INSET Days
INSET Days
Target Audience: Teachers and other Educational Professionals
Activity Overview:
Teaching Prehistory outside the classroom.
Celtic Harmony and The Council for Learning Outside the Classroom have come together to design three one-day course for teachers to support planning and delivering an engaging Prehistory topic at KS2 exploring the changes in Britain from Stone, Bronze to Iron Age.
29th April, 3-6pm – Stone Age Prehistory Inset Programme
13th May, 3-6pm – Bronze Age Prehistory Inset Programme
17th June, 3-6pm – Iron Age Prehistory Inset Programme
Celtic Harmony Camp is an ideal location to inspire your knowledge and understanding of the topic, set in beautiful Hertfordshire woodland in a reconstructed Prehistory settlement with seven roundhouses. Celtic Harmony’s award winning outdoor prehistory education programme has been running for twenty years, the charity was a finalist in the School Travel Awards ‘Best Venue for History Learning’ in 2017 and 2018.
The day will also include a tour of Celtic Harmony Camp, prehistory settlement, exploring the roundhouses and surrounding woodland.
Bring a Colleague and Half your Ticket Price!
If yourself and one of your colleagues come along to our INSET Day together, all you need to do is purchase one ticket by following the link and then email us at info@celticharmony.org with the subject, “Bring a Friend” and the name of your colleague. We will then look forward to seeing you both at the camp!
29th April
Stone Age Prehistory Inset Programme
The Stone Age programme includes: Interactive talks on Stone Age Britain with artefact handling by Archaeologist Keith Fitzpatrick Matthews, Primitive Skills Workshops with Stone Age crafts by Celtic Harmony Heritage Director, Luca Parrella, with resources and activity ideas for the classroom.
Bring your Colleague and Half your Ticket Price! – see above for details
13th May
Bronze Age Prehistory Inset Programme
The Bronze Age programme includes: Interactive talks on Bronze Age Britain with artefact handling by Archaeologist Keith Fitzpatrick Matthews, Primitive Skills Workshops with Bronze Age beaker pottery and carding, spinning and weaving wool by Celtic Harmony Heritage Director, Luca Parrella, with resources and activity ideas for the classroom.
Bring your Colleague and Half your Ticket Price! – see above for details
17th June
Iron Age Prehistory Inset Programme
The Iron Age programme includes: Interactive talks on Iron Age Britain with artefact handling by Archaeologist Keith Fitzpatrick Matthews, Primitive Skills Workshops with Iron Age farming such as grinding grain on quern stones and making medicine by Celtic Harmony Heritage Director, Luca Parrella, with resources and activity ideas for the classroom.
Bring your Colleague and Half your Ticket Price! – see above for details
The Prehistory Inset events are designed to enable you to:
- Enhance your subject knowledge
- Increase your confidence in teaching the Stone, Bronze and Iron Ages.
- Provide curriculum-linked activities and resources, which you can take back to the classroom.
“The day was very useful as it identified new activities to bring to my teaching and lectures. Put periods of Prehistory and archaeology into context” – CEES Stibbington, September 2018
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Gave me a much greater insight in exactly what to teach and how to word to children. Very useful. Has given me loads of ideas for teaching!
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Celtic Harmony Camp
Brickendon Lane
Brickendon
Hertfordshire
SG13 8NY
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(01438) 718 543
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info@celticharmony.org