TUDOR TRADERS
Food & Pastimes Half day	Cook Tudor recipes in the Tudor kitchens using spices from your travels abroad. Once the feast is prepared enjoy some time playing Tudor games and make your own candles.
Trade & Travel Half day	Learn about trading in Tudor times. Form trading companies and design your own logo for your boat. Learn about life as a sailor on board a Tudor vessel then build and sail your own boat across the moat.
Tudor crafts & the Schoolroom Half day	Learn about life as a child in the schoolroom. Write with quills, stamp a wax seal on your letter, weave your own piece of cloth and make pomanders and leather purses to take home.
Costume & Drama/Dance Half day	Learn all about clothing for the wealthy in Tudor times and try on our own Tudor costumes. Learn a Tudor dance or enjoy a Shakespearean drama workshop.
Visit to a local Manor House Half day	Go off site to visit Athelhampton House on your way home. Transport not included.
Banquet & ‘Whodunnit’ at the Court Evening activity	Sit down to a formal Tudor Banquet – some of the children will act as servants and the others as entertainers! After dinner investigate a ‘whodunnit’ mystery in the grounds!
Investigate the Manor Evening activity	Learn about the history of Hooke Court through a series of questions and practical investigations.

ROMAN INVADERS
Off-site visit to Maiden Castle and Dorchester Roman Town House Half day	Under the guidance of a Hooke Court tutor explore the Roman Town House and then go on to Maiden Castle and imagine life in this Iron Age hill fort at the time of the Roman Invasion. The visit culminates in a mock attack on the hill fort. Transport not included.
Roman Technology Half day	Learn about the remarkable achievements of Roman technology. Work in teams to build and test your own onegars, aqueducts and arches.
Cooking, Weaving and Jewellery Half day	Enjoy cooking a Roman feast which will be cooked in the open air ovens (weather permitting). Weave some cloth to make your own clothes and create Roman style jewellery.
Clay Pots, Writing and Learning Latin and the Roman Army Half day	Make pottery oil lamps or storage jars and write in Latin script. Finish the session by organising yourselves into a ‘testudo’ using our shields and stage your own Roman Invasion of Hooke Court!
Life of a Roman Soldier Evening activity	Learn about life in the Roman Army and participate in ‘Boot Camp’ to find out at first-hand what life was like!
Mosaics Evening activity	Make your own mosaic tile to take home.

VICTORIAN SERVANTS
Investigating the Manor and Victorian Artefacts Half day	Start by investigating the manor house looking for evidence of Victorian additions and alterations. Then handle artefacts to decide what they are and what they would have been used for.
Victorian Crafts Evening activity or longer half day session available	Try your hand at the decorative crafts of decoupage and quilling.
Cooking, Laundry and Playground Games Half day	After a thorough inspection from the resident housekeeper the servants are put through their paces baking cakes for tea in the Victorian kitchen. This is then followed by a spell in the Victorian laundry and a short break to enjoy some traditional playground games.
Schoolroom, Table Laying & Polishing. Victorian Tea Party. Half day	The children experience the rigours of life in a Victorian school and then have to prove their skills as servants in their polishing and table laying lessons! Those deemed good enough are chosen to serve tea at the Tea Party.
Off-site visit to Maxgate House or Dorchester Crown Court and Victorian Dorchester Half day	At Thomas Hardy’s House, Maxgate, the children explore the house and traditional gardens and make pancakes in the kitchens! Alternatively they can re-enact the Tolpuddle Martyrs Trial at the Crown Court followed by a walking tour of Victorian Dorchester.
Victorian Parlour Games Evening activity	Recreate a Victorian evening in the Parlour including recitations and playing games of the period.

The following Living History Programmes are whole day activities but can be cut to a half day if required. Weather permitting these activities are enjoyed at the Saxon Hut.

ANCIENT GREEKS - Whole Day

• Cook a Greek feast

• Spinning and weaving and Greek costume

• Making Greek pots

• Painting tiles using traditional Greek designs and pictures

• Greek legends & tales

ANCIENT EGYPTIANS - Whole Day

• Create a traditional Egyptian feast

• Make and decorate canopic jars

• Make jewellery

• Egyptian costume - spinning and weaving

• Make mud bricks to build your own home

• Write in hieroglyphs on papyrus using traditional reed pens

ANGLO-SAXON INVADERS - Whole Day

• Saxon cooking and corn grinding

• Jewellery and leatherwork

• Coil pots

• Weaving

• Rune and manuscript writing

• Wattle and daub

• Natural resources scavenger hunt

Programmes covering Viking Invaders and Castles in the Middle Ages are also available - please ask for details.

If you would like to study a period not covered here please contact us to discuss a suitable programme of activities - we are happy to tailor-make activities to suit everyone’s needs!