Some of our home education days 2024 - dates T.B.C.
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Storytelling workshop
Storytelling workshop
Storytelling workshop
This session aims to build confidence and teach methods for public speaking, language skills as well as cooperative working.
Participants will take part in story telling exercises and group work to learn a story and tell it back to others.
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Art in Nature
Storytelling workshop
Storytelling workshop
A day for younger children 5-8years old using natural material such as chalk, clay charcoal and earth pigments to make art inspired by the buildings and objects at the ATC.
Date TBC
Historic Building
Storytelling workshop
Historic Games Expo
Two Day Course.
Participants will collaborate and use problem solving to design a structure for our site. They will use traditional materials and techniques to build something that will be part of our experimental site.
Date TBC
Historic Games Expo
A day (and night) as a Viking
Historic Games Expo
A day looking all types of games from board games, sports to wide games outside from different time periods.
Participants will be encouraged to learn new games and teach them back to others.
This will culminate in an archery tournament for fun.
Date TBC
Stone Age Experience Day
A day (and night) as a Viking
A day (and night) as a Viking
A day exploring all thing Stone Age imagining you were at a camp and had lots of things to do!
Everything from tanning to food preparation with some jewellery making as well.
Date TBC
A day (and night) as a Viking
A day (and night) as a Viking
A day (and night) as a Viking
We welcome families to spend a day and a night as Vikings. Over the course of the day you will have the chance to dress as a Viking using costumes provided by us, prepare and cook your dinner using ingredients authentic to the period, help out around the site with tasks that would have taken place on a farmstead of the period and play his
We welcome families to spend a day and a night as Vikings. Over the course of the day you will have the chance to dress as a Viking using costumes provided by us, prepare and cook your dinner using ingredients authentic to the period, help out around the site with tasks that would have taken place on a farmstead of the period and play historical games before settling down for the evening meal followed by storytelling around the fire.
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Banquet Day
Living History Club
Living History Club
Participants will help prepare the Viking Longhall for a great feast.
We will make food from different time periods and work on other feast day jobs such as decorating and feast traditions before enjoying the communal meal.
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Living History Club
Living History Club
Living History Club
This will be an ongoing project that runs over 6 sessions where all participants will form their own living history group.
Workshops will be in craft skills, costume and in talking and demonstrating to the public.
This will culminate in the Living History Club running their own display at our Apple Open Weekend showcasing what their have learned and made.
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Learning for Home Education students
It is important to us that Home Educated children have access to the same excellent and affordable resources as school children. Here at the Ancient Technology Centre we teach prehistory in an authentic setting using experiential archaeology in learning to underpin the outcomes you want for your children.
Bespoke courses
REMEMBER do not pay for tickets for adults on a DAY course. All adults go free of charge, as do siblings, as observers.
We are planning more home education dates. If you wish to join the ATC distribution list for advance notification of courses please email atc@dorsetcouncil.gov,uk
Please also sign up on Eventbrite and follow the Ancient Technology Centre to get email alerts when new events go on. www.eventbrite.co.uk
We look forward to welcoming you to our site.
All children must be supervised by their accompanying adults at all times. No dogs on site please.
Testimonials
"As a home educating family it is such a fantastic opportunity to visit the ATC to learn history for home educated children. We've attended two events at the centre, The Vikings and the Battle of Hastings. The latter was specifically created for us when we asked if they could cater for that era in history. The centre itself is absolutely amazing, with a longhouse, roundhouse and other living history buildings and equipment. This added to the authenticity of the event and the children really thrived in the environment, sparking imagination and creativity.
We found staff at the centre extremely welcoming and supportive of the home educating community, which created confidence in families. Andy and his team were all so knowledgable and the supporting activities and games really embodied the learning. Andy even arranged a mock battle of Hastings with the children and parents. The children absolutely loved this and I am sure my daughter will never forget the circumstances to the battle, as she really lived it on her hobby horse with foam sword in hand.
We are so looking forward to more events in the future and feel extremely lucky to have this living history experiences in our learning.
Thank you ATC"
Kat