The moment before (and after) our school workshops matter
You’ve booked the Giant Journeys workshop.
The pupils are super excited and you know it’s going to land well (they’ve been to the school before and every workshops has been excellent!)
But there’s two moments that sometimes get overlooked:
What happens before the workshop…and what happens after it ends.
A lesson that starts before the experience
A Year 4 teacher preparing for a VR Human Body workshop might ask a simple question:
“How can I introduce the topic of the human body to the children so it’s not completely new to them for the workshop?”
Instead of starting cold, they might spend 20 minutes the day before exploring basic ideas — organs, digestion, how systems work together. Maybe write a quiz or some other activity that will add to the learning.
The next day, when pupils stepped inside the VR experience, they were recognising, questioning and connecting.
Also, after the workshop they wanted to know even more and that’s the difference a small amount of preparation (and follow-up) makes.
Introducing our FREE Primary School Resource Generator
We’ve created an AI-powered resources tool that helps Primary School staff plan, generate, and customise lessons, worksheets, and classroom activities in seconds. Teachers can enter a topic, pick their year level, subject, and even specific learning objectives to generate plans, activities, quiz’s slides with images, activities, objectives, and key vocabulary, all editable and ready to export.
This amazing new tool is a free of charge teaching resources for primary schools and is a great way to enhance one of our immersive school workshops.
For example:
- Before a WW2 Codebreaking workshop
Introduce pupils to the start of the war and key events : Unlocking History: The Start of WW2 and the Codebreaking Secret - After a VR Human Body workshop
Reinforce what pupils saw inside the body with structured activities and simple explanations: Our Amazing Bodies – The Bone Detectives - Alongside a Dinosaur Visit
We’ve met Reggie the Rex the amazing T-Rex in school today but where did he use to roam? Exploring Pangea: Where Did the Dinosaurs Live?
All these examples were created in under 20 seconds, easy to use and designed to fit into a busy school day.
No overcomplicated planning. Just resources that connect directly to what pupils experience.
Making the experience go further
Workshops create the spark.
But it’s what happens before and after that turns that spark into understanding.
Our amazing experience just got even bigger!
