Flint and Fire - Stone Age

An interactive journey through the Stone Age

With a focus on primitive living skills and nature awareness, Flint and Fire gives Year 3 pupils an opportunity to bring the ‘stone age’ to life through Entrust’s own brand of living history. Inclusive to all, the programme will spark the imagination of your young people.

Pupils will take part in a number of interactive and engaging activities, learning and practising primitive skills, exploring how pre-historic people survived and thrived.

Take a unique journey through our ‘Caveman Workshop’, exploring and trying fire lighting techniques, learning and using hunting skills, and creating souvenirs to keep using ancient crafts.

This is a fantastic way to introduce the subject to your class or end the topic in a memorable, inspiring, and exciting way.

Your pupils will experience the subject brought to life and take part in fun, practical activities designed to stimulate senses and focus their concentration skills for application back in the classroom.

Caveman Workshop - Based in a large yurt, pupils will have an opportunity to interact with artifacts and explore what life was like in ancient times. This workshop will link to the Stone Age curriculum agenda.

Traditional Flint and Steel or Solar Disc Lighter – Using flint and steel, young people will discover the ancient way to ignite a fire. If weather permits, we will use a parabolic mirror to kindle a flame – the original method used to ignite the Olympic torch.

Pump Drills and Cordage (string making) - This ingenious and primitive way of drilling focuses very much on hand to eye co-ordination. Students will use the pump drill to bore a hole through a piece of slate to produce either a necklace or wrist band. Students will then be taught how to make natural cordage from willow bark, nettle (seasonal) or by using raffia - a natural alternative - to produce half a metre of twin-ply string to hang their necklace from.

Atl-Atls – We will explore this Mesolithic form of weaponry, using one of the great inventions in all of human history – the lever. Using their senses, students will learn how to use this primitive tool along with tracking techniques.

Cave Painting – Exploring primitive art, techniques and evolution, pupils will have an opportunity to express themselves in their own form of prehistoric art, whilst considering the storytelling and creativity of primitive people.

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