Enjoy a Prehistory Day at COAM with your school, step back in time with two engaging workshops suitable for both Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2.

In the Stone Age workshop, your students will create and use pigments, build a shelter and learn to throw spears.

In the Iron Age workshop, they’ll experience crafting, ancient cooking techniques, and explore our historically accurate roundhouse. An action-packed, dynamic journey through time that brings the wonders of pre-history to life. 

Workshops length: 2½ hours 

Cost per group of up to 32 students and 6 accompanying adults: £495 

Available: February to November 

Subject links: History, Science, Geography, Art

KS1 curriculum links: Significant historical events, people and places in their own locality. Events beyond living memory that are significant nationally or globally. 

KS2 curriculum links: Changes in Britain from the Stone Age to the Iron Age. Late Neolithic hunter-gatherers and early farmers. Iron Age hill forts: tribal kingdoms, farming, art and culture.

Stone age workshop learning outcomes:

• To experience what life would have been like for Mesolithic hunter-gatherers.

• To explore the knowledge and range of skills Mesolithic hunter-gatherers needed, in order to survive in their environment.

• To learn how to make fire, build a shelter, throw a spear and create natural pigments.

Iron age workshop learning outcomes:

• To understand how the Iron Age people used to live and compare to modern day life.

• To experience different activities that were carried out by Iron Age people.

• To explore a replica Iron Age house and use replica tools and equipment that would have been used during the Iron Age period.

• To learn how to grind flour, make flatbreads, butter and clay pots, using traditional Iron Age methods.