Ask anyone returning from their first visit to Scotland, and the word beautiful will never be far from their lips. A long and noble past, this country has a fascinating social history, sublime geography and geology, plus great resources for learning about science, physical education and art. Scotland has it all in abundance and offers the kind of school trips that would make teachers in most countries rub their hands together in glee.
How can you fail to inspire your school group with treasures such as the National Museum and Galleries, Edinburgh Castle, outstanding international wildlife reserves and Scotland's maritime legacy. If you are looking for an outdoor pursuits trip, our dedicated Activity Centres in Scotland page is worth a look!
Whatever the activity the focus at the Galloway Activity Centre is always on learning new skills, working together and having as much fun as possible along the way. We choose our staff based on their personal qualities and enthusiasm and all are qualified outdoor professionals. Their aim is to inspi...
Details & EnquireGalloway Activity Centre
We’re a friendly family run outdoor activity centre that’s been operating since 1988 and caters to a wide range of children’s groups all year round. From the smallest group sizes to over 100 and from day trips to week long residential holidays....
Galloway Activity Centre
Anglo-Saxon Village
Teacher Reviews: ★★★★
We provide an insight in to the every day environment you would typically find in an Anglo-Saxon village. Through our unique atmosphere and our fascinating dispays, the village is a must for any pupils studying
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Anglo-Saxon Village
RSPB Lochwinnoch
The best place for your students to get hands-on, active, curriculum-based, outdoor learning experiences with nature! Let us provide your students with unique and memorable learning experiences. It's easy to organize and affordable too!
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RSPB Lochwinnoch
Soar Braehead, Glasgow
It's exercise in disguise! Whether it's a one hour reward bounce, or as part of a weekly programme to switch up the PE lesson, we have the skills in house to meet your learning objectives as part of the National Curriculum.
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Soar Braehead, Glasgow
Fountain Park, Edinburgh
It's exercise in disguise! Whether it's a one hour reward bounce, or as part of a weekly programme to switch up the PE lesson, we have the skills in house to meet your learning objectives as part of the National Curriculum.
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Fountain Park, Edinburgh
Summerlee Victorian Life
The museum of Scottish Industrial Life is one of Scotland's best industrial heritage attractions. This twenty two acre site at Summerlee, North Lanarkshire, has an exhibition hall with working exhibits, tramway, mine tours and a social history area....
Summerlee Victorian Life
HM Frigate Unicorn
His Majesty's Frigate Unicorn, of 46 guns, was built for the Royal Navy in the Royal Dockyard at Chatham and launched in 1824. She is now the World's last intact warship from the days of sail.
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HM Frigate Unicorn
National Museum of Scotland
Bring the Curriculum for Excellence to life with the help of our incredible collections. The natural world, world cultures, science, technology, design, art, fashion, archaeology and Scottish history.
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National Museum of Scotland
Dundee Science Centre
From hands-on robot programming to iconic explosion demonstrations, our education service is here to provide inspiring science and technology experiences for our schools and community.
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Dundee Science Centre
Scottish Maritime Museum
The Scottish Maritime Museum contains exhibitions and collections that tell the story of that great maritime tradition. The sites have a collection of vessels that represent 150 years history.
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Scottish Maritime Museum
Riverside Museum
Teacher Reviews: ★★★★★
The Riverside Museum offers a wonderful resource for anyone interested in knowing more about their heritage and the world around them. We have lots of different learning opportunities for all ages.
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Riverside Museum
Discover Point
A school visit to Discovery Point offers an enjoyable and informative outing for pupils and teachers alike. Learn about early polar explorers Robert Falcon Scott and Ernest Shackleton on their exploration of An...
Discover Point
National Galleries of Scotland
Guided tours of the national collection are led by experienced gallery educators. Pupils are encouraged to engage with works of art through activities and discussion.
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National Galleries of Scotland
Scottish Parliament
At the Scottish Parliament we can offer a great selection of programmes for schools including workshops on Citizenship, Art & Design, History and much more!
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Scottish Parliament
International Baccalaureate Diploma
Residential fieldwork created specifically for International Baccalaureate Diploma students in geography, biology and ESS. Field Studies Council has a network of UK Centres to choose from, many with easy transport links for UK and major airports.
