Let’s Make History 2026!
With support from the National Lottery Heritage Fund, we’re bringing our free Iron Age Experience day to schools and home school networks in and around Kings Lynn and Thetford this Spring!
All spaces have now been fully booked.
We’ve created a visual guide to accompany the production ‘Rampage through the Iron Age’, part of the Iron Age experience day. You may find it useful to look through with your students prior to your visit.
Last years project:
In 2025, we piloted a new project ‘Let’s Make History’, creating a new play and accompanying historical workshop activities created in collaboration with primary school children in Suffolk, based on Anglo-Saxon history.
What was the project?
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![A woman with brown hair, wearing a dark blazer, looks confused or skeptical while reading a book titled 'Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Anglo-Saxons' in a room with art supplies and other objects in the background.]()
We worked with 128 key stage 2 students in our co-creation workshops. They gave us creative ideas for the play and helped us understand what aspects of the history interested them.
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![Five people in Anglo-Saxon costumes standing in a school classroom]()
We worked with 12 brilliant volunteers who gave us 287 hours of their time. 50% completed their Level 1 Makaton training, and 67% told us they felt they have a good understanding of Anglo-Saxon history as a result of participating.
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![Two women with surprised expressions, holding cleaning equipment in a cluttered storage area with boxes, plant, and protective clothing.]()
Using the children's ideas and our own research we created a new play called 'Tangled with the Angles'. We performed it 21 time across 10 primary schools and 4 community venues in Suffolk and Cambridgeshire. It was attended by 1142 people.
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![A row of small, gray, unglazed pottery bowls and cups on a white windowsill next to a window.]()
Our Heritage Officer and volunteers ran Anglo-Saxon craft workshops. 792 children participated, making clay pots, braiding belts, crafting jewellery and excavating 'poo'!
Let’s Make History
What did it achieve?
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![A woman in a light blue shirt looking through binoculars, smiling and squinting as she observes.]()
“I didn't know my class had such imaginations!”
Teacher feedback - co-creation workshops
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![A woman wearing a crown is peering out of a wooden box with a playful expression.]()
"An excellent way to introduce history. Much more fun than normal and more memorable. Loved it!"
Audience feedback - Tangles with the Angles
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![A woman dressed as a king, wearing a crown and a cape, looks surprised and worried while holding a baking mold wearing oven mitts.]()
"The show was clever and entertaining. The joy on the children's faces was wonderful!"
Audience feedback - Tangles with the Angles
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![Two women are in a workshop, engaged in a conversation. One woman is explaining, making expressive hand gestures. The other woman is listening intently, with her hands also gesturing. There are wooden crates and plants in the background, with a sign on a crate that says 'FRAGILE'.]()
"What a great day! The combination of the play and workshops gave something for everyone and it was perfectly pitched for KS2 pupils"
Teacher feedback
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![Two women in an expressive pose, one holding a mop and the other pointing a remote control, surrounded by boxes and plants, in a lively scene.]()
“It enriched the children's learning from the Anglo-Saxon unit studied at the start of this year. Thank you!”
Teacher feedback
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![A woman in a light-colored outfit appears to be yelling or expressing anger, with her hand extended forward in a stop gesture. Another woman in a green shirt sits nearby with her chin resting on her hand and looks on with a displeased or skeptical expression. The setting appears to be a cluttered room with boxes and various household items.]()
79% of children said they felt in a better mood after participating in a workshop or watching a performance
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![Woman gesturing while speaking in a room with a chalkboard displaying a chalk drawing of the United Kingdom on an easel.]()
100% of teachers said it created a feel-good association with learning about history.
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![Two women dressed as Anglo-Saxon characters, engaged in a conversation, standing in a room with wooden crates and a yellow caution sign in the background.]()
96% of teachers told us it supported and enhanced the learning their students were doing in the classroom
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![Two women are singing passionately, standing with arms outstretched. They are in a cluttered indoor space with cardboard boxes, a plant, and various equipment around them.]()
69% of teachers told us the event had levelled-up learning for their SEN students by removing stressful barriers.
