History School Workshops and Outreach Programmes
Bring historical school trip to your classroom
Curriculum linked school history workshops are available for a wide range of topics and historical periods. The cost of a school trip is not insignificant. As schools tighten their belts and parents are more reluctant to sign those all important permission slips, venues are adapting to give you the opportunity to host a workshop visit from them. Outreach workshops benefit schools and children who cannot afford the time or expense of a traditional school trip, by developing ways for you to bring their knowledge and expertise into your classroom.
Lasting anywhere from an hour to a full day, skillful education teams can deliver exciting and engaging history workshops. A few of our favourites include constructing a round house in the playground, and Skype a viking! The benefits associated with school workshop visits include not having to arrange and pay for transport, the children not having to bring along a packed lunch, and no need for risk assessments! You could even team up with another nearby school to reduce the cost further.
Team Building and Resilience
Our school adventures were designed to help all children be able to have access to outdoor learning without having to go offsite. Our activity days are tailored specifically to allow your students to excel. Students can experience outdoor activities without you having to worry about transport costs, off-site paperwork and the associated responsibilities. ...
Find your perfect workshop!
We are constantly adding more workshops for school groups, covering a wide range of curriculum topics. Feel free to browse our full selection, or use the following filter to refine by topic.
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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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....
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....
WW2 Workshops
Travel back in time with ‘Polly’ to the 1940′s and experience what it might have been like to be an evacuee during World War II. Pack your suitcase and get ready to leave your hometown for the country...
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Egyptian Workshops
With the help of the Goddess Isis, unravel the secrets hidden in an ancient Egyptian scroll and discover how a Pharaoh would journey to the afterlife....
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Learning about WW1? Why don't you take your class inside some reconstructed WW1 trenches using Virtual Reality! Our workshops start from £1.99 per child! ...
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...
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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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!
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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....
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....
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....
Chocolate Collective facilitate chocolate workshops that are a fantastic introduction into the world of chocolate.
Our tailored, interactive workshops inspire pupils and teach them new skills either as an after-school activity or as part of a Nation...
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....
Tudor Workshops
Meet Margery Horsman, a Maid of Honor in the royal household of King Henry VIII. Being in service throughout Henry’s reign, she is an expert in court etiquette and certainly has a tale or two to tell!...
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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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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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Roman Tours UK
Roman Tours UK can provide history workshops delivered directly to your school or you can come and visit us in Chester and we will give you a Roman city tour
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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....
Viking Workshops
Journey back in time to Anglo Saxon England in one of the famous Viking Longboats. With Astrid the Viking as their guide, through improvisation, song, riddles and movement, the children will begin to explore life during this fascinating period.
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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....
Travel back in time with the famous Lady with the Lamp and learn about her life during the Victorian times and in particular the impact she had on nursing and the sanitisation of our hospitals.
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Stone Age Workshops
Travel back in time with our actor in role, the enthusiastic archaeologist Sally Spade, in order to explore this fascinating prehistoric period, discovering how it developed from the chaotic to the domestic.
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Arty-Fact Theatre has been visiting schools for 20 years. We our proud to be touring the UK with OLIVER TWIST production & fully interactive Workhouse Workshop Experience. The show has it all from poor Oliver being lost in London to meeting Fagin
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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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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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This fun, absorbing and interactive workshop introduces children to the fascinating and enigmatic world of the ancient Egyptians....
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....
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....
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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Take your class to the famous Mayan city of Chichen-Itza in Mexico using Virtual Reality! Our VR workshops offer teachers the opportunity of immersing pupils in another location, without actually leaving the classroom! Prices from £1.99 per child!
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Sally Spade, an enthusiastic explorer and writer, is keen to share her knowledge and love of famous explorers and exciting countries she has visited on her travels. This is a whistle stop tour and perfect accompaniment to your KS1 geography topic.
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Experience the Seven New Wonders of the World through Virtual Reality headsets! A great way of meeting Geography outcomes as well as inspiring some amazing creative writing! Prices start from approximately £1.99 per child!
