WOW Day workshop ideas for schools

Discover the fascinating life cycle of the butterfly. Explore the habitats that allow butterflies and other minibeasts to thrive.
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Written accounts vs archaeological evidence vs preconceived concepts. These workshops celebrate the wonder, innovation and creativity of our Iron Age heritage. Exploring the richness of its culture and revealing the hidden secrets to its customs.
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Ready, Set, Cook! Pupils become food entrepreneurs-designing a restaurant, creating a healthy dish and pitching their ideas. A fun, hands-on workshop supporting Gatsby Benchmarks, encouraging careers in food and hammering home healthy eating!
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Discover Maria Merian and her pioneering work on butterfly life cycles. Find out about modern naturalists and follow in their footsteps.
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"Absolutely brilliant - the students loved it!" With 170,000+ pupils inspired, a 9.7/10 pupil rating, and 100% of teachers saying they'd recommend it, discover why this interactive healthy-eating workshop gets schools buzzing. Click to find out more!
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This school trip to The Royal Gunpowder Mills offers students a fun, curriculum-linked learning experience that blends hands-on scientific investigation and explosive experiments with historical insight.
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New Offer Hangloose Bluewater offers exciting ADVENTURE experiences for schools, building confidence, teamwork and resilience. Our safe, professionally run activities support personal development while giving students a fun, memorable day beyond the classroom.
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York's only tour created especially for children! Winner of a magical myriad of awards, and a must-do for schools visiting this enchanting city. From only £200 per class, teachers go FREE
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The Mechanical Art & Design Museum, or 'MAD Museum' for short, exhibits over 90 interactive pieces of kinetic art & automata made by inventors from all around the world. This is the UK's only centre for mechanical art & combines learning with fun
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Peterhead Prison offers students the chance to step outside the classroom with our educational visits. During these visits, students will explore the rich history of Scotland's toughest jail and uncover some of its most fascinating stories.
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Hangloose Eden offers thrilling adventures including England's fastest zipline, SkyTrek high ropes course, and the Gravity Swing, designed to build confidence, teamwork, and resilience in a safe, fun, and unforgettable experience.
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Handle real Jurassic fossils and discover how they were formed. Find out about palaeontologist Mary Anning and her greatest discovery.
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Award-winning electricity STEM workshops led by engineers. Every pupil builds working circuits that light up and buzz while having fun! Our snap-together connections replace fiddly clips - making it accessible for all abilities inc SEND. For KS2/KS3.
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From a migrant people or with hostile intent; the Saxon story is one of feudal supremacy born of a vision - one nation under one God - 800 years in the making; carried on the backs of families across centuries of land. This is their story; an epic.
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Dan Tastic Education brings dinosaurs to life with incredible our Dinosaur Wow Days! Your pupils will be inspired & engaged by an array of fossils to touch, images to see & games to play with a fun & entertaining Dan Tastic Workshop Facilitator!
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Meet the Romans as never seen before! The Roman Fort Experience is a stunning ongoing recreation of an authentic frontier fort that offers pupils and teachers an exciting and interactive 'hands on' taste of life in Roman Britain.
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Battlefield & History Tours specialises in exactly that. Bletchley Park and the surrounding areas are filled with history and bring studies to life. The National Radio Centre, Woburn Abbey and The National Museum of Computing to name but a few
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Where does your passion lie? Do you glean for the glamour or savour your harvest? Life in the Bronze Age was a myriad of choices; new discoveries colliding with old customs. A sliding door moment where world trade offered rewards but at what cost?
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So much fun they won't realise they're learning! Authentically dressed Anglo Saxon specialists bring early England to life with replica artefacts, and inventive activities designed to educate, inspire and stimulate. A whole term's learning in a day!
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Dan Tastic Education brings stories & fantasy to life with incredible Fairy Tale Wow Days! Your pupils will be inspired & engaged by an array of props, videos & student interaction with one of our fun & entertaining Dan Tastic Workshop Facilitator
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