School Education Programme - Step into Celtic Times
Enjoy an Exciting Educational Day Full of Hands-on Activities in a Real Iron Age Farmstead
From Early Years to Key Stage 2 for Mainstream & Special Needs Schools
Unique Full Day of Quality Hands-on Activities
- Experienced Leaders in Celtic Costume
- New Early Years Forest School
- New Feasting Shelter for Lunch
- New Dragon's Den Trading Post
- Free Teacher's Pack to help You plan Your Visit
Step into Celtic Times with Your Class!
- Welcome Face Paint to the Catuvellauni Tribe
- Choose Your Morning Hands-on Session: Iron Age Cookery or Hoof to Garment or Science of Herbs
- Lunch under Feasting Shelter/ Roundhouse
- Trade & Barter in the Dragon's Den
- Hunting & Gathering on Woodland Trail
- Storytelling in the Chieftain Roundhouse
Choose Your Morning Hands-on Session: Iron Age Cookery or Hoof to Garment or Science of Herbs
each with four activities of twenty/thirty minutes.
Iron Age Cookery
- Introduction to Celtic Cooking & Visit to Herb Spiral
- Threshing Spelt Wheat to separate grains from husks
- Grinding Grain on Quern Stones to make Flour
- Mixing Dough & Baking Bread Loaves over the Hearth
Hoof to Garment
- Carding fleece with Carders to make Woollen Rolags
- Spinning Rolags to make Yarn
- Weaving on Warp Weighted Looms to make Cloth
- Dyeing Yarn Vibrant Colours from Herbs and Plants
Science of Herbs
- Discovering & Gathering Plants in the Herb Spiral
- Charm Making with a variety of Native British Herbs
- Dyeing with Plants
- Medicine making Ointments to Poultices
Trade & Barter
After lunch, children will Role Play as Celtic Characters and use Numerical Problem Solving to trade a range of real Celtic artefacts. The children then exchange pound coins for reconstructed Celtic coins to trade in the Dragon's Den (shop) with a wide range of gifts made by Celtic Artists,Woodsmen,Wildlife Experts and Celtic Harmony volunteers.
'Staff & children - all enjoyed the day. Activities were suitable for several curriculum areas e.g. Science and D&T (Bread Making & Plants), Numeracy (Trading), P.E. (Throwing & Aiming) and Literacy (Storytelling).''Staff are totally committed and have a passion for their work. They insist on the safety and well-being of the children.We like the new shop - it's much better and quicker.'
L.M.Gilder Someries School
Forest School programme - Long-term learning in the woods
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