We're ready to go with this year's CPD days for Teachers!
It's time to announce the dates for this year's CPD days for teachers. We are offering two workshops this year - Prehistory in the Peak...
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Nancy Detchon
Sep 15, 2015
KS2 teachers: Comings and goings on TV, museums and more!
Well, while schools are getting settled in and universities are gearing up to the new academic year, here are a few items from the world...
Nancy Detchon
Aug 24, 2015
Horizon’s First Britons
Last week the BBC aired the latest documentary in the Horizon franchise – First Britons. Since then there has been a lot of to-ing and...
Nancy Detchon
Jul 20, 2015
KS2 British Prehistory – a summer of action pt2!
The summer of fantastic excavations on some of the most interesting sites from British Prehistory continues and now you can see some of...
Nancy Detchon
May 19, 2015
KS2 and Mesolithic Britain: “what did they eat?”
In this peek into the Mesolithic of Britain we are going to look at how the archaeology of the period can tell us how how people...
Nancy Detchon
May 13, 2015
Mesolithic Britain: First things first!
Welcome to part one of our look at the Mesolithic period in the Prehistory of Britain! In this, we try to include the basics – what you...
Nancy Detchon
Mar 5, 2015
Why is finding wheat that is 8,000 years old exciting?
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...
Nancy Detchon
Feb 25, 2015
Art, Cave Art and Prehistory: A Study day.
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...
Nancy Detchon
Jan 19, 2015
Stone Age to Iron Age in Cheshire
What a wonderful day we had in Cheshire! Armed with our trenches, tools and artefacts, Dr Ian Parker Heath (trusty archaeologist husband...
Nancy Detchon
Jan 18, 2015
Teaching ‘changes in Britain from the Stone Age to the Iron Age’
At the end of my prehistoric archaeology workshops, teachers often say to me that they have learned as much as the children have. Of...
Nancy Detchon
Jan 17, 2015
Prehistoric Levenshulme!
After delivering a workshop covering the Stone Age to Iron Age to Y4s at St Andrews CE Primary School in Levenshulme in October, the...
Nancy Detchon
Nov 30, 2014
Back to the Stone Age for Ormskirk!
Y3s at Aughton St Michaels CE Primary School in Ormskirk became archaeologists for the morning when they excavated artefacts from the...
Nancy Detchon
Nov 19, 2014
Archaeology Day at Garstang
I love delivering Archaeology Days, because Archaeology Days allow time for me to really develop children’s interest and enable them to...
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