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History workshops | Balestra Primary School KS1 & KS2 workshops
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Our Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2 primary history workshops

(all links will open a new window on the relevant page on our main websites for the respective workshop)

stone age history page
stone age school workshop

Stone Age to Iron Age

primary school workshop

Activities in this workshop

  • Interactive timeline with all key events plus fun drama activities

  • Handling real and replica artefacts such as flint tools and animal fossils

  • Stone Age Beast picture, dressed in (fake) furs!

  • (Safe) spear throwing on a hunt for Stone Age beasts!

Key stage 1 and key stage 2 victorian inventions history workshop

Victorian Inventions primary school workshop

Activities in this workshop

  • Power Stephenson's Rocket round a 25 foot track

  • Listen to a real 1898 Edison phonograph and make music to play on our custom music boxes

  • Us a real Morse Code Machine to send messages to your friends

  • Take a Victorian photograph in period costumes 

vic history page
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Romans primary

school workshop

Activities in this workshop

  • Interactive timeline with all key events plus fun drama activities 

  • Dress up as a soldier by trying on armour, a cloak or several other items

  • Artefact handling handle many replica items and sort genuine items such as dice and coins   

  • (Safe) spear throwing against wooden targets as you protect the school from the Celts!

romans history page
ww2 primary school history workshop

WW2 / Second World War primary school workshop

Activities in this workshop

  • Interactive timeline with all key events plus fun drama activities such as an air raid

  • Blackout windows in a competition with other groups to see how hard it really was!

  • Artefact handling handle and wear over 60 real WW2 items! 

  • Learn WW2 first aid and use the skills to bandage your friends from real WW2 instructions

WW2 history page
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