Ancient Egyptian Workshop

Primary History Workshops School Workshop

We can visit your school in: East Midlands, West Midlands, London & South East, East of England, South West, North East, North West, Yorkshire, Wales, Scotland

Why book 'Ancient Egyptian Workshop' with Primary History Workshops

Our Ancient Egyptian workshop is one of our newest and fastest growing workshops, we have recieved many re-bookings already due to it's success!

Our workshop leader Jo will arrive bright and early to set up a mountain of activities for your children for the day. Having taught for 15 years, Jo knows how to share her love and knowledge of Ancient Egypt as well as effectively manage a class of excitable children!

This is your day to relax - we bring all resources and activities for the day! Jo will organise a range of well thought out, age-appropriate activities to help your children explore a variety of aspects within Ancient Egyptian society.

school trip at Ancient Egyptian Workshop

What activities are available during this educational workshop?

*The Who's Who of Egyptian Society - Learn about the hierarchy within the community
*An Egyptian Timeline - Understanding Chronology
*Hands on Artefacts!
*Mummification - How/when/why the Ancient Egyptians mummified the remains of a human
*Roles/Employment of the Egyptians
*Reed pen and ink - Learn and train to become an Ancient Egyptian Scribe!
*Leisure Activities for the Egyptians - Ancient Egyptian games
*Warfare Activities - Enjoy a practical activity that helps us to better understand the style of warfare within society
*Curses - Tutankhamen

Which Curriculum Subjects do you cater for?

Curriculum topics available: Settlement and land use.

A key aspect of the Ancient Egyptian society is the role of the River Nile. Children will learn how this affected people's daily life as well as settlements and choices of food/clothing/leisure activities.

Curriculum topics available: Rivers, Map and atlas.

One of the first activities in the workshop day involves creating a made to scale map of the land the Ancient Egyptians lived on. This core knowledge of the are the Egyptians chose to live will support them throughout the day in the rest of their activities.

Curriculum topics available: Ancient Egyptians.

Our workshop covers one of the most popular Ancient Civilisations - we provide many hands on replica artefacts for the children to explore and learn more about this era. Our workshop day is full of activities to help your children understand more about this fascinating society.

We run all workshops as experimental archaeologists, and many of our activities focus on using archaeological and enquiry skills. We provide opportunities for comparison between different historical eras to heighten the understanding of the era.

What size groups do you cater for?

90 (120 at a push!)

Do you offer access for visitors with disabilities?

We adapt our sessions appropriately when given prior knowledge of the class needs.

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

We adapt our sessions appropriately when given prior knowledge of the class needs.

Who are Primary History Workshops?

We are a small, family run company that delivers KS2 workshops across the country!

Collectively, we have been teaching primary school children for over 45 years, and love what we do. We pride ourselves on the quality of our workshops as well as the quantity of the artefacts that we provide. Your children will be engaged throughout any of our workshops, with our interactive, and practical activities!