We teach both Stone Age education and Bushcraft skills using the woodlands as an outdoor classroom or alternatively can bring the Stone Age to your classroom for an in-school workshop. Our sessions are always highly interactive and hands on. All of our courses promote team building and group cohesion and are structured to meet national curriculum objectives.
Our Stone Age programme is a great way to introduce the Stone Age topic. We offer a unique interactive 'show and tell' to really bring the subject alive and encourage children to connect with their heritage. We pass around the tools, the furs and containers of the past making the Stone Age subject a 3D experience. Choose from our list of activities for your hands on workshops. Get messy with cave art, light up the subject with primitive lamps, learn the process of making a stone tool or build a shelter just like our Mesolithic ancestors and more.
Alternatively, why not plan a Bushcraft trip with us. Bring a group to us for a really wild outdoor day trip or residential session. These sessions are great for team building and confidence enhancing. Students get the opportunity to learn practical hands-on skills whilst connecting to their natural environment. Our sessions are always highly interactive and enjoyable. Activities can range from fire lighting and foraging to carving and campfire cooking and lots more in between. Students can even build their own shelter to sleep in under the stars for the ultimate in wild adventures.
What activities are available during educational visits?
Activities vary by programme and can be delivered in woodland settings or at your school. Pupils may take part in Stone Age survival experiences, shelter building, fire lighting, tool making, map reading, navigation challenges, habitat investigations, plant identification, sustainability projects, team-building tasks and practical fieldwork.
Sessions include hands-on activities such as den building, resource selection challenges, settlement mapping, compass work, species identification, environmental investigations and problem-solving exercises designed to bring History, Geography, Science and PSHE to life through outdoor learning.
Which curriculum topics do we cater for?
Prehistory School Trip
Stone Age
Bringing KS2 prehistory to life, this immersive Stone Age Britain workshop delivers hands on, survival based learning in a highly engaging format. Pupils explore how early humans lived, adapted and survived as hunter gatherers and early settlers. They investigate natural materials, build shelters, create Stone Age style tools and take part in survival challenges that reflect real early human life.
Closely linked to the KS2 History unit "Changes in Britain from the Stone Age to the Iron Age," the session also supports Science, Design & Technology and PSHE through teamwork, materials and problem solving. Delivered by experienced practitioners, it makes Stone Age Britain memorable, active and curriculum focused.
Bushcraft
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Set in a woodland environment, this Bushcraft workshop gives pupils a hands on outdoor learning experience linked to KS2 history and geography. Children take part in shelter building, fire lighting (where appropriate), tool use and teamwork challenges. They learn how early humans survived using natural resources while developing resilience, problem solving and communication skills. A highly engaging, practical session that supports curriculum learning through memorable, active outdoor education.
Science Biology
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Habitats Living things and habitats Animals including humans Plants
Hands-on KS2 science workshop delivered at your school, giving pupils the chance to investigate the natural world through practical outdoor learning. Children explore habitats, plants and living things through engaging activities that develop observation, classification and scientific enquiry skills while supporting key curriculum objectives.
Activities include:
Identifying plants and wildlife
Exploring and comparing habitats
Environmental survey work
Grouping and classifying living things
Scientific investigation challenges
KS2 science curriculum coverage
Living things and their habitats
Working scientifically
Observation, investigation and data collection
Outdoor learning within the school environment
Physical Geography
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Fieldwork Map and atlas
Exploring a woodland environment firsthand, this workshop introduces pupils to key physical geography concepts through practical fieldwork. Children study natural features such as terrain, vegetation and landscape patterns while using maps and observation skills to understand how environments are formed and change. Through hands on activities, they build a stronger understanding of physical processes alongside essential KS2 geography skills in an engaging, active outdoor setting.
Fieldstudies
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Mapping
In a real woodland setting, this Geography Field Studies programme gives pupils hands on experience of outdoor fieldwork. Children use maps, compass directions and structured observation tasks to explore and interpret their surroundings. They record features, follow routes and complete navigation challenges in teams. This active learning experience builds confidence with fieldwork techniques while developing teamwork, communication and problem solving skills in a practical KS2 context.
Outdoor Learning
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Across KS1 and KS2, curriculum linked learning comes to life through immersive outdoor education sessions in woodland or school based settings. Designed to replace or enhance classroom learning, these programmes use practical, enquiry based activities to build real understanding. All sessions are directly linked to the National Curriculum and focus on applying knowledge through active exploration, teamwork and problem solving. Pupils develop key skills in geography, science, history and PSHE through engaging outdoor experiences led by expert facilitators.
PSHE
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Transition Days Teamwork and resilience
Preparing for secondary school, this Year 6 PSHE day supports pupils through practical woodland team challenges designed to build confidence and resilience. Activities include den building, group problem solving, resource challenges and fire lighting (where appropriate), alongside reflection tasks about transition. Pupils develop communication, teamwork and wellbeing skills in an active outdoor environment. Fully aligned with KS2 PSHE, it focuses on managing change, building relationships and supporting emotional development through engaging, real world experiences.
Team Building
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Through hands on woodland challenges, outdoor team building experiences that develop confidence, communication and cooperation. Pupils work together to solve problems, complete survival style tasks and build structures such as shelters and dens using natural materials. These activities encourage leadership, resilience and teamwork in a fun, active environment. Fully immersive and practical, they help strengthen relationships while giving pupils a memorable shared experience that builds key life skills alongside curriculum learning.
What size groups do we cater for?
Group sizes vary please contact us for your requirements
On-site classroom facilities?
Yes We do have the ability to provide a classroom-like environment. You can tell us your group size and any specific requirements in the form below.
Is there first aid on site?
Yes all staff are First Aid trained in the Outdoors
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Who are The Stone Age Company?
We've been busy growing The Stone Age Company!
We've just launched a brand-new set of curriculum-linked outdoor learning programmes, designed to make it easier for teachers to bring Geography, History, Science and PSHE to life through real, hands-on woodland experiences. Everything is now even more clearly linked to the National Curriculum, making it fun and engaging for pupils, while also supporting teachers with clear curriculum coverage.
We've also released our 6th book, Young Adventurers Survival Handbook - a practical, hands-on guide packed with simple outdoor skills, nature knowledge and survival ideas to inspire children to get outside, explore and learn.
And there's more on the way… we'll soon be launching two children's eBooks on Amazon, supporting Stone Age learning through storytelling that brings the subject to life in a fun, memorable way - perfect for sharing in class and sparking curiosity about how early humans lived.
At the heart of everything we do is simple: getting children outside, learning through experience, and creating moments they'll actually remember.
Our Reviews from Schools..
★★★★★ The most amazing day I have had in my job and the perfect end to our Stone Age topic. Dan is fantastic and his resources are fascinating as are his stories as living as a Stone Age tribesman! Not sure who actually enjoyed themselves more,the children or us staff!! I would highly recommend Outback2basics to anyone! I cannot say thank you enough.
★★★★★ All of the staff and activities were fantastic and this was one of the best educational visits we have ever been on. The opportunities and activities for the children were brilliant and we all loved every minute. The course is an absolute credit to yourselves, thank you Naomi
Shifnal Shropshire TF11 8JW
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