Prehistory Adventure

Immerse Your Class in Prehistory and Sleep in a Roundhouse!

3 Day 2 Night Prehistory school residential trip

Spend the first day learning primitive skills from the Stone Age including flint knapping demonstrations to den building.

Then stay overnight sleeping in one of our amazing roundhouses. We have five new 6m diameter roundhouses that are packed with modern comforts including: radiator heating, WiFi, electricity, lighting, painted insulated floor and walls, each one has a set of soft gym mats to cover the floor so the children have a comfortable night’s sleep in their sleeping bags. We provide guest beds for teachers, so all you need to bring is a sleeping bag and pillow!

After afternoon and evening activities, you can sit down to your delicious BBQ dinner.

Spend the second day as an early Iron Age Farmer, learn fire-lighting and after a second sleepover in the roundhouses, take part in the Warrior Day with clan challenges!

Typical Programme

Day 1    10am – 3pm

• Den building
• Flint Tools and Make Soap Arrow Heads
• Hunting in the woods
• Wattle Fencing & Dyeing
• Gathering & Cooking with Herbs

Afternoon/Evening Games

• Orienteering
• Field Games
• Team Building
• Collecting Firewood
• Roasting Marshmallows
• Celtic Dream Catchers
• Story
• Bat Walk

Sleeping in the Roundhouses

• Each roundhouse sleeps up to 14 pupils on comfortable matting on the floor, don’t forget your sleeping bag
• BBQ Dinner and Evening Activities of Marshmallows and bat walk when it’s dark!
• Continental Breakfast including yoghurt, croissant, juices, cereals

Day 2    9am – 4pm

• Grind Grain and Make Flatbread
• Friction Fire Lighting
• Cooking Outdoors
• Carding and Spinning Wool and Weaving on Warp Weighted Looms
• Pottery
• Clay Faces

Afternoon/Evening Games

• Field Games
• Pizza Making
• Team Building
• Tree ID
• Raft Making
• Story

Sleeping in the Roundhouses

• Each roundhouse sleeps up to 14 pupils on comfortable matting on the floor, don’t forget your sleeping bag
• Dinner and Evening Activities
• Continental Breakfast including yoghurt, croissant, juices, cereals

Day 3    9am – 2.30pm

• Warrior Headbands and Face Painting
• Woodland Quest
• Target Archery
• Trade & Barter
• Warrior Demonstration

A sample programme

“I really liked when the staff dressed up as Celts, the marshmallow toasting and how we got to play fun games together” – Child, St Albans High School, May 2019

“I like Celtic Harmony because it inspires people to learn about Prehistory and play outdoors more” – Child, Lockers Park, June 2019

“Great teams. Excellent Education Officer, who got to know the children’s names and ways of quickly accomodating SEND children” – Julia Griffin, Princess Frederica School, June 2019

£279 / Student

Adult Helpers £40/adult/night
Including evening meal and breakfast plus the second day’s packed lunch and all the exciting prehistory learning Activities during your three days
Ratio of 1 adult helper to 8 Children
£500 non refundable deposit payable at booking.

Celtic Harmony is an education charity which aims to enable children to benefit from the Prehistory Experience.

We cannot ensure exclusivity during the residential visits, there could be another school on-site overnight during your stay.

Pupils are accommodated in roundhouses and teachers in bell tents and possibly roundhouses if available.

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