2018 Festival for Schools
To inspire, excite and inform pupils about history.
Festival for Schools
The Chalke Valley History Festival for Schools is a very important part of our festival week.
For 3 days during the week we provide a wide range of curriculum-based subjects by leading historians. From 1066, through the Tudors, First World War and the Cold War the programme provides a series of talks, seminars, living history and interactive demonstrations.
We bring history alive to inspire and excite students and teachers alike and are proud that a large cross-section of schools attend from all over the country.
We are currently working on the programme for the 2018 School’s Festival. If you have any specific areas that your School would like covered please email Rachel Holland at rachelholland@cvhf.org.uk
Topics that we are intending to cover in 2018:-
Tuesday 26th June – Year 6,7 & 8
Medieval Monarchs, Battle of Hastings, Black Death, King John, Castles, Tudors, The Peasants Revolt
Wednesday 27th June – Year 10 and 12
Crime & Punishment in Britain, Tudors, Weimar & Nazi Germany, Vietnam, Mao, Historiology, Suffragettes, Revolution & Civil Rights in America
Thursday 28th June – Years 6,7, 8 & 9
Medieval Monarchs, Battle of Hastings, Black Death, King John, Castles, Tudors, The Peasants Revolt, Slavery, Suffragettes, The Holocaust & The Cold War.
There will be a wide range of living historians covering some two thousand years of history from Celts to Romans through to the Wars of the Roses, English Civil War and the two World Wars. They will be demonstrating a number of activities from skills at arms through to historic cookery. Pupils will see and feel uniforms and equipment, learn about daily life from the past, traditional crafts and have a chance to see weapons in action and hear some bangs from Civil War muskets to British Second World War artillery firing.
Running over 3 days:
Tuesday 26th June – Years 6,7 & 8
Wednesday 27th June Years 10 &12
Thursday 28th June Years 6, 7, 8 & 9
LIVING HISTORY
There will be a wide range of living historians covering some two thousand years of history from Celts to Romans through to the Wars of the Roses, English Civil War, and the two World Wars.
They will be demonstrating a number of activities from skills at arms through to historic cookery. Pupils will see and feel uniforms, learn about daily life from the past, traditional crafts and have a chance to see weapons in action and hear some bangs from Civil War muskets to British Second World War artillery ring.
SPEAKERS
We have a number of eminent speakers attending this year, covering both core curriculum subjects and more wide-ranging periods and topics. Among these are academics such as Professor Jeremy Black on The Crusades & Medieval Warfare, Dr Peter Caddick-Adams on The League of Nations & Peace Treaties, Dr Gareth Williams on African-American Civil Rights, eminent Professor of Ancient History Paul Cartledge, Dr Suzannah Lipscomb on Witchcraft & The Witch Trials and Professor Frank McDonough on The Origins of the Second World War. We will be bringing together some of the finest historians and best communicators in the country.
For further information and booking please email rachelholland@cvhf.org.uk or call 01722 780793.
Please note – no children will be allowed into the event site unless accompanied by an adult or within a school or college group; this means anyone under 16 years of age. There will be a clearly demarcated Lost Child Point in the Ticket & Information Tent.