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International Baccalaureate Diploma
Bushcraft with the Field Studies Council
Experience amazing outdoor locations at Field Studies Council’s network of UK Centres. Our courses are all focused on students being immersed in the natural world. They also make use of the beautiful surroundings including using bushcraft skills.
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Bushcraft with the Field Studies Council
Hostelling Scotland
At Hostelling Scotland we want to support young people to discover Scotland and have a wide range of opportunities to learn outside the classroom.
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Hostelling Scotland
Scottish Adventure
Come and experience a School Adventure with a real difference. A level of service we feel you will struggle to beat. From your first enquiry right through to getting back to School and beyond.
Our Adventures really do have the 'Atlas Difference'
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Scottish Adventure
Craggan Outdoors
'Best Outdoor Activity & Learning Centre - Moray', Scottish Enterprise Awards 2018. 'Best Outdoor Venue' finalist, Scottish Hospitality Awards 2016, '17 & '18. TripAdvisor 94% rated. AALA-licensed, & Learning Outside the Classroom accredited.
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Craggan Outdoors
Field Studies Council - Scotland
Two fantastic locations in Scotland offering Curriculum for Excellence linked fieldwork for all ages. Inspire your students at either Kindrogan, Perthshire, by the stunning Scottish Highlands, or Millport on the shores of the Isle of Cumbrae.
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Field Studies Council - Scotland
Discovery Package
Our Discovery packages have been designed to enable teachers to plan a thrilling residential that meets their own needs and budget. This flexible option focuses on your defined key outcomes, so if you want to look at communication we will provide…
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Discovery Package
Lockerbie Manor
Teacher Reviews: ★★★★★
Lockerbie Manor offer outdoor residential school trips during term time, and all inclusive family activity holidays during the summer holidays. Activities take place in the extensive Manor house grounds or at ...
Lockerbie Manor
Multi-Activity Package
Jam-packed with challenging and engaging activities our Multi-Activity packages are designed to engage students through a mixture of practical PE based activities, whilst making the most of the great outdoors and our enviable localities.
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Multi-Activity Package
School Camps with The Outdoors People
Outstanding, accredited school camps, qualified instructors, great learning outcomes, an amazing camp, and an unforgettable experience. All brought to the grounds of your school!
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School Camps with The Outdoors People
Austria Ski Adventure
If you're searching for a school ski trip with a real difference, then look no further. We ensure an exceptional level of service from your first enquiry, through to the end and beyond. Experience our ski trips that have the 'Atlas Difference'....
Austria Ski Adventure
Team Building and Resilience
Atlas Adventure are experts at bringing the adventure to you! We deliver exciting, enriching and fun activity days in your school grounds, including bushcraft, climbing, archery and problem-solving. Are you ready for an unforgettable adventure? ...
Team Building and Resilience
Theatre Workshop
Theatre Workshop have been visiting schools for over 25 years with fun filled active workshops. Our workshops certainly have the WOW factor and will get you pupils scrabbling for the internet to research for themselves. Book NOW
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Theatre Workshop
Roman Tours UK
Teacher Reviews: ★★★★★
We tell the story of the life of a Roman soldier in Britain through educational interactive experiences for all Key Stages. We can visit your school or provide city tours of Chester. Cheshire's Best Tourism Experience 2006, 2009, 2011.
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Roman Tours UK
Outback 2 Basics
Teacher Reviews: ★★★★★
A fantastic way to get the children really immersed in the wilderness. Interactive and hands on workshops.You can even sleep out in your own shelters to truly get back to basics. Bring the Stone Age alive or Learn Bushcraft and survival skills!
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Outback 2 Basics
Allnatt School Camps
We will provide you with your very own tented village in your school grounds. No camp is complete without your very own flag, which we provide for you to decorate. Choose form 3 programmes CAMP CRAFT, TEAM CAMP or STONE AGE CAMP
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Allnatt School Camps
Brave Britain at War
Your Country Needs You - Join up & fight - Let Nurse Vera show you how you can help. But is her husband safe? or take part in a WWII workshop. Evacuate children to safety!Learn the jobs of Private Sid & the joy of a red-cross parcel from home.
