We can visit your school or you can visit us at Drumlanrig Estate. Activities can be indoors or outdoors and at any time of the year.

              Courses available                     

• A Stone-Age social experience for young people
• A Stone-Age day of health and fitness
• Sustainable lifestyles - How we can work with the planet

• Introduction to the Stone-Age  (details below)                                            

What did your area look like when humans first lived there?

Discover the plants, the animals, the climate and the first people. Find out how Stone-Age people made things, how they lived.
A full-day indoor or outdoor class event in which Pupils, Teachers, Students, and Parents can experience the Stone-Age and understand Hunter-Gatherer life.
Hands-on and very active. Those taking part will be able to see a variety of Stone-Age items from tools and clothes to jewellery and art.
Highly illustrated talks, physical activities and discussions give memorable information related to the history of the area and of the human race.
General topics including: climate, flora and fauna, the evolution of people and their social systems and technologies.
Tailored to meet all educational levels from 5-18 year-olds.

"The children learned a lot and went back to the classroom to learn more for themselves. The setting and different activities ensured that they listened intently and were never bored. I thoroughly enjoyed being an onlooker."
 Mrs Riddick, Class Teacher, Penninghame Primary School

Cost of visit: £227:00 per day  CLICK HERE TO BOOK

What will be there?

Summer expedition hut, hunting and living tools, clothes and all activity materials

Talks and demonstrations

What your area was like over the last half a million years

Flora,fauna, climate and geographical changes

‘A day and a year in the life of'......’

Stories, discussion, research-based evidence (depending on age group)

What Stone Age people did for us

Making and using tools

Activities available

Making social jewellery

Playing active games derived from anthropological sources

Active and co-operative hunt training systems

Learning to use hunting weapons

Trust and protection systems

Dressing-up and school photos'

Handling tools and simulated tools

Polyphonic singing and making music

Learning and teaching each other about wild food and medicines

Choosing a social role and becoming an adult

To take home

Social symbolic jewellery indicating levels of achievement during the day

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