Drop Down Day Ideas
Enrichment and Discovery through off timetable learningLooking to leave the timetable behind for a day and give your class a unique experience?
Drop down days, Enrichment, Discovery days, Deep learning days, Collpased timetable days, Activity days, whatever your school calls them, you probably offer these experiences anything from once a year, to every term or half term. Following feedback from teachers, we have a huge range of educational ideas for bringing practical activities into your school to enhance and broaden your students' learning experience.
One of the big advantages of bringing an external provider into your school to deliver one of these special days is their experience. Not just experience of whatever subject or topic they are experts in, but their experience in delivering these sessions to groups of students; knowing how to keep them engaged for a full day on a single subject.
Drop down days are designed to benefit students in a variety of ways. Building on previous learning, while giving them skills and experiences they may be missing from the every day lessons they receive during the school day. Ideas for drop down days include PHSE subjects such as mental health or physical well-being and first aid, themed problem solving activities, or perhaps a STEAM focus such as exploring robotics or VR applications. Have a look at the options on this page, or fill out the short form and let us know what you want to achieve from your drop down day.
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Healthy Bodies, Healthy Minds
In this lively workshop, your class will explore the symbiotic relationship between body and mind, plus what we can do to keep both healthy. One Day Creative use drama and role play to explore this information-packed wellbeing topic.
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Virtual Reality Day
Bring all of your topics to life with the UK's no.1 VR workshop company! Using VR headsets, we can deliver up to six workshops in a day all tailored to each year group's current topic. Bring the outside world into your classroom with PrimeVR!
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Classroom Kitchen
Do you want to get your school cooking and learning about nutrition? Classroom Kitchen brings all of the equipment and ingredients to turn your classroom into the kitchen! We offer: cooking and nutrition curriculum sessions, topic themed and more...
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Real Life Escape Room At School
Our Mobile Escape Room is truly immersive experience that will give any event a WOW factor. With two different themes, this unique vehicle allows students a chance to take part in a fully functioning escape room without leaving the school grounds.
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E-Safety Workshop
In this workshop, students must work together to solve a series of clues to reveal the true identity behind a fictitious online profile. By solving the clues, students will become aware of how easily criminals can steal information online.
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Up-cycling and Recycling
In these exciting workshops we discuss a wide range of green issues in the home, at school and in a global context. We then get hands on and make a visually unique up-cycled item that can be taken home or used in school displays.
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International & Multicultural Dance Workshops
Book The Best "Dance Days" - International & Multicultural dance workshops that explore the globe to bring your international or multicultural day or week to life with these dance workshops. With over 1000 5⭐ reviews from verified teachers!
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CSI Forensic Science Educational STEAM Workshop KS3 - KS5
Proven to excite students’ curiosity in Science, supporting the National Curriculum Science Programmes, by offering a cross-curricular "hands-on" interactive, full-day onsite STEM - CSI Forensic Science Workshops aimed at KS3 | KS4 | KS5.
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Onsite School Team Building Days
The Problem Solving Company is the UK'S LEADING PROVIDER OF SCHOOL TEAM BUILDING DAYS. Our mobile collection of team challenges are the perfect way to engage your students with a day of hands-on activities without leaving the school grounds.
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Madame Tussauds Blackpool
The figures at Madame Tussauds Blackpool provides a truly unique out-of-classroom learning experience with themed sets to enthuse and immerse pupils in celebrity culture and modern media.
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Viking Workshops
Hands-On Building Workshops For KS2 to fit in with the curriculum on Settlers & Invaders. Complimenting our Saxon Roundhouse workshop and Roman Villa. Pupils build a 12m long Viking Longship and enact the journey through the icebergs of the arctic.
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Carnival Dance Workshops
Book The Best "Dance Days" - Carnival dance workshops for schools linked to your Brazil or Rio topics or as part of your World Week or Multicultural event.
With over 1000 5⭐ reviews from verified teachers!
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Maths Workshops
Our Hands-On Cross-Curricular Activities are for All Key Stages & Abilities, From EYFS to Sixth Form Making Learning Fun & The Complex Simple. Utilsing Creativity, Problem Solving, Teamwork and Resilience, workshops increase Self Esteem
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CSI Forensic Science Educational STEAM Workshop KS3 - KS5
Proven to excite students’ curiosity in Science, supporting the National Curriculum Science Programmes, by offering a cross-curricular "hands-on" interactive, full-day onsite STEM - CSI Forensic Science Workshops aimed at KS3 | KS4 | KS5.
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Adventure Day Trips
Our bespoke day trips offer outdoor adventures together with impact-based learning, problem solving and reflection techniques. Our guides help pupils find meaning and inspiration whilst building ‘backpack skills’ for a lifetime of making a differ
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Cumulus Outdoors Residential Centre - Swanage
Tailored adventure residentials on the Dorset coast at our residential centre in Swanage, can include activities such as Coasteering, Climbing, Mackerel Fishing, Field Studies, and Bushcraft, delivered by our highly qualified instructors.
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Team Building @ Your School
Year Group Team Bonding Event at your School. We bring our It's a Knock out and Total Wipe Out Inflatable Obstacle Course to your school together with our Team Building challenges.
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Shrewsbury Prison - Education Behind Bars
Shrewsbury Prison offers students' the opportunity to escape the classroom through our first-of-it's-kind Education Behind Bars Programme, covering a range of subjects, designed by educationalists, in-line with the national curriculum.
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People who help us @ NESM
A trip to our museum brings history to life, engaging and immersing your learners in some amazing stories, experiences and people from the past - all within the walls of our historic home, a Victorian police, fire and ambulance station.
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