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Brave Britain at War
Sublime Science
The Sublime Science School Workshop is Dragons Den Approved, Queen's Award Winning and Slimetastically Guaranteed to be Awesome. Don't Miss Out - Check Now
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Sublime Science
The Entertaining Egyptian
Professor Trimbold, the acclaimed Egyptologist will unlock the secrets of Tutankhamun's tomb, decipher the hieroglyphics, prepare priests to worship their Gods & mummify a Pharaoh. Why did they build pyramids? Who knows the riddle of the Sphinx?
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The Entertaining Egyptian
Maths Puzzle Activity Day
Get your pupils thinking with a fantastic puzzle day! Lots of hands on games and puzzles will be brought into your school for teams of pupils to bring their minds together to solve.
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Maths Puzzle Activity Day
World War Two Workshops
A captivating workshop that vividly brings World War II to life. Pupils will participate in a range of educational activities, and have the chance to explore genuine WWII artifacts and try on real period clothing...
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World War Two Workshops
The Troublesome Tudors
An Elizabethan visits your school to spill the beans on Henry VIII's life, wives & executions. Then proceeds to gossip about Elizabeth I's reign and what has Sir Walter Raleigh brought back from the Americas. Find out by book the workshop.
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The Troublesome Tudors
Stone Age
Who are we and where do we come from? Our workshop leaders are trained bush-craft experts, and have a detailed understanding of ancient technology and how is still used by some societies around the world today...
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Stone Age
STEM Workshop
Bring education to life! Book your in school enrichment days with our fully trained Education Communicators ready to inspire the next generation of learners in science, technology, engineering and maths.
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STEM Workshop
Ancient Egyptians
This fun, absorbing and interactive workshop introduces children to the fascinating and enigmatic world of the ancient Egyptians.
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Ancient Egyptians
Medieval/Middle Ages
So much fun they won't realise they're learning!
Medieval/Middle Ages interactive workshops to inspire, engage and educate! Costumed experts bring the Medieval world to life with artefacts and activities right in your classroom....
Medieval/Middle Ages
Saxon Workshops
Workshops need to take place in the school dining hall, gym or sports hall. Please allow a minimum of 2 Square Metres of space per student.
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Saxon Workshops
Stone Age Workshops
Teacher Reviews: ★★★★★
Our Sticks and 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 pass around the tools and clothes of the past. Touch, taste and smell the StoneAge...
Stone Age Workshops
Vikings
So much fun they won't realise they're learning!
Bring the Viking age to life in your own school with authentically-dressed, experienced specialists and high quality artefacts and activities designed to educate, stimulate and inspire follow-on work
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Vikings
Fitness Workshops
Our Fun Fitness sessions usually go with our Healthy Workshops but can also be delivered on their own. They are fun-packed, non-stop, fast-paced sessions that teach pupils that keeping active is a vital part of staying healthy & can be a lot of fun!
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Fitness Workshops
Love Science Workshops
LoveScience is here to help you give your children experience of good quality, hands on science. From a full day with one class to short workshops for every year group - we write bespoke workshops that work around you and your children.
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Love Science Workshops
Arty-Fact Theatre
EUREKA is our latest all action, funny and captivating MATHS based show, featuring Archimedes and his pet goat Calculus. Can the King appease the Greek Gods and fight off the pirates? Does Archimedes need a bath? Get a free maths workshop.
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Arty-Fact Theatre
Ancient Greeks
Covering everything from the warring city states and the birth of democracy to Greek legends and Greek culture, our warriors make learning about the Ancients Greeks a fun and inspiring experience, while also providing maximum educational value.
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Ancient Greeks
Vikings and Saxons
We offer exciting, immersive and inspiring Viking & Saxon workshops for schools, presented by a charismatic team of “performing historians” with a deep-rooted passion for their subject.
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Vikings and Saxons
Egyptian Workshops
Designed to stimulate imaginations and excite children and teachers alike, these workshops focus on simple ideas to great effect. Using numbers, counting, shapes and space pupil’s work together to build simple modular forms.