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Learn all about Viking raids, trading and culture with our Virtual Reality workshop! Your class can step inside a Viking Longhouse and join the chief for a banquet inside the Great Hall. Prices start from approximately £1.99 per child!
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WW1 Workshop
Meet Edith Johnson, Mother of 5 and travel with her to London 1914 and discover how the First World War would change ordinary lives, forever.
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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....
To fit in with the curriculum on Invaders and Settlers and complimenting our Viking Longship workshop and Roman Villa. Pupils build a structure large enough for them to all occupy.
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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....
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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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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The Great Fire of London
Meet Thomas Farriner, the King’s baker, from Pudding Lane, who survived the fire to tell the story of what happened during those fateful days. Discover with help from him and later Samuel Pepys, what it was like to Live in London during this time.
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Viking School Days
The saga of a Viking warrior, who raided, traded then settled in the British Isles over 1000 years ago, brought to life in your school
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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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Sally Spade, an enthusiastic archeologist, has been asked to write an article for ‘Archeology Today’ about The Mayan Civilisation. Who were they? How did they live and work and what were their beliefs? Travel back in time with Sally to explore th...
Enter the magical world of pantomime, a Georgian invention. Guided by a familiar character from a well-loved tale, the children will learn various parts of Pantomime ‘stage business’, through song, role play and performance.
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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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We can bring the Saxons to you!
Bring the Saxons topic alive in your classroom. With our stunning replica artifacts and costumes. Pupils will enjoy using natural materials with creative hands on activities and learn all about the life of the Saxons
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All of our hands-on workshops contain every aspect of STEM learning, from number and counting to shape and space the real word Maths involved is focused on the importance of triangulation in construction. From EYFS Pyramids to KS2 Skyscrapers ...
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...
Victorian Workshop
Travel back in time and experience the harsh life or the poor in a typical workhouse, run by the formidable Mr Bumble. Discover how Victorian England was transformed through innovation and the Industrial Revolution and meet Queen Victoria herself!
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Visit a typical Stone Age settlement and Stonehenge using Virtual Reality! From the comfort of your classroom, we'll take you on a guided tour for your Stone Age topic! Prices start from approximately £1.99 per child!
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Suffragettes Workshop
Have an actor visit your school to help bring your school topic to life. In this drama workshop, the Suffragette movement has been formed and the members are working tirelessly to secure equal rights and the vote for women. ...
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Greek Workshops
Meet Charmos, an elite athlete turned tour guide who will help your children to experience life and work in ancient Greece....
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Bring Ancient Rome into your classroom with our Virtual Reality workshop! Drop your class into the middle of the Colosseum, a Roman battlefield and the Roman Senate! Prices start from approximately £1.99 per child!
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Using virtual reality, climb on board Henry VIII's famous warship, The Mary Rose! This workshop is a great way of bringing the Tudors to life and will be a fantastic writing stimulus for your class. Prices start from £1.99 per pupil! ...
History Workshops
The Drama Hut offers on-site school workshops, encouraging learning in a creative environment. With a wide range of curricular topics to choose from, let us create a unique learning experience for your school.
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Whether tailored to your specific focus or providing a general overview of the times, students will gain immense benefit from meeting a "real Anglo Saxon" in the comfort and security of their own classroom....
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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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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Dan Tastic History
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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Roman Workshop
During this workshop, the children will be met by Queen Boudicca, leader of the Celts. And here our journey begins. During the session the children will become Roman soldiers and learn about life during Roman times.
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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....
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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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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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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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....
Take your class on a Virtual Reality trip to see the Pyramids of Giza, the Great Sphinx and even inside an Egyptian tomb...all from the comfort of your own classroom! Prices start from approximately £1.99 per child!
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School History Workshops
Getting school children to really understand and get enthusiastic about events and periods in history can be difficult, especially at Key Stage 1 and 2. Trips to visit museums or stately homes can really help, but not all schools can afford the time or expence, especially if they do not have anything suitable close to the school. Outreach workshops really come into their own by bringing history into the classroom in an engagine and inspiring way.
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