History Workshops for Schools

Workshop Provided by PrimeVR

PrimeVR is the UK's leading virtual reality workshop provider and covers over 10 different topics, ranging from Outer Space in Science to Ancient Rome in History. Our workshops are highly engaging, curriculum driven and a fantastic way of bringing a topic to life. We have over 200 verified reviews online. Check out what teachers think to our workshops on Google, TrustPilot and Facebook!

Workshop Provided by Widget Workshops

We bring history to life, using virtual reality to discover the ancient world and providing hands-on practical activities where children can handle artefacts and learn ancient skills. Our workshops are truly immersive.

Workshop Provided by Widget Workshop

We bring history to life, using virtual reality to discover the ancient world and providing hands-on practical activities where children can handle artefacts and learn ancient skills. Our workshops are truly immersive. Using our Virtual Reality headsets, children will explore the sites of ancient Rome and the Romans in Britain, including Trajan's Forum, the Colosseum, Hadrian's Wall and More. Children will also use Augmented Reality to discover Roman artefacts.

Workshop Provided by Widget Workshops

We bring history to life, using virtual reality to discover the ancient world and providing hands-on practical activities where children can handle artefacts and learn ancient skills. Our workshops are truly immersive.

Workshop Provided by Widget Workshops

We bring history to life, using virtual reality to discover the ancient world and providing hands-on practical activities where children can handle artefacts and learn ancient skills. Our workshops are truly immersive.

Workshop Provided by Crazy Comic Club

With a vast archive of thousands of unique approaches to cartooning, illustration, and papercraft, and an enormous amount of experience with all age groups from reception, through KS1 and KS2 to secondary schools, the focus is on having loads of high energy creative fun developing art and storytelling skills, while creating new characters and sending them off on imagination-stretching adventures!

Workshop Provided by One Day Creative

Our range of interactive workshops ensure that the expressive arts are at the core of learning, making them the perfect companion for schools looking to enrich the curriculum. In the Earthquakes and Volcanoes workshop your class will: explore the key aspects of the physical geography of volcanoes and earthquakes, examine current natural disasters and significant historical incidents, discuss what life would be like if a natural disaster occurred in your area and express ideas and feelings through voice, movement, role play and drama.

Workshop Provided by One Day Creative

Our range of interactive workshops ensure that the expressive arts are at the core of learning, making them the perfect companion for schools looking to enrich the curriculum or provide quality PPA cover.In the Great Fire of London workshop your class will explore a significant event beyond living memory, explore the timeline of the fire, looking at key people and events, and express ideas and feelings through voice, movement, role play and drama.

Workshop Provided by One Day Creative

One Day is a forward-thinking Creative Education Company, trusted by schools to deliver creative excellence and engagement on a variety of topics. Our range of interactive workshops ensure that the expressive arts are at the core of learning, making them the perfect companion for schools looking to enrich the curriculum or provide quality PPA cover.

Workshop Provided by OUtback2basics

At Outback2basics we deliver Stone Age workshops for schools. We take you on a journey back in time to see how our ancestors lived. We explore the tools they used, how they hunted and the clothes they wore.Our session include an entertaining timeline spanning over 3.5 million years, a tour of our artefacts through a day in the life of a caveman and a guided tutorial on cave art with the whole class taking part along with us.

Workshop Provided by The Drama Hut

Meet Athena, the feisty favourite Goddess of Zeus. Let her bring to life some of the famous myths and legends that existed during this fascinating time and through drama, explore and experience life and work in ancient Greece.Discover famous myths and legends and recreate the story of King Midas. Learn about the culture of Greece, and in particular the early Olympics and compete in one of the earliest running races held in The Olympic Stadium.

Workshop Provided by The Drama Hut

With the help of the Goddess Isis, unravel the secrets hidden in an ancient Egyptian scroll and discover how a Pharaoh would journey to the afterlife. Help to prepare an ancient tomb, for the journey to the afterlife and create and perform a chant and complete a ritual to secure the Pharaoh’s passage into the afterlife.

Workshop Provided by The Drama Hut

Travel back in time with the famous Lady with the Lamp and learn about her life, in particular the impact she had on nursing and the sanitisation of our hospitals.Our professional actor will bring your children's learning to life and through pictures and tableaus create the Victorian period Florence was working in.

Workshop Provided by Street Style Surgery

This street art workshop encourages young people to get creative with stencils and make their very own ‘Street-Style' design pieces.

The leader of our exciting graffiti art workshops will teach your young people how to produce Banksy Style canvas using stencils and adding freestyle touches.