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Egyptian Workshops
The Amazing Greeks
It's all Greek to me and you, in Our Amazing Greek Workshop. Gods & Heroes abound, shrouded in Myth & Legend. Did life begin on Mount Olympus, does the Oracle know all, can a Spartan win the Olympic Games? All this and more. Book NOW
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The Amazing Greeks
Longship Trading Company Viking & Saxon Workshop
Longship have been providing Viking & Saxon history workshops in schools since 1992 and we visit schools all over the UK, we average over 200 school workshops per year and have visited 1000's of schools a large number of them book a return visit
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Longship Trading Company Viking & Saxon Workshop
Superhero Day
Teacher Reviews: ★★★★★
Aqua Dan brings comic books to life with incredible Superhero Wow Days!
Your pupils will be inspired to read, write & enjoy learning by having a 'real superhero' visit the school with a vast array of props and tales of exciting adventures!
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Superhero Day
Tudor Workshops
Focused practical tasks taking history as a starting point and using, DT, maths literacy, science and drama to differing degrees pupils create large scale reconstructions of famous architectural landmarks that bring curriculum subjects to life.
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Tudor Workshops
Fight Club! Stage Combat in the Classroom
Stage Combat Fight Club
The first rule of fight club is that no one gets hurt! A great enrichment day activity. Learn how to choreograph and perform your own stunt sword fights, theatrical fist fights and even a few wrestling moves for good measure
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Fight Club! Stage Combat in the Classroom
Dan Tastic History
Teacher Reviews: ★★★★★
Dan Tastic Education brings history to life with incredible Wow Days!
Your pupils will be inspired to read, write & enjoy learning by having a 'real' historical character visit the school with a vast array of props & tales of exciting adventures!
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Dan Tastic History
Viking and Saxon Workshops
Bring History Alive in Your School. From just £200, bring your very own Warrior to your school hall. Arriving in full attire of the time, we immerse your class in the turbulent period of Viking or Anglo Saxon life over 1,000 years ago....
Viking and Saxon Workshops
RE Workshops
Specialists in Religious Education, REonDemand bring RE to life in your school through a wondrous range of activities including a hands on approach to the artefacts, thought provoking drama, symbolism, age old traditions and a great deal of fun!
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RE Workshops
I Do Bite My Thumb - Shakespearian Stage Combat
I Do Bite My Thumb!
Explore Shakespeare through practical stage combat. Take the text off the page and onto the stage and excite students about english and drama with some swashbuckling action!
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I Do Bite My Thumb - Shakespearian Stage Combat
Mad Science
Teacher Reviews: ★★★★★
Mad Science Workshops & Science Days
Make your school’s science week go with a BANG! Your pupils will be amazed and inspired by a visit from Mad Science. Choose a spectacular science shows and any of over 70 different hands-on workshop topics.
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Mad Science
Maths Workshops
HANDS ON AND ENGAGING MATHS! Bring us to your school for an exciting day of maths, focusing on the core skills required to become great mathematicians without a pencil in sight. Watch your pupil's confidence grow and see their smiles as they succeed....
Maths Workshops
Pirate Day
Teacher Reviews: ★★★★★
Captain Dan Tastic brings history to life with incredible Pirate Wow Days!
Your pupils will be inspired to read, write & enjoy learning by having a 'real pirate' visit the school with a vast array of props and tales of exciting pirate adventures!
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Pirate Day
James Boffin - Secret Science Agent UU7
My name's Boffin. James Boffin. Secret Science Agent UU7. Licensed to carry out science missions at ANY SCHOOL on ANY SCIENCE. Operational out of SI6. That's Scientific Intelligence, Section 6 based at Science Headquarters. Experiment with UU7 soon!
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James Boffin - Secret Science Agent UU7
Onsite School Team Building Days
The Problem Solving Company offers a fully mobile collection of team challenges catering for groups of all sizes. Our activity days are the perfect way to engage your students with a day of hands-on activities without leaving the school grounds.
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Onsite School Team Building Days
Greek Workshops
Designed to stimulate imaginations and excite children and teachers alike, the workshop focus is on simple ideas to great effect. Using numbers, counting, shapes and space pupil’s work together to build simple modular forms.
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Greek Workshops
Science Workshops
Boost the profile of science in your school with a visit from Science Boffins.
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Science Workshops
Portals To The Past
Portals to the Past provide high quality history workshops in schools for KS2, led by experienced historical re-enactors and historians. Available across most of England. From the Stone Age through to WW2 our workshops come to your school.
