Celtic Harmony Residential Camp

Step back into Ancient Britain at Celtic Harmony Camp, the UK’s largest reconstructed Iron Age settlement near Hertford. With a host of themed Prehistory day and residential educational visits from Stone Age to Iron Age, your class will be immersed in the sights and sounds that Ancient Britons experienced during 800,000 years of Prehistory.

On our residential experiences, Celtic Harmony Camp offers a full day and evening packed with activities led by our costumed educators, then spend the night in one of our 7 authentically constructed roundhouses with heating and lighting, and thick gym mats for children. Facilities include toilets, a shower, a heated café, a feasting shelter, and a gift shop. Teachers are accommodated in bell tents with guest beds.

Celtic Harmony Camp is an educational charity, committed to improving wellbeing through Prehistory experiences. We offer themed activities to school aged children, which aim to changes in Britain from the Stone Age to the Iron Age and the impact of the Roman Empire on Britain. These cross-curricular activities help children explore what life was like in the past and develop key skills, like mathematics and science. Set in the 13 acres of Hertfordshire, our visitors have enough space to run, explore and connect with nature.

On our residential experiences, Celtic Harmony Camp offers a full day and evening packed with activities led by our costumed educators, then spend the night in one of our 7 authentically constructed roundhouses with heating and lighting, and thick gym mats for children. Facilities include toilets, a shower, a heated café, a feasting shelter, and a gift shop. Teachers are accommodated in bell tents with guest beds.

We have an LOtC Quality Badge and we are accredited by the AALA.

Our site is fully equipped for fantastic residential trips, including heated roundhouses, toilets, a shower, a heated café, a heated prehistory centre, a feasting shelter, and a gift shop.

20-120

Photography, filming and audio is all permitted at Celtic Harmony Camp.

Risk assessments are the basis of all our activities and programmes to ensure effective health and safety management. These will be included in the teacher’s pack sent to you upon booking. Other pre-visit information will also be available, such as an informative Powerpoint presentation for parents. Pre-visits to Celtic Harmony Camp are welcome by appointment.

Prehistory Explorer – £149/pupil

Prehistory Adventure – £219/pupil

Go Tribal Transition – £219/pupil

On all residential trips, adult helpers are £20/adult/night

These prices include the cost of full day and evening activities led by your Prehistory Educator (except the optional trading activity which requires £1-£5), overnight accommodation, day 1 dinner and day 2 breakfast, packed lunch and snacks.

A member of our education team and First Aider is on site during your overnight stay to support the school staff team. All employees undergo enhanced DBS checks plus regular reviews.

7 roundhouses with heating and lighting, café, feasting shelter, woodland shelters, gift shop, woodland, compost and conventional toilets, shower and changing area, free wifi, heated prehistory centre, heating, lighting.

The roundhouses and the composting toilet both have disabled access and there is an access for all pathway around the Camp.

Prehistory Residential trips are available on both weekdays and weekends but must be booked in advance at www.celticharmony.org/book-a-visit.

Megan James, Balliol Primary, 2023 “All activities benefitted the children as this reinforced previous learning at school and they learnt new things!”

Emine Faruk, Walker, 13/10/2022 – “It has been an amazing experience for the children. Thank you very much for your enthusiasm and for inspiring the children. They have learnt so much. Our educator was very knowledgeable about every aspect of the experience. He captured the Children’s attention well.”

Teachers can join our enewsletter to receive monthly free resources to make a WOW Prehistory topic at https://celticharmony.org/about-us/our-newsletter/

Celtic Harmony Camp has resources and facilities for a wide range of Prehistory activities. We provide all the resources your pupils need to have the very best school trip. From the archery zone to the grinding shelter, warp weighted looms to warrior training with Iron Age weapons, we are able to provide a hands-on and authentic experience of the Stone, Bronze and Iron Ages.

Once your booking is confirmed, you will receive our detailed teacher’s pack with all of the information you need to know about your trip, including directions, costume ideas and risk assessments. Following a booking, teachers are welcome to come to Celtic Harmony Camp for a pre-visit and ask our dedicated education team any questions they have about the programme/site.

Celtic Harmony’s hands-on book is a creative journey into Ancient Britain that contains 18 creative classroom activities and a storyline following Ryanna as travels back from the Iron Age to the Neolithic period. This book is available on our website and on Amazon.

Celtic Harmony and The Council for Learning Outside the Classroom have come together to design an INSET day course for teachers to support planning and delivering an engaging Prehistory topic at KS2 exploring the changes in Britain from Stone, Bronze to Iron Age. Celtic Harmony Camp is an ideal location to inspire your knowledge and understanding of the topic, set in beautiful Hertfordshire woodland in a reconstructed Prehistory settlement with seven roundhouses. We’ve recently opened our heated Prehistory Centre, offering a warm and dry area for when the weather is bad. Celtic Harmony’s award winning outdoor prehistory education programme has been running for twenty-five years, the charity was a finalist in the School Travel Awards ‘Best Education/Learning Team of the Year’ in 2023.

Typical Day:

10am : Arrival

10.00 – 12.00: Stone Age Morning Activities

• Introduction and Friction Firelighting Demonstration
• Den Building Activity

12.30 – 13.00:

Packed Lunch (Please bring this with you)

13.00 – 14.30: Stone Age Afternoon Activities

• Gathering Activities and Cooking
• Flint tool talk and Hunting Activity
• Trading and Bartering/Storytime

Celtic Harmony Camp is located in a beautiful woodland setting in rural East Hertfordshire, just a stone’s throw from London and adjacent to Broxbourne Woods, SSSI.

Celtic Harmony Camp’s residential trips feature our authentic roundhouses as unique dormitories, children just need to bring their sleeping bag and pillow. Boys and girls have different roundhouses and each one can sleep up to 15 children depending on their age. We provide comfortable camp beds and bell tents for teachers.

Our roundhouses are packed with modern comforts including: radiator heating, WiFi, electricity, lighting, painted insulated floor and walls, each one has a set of soft gym mats to cover the floor so the children have a comfortable night’s sleep.

For more information about booking, please contact our team at info@celticharmony.org. To check availability, refer to the calendar on our booking page (www.celticharmony.org/book-a-visit) or give us a call Monday-Friday 8:30am-5:30pm on 01438 718543.

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