INDOOR AND OUTDOOR LEARNING: ALL YEAR ROUND
OUTDOOR LEARNING
New for 2025
Living Like Cavemen
A Stone Age Adventure
Ideal for Key stages 1 & 2
Brand new for 2025 this exciting, hands-on experience helps children learn about the lives of early humans: how they found food, created cave drawings and made fire, and how their lives compare to ours today. Activities include fire lighting, fire safety, charcoal art, tool making and shelter building.
New for 2025
An Orchard’s Tale
A Haven for Pollinators and Wildlife
Ideal for Key stages 1 & 2
Helping children to understand the importance of apple orchards, this session highlights the vital role of pollinators in food production and the human impact on nature. Activities include role play, visiting our bee hives, collecting and pressing apples, preparing food and cooking on an open fire.
Survival Skills
Vital skills and thrills from expert hands
Ideal for Key Stages 1 & 2
Learn resilience, team-work, competences and confidence using play, exploration, and supported risk-taking. The supervised bushcraft and survival skills sessions are expertly taught and fun! Activities include shaping wood, making a shelter, lighting a fire, fire safety, and a role play “rescue”.
Seasonal Art
Creating crafts in partnership with nature
Ideal for Key Stages 1 & 2
Experience the colours, textures and patterns of the changing seasons in new light on an immersive ‘collecting from nature’ walk. Supervised activities include making fires, conker animals, whittling sticks, charcoal art and leaf-printing with natural dyes from foraged nuts, berries and fungi.
Food for Thought
Sustainable skills through to delicious discoveries
Ideal for Key Stages 1 & 2
Reconnect with where “real” food comes from, how to grow it, and changing tastes through time among Leighton’s kitchen garden vegetables, herbs, fruit and flowers. Activities include supervised foraging walk identifying edible and non-edible plants, then cooking up a foraged feast in our outdoor kitchen.
INDOOR LEARNING
Houses and Homes
Bringing history to life
Ideal for Key Stage 1
A fascinating, immersive journey discovering how Victorian life, inventions, occupations and food evolved into 21st century family life. Activities include comparing Victorian Leighton to our own homes, bringing history vibrantly to life through role play and the tales told by Leighton’s child friendly guides.
Upstairs Downstairs
Become a Victorian for the day
Ideal for Key Stage 2
Explore what life was like for Victorian children through Leighton’s “upstairs” Gillow gentry and the families working “below stairs”. Activities include trying on their different clothes, investigating the food they ate, enjoying the games they played, and handling antique gadgets.
SEASONAL SPECIAL
Victorian Christmas
Experience a Victorian Christmas
Ideal for Key stages 1 & 2 (From November)
Experience a Victorian Christmas and find out how the festive season has changed throughout the years. Compare your Christmas with that of the Victorian squire’s children and the servants who lived in the hall. Activities include a house tour, Christmas crafts, paper chains, decorations and stories by the tree.
