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
- Aug 19, 2015
Things to do in the summer holidays!
Of course, it’s that time of year when parents, who may be teachers and vice versa, are looking for things to do with bored, restless and...
Nancy Detchon
- Jun 17, 2015
Places we visit – A weekend at Bryn Celli Ddu and more!
As we hit summertime, well in theory anyway, archaeologists up and down the country can be found out doing what most people think they do...
Nancy Detchon
- Jun 15, 2015
Tools and evolution – worth revisiting.
Back in January BBC Radio 4’s History of Ideas broadcast a piece by Dr Matt Pope of University College London in which he explored the...
Nancy Detchon
- Apr 22, 2015
Were our ancestors cannibals?
The subject of cannibalism in prehistory is one that has rumbled on in archaeological circles for quite some time and it has recently...
Nancy Detchon
- Apr 21, 2015
The Palaeolithic – Part 3: the things people made and used
Archaeologists are, of course, very interested in the things that people in the past made, used and eventually disposed of. We have just...
Nancy Detchon
- Mar 26, 2015
KS2 teachers, what can you find out about . . . the Palaeolithic?
You might think that finding information on the archaeology of the Palaeolithic of the area you live and work in might be difficult....
Nancy Detchon
- Mar 9, 2015
The earliest human?
Hot on the heels of our Palaeolithic pt 2 blog comes what will be the biggest and oldest news of the week. It comes from Ethiopia where...
Nancy Detchon
- Mar 9, 2015
The Palaeolithic – Part 2: The Environment
As you might well imagine, over the course of almost a million years the environment in what we now call Britain has changed...
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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