SCHOOLS HUB
Until next year’s festival, we are pleased to announce Schools Hub – a selection of educational videos for Key Stages 2 – 5 with accompanying teacher notes.
Festival for Schools 2024
Bring history alive and help your students experience the sights, sounds and smells of history at Chalke Valley History Schools Festival – where the future meets the past.Â
Two days of history near Salisbury featuring a wide range of curriculum-based subjects delivered by leading historians.
There is a huge amount for pupils to see and do – and which will help bring the past alive in a unique and exciting way. We have limited spaces, so if you think this will appeal to your students, then please do book early. To facilitate the planning of your trip our standard risk assessment is available on request.
Timings:
Monday 24th June – Years 6,7,8 & 9 – begins 10am and finishes at 3.15pm.
Tuesday 25th June – Years 10 & 12 – begins 10am and finishes at 3.15pm.
Location: Manor Farm, Church Bottom, Broad Chalke, Salisbury, SP5 5DP.
There is plenty of parking for both coaches and minibuses and access to the site in Broad Chalke village, 25 minutes from Salisbury, is easy. Pupils can either bring a packed lunch or take advantage of the food stalls that are based at the festival throughout the week.
We are conscious that for some schools, budgets for school trips are very tight. The Chalke Valley History Trust has a limited amount of funding available to help as many schools as possible to experience the festival. For further information please contact us on 01722 780793.
Below outlines last year’s festival to give you an idea of what it entails.
Example from 2023 Programme
Our focus last year was on five themes, Conflict, Society, Culture, Environment & Politics.
Monday 26th June 2023 – Years 6,7,8 & 9
Timings:Â begins 10am and finishes at 3.15pm.
£26.50 per independent school pupil for the day
£17 per state school pupil for the day
£6 per pupil on Pupil Premium for the day
There are a range of talks from which to choose. Subjects include:
- A RIOTOUS ROMP THROUGH HISTORY – The Nick in Time team
- ROSIE RAJA AND THE SECOND WORLD WAR – Sufiya Ahmed Â
- AN A-Z OF SURPRISING HISTORIC CRIME – Paul Bavill, Kyle Glover & Rory Ware
- A MEDIEVALIST’S GUIDE TO SURVIVING THE ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE – Danièle Cybulskie Â
- THE SECOND WORLD WAR – James HollandÂ
- THE WOLF-GIRL: THE GREEKS AND THE GODS – A TALE OF THE PERSIAN WARS –Â Tom Holland
- POP-UP PEDESTAL –Â Louise Jordan, Saili Katebe & Divija Melally
- JOURNEY TO THE STONE AGE – Sophie Kirtley Â
- THE TIME MACHINE NEXT DOOR – Iszi Lawrence
- THE VICTORIANS AND ARCHAEOLOGY –Â Angela McAllister
- DARWIN AND HOOKER: A STORY OF FRIENDSHIP, CURIOSITY AND DISCOVERY THAT CHANGED THE WORLD – Alexandra Stewart Â
 Tuesday 27th June 2023 – Years 10 & 12
Timings:Â begins 10am and finishes at 3.15pm.
£27 per independent school pupil for the day
£17 per state school pupil for the day
£6 per pupil on Pupil Premium for the day
There are a range of talks from which to choose. Subjects include:
- THE LETTER OF THE LAW: AN A-Z OF SURPRISING HISTORIC CRIME – Paul Bavill, Kyle Glover & Rory Ware
- ANNE BOLEYN & ELIZABETH I: MOTHER AND DAUGHTER WHO CHANGED HISTORY – Tracy Borman
- THE THIRD REICH –Â Julia Boyd with Chris Culpin
- THE FIRST WORLD WAR PEACE TREATIES –Â Peter Caddick-Adams
- CIVIL RIGHTS IN AMERICA’S FEDERAL SYSTEM –Â Nicholas Cole
- MORTAL MONARCHS: 1000 YEARS OF ROYAL DEATHS –Â Suzie Edge
- WITCHCRAFT: A HISTORY IN THIRTEEN TRIALS –Â Marion Gibson with Rory Cox
- THE FRENCH REVOLUTION – Jeremy Jennings
- PATHOGENESIS: HOW GERMS MADE HISTORY –Â Jonathan Kennedy
- FINDING MARGINALISED VOICES IN THE ARCHIVES –Â Julia Laite
- IMPERIAL RESISTANCE: WHO DARED TO STAND UP TO THE BRITISH EMPIRE? –Â Shalina Patel
- THE CRUSADES: QUEEN MELISANDE OF JERUSALEM – AN EXCEPTIONAL WOMAN? –Â Jonathan Phillips
- THE FIVE: THE UNTOLD LIVES OF THE WOMEN KILLED BY JACK THE RIPPER –Â Hallie Rubenhold with Julia Laite
- A MURDEROUS MIDSUMMER: THE WESTERN RISING OF 1549 – Mark Stoyle
Living History
Once again, another feature of this year’s Festival for Schools will be live-action performers: we are pleased to welcome back the much-loved History’s Maid and The Edwardian Adventurer.
Our living history will range across more than two millennia with the displays and encampments fully integrated throughout the site.
Periods of history covered this year include:
- Historical Iron Age daily life within a recreated Roundhouse construction to include diet, cooking techniques & animal uses in general living
- Iron Age blacksmithing displays with an Iron Age “Pit” forge, plus additional craft works involving wood & bone using hand forged tools
- Big Benyon’s Blacksmith – Metallurgy tools used in the Iron Age period
- Time Traveller’s Kitchen, showcasing Medieval recipes
- Tastes through Time – Tudor textiles and medieval dying
- SOE Training Camp – self-defence, codes & signals, explosives training & weapons handling
- Battle of Trafalgar – a recreation of the famous battle & recreation of the “Nelson touch”
- Cold War Armoured Brigade HQ – 6-8 armoured vehicles and Centurion tank
- Second World War – anti-tank guns, anti-aircraft gun & searchlight
- Sherman tank display
- Royal Navy Beachhead Commandos display with Second World War vehicles
- Jane’s Historical Kitchen – C19th (1800 – 1820) kitchen with demonstrations
- Old Time Farm – farm machinery & vehicles
