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Dates
Wednesday 26 November
Thursday 27 November
Event Information
FREE
Times - 9.30am - 12noon
Sessions are designed for KS2 students in school, at home and other settings.
You may choose to sign your group up for all sessions or a selection across both dates.
Joining information and additional resources will be circulated closer to the date.
Home learners and children not in a school setting are also welcome to take part.
Please note that for Safeguarding, adults not accompanying a participating child will not be permitted into any of these sessions.
Event Content
Join Hadrian’s Wall Learning and Engagement Forum* for a day of virtual activities themed around Hadrian’s Wall.
Take part in live workshops and discover more about the various sites across the Wall. Each workshop will include downloadable resources to use during the session.
Tuesday 26 November 2025:
9.30 - 10 -
10.10 - 10.40 -
10.50 - 11.20 -
11.30 - 12 -
Wednesday 27 November 2025
9.30 - 10 – Climate vs Archaeology: A Battle for the Past with the Vindolanda Trust
In this session, you will become archaeology detectives as you put climate change under the microscope. In this interactive session, using the different pieces of evidence that archaeologists have excavated at Roman Vindolanda and Magna Forts, we will investigate the life of people living along Hadrian's Wall 2,000 years ago. But what would happen if none of this evidence was available to us? By the end of the session, we will understand how climate change is impacting buried archaeology to understand what we might lose in the future.
10.10-10.40 - Gods and Goddesses along the Wall with Steph Holton from the Open University
In this session we will meet some of the ancient gods and goddesses worshipped along Hadrian’s Wall. Using different types of evidence - including inscriptions, statues, and even coins – we will find out more about the gods brought to Britain by the Romans as well as the gods they found here, and learn how to identify them in the wild!
This session is a repeat and updated session from the 2024 focus day, ''The children thoroughly enjoyed learning about the gods, goddess and Hadrian's wall.''
10.50-11.20 - Dark Skies Through Roman Eyes with Northumberland National Park
Northumberland National Park is home to the darkest skies in England – officially the best place to see stars, planets, meteor showers, and the northern lights. But what did the Romans see when they looked up at the night sky? In this interactive session, pupils will find out how important the stars and planets were to the Romans, and how their special connection to the night sky has influenced modern day astronomers.
This session is a repeat and updated session from our 2023 focus day.
11.30-12 – Session TBC with English Heritage
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Thursday 28 November 2025
9.30 - 10 – Colour by Science: What can the scientific archaeology teach us about Hadrian’s Wall? with the Great North Museum: Hancock
Did you know that archaeologists use science as well as history skills? Find out how scientific techniques can be used to learn about an object's history. Compare Hadrian's Wall to another Roman wall (did you know there were others?!) and use your new-found skills to decide how much we can learn about Hadrian's Wall from another Roman wall.
This session is a repeat and updated session from 2024 focus day, ''I enjoyed learning about the different colours of Roman Britain''
10.10-10.40 - Session TBC with Segedunum Roman Fort
10.50-11.20 - Session TBC With Tullie
11.30-12 – Session TBC
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Please note that this Virtual Hadrian’s Wall Day is open for multiple schools and/or home learners to book. We will instruct all participants to turn cameras and microphones off during the sessions.
*Hadrian's Wall Learning and Engagement Forum are a group of museum and heritage education and outreach professionals based on the sites found across Hadrian's Wall.
