A summer day visit will take place between April and October. This visit will focus on the ancient skills and tasks people from the Dark Ages would have undertaken.
What happens on the day?
Your visit duration will depend on your transport but typically 10am to 3pm.
On arrival your class will be divided into three work parties of around ten children. Each party will rotate around the three activities. Two of your three activities will be ATC staff led and will usually be more technically demanding such as:
The third activity will be led by your visiting staff after our demonstration to your children.
Each teaching day finishes with a plenary session sitting around a fire in a building and gives your children a chance to ask questions from the day. Our qualified staff are experts in their subject and this is a great way to wind down before heading home.
We can cover specific time periods such as the Stone Age, Iron Age (Celtic), Roman, Saxon, or Viking Periods or alternatively, we can design a day that compares and contrasts two time periods.
Safety is paramount. Every ATC activity is planned, tested, risk assessed and practiced before it is offered to a visiting school. This maintains our excellent safety record and allows us to offer activities, which are unique to the ATC.
The activity you wish to do is discussed at the time of booking or during your pre-planning visit and can be adapted on the day if the weather is bad and according to the year group.
If in doubt just ask our qualified staff.
"The children had an amazing visit to your center. The following day they wrote about their experiences and they all commented on all the new things they had learnt and how much they wanted a return visit". St Catherine's School November 2019.
ATC Tutor led
School Staff led
ATC Tutor led
School Staff Led
ATC Tutor led
School Staff led
The cost of day visits varies and is dependent upon the number of pupils booked. - Please note: We require a minimum ratio of 1:6 adults to accompany children attending the day visits, this ratio does not include the ATC Tutors or 1:1 support. Please note if you are only a few children overspilling into the next price bracket do call us. We may be able to accommodate you.
We provide one ATC tutor, and all materials. Dependant on numbers, we will split the visiting group into two work parties. They will rotate between two activities in the morning, and a further two activities in the afternoon; two activities will be led by your accompanying staff/adults, the remainder will be led by ATC tutors. The day will end with a plenary and Q&A session around the fire
We provide two ATC tutors, and all materials. We will split the visiting group into three work parties, and they will rotate through three activities during the course of the day; one activity will be led by your accompanying staff/adults, the remainder will be led by ATC tutors. The day will end with a plenary and Q&A session around the fire.
We provide three ATC tutors, and all materials. Typically, the group will be split in four working parties and will rotate through four activities, two activities in the morning, and a further two activities in the afternoon; one activity will be led by your accompanying staff/adults, the remainder will be led by ATC tutors. The day will end with a plenary and Q&A session around the fire.
We can accommodate two groups of up-to 33 individuals on site at any-one time. Though please be aware that the groups will be based in different buildings, but will have exclusive use of the site and will likely follow a different programme of activities.
We provide four ATC tutors, and all materials. Typically, the group will be split in half, and treated as two separate visiting schools; the groups will each follow the structure outlined above, for groups of 21-33 children.
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