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Portals To The Past
Victorians
So much fun they won't realise they're learning!
Interactive Victorian workshops to inspire, engage and educate! Costumed experts bring the Victorian world to life with artefacts and activities right in your classroom.
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Victorians
Pre History Workshops
Focused practical tasks taking history as a starting point and using, DT, maths literacy, science and drama to differing degrees pupils create large scale reconstructions of famous architectural landmarks that bring curriculum subjects to life.
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Pre History Workshops
Healthy Workshops
We bring the Health & Wellbeing elements of the PSHE, Science and PE curriculum to LIFE with hands-on activities that are accessible for ALL ages/abilities. Our interactive activity stations cover healthy eating, exercise, teeth, sleep & hygiene
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Healthy Workshops
Oliver Twist Christmas Production
Arty-Fact Theatre proudly present this Amazing Christmas production of OLIVER TWIST. Our company visits you and takes the stress out of organizing a school trip. With wonderful acting, puppets and toe-tapping music. BOOK NOW. Available December.
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Oliver Twist Christmas Production
Amazing STEM Shows & Workshops
At Wonderstruck we specialise in spectacular STEM shows & amazing practical STEM workshops. Whether we're running a workshop for a single class or a multi-stream event for 1000 participants we don't compromise on the science content or on the fun! ....
Amazing STEM Shows & Workshops
Knights, Princesses & Fairy Tales
Teacher Reviews: ★★★★★
Princess Em-Mazing & Sir Tastic bring history to life with incredible Fairy Tale Wow Days!
Your pupils will be inspired to read, write & enjoy learning by having a 'real princess & knight' visit the school with exciting props & tales of adventure!...
Knights, Princesses & Fairy Tales
School Escape Rooms
Have you experienced the excitement of an Escape Room? We've turned it on its head for schools. Your pupils will have to solve a series of puzzles, locked up in a box, to find the key to stop the timer! Are yours pupils up for the challenge?
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School Escape Rooms
West End Workshops
Bespoke drama workshops which compliment curriculum studies, with particular reference to Performing Arts (Drama, Dance), English Literature, Citizenship, and PSHE, with additional programmes suited to Business, Travel, and Hospitality studies.
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West End Workshops
Stone Age/Bronze Age/Iron Age
So much fun they won't realise they're learning!
Stone Age, Bronze Age and Iron Age interactive workshops to inspire, engage and educate! Costumed experts bring the prehistoric world to life with artefacts and activities right in your classroom.
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Stone Age/Bronze Age/Iron Age
World War 1
World War One interactive workshops to inspire, engage and educate. Costumed experts bring the Great War world to life with artefacts and activities right in your classroom.
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World War 1
Mayan Workshops
The Ancient Mayans are explored through their Temple building feats and techniques for cutting and transporting the stone. Structured workshops where the students create large scale reconstructions of iconic architectural landmarks.
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Mayan Workshops
Freestyle Football Workshops
Teacher Reviews: ★★★★★
We offer Freestyle Football Workshops and Assembly Demonstrations & Inspirational Talks to schools up and down the UK.
Taught by World Top 10 Football Freestyler Jamie Knight, these workshops are not to be missed!
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Freestyle Football Workshops
Resourceful Romans
Be an Ancient Roman. Order soldiers into battle, sail a slave powered ship, conquer Britannia and sell them as slaves. Is Julius Caesar getting too big for his boots? Beware the ides of March. Help Emperor Hadrian build a Great Wall in your school.
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Resourceful Romans
Ancient Greeks
So much fun they won't even realise they're learning!
Ancient Greek interactive workshops to inspire, engage and educate! Costumed experts bring the world of the Ancient Greeks to life with artefacts and activities right in your classroom.
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Ancient Greeks
All Hail Macbeth
All Hail Macbeth. THEATRE WORKSHOP'S stunning & inspiring interactive workshop. From the moment you meet the Witches on the heath to the demise of Macbeth, the pupils are gripped with the plot and immersed in the characters, all played by themselves....
