We are delighted to announce the dates for the 2024 Lincolnshire Day Schools Event! Update your diary as we invite KS2 students from around the county to celebrate all things Lincolnshire, getting hands-on with workshops around food, farming, sustainability and much more! The 3rd and 4th October 2024 will see the Lincolnshire Showground buzzing with activity - look out for your invitation over the summer of 2024.
To find out more about how we celebrate Lincolnshire Day, please read our case study.
Exhibitors
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LCC Food Education/ Gloji energy |
Nutrition linked activities all about healthy eating and movement. |
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HSBC |
HSBC Financial Education and Financial Wellbeing to support children with gaining an understanding of the value of money and making good choices through activities. |
https://www.hsbc.co.uk/branch-list/lincoln-stonebow-full-service-branch/ |
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Mini 1st Aid |
Mini First Aid is the largest children’s first aid training provider in the UK, working with schools teaching first aid to both staff and students. |
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LCC Recycling and Waste |
Recycling presentation and engaging activities, including a life size snakes and ladders game, what’s in the box and a litter picking challenge to promote the 3 R’s – reduce, reuse and recycle |
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Green Synergy |
Children will learn about the life cycle of a plant, with colouring opportunities. Pupils will leave with seeds and a care sheet to use at home / school. |
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Precious Moments |
Yoga poses encourage children to clear their mind and focus on the effort. As a result of this single focus to achieve a particular pose or stay balanced, many studies have revealed strong benefits to children’s school education related directly to their yoga practice. |
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British Chlorophy (Blankney Estates) |
An overview of life on a country estate in Lincolnshire and jobs also about British chlorophyll and the extraction of the natural food colouring. |
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Parish of Boston |
Telling stories through sound & sight. How we use our voices to express emotions and join together as a community, and stained-glass window stories. |
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Lincolnshire Co op |
Learning about Healthy eating and sustainability tasting locally produced foods |
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Ladies in Pigs |
We will be making Lincolnshire sausage meat patties from scratch and then cooking and eating them and then playing two interactive games to show the parts of the pig and how to spot British produce in the shops. |
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Anglian Water- THURSDAY ONLY |
A new reservoir for Lincolnshire. This workshop will feature 2 hands on activities to explore water sustainability and enhancing biodiversity. |
https://www.anglianwater.co.uk/your-local-area/education/schools/ |
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East Midlands Nature Park |
Using the Nature Park to explore the importance of biodiversity – through play, exploratory learning utilising the grounds available and investigating where biodiversity improvements can be made. |
eastmidlandsnaturepark@ltl.org.uk |
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Shedtime Leatherwork |
Students Will Get Hands On To Decorate A Leather Bookmark. They Will Make An Individual Piece And Use A Variety Of Stamping Tools And Techniques For A Design Of Their Choice. |
shedtime@aol.com |
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IBCC and Investgate learning |
Pigeon Post: Create a paper pigeon, send a team pigeon to the racing board to race against others and deliver secret coded messages. |
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Orsted- THURSDAY ONLY |
A build a turbine challenge was designed to make STEM come to life in a competitive way. The challenge is to design a turbine using the different types of equipment provided and see which students will win the prize. |
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Nurture Nature Forest School |
Join Nurture Nature Forest School and immerse into Forest School activities. We will cover den building, knot tying, nature crafts and tool use. |
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Heckington Windmil |
Heckington Windmill will show the process of farm to fork, using the milling process from wheat to flour and the wonderful capabilities of traditional windmills |
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Lincolnshire Guild of Weavers, Spinners and Dyers |
The opportunity to be creative and learning the process of weaving with card looms, wool and fibre and wooden lollipop sticks. |
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Fairburns Eggs |
The Journey of an egg through our packing centre from grading, candling, weighing and packing eggs. |
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Lincolnshire Chalk Streams |
Come And Discover What Lurks In Lincolnshire's Unique Chalk Streams. We'll Be Bringing Along Bucketfuls Of Wonderful Chalk Stream Samples, Full Of Minibeasts To Investigate! |
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Lincoln City Foundation |
As per recent years, we would like to bring up our inflatable for the shooting challenge, with schools having the opportunity to win some free Lincoln City FC prizes. |
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Pilgrims Europe/MoyPark |
Farm to Folk – A look at the process of Chickens from an egg to chick, to chicken to food source (PowerPoint video) Inside an Egg – Photos of different stages of incubation – Match photo to the day/week of incubation Bio-security activity and why it’s important –with the PPE challenge |
https://moypark.com/ / https://www.pilgrims.com/location/europe/ |
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Cook Stars |
A fun baking activity creating a Lincolnshire Plumbread. |
https://www.cookstars.co.uk/cooking-classes/lincoln-north-and-gainsborough |
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Cotehill Cheese |
soft cheese making activity using fresh whole milk and a display of cheese making. |
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Dyson Farming Ltd |
Discussing Strawberry Production with A Focus On Packaging. Posing The Question of How We Can Tell Our Story Through Packaging, Linking To Renewable Energy And The Process Behind Growing Our Strawberries. |
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On Point Archery/ crossbow |
Have a go Archery and crossbow. Learn a new sport and try your hand at the ancient sport of Archery. |
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Lincolnshire Outdoor Learning |
We will guide participants to construct a recycled plant pot from paper, fill with compost and Lincolnshire Provenance Wildflower seed to take home and grow. Make a paper flower that they can decorate their pot with, while they wait for the seed to grow and teach participants about Lincolnshire Wildflowers and their importance for biodiversity. |
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England Netball |
Set up a practical area of netball skills with Goal posts, aiming games into buckets and hoops and throwing and catching activities. Also with an information station where we can talk to teachers about netball within the school |
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Good Lookin Cookin |
Good Lookin Cookin, Local Family School Meal Provider’s hands-on learning kitchen workshop making Lincolnshire Day pizzas. |
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Flowers by Suzanne |
making flower posy’s with Lincolnshire colours |
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Lincoln Rugby Club |
Rugby taster sessions for all |
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RAF Conningsby STEM team |
Provided by Royal Air Force Coningsby there will be a variety of STEM activities to engage with, practical hands on tasks and discussions with members of the Royal Air Force around Equipment used on every day flying |
https://www.raf.mod.uk/our-organisation/stations/raf-coningsby/contact-us/ |
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University of Lincoln |
Join the University of Lincoln team to see how robotics can be used in food and farming. Understand how the robots operate and communicate with each other. |
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Siemens |
Fun to be had with a VR gas turbine fly through, windmill making activities, electrical snap circuit and some 3D print parts and gas turbine posters |
