CHALKE HISTORY FESTIVAL FOR SCHOOLS 2024
Bring history alive and help your students experience the sights, sounds and smells of history at the Chalke History Festival for Schools, sponsored by Rathbones – where the future meets the past.
Three days of history near Salisbury featuring a wide range of curriculum-based subjects delivered by leading historians.
“The students were so engaged in the talks that were taking place and they LOVED the living history around the site.”
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Primary and SEND schools – Click here to book for the 2024 Festival.
Secondary schools – Closed for bookings.
There is so much for pupils to see and do at the Chalke History Festival for Schools – helping to bring the past alive in a unique and exciting way. We have limited spaces, so please do book early. To facilitate the planning of your trip download our standard risk assessment here.
Timings:
Monday 24th June – Years 10, 11 & 12 – 10am-3.15pm. (Closed for bookings)
Tuesday 25th June – Years 6, 7, 8 & 9 – 10am-3.15pm.
Wednesday 26th June – SEND Day (all school ages) – 10am-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 or email rachel.holland@chalkefestival.com.
This year’s programme is still to be finalised but current topics include:
Monday (Secondary)
D-Day, History of Infectious Disease, Survivors: The Lost Stories of the Last Survivors of the Atlantic Slave Trade, The Stalin Affair: Roots of the Cold War, The French Revolution, What is History Now?, Tudor Women, Cold War Protest Movements, Daily Life in the Iron Age, The Time Traveller’s Kitchen, The Rise of the Mounted Knight, WW2 Trench and SOE Training Camp.
Tuesday (Primary)
Life in Tudor Britain, Lessons from Our Ancestors, Mayans, D-Day, Daily Life and Construction in the Iron Age, Sword Smelting, The History of Pies, The Rise of the Mounted Knight, Soldier School, Anglo-Saxon/Viking Storytelling, One Man King Arthur, Foreign Field, Wizzo’s Rip-Roaring History, Falconry, History’s Maid, WW2 Trench, SOE Training Camp and WW2 Swingdyhop.
Wednesday (SEND)
Daily Life and Construction in the Iron Age, Sword Smelting, The History of Pies, The Rise of the Mounted Knight, Soldier School, Anglo-Saxon/Viking Storytelling, One Man King Arthur, Foreign Field, Wizzo’s Rip-Roaring History, Falconry, History’s Maid, WW2 Trench and WW2 Swingdyhop.
