We try our best here at Enrichment to stay out of controversy, but we’ve just heard on Radio 4 that ISIS are bulldozing Nimrud the...

On the face of it, finding wheat DNA from a sample dated to 8,000 years ago shouldn’t be so exciting. After all, people had been growing...

There are a couple of newspapers carrying the story of research which suggests that Homo Sapiens may have gained an advantage over our...

So, as promised in our last post about teaching prehistory in KS2, here we go into more detail about the Palaeolithic – just what you’ve...

The day has something for everyone who wants to know more about art in prehistory. There are short talks from 6 leading experts in the...

Teaching ‘Changes in Britain from the Stone Age to the Iron Age’ is now required as part of KS2 History curriculum in England. For many...

This involves a torch-lit tour of the museum on the evening of the May 14th, led by a First World War munitionette, who is….wait for it…...

I was privileged enough to be invited to take part in the Year 9 Classics Day at Loughborough High School. Designed to encourage the...

What a wonderful day we had in Cheshire! Armed with our trenches, tools and artefacts, Dr Ian Parker Heath (trusty archaeologist husband...

At the end of my prehistoric archaeology workshops, teachers often say to me that they have learned as much as the children have. Of...

After delivering a workshop covering the Stone Age to Iron Age to Y4s at St Andrews CE Primary School in Levenshulme in October, the...

Y3s at Aughton St Michaels CE Primary School in Ormskirk became archaeologists for the morning when they excavated artefacts from the...

I love delivering Archaeology Days, because Archaeology Days allow time for me to really develop children’s interest and enable them to...

Hi, Ian Parker Heath here with a fresh instalment of news from Enrichment Though Archaeology. Its been a while since the last news update...

After being invited back for the third year in a row, we are top news story on the Derby High School Website! Read all about it!...

Last Thursday, I returned to the Croft Primary School in Rugeley, Staffordshire, to deliver a workshop to Y5 to support the teaching of...

I’m pleased to announce that over the past few weeks I have delivered my first archaeology workshops relating directly to the new primary...

For the first time since the National Curriculum was put in place, prehistory is now part of the Primary History Curriculum.  Of course,...

It was up to County Durham that I travelled last week, to meet the time detectives of The Links Primary School in Stockton-on-Tees, and...

I had a brilliant time recently at St John’s Primary School in Sandbach Heath.  I was thrilled by the sea of eager faces grinning up at...