Workshop Provided by Palaoquest

Become palaeontologists in this exciting dinosaur workshop. Search for clues. Get your hands on real dinosaur fossils, and some spectacular replicas in your own school. Learn how to find out the answers for yourself using the fossil clues. Examine a claw as long as your arm, a horn as long as your leg, a footprint that your whole class can stand on, hold real dinosaur poo, find out what Jurassic actually means.

Workshop Provided by Palaoquest

 A fun, hands-on, "eco" workshop: Become a climate scientist; discover the causes and effects of global warming; analyse your own carbon emissions; explore "green" technologies; and learn to make positive changes at home and school. Become informed and empowered participants in the climate debate.

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 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 Springs Dance Company

Renowned for its education work, Springs Dance Company delivers outstanding workshops that specialise in cross-curricular dance, in particular with PSHE, Citizenship and Religious Education (RE). We deliver creative, inspiring, fun and energetic workshops, assemblies and performances. Themes can be selected from one of our many workshop themes, or the focus and learning objective can be tailor-made especially for you. Our curriculum linked workshops can improve pupils mental health and well-being whilst supporting children’s spiritual, moral, social and cultural development.

Workshop Provided by The Ben Kinsella Trust

Our Choices and Consequences workshops educate young people about knife crime and how to make positive choices to stay safe. Children will learn about the impact of knife crime, choice and consequences, how to make safe decisions and good friends, the realities of prison life and the law and how it is applied to knife crime cases. Children take part in role plays, discussions, quizzes and learn about the dangers of knife crime in a creative and educational space.

Workshop Provided by Springs Dance Company

We deliver creative, inspiring, fun and energetic workshops, assemblies and performances. Themes can be selected from one of our many workshop themes, or the focus and learning objective can be tailor-made especially for you. Our curriculum linked workshops can improve pupils mental health and well-being whilst supporting children’s spiritual, moral, social and cultural development.

Workshop Provided by The School Artist

Withy and Paper Sculpting: This versatile technique can be used to build large and very colourful three dimensional artwork. designs. Children can work easily with the materials to design individual pieces or work collaboratively on larger sculptures. This technique is fantastic for creating impressive sculptural installations, animals, carnival costumes and 3D screens. Large pieces can be built quickly to transform internal spaces, create scenery or provide a focus for a special event.

Workshop Provided by Street Style Surgery:

These workshops will boost the self-confidence and fire the aspirations of your young people. We can deliver everything from Gok one recycle challenge workshops, to business and enterprise fashion workshops, Tshirt spray paint and customisation session, fashion illustration, mood board design and branding and logo development.

Workshop Provided by Push

The workshop uses practical comedy and improvisation exercises (solo/group), games and role plays - interweaved with small sections of motivational presentation and peer discussion/feedback, to build students' understanding of employability, soft skills (primarily interpersonal skills), the power of thinking of their lives as a story to be written (for HE/job applications) and learning through failure.

Workshop Provided by Mini First Aid

Mini First Aid Kids is designed for children aged 7-11. In the 1-hour session, Children learn to deal with bumps, burns, breaks and bleeding, carry out CPR and deal with choking. The class is practical, lots of fun and involves lots of activities for the children to enjoy. A favourite with schools and voluntary groups.

Workshop Provided by Arts Generation

Working with schools and supporting their pupils to create stunning, meaningful, bespoke art work is our mission! At the end of this workshop we will have helped to produce beautiful, cascading spiral and flower type hanging sculptures OR stunning 'fields' of funky flowers attached to brightly painted display boards around the school site.

Assembly Provided by Science Magic Shows

Science Magician Dr Matt Pritchard is a Curator of Wonder. His shows bring gasps of amazement, thought provoking ideas and memorable STEM teaching. He inspires audiences to ask big questions and see the extraordinary in the ordinary. Each show is packed with surprises and a host of ideas that pupils can try afterwards; continuing the learning and developing their confidence.

Workshops Provided by Sphere Science:

We are all qualified, experienced teachers and all our workshops are designed specifically to develop pupil skills in thinking and working scientifically. Our workshops are engaging and enjoyable for the pupils. Follow-up notes are provided for the teachers, who we hope will use the ideas themselves.

Workshop Provided by ACTivate Workshops:

In this workshop, led by professional actors and education facilitators, we consider these fundamental questions by exploring the key elements of confident expression: Breath, Body, Voice and Language. We focus on cultivating confidence, initiative and resilience whilst developing life-long skills of leadership and collaboration.

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 Sphere Science:

An exciting interactive discussion about the origins and properties of waxes, changes of state and non-reversible changes. And an exciting investigation into how much Vitamin C (relatively) is found in different fruits.

Workshop Provided by Pulse CSI:

Our CSI Workshops are proven to excite Pupils curiosity in Science and STEM and are available to book for Primary, Secondary, Independent & Special Educational Needs Schools & PRU’s. We offer full-day Science Workshops delivered on a nationwide basis.

Workshops Provided by Round The Twist:

Round The Twist delivers inspiring, engaging and high quality interactive arts workshops for primary schools within and beyond the curriculum. With a predominant focus on performing arts and interactive storytelling, we also explore visual arts, allowing children to engage with pioneering artists in the North West.