapping, Friction fire Lighting Demo, Hunting & Gathering in the woods.
Iron Age Farmer: Living history activities from Weaving on Warp Weighted Looms to Grinding on quern stones.
Boudicca's Warriors: Unite the members of your tribe with this dynamic team building day of challenges from woodland quest to target archery.
Chieftain Day: Experience target archery, hunting archery in the woods, friction and strike firelighting, torc making, and a woodland quest
Art in Prehistory Day: Enjoy a prehistory introduction, visit our Palaeolithic cave and try a cave art workshop, Make a beaker pot and a torc bracelet.
Prehistory Experience: Experience a stone Age Flint tools talk, and soap knap arrow heads, make a beaker pot and grind grain on Iron Age Quern stone to make dough.

Which Curriculum Subjects do you cater for?

Art

History of Art

Our Art in Prehistory day enables your pupils to explore the history of art through a million years of Prehistory. During your visit, pupils will:
- Visit a Palaeolithic Cave with painting inspired by Lascaux, and explore the use of colours and materials during this period of art history
- Draw their own cave art using charcoal and chalk
- Create their own Beaker-style coil pottery
- Make torc bracelet
The day includes all materials and three artefacts that your pupil will making ready to take home with them.

PSHE

Healthy Living Healthy eating Teamwork and resilience Mental health and awareness

At Celtic Harmony, we want children to learn about more than just Prehistory, we want them to learn many different skills. Such as:
- How to set simple goals
- Teamwork, Co-operation and Communication
- Boost their self-esteem, confidence and well-being
- Problem solving, critical thinking and safe decision making
- Encourage a sustainable and healthy lifestyle

Prehistory

Bronze Age Stone Age Iron Age

Day Trips cover the history of Britain from the Stone Age to the Iron Age. A fully immersive experience, your class will be able to explore our authentic roundhouses and be lead through their prehistory day by our costumed educators. Your pupils will get to explore the lives of hunter gatherers and the first Iron Age farmers. There are opportunities to try flint knapping, building their own dens, hunting, gathering, cooking food, pottery and much more. They even have the chance to visit our Prehistoric cave, inspired by the caves at Lascaux.

Celts

At Celtic Harmony Camp children step into ancient Britain and experience Celtic life from the Stone Age, Bronze Age and Iron Age through our programme of multi-sensory, experiential activities. School groups, led by our costumed education team take part in activities such as pottery, grinding grain and making bread, weaving on warp-weighted looms, bartering and trading with Celtic coins, archery, arts and crafts, fire lighting, warrior demonstrations and storytelling.

Romans

Boudicca Rebellion

Our Boudicca Warrior Day focuses on providing pupils with the unique perspective of life under Roman occupation. School groups are called by Boudicca to fight! Pupils work in small teams of approximately 15-20 pupils and complete challenges to earn Catavelauni gold coins:

They get to train as a Celtic Warrior and defeat the Romans, learn the art of Archery, explore the woods on Boudicca’s Quest and craft their own Warrior Headbands and War Paint your Clan.

SEN

Emotional and Behavioural Disorders General Learning Difficulties Dyslexia Dyscalculia and Dyspraxia Disabled Toilet Access

Our site is open to everyone, and we're committed to making sure that all of our experience days are accessible to children with special needs and physical disabilities. We regularly work with children and adults with learning difficulties.

What size groups do you cater for?

Up to 150 children.

Do you offer on-site classroom facilities?

The roundhouses are outdoor classrooms, we have a cafe and outdoor under cover eating area, and we have a heated prehistory centre, including a full recreation of the caves in Lascaux, France.

Is there first aid on site?

We have first aiders on site and first aid kits.

Do you offer access for visitors with disabilities?

We have a disabled toilet and access for all pathway around the Camp.

Do you cater for visitors with Special Educational Needs (SEN)?

We can tailor make one of our themed days for children with special needs and regularly work with children and adults with learning difficulties.

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Who are Celtic Harmony?

Enjoy a WOW Prehistory day packed with hands-on activities in a beautiful woodland setting lead by our dedicated education team of archers, warriors, storytellers, farmers, woodsmen and weavers. The seven roundhouses create a village feel to explore the technology and lifestyle of ancient Britain.

There are several day trips covering different themes including Stone Age, Iron Age Farmer, Warrior and Chieftain.
Our expert educators have designed the days to link with new history curriculum for KS2 Prehistory studies from Stone to Iron Age and a focus on local history in KS1. New this year is the Prehistory Experience which will guide you from Neolithic Hunter Gatherers to Iron Age traders.