Throwing Workshop & Leach Story

Available from March 2026 onwards

Key Stage 3 and Up

Discover

Leach Story: Through a throwing demonstration, talk and handling collection, participants discover the story of how the Leach Pottery revitalised the tradition of handmade pottery and the ethos and approach of the potters at the pottery across the years. For full details of what this talk includes please see here. 

Make
Participants will experience throwing on a potter’s wheel and, taking inspiration from the ceramics made by the Leach Pottery, will make their own hand-built tea bowls.

Pinch pots will be fired and posted back to the group within eight weeks of their visit but this is not feasible for beginners’ thrown pots.

Ceramics will be fired and posted back to the group within eight weeks of their visit.

£200 for smaller groups up to 10 students (£135 for schools in Cornwall)

Additional Costs

£40 for bisque and glaze firing for smaller groups up to 10 students
£25 Postage and packing (up to 20kg)