All Hail Macbeth
The Sensational Saxons & Vikings
Meet a Lady from Saxon times & learn about her busy life. Listen to the story of Beowulf as he slays Grendel & the Dragon. Row a Viking longboat across the sea to raid Britain. Hear Erik Bloodaxe, the bravest Viking, tell of his heroic adventures.
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The Sensational Saxons & Vikings
The Super Stone Age
One of our professional actors will arrive at your school with our fully interactive Super Stone Age Workshop. From the moment it starts with Professor Trimbold digging for bones to hunting a woolly mammoth, the pupils will be inspired.
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The Super Stone Age
Immersive Experiences
Immersive Experiences is the UK's leading multi-diciplinary mobile planetariums and sensory learning experiences company. Over 15 subjects | National Curriculum & Common Entrance 13 level | Over 160 programs to suit all ages | SEN/SLD/PMLD
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Immersive Experiences
Creative Maths
Tapping into pupils’ own creativity, our unashamedly fun Creative Maths workshops engage, motivate and, crucially, challenge the children and young people we work with. Workshops include: CSI: Maths, The Pirate's Challenge and Big Maths Days!
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Creative Maths
The Very Elegant Victorian
Don't dare to talk in class, make sure your hands are clean or Miss Grimm our strict Victorian teacher has a cane and not afraid to use it. What job will you do in the workshop, be a Chimney Sweep, work in the mills, crawl down the mine or be a maid....
The Very Elegant Victorian
Viking School Days
Teacher Reviews: ★★★★★
In response to an increasing demand, Viking School Days provides an entertaining and interactive learning experience in schools across the UK. We bypass all the difficulties associated with organising trips and bring history to life in your classroom...
Viking School Days
Romans and Britons
So much fun they won't realise they're learning!
Interactive workshops on the Romans and Britons to inspire, engage and educate! Costumed experts bring the Roman world to life with artefacts and activities right in your classroom.
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Romans and Britons
Pack UP Your Troubles
PACK UP YOUR TROUBLES production has been specially written by our award winning writer Brian James. Set in modern times, this wonderful story flickers in and out of the past. Seeing a glimpse of what life was like during WWII. Must see production...
Pack UP Your Troubles
Creative History Workshops
Including larger than life, interactive performances, open-ended workshops and classroom-based sessions, our unique range of Creative History Workshops include: The Brilliant Britons, Time Travel Theatre, Time Travel Tourists and Historical Maths!...
Creative History Workshops
The Clockmakers Christmas Production
Teacher Reviews: ★★★★★
The Clockmaker's Christmas production is full of fun, music and of course a very naughty ELF. Add a bit of snow and you have the perfect Christmas treat for primary schools. You don't even have to book a coach, we come to you. Truly Amazing.
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The Clockmakers Christmas Production
World War 2
World War Two interactive workshops to inspire, engage and educate! Costumed experts bring the Second World War to life with artefacts and activities right in your classroom.
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World War 2
Alcohol and Drug Awareness Workshops
Our experienced coaches, with hands-on activities & anecdotal stories, provide a comfortable & relaxed space to explore the issues surrounding drugs & alcohol, as well as the associated issues of peer pressure & knowing how to make informed decisions...
Alcohol and Drug Awareness Workshops
Roman Workshops
This engaging and motivating day studies life in Britain under the Pax Romana, the long period of relative peacefulness experienced by the Roman Empire.
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Roman Workshops
Victorian Christmas Workshop
It is Christmas! Fire up the festive spirit with this wonderful Victorian workshop, perfect for inspiring your pupils to find the true beginnings of Christmas. With our pop-up theatre, exciting storytelling and wonderful Christmas cheer. Book NOW
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Victorian Christmas Workshop
Tudor Workshop
We offer exciting, immersive and inspiring Tudor workshops for schools, presented by a charismatic team of “performing historians” with a deep-rooted passion for their subject.
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Tudor Workshop
Tudors
So much fun they won't realise they're learning!
Tudor and Elizabethan interactive workshops to inspire, engage and educate! Costumed experts bring the Tudor world to life with artefacts and activities right in your classroom.
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Tudors
Science Into Schools
Teacher Reviews: ★★★★★
Delivering interactive Science shows and workshops directly to your Schools and offering a varied experience of Science for all ages. Helping to enhance your students Mathematical and Scientific knowledge
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Science Into Schools
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