General information

We offer a variety of outreach sessions and assemblies, all curriculum linked. These enable you to choose the content and mode of delivery to suit your needs and to engage a single class or a whole school. Our illustrated presentations pack in lots of information with added fun. We aim for them to be as interactive as possible. We ask lots of questions and customise our presentations to make them as relatable as possible t.o your group’s life experience. We talk but it is never dry chalk and talk!

A paper demo comprises of seeing sheets of waste paper, pulped and reformed before their eyes. This piece of magic demonstrates both how paper is made and how easily it can be recycled.

Full class papermaking enables each child to make their own sheet of paper and experience for themselves this heritage craft skill. Sheets will be left with the school to dry.

Please note that our outreach staff are enhanced DBS checked and can show a certificate and proof of ID on arrival at your school.

If you wish to view the Risk Assessment for Outreach Activities, please click here: RA OUTREACH Handmade Papermaking 2025-26 You can see all of our Risk Assessments on the Schools page.

I just wanted to thank you straight away for your impressive and engaging talk this afternoon. You paced your talk and demonstration so well. We all loved your bit of paper making ‘magic,’ which you kindly did twice. The class were enthused to join you on the journey of paper through time and find out about paper making in Hertfordshire.

Thank you also for your focus on recycling which is something the children know is very important. I am sure we will all think of paper in a different way from now, having gained an insight into paper making and its history.

I look forward to visiting Frogmore Mill in the future and would have no hesitation in recommending your outreach session.

St. Michael’s CE VA , Primary School
A fantastic afternoon with Sue from Frogmore Paper Mill. Thank you so much! Y5 loved it.
Nash Mills CofE, Primary School
School, School

The venue was perfect for our students as there were no member of public in at the same time as us. All outcomes have been achieved.

Primary, School
Primary, School

The venue was perfect for our students as there were no member of public in at the same time as us. All outcomes have been achieved.

Primary, School
Available options Assembly
whole school
40 minutes		 Presentation
single class
1.5 hours		 Half Day
single class (30)
2.5 -3 hours		 Whole Day
2 classes (30 x 2)
whole day
History of Paper ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
Materials Science ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
Sustainability ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
Local History ✔ ✔ ✔
John Dickinson, Victorian Industrialist ✔
Paper demo ✔ ✔
Papermaking for class ✔ ✔
Invoice total £65+vat+mileage £100+vat+mileage £130 + vat + mileage £240 + vat + mileage

What we need from you

We bring quite a heavy kit so a parking space is always much appreciated.

This is for the presentation which can be supplied on a memory stick or laptop. We can it send in advance if required by your school IT security.

We include early photographs from our archive collection. These can often be rather soft and lacking in contrast.  a good view if the screen is vital, therefore if appropriate, sitting n the floor works well.

Access to warm water for the vat is essential. We carry a thick pulp which needs diluting to ensure we can make sufficient sheets of paper.

Warm water makes it more pleasant for the children and softens the fibres.

A standard class table is perfect in height for the papermaking. It needs to be wide enough to accommodate a large tub with space to one side for A3 felts. water splashes are kept to a minimum but you might like to site this in a hard floor.

For the demo a similar table near to the screen is helpful to house a blender, smaller vat and A3 felts to the side.

The paper will be damp and require air drying. A drying rack or washing line near the vat makes transfer of the wet paper easy. It should only take a day in a warm classroom.

The vat will need emptying at the end of the session. Paper is fully bio-degradeable being just water and plant fibre,but it will block drains. A discreet space under a bush or tree outside is the best place to dispose of the leftover pulp. It will soon disappear.

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