Ufton on the Road
Learning Through Action
We are delighted to announce that Learning Through Action have merged with Ufton Court to create Ufton On The Road. Ufton On The Road will continue to deliver the history workshops led by Richard Ousley who we are pleased to welcome on board the Ufton Court Team.
Ufton on the Road brings living history into the classroom. Interactive teaching enable children to experience what living was like for people in past times, to identify with their counterparts, whether 60 or 6,000 years ago.
The workshops seek to involve everyone in the group, use artifacts, costumes and role play. The content is designed to stimulate thinking and imagination, and to link past events and contemporary issues.
Because of the interactive nature of these workshops they work best with groups up to approximately thirty. We can deliver two sessions in a day of the same workshop, depending on timing. (By arrangement some workshops can sometimes be 'mixed' on a single day, depending on personnel and the props to be used.)
The following outline the workshops. We are always happy to adapt or create new topics if a school has a particular request.
Living and Dying in Ancient Egypt:(KS2)
Everyday life is explored through legends, stories, masks, the handling of artifacts, and a 'Participatory' Burial Ceremony!
Living in Ancient Greece: (KS1 & 2)
A marketplace in ancient Athens - a trader takes us back to the 5th century BC - evocative artifacts and interactive storytelling, the world of the ancient Greeks, with its gods and myths - experiential learning at its best.
Read about this project on the St. Francis Primary School website.
Invaders and Settlers:(KS2)
A Celtic villager, a Roman citizen of Calleva (today’s Silchester), a Saxon farmer and a Viking warrior – over 1000 years of invaders and settlers brought to life in a shared experience through role play, simulation, storytelling and artefacts.
See a 'Celtic/Roman' session in a school, visit St. Francis Primary School website.
Living in Tudor Times: (KS1 & 2)
Children, in role as employees in a large manor house in the 1580s, prepare for a Royal Visit by Queen Elizabeth I. The experience climaxes with the Queen's arrival: the children present gifts and dance for Her Majesty.
Victorian Life on the Canals: (KS2)
The presentation looks at the different aspects of the development of canals, waterways and transport in Victorian Britain and the lives of those people involved in the building, running and using of our waterways.
Seasons of Change: (KS1 & 2)
Children step back in time as labourers in a 19th century farming community, at the time of the enclosures. A way of life is threatened by the coming of the steam-powered threshing machine, and by fear of having to go on to parish relief. Hands-on use of artefacts, including Victorian farming implements, helps children fully experience what it was really like.
Yesterday's Children: (KS2)
This is what life was like for most children in Victorian times. Children investigate in-role the life experiences of their forbears labouring in the cotton mills, the match factories and mines of the industrial revolution in 19th century Britain.
World War II: Home Front (KS2)
How it was, living in Britain in the early years of World War Two - the impact of the war on families. Children experience air raids, handle gas masks, ration books, become war refugees as they explore this time through role play, artefacts and storytelling. Pupils can also try their hand at French knitting, rag rug-making, and how to make a dishcloth from string.
Storytelling (KS1 & 2)
Story telling in role as historical characters such as Florence Nightingale or Amy Johnson. They will visit your classroom and relate their stories, the children can then hot seat them to find out what they really want to know about the characters.
