| Specifications | |
| Location(s) | Celtic Harmony Camp, Brickendon Lane, Brickendon, Hertfordshire SG13 8NY |
| Key Stages | KS2 |
| Special Schools | No |
| Public Liability | |
| Enhanced DBS | No |
| Fees | Day trips £20 / Student. 2 Days 1 Night Residential Trip £119 / Student. 3 days 2 Nights Residential Trip £199 / Student |
| Administration Service | Administered by the provider |
| Website | https://www.celticharmony.org/ |
More about this Workshop/Service and the Provider
With its thatched roundhouses and native woodland, Celtic Harmony is a place like no other. For over twenty years, children and visitors have been rediscovering the natural world and traditions of life in ancient Britain through creative hands-on activities that engage the imagination and improve wellbeing.
Our active education programmes, whether on a school day trip or a volunteer day, are designed to bring people together, creating a sense of belonging to our local natural and cultural heritage and building confidence through new skills and the visual results of practical work.
Prehistory Experience
Day Trip Activity Overview:
Travel from being Neolithic Hunter Gatherers to Bronze Age Potters and Iron Age Farmers in this dynamic journey through a million years of Prehistory. The day starts with a demonstration of the evolution from Stone to Iron Age showing real metal ores. Your own Prehistory Leader will guide you around in small groups of around 15-20 children.
- Stone Age Flint tools talk and Soap Knapping Arrow Heads
- Wattle Fence Making and Exploring the Bronze Age Roundhouse
- Make Your Own Bronze Age Beaker Pot
- Grind Grain on Iron Age Quern Stones and make Dough
- Trade and Barter
Trading has two parts:
- Part 1: your class will swap real artefacts as they role play as characters and use numerical problem solving in the trading game
- Part 2: your pupils will enjoy trading by swapping their pocket money for Celtic gold coins to trade for the more precious produce in the shop
£20 / Student
Immerse Your Class in Prehistory and Sleep in a Roundhouse!
2 Day 1 Night Residential School Trip
Amaze your pupils, organise a once in a lifetime opportunity to spend the night in a reconstructed Iron Age roundhouse, sleep snugly under the thatched roof and awake to the morning chorus on an outdoor residential!
Experience how our ancestors lived, practising everyday jobs from hunting and gathering in the woods to wattling fences and watching primitive skills demos from Friction Fire Lighting to Flint Knapping. Sit down to a tasty dinner, before enjoying an evening of traditional games and crafts from Bronze Age pottery to making Celtic Dreamcatchers.
Explore the woodlands by night on the bat walk and then let our storytellers take you to a time of heroes and giants with traditional storytelling around the fire. As the sun goes down, return to your cosy roundhouse to rest after your busy day of hands-on activity around the Prehistory settlement. Refreshed after a healthy breakfast, experience life as Iron Age Warriors, learning the art of Archery and solve the riddles on the Quest, earning gold coins as your clan completes different challenges.
We have five 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 on this outdoor residential. Each roundhouse sleeps 12 to 14 pupils on comfortable matting on the floor. We provide guest beds for teachers in bell tents with complimentary tea and coffee during your trip!
Typical Programme
Day 1 Stone Age 10am-3pm
- Friction Fire Lighting
- Den building
- Flint talk and Soap Arrow Heads
- Hunting in the woods
- Gathering and cooking
- Wattle Fencing and Dyeing with Herbs
Evening Games
- Orienteering
- Field Games
- Team Building
- Pottery
- Roasting Marshmallows
- Celtic Dreamcatchers
- Story
- Bat Walk
Typical Menu
- Dinner including Cheesy Pasta, Jacket Potatoes, baked beans, carrots/cucumber/ lettuce, dessert.
- Continental Breakfast including yoghurt, croissant, juices, cereals
- Mid Morning Snack of citrus fruit and flapjack
- Packed Lunch with Cheese/Tuna/Ham roll, crisps and a snack
Day 2 Iron Age Warrior 10am-2.30pm
- Woodland Quest
- Warrior Headbands and Face Painting
- Target Archery
- Warrior Demonstration
- Trade and Barter
£119 / Student
Adult Helpers £20/adult/night
Including evening meal and breakfast plus the second day’s packed lunch AND all the exciting prehistory learning activities during your two days!
Ratio of 1 adult helper to 8 Children
£500 non refundable deposit payable 12 term time weeks before
Minimum 25 pupils
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
£199 / Student
Adult Helpers £20/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 12 term time weeks before
Minimum 24 pupils
Testimonials
“All activities were interactive and kept the attention of the children: accessible to ALL. Having our Prehistory leader as the expert and “in role” made the whole experience engaging and believable.”
Miss Nurse, The Grove, September 2019
“I really liked when the staff dressed up as Celts, the marshmallow toasting and how we got to play fun games together”
Child on Residential Trip - St Albans High School, May 2019
“All of the activities really helped to engage the children, consolidate what they have learnt and develop their knowledge and understanding.”
Amie Macura, Oak Farm, November 2019
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