Stone Age Day
Stone Age Trip Activities
Could YOU survive the Stone Age?
Walk in the footsteps of Neolithic Hunter Gatherers and bring your lessons to life with a Stone Age Day trip!
- Watch the Friction Fire lighting display
- Gather food in the forest and cook with prehistoric herbs
- Build your own woodland shelter
- See the flint knapping demonstration, view our stone tools and hunt the mammoth!
- Become Stone Age traders, with authentic props such as skins, horns and hammer stones.
“Being inside a roundhouse with the fire was a great to help us imagine how life would’ve been in the Stone Age. The Flint Tool demo & Friction Fire Lighting were also particularly useful.” Laura Tarbuck, Beechview Academy, 14/5/24
KS2 Learning Aims:
History
- Changes in Britain from the Stone Age to Iron Age: Late Neolithic hunter gatherers and early farmers for example Skara Brae.
P.E.
- Take part in outdoor and adventurous activity challenges both individually and within a team.
- Use running, jumping, throwing and catching in isolation and in combination.
- Develop flexibility, strength, technique, control and balance.
PSHE and Citizenship
- Facing new challenges and working as part of a team.
- Thinking about the lives of people from other times and customs.
- Strengthening interaction skills with peers without a social objective
Numeracy (Trading option)
- Adding/subtracting small numbers without pen/paper or calculator and gaining confidence with mathematical skills
Adult Helpers FREE (Ratio of 1:8 Adult to Children)
A full day of hands-on challenges from 10am until 2.30pm/3pm for KS2
“Our Prehistory Educator was fab! Very enthusiastic, patient, and great with Visually Impaired/ SEN children.” Miss Richards, Chantry Primary Academy, 11/06/2024
£20+VAT / Student
Adult Helpers go FREE
Ratio of 1 adult helper to 8 Children
A full day of hands-on challenges from 10am until 2.30pm/3pm for KS2
The FSM Bursary is now closed. Fundraising to continue the scheme is in progress, and we will update you when we have news.
“Firelighting & flint knapping were incredible. They are things we can’t show pupils at school, and they learn so much just seeing it first hand.”
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