Engaging School Workshops

Blackland Farm Outdoor Centre is committed to supporting schools with their team-building programs by offering a range of outdoor activities designed to enhance collaboration, communication, and...
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Come and learn about the Stone Age in our wonderfully interactive, fun and exciting workshops. We will dress up kids to form our time line, hand out our tools, weapons and furs and share a day in the life of a cave person.
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We address citizenship in terms of the personal responsibility we take as individuals for our environment, how we can reduce our impact on the habitats of creatures who live in our rivers and seas,...
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If you're studying about Harry Potter or the Wizarding World during your English lessons we can give a hands on, immersive experience to really bring the story to life. Take part in our Quidditch...
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Archaeology provides a window through time from which we can use artefacts to recreate the narratives of that time period through the thoughts and ideas of your pupils. Here they will learn chronology...
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We cover primarily the Stone Age, from the Mesolithic to the Neolithic, with the start of the Bronze Age introduced. However we can stretch this into the iron age on certain occasions
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We offer experiences that enrich the curriculum, stimulate young minds, and provide tools that extend beyond the classroom. Whether it’s a hands-on workshop, an in-depth theatre visit, or a focused...
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Live theatre brought to you by our adaptation on traditional stories. The children will be taken on a magical journey with Dick Whittington to Old London Town where they will boo the evil Captain...
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Through our micro:bit projects, pupils will not just learn about how programming through projects led by real-world app and games developers, but also learn about computing more generally. They will...
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Through our game-making projects, pupils will not just learn about how to code games through projects led by real-world app and games developers, but also learn about computing more generally. They...
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The programming tasks in the workshop often require a bit of maths to work out distances and angles for controlling the robot. All the tasks are programmed, not remote controlled. So if you get the calculations wrong you might see the robot fall off the edge of the world!
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As well as learning how to code in Python, students will improve their digital literacy through using real-world software including repl.it and Visual Studio Code. They’ll learn about file...
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Archaeology provides a window through time from which we can use artefacts to recreate the narratives of that time period through the thoughts and ideas of your pupils. Here they will learn chronology...
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When discussing Environmental Geography, we show your students that small steps can add up to big changes. We teach about ways to reduce our ecological footprint and help maximise our earth’s...
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As human beings, food is a huge part of our lives. This workshop discusses Curriculum topics of PSHE such as Healthy Eating and Healthy Living, and the benefits of learning how to grow your own food.
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Our workshop robots are all computers with sensors. They are programmable in multiple ways, from drawing, through block based languages such as Scratch to text based programming languages such as...
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From the dawn of time we have been learning the key concepts of citizenship. From what we perceive as being the lawless uncultured past of our Neanderthal cousins we are beginning to discover a...
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Archaeology provides a window through time from which we can use artefacts to recreate the narratives of that time period through the thoughts and ideas of your pupils. Here they will learn chronology...
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Victorian childhood involved many toys, some of which children still play with today! The workshop explores the Victorian era, through including a range of exciting and engaging toys that pupils will...
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Our space workshop - KS2 Earth and Space - explores the movement of the planets and spacecraft by pupils planning their own mission to the planets, as well as other space topics. The class is...
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