Stone Age to Iron Age school trips and workshops

Why Choose Our Prehistory Experiences?

We feature a wide range of sites and experiences from experts like English Heritage, the Museum of Liverpool and Portals to the Past, whose learning experiences are put together to inspire and educate about the subject. Led by expert guides, your children can explore ancient monuments or try hands-on activities like flint knapping.

The period known as Prehistory is generally seen as the time before written records were made and kept. For us here in the UK, this means the people who inhabited our islands before the Romans arrived: The people of the Iron Age; The Bronze Age; and the Stone Age.

Ask most children about British History and the first people they can tell you about in any detail are the Romans. The National Curriculum is now taking aim at this knowledge gap by encouraging teachers to focus on the people who lived here before the Roman invasion. Take a prehistory school trip or bring a prehistory school workshop into your classroom.

Stone Age School Trips

A great way to help your class to understand the various aspects of prehistory is to take advantage of the venues and outreach programmes available. Children develop a better understanding of a subject if they can see and touch it. To aid this, museums can offer helpful visual stories alongside examples of the Paleolithic, Mesolithic and Neolithic stone tools of the early hunter gatherers who made the UK, as it was, their home.

Bronze Age School Visits

By around 2,500 BC inhabitants were moving into what we call the Bronze Age. This was a time where tools started to be made out of metals rather than stone and when our famous monuments such as Stonehenge were constructed, along with barrows and cairns. While day to day life is difficult to study, prehistory school trips can look at migration patterns and trade.

Iron Age for Schools

The Iron Age began around 800 BC and lasted until the Roman Conquest. The use of iron in tools and weapons is the main distinguishing feather of this time period, which also saw the spread of Celtic languages and increased interaction with continental Europe.

The UK is covered in prehistoric sites, many of which are maintained by English Heritage. These landmarks provide students with a very tangible connection to prehistoric landscapes and settlements from the distant past. Notable English Heritage sites you can visit include Stonehenge: A world-famous Neolithic monument in Wiltshire, known for its mysterious stone circle and astronomical significance. Avebury Stone Circle: One of the largest prehistoric stone circles in Europe, located in Wiltshire, showcasing communal and ceremonial life. Grimes Graves: A unique Neolithic flint mine in Norfolk, offering insights into early mining techniques and tool-making. Without trying to sound like a cliche, sites like these really do make the UK a living classroom for studying prehistory, bringing ancient history to life.