Workshop Provided by Imagining History

Imagining History provides educational history workshops for primary schools that captivate and entertain. Our interactive sessions combine role-play, storytelling, demonstrations and drama and performance to bring history to life for your students.

Each of our extensively researched workshop themes, such as the Stone Age and Ancient Egypt, incorporate on-your-feet activities and high energy performance, allowing every single student to be involved and learn through doing.

Workshop Provided by Dan Tastic Education

Dan Tastic Education uses a wide array of props, historical items, weapons, videos, group discussion, and teacher in role style student participation to cover the following topics during a Pirate Wow Day: the History of Pirates, life at sea, life in the 1700s, living on an island, and looking at parts of a ship, etc.

Workshop Provided by Palaquest

This workshop covers the Evolution and Inheritance KS2 topic. Also ideal for KS3+. Examine an extensive collection of fossil specimens through 8 different prehistoric time periods to discover how life on earth changed through the millennia. Record and interpret your findings, and see the evidence for evolution in front of your very eyes. Meet your ancestors, and some other weird and wonderful prehistoric creatures, and tell the story of life on earth, and how it changed, over the last Billion years or so.

Workshop Provided by Palaoquest

Get hands-on with rocks and fossils, soils, and geological equipment in this workshop. Examine, compare and group a wide variety of specimens. Investigate the properties of rocks, and their uses in our everyday lives or their role in the rock cycle. Learn how fossils get inside rocks, and what they can tell us about prehistoric life. We can also examine thin-sections of rocks under the microscope, rock-forming minerals, and weathering of rocks.

Workshop Provided by Palaoquest

Become archaeologists... Dig for clues, examine artefacts. Could you have survived in the Stone Age? Find out in this workshop, and how about an Iron Age CSI in your school classroom? .... Who is the person in the grave? How did they live? How did they die? Dig up Stone Age artefacts in your classroom. Sieve and clean them carefully and examine the clues left behind by Stone Age people. Make a mini museum of your finds from our Stone Age Workshop.

Workshop Provided by Steel Pan Agency:

The steelpan is a perfect instrument, as the basic skills are easy to learn and playing the instrument does not require any previous musical experience. It is possible for a group with any level of musical experience to accomplish a simple melody within a short period of time.

Workshop Provided by Mogzilla Books:

Transport your pupils back to 9th Century England as they learn to become a young Anglo-Saxon warrior. Inspired by the events in my new book, 'From the age of eight - Alfred the Great', your pupils will attend the 'School of Arms'  where they will be trained in much the same way as the young Alfred, learning how, as King, he outwitted and outfought the Vikings. 

Workshop Provided by Mogzilla Books:

Using my WWI children's book, Agent Two Face, as inspiration, I will take the children on an interactive journey through the Great War. We begin by watching a 'recruit' take the KIng's shilling as he swears the assetation oath in the recruiting office.

Workshop Provided by Mogzilla Books:

The Workshop begins at Dunkirk in 1940, with the School Hall transformed to replicate the beaches. From here, the children are separated into the advancing German Army and the retreating and trapped B.E.F. (British Troops - each wearing a plastic Brodie helmet). Using artefacts and sound effects, the children then re-enact an air raid on the deathly sands. During this thrilling session, I use extracts of my acclaimed novel Demons of Dunkirk to bring the occasion alive.

Workshop Provided by Mogzilla Books:

Using Paul Nolan’s critically acclaimed book TimeCast - Age of Bronze as a stimulus, the children will understand first-hand just how savage life was in Pre-historic Britain. They will dress in authentic costumes, participate in a Bronze Age burial, help create Bronze from Copper and Tin, handle real, ancient Bronze artefacts and re-enact the most exciting parts of my book.

Workshop Provided by Dance Days

Dance Days provide educational (and fun) dance workshops for primary, secondary and SEND schools. Our workshops are designed to enrich your pupils’ learning outside of the classroom. We have over 30 different dance styles to choose from, with many linking directly to school topics and projects.

Workshop Provided by Dramatis

Dramatis is a Sussex based, extra-curricular drama school that harnesses the power of Pretend Play. Stage stardom is not our end game. We recognise that not all children want to be in the spotlight – but do enjoy playing at being someone, something or somewhere else. We empower children's innate instinct to play by using drama games and exercises that turn their creative ideas into more structured stories.

Workshop Provided by Those History People

Step back in time to iron-age Roman Britain. Rumour has it that Camulodunum has been attacked by Boudica and the Iceni, and a revolt has begun. The pupils will learn about the cause and outcome of the Boudican revolt and Roman military life through a combination of practical making activities, drama and role-play