'Early Man' School Visits

Campbeltown Museum welcomes engagement from primary and secondary schools, offering hands-on learning experiences facilitated by Heritage Learning and Access Coordinator Khara MacPhail. Read below to see how Khara arranges and creates the museum’s outreach programme.

For the past two years, the museum has run Early Man learning engagement sessions with local primary schools. These sessions bring history to life, using the museum’s collections to deepen pupils’ understanding of the Neolithic period, complementing in-school learning and curriculum outcomes.

In 2024, Dalintober Primary School visited the museum, exploring the theme of ‘early man’ using the museum’s Neolithic displays to identify similarities between periods. Pupils considered what future historians would like to know about today's society and were asked to record on a slate an item that was important to them. Students then put themselves in the shoes of a Neolithic person and create a complementary stone age-inspired design.  

In 2025, pupils explored the theme of ‘early man’ using museum objects to discover how people lived, worked and survived during the Neolithic Period. The session was designed to meet two key curriculum outcomes: first, to use information from historical sources to tell the story of a local place through drawings, models, or writing; and second, to compare and contrast modern life with life in the distant past.

A core part of the museum's schools programme is the Heritage Hero Awards, which celebrate achievement in history, heritage, and archaeology.