We’re back with yet another fantastic collection of resources to help keep families at home fit, learning and happy.
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The always awesome team at Avon Valley Cyclery in Bath is running a competition, with the chance win a brand new Frog bicycle!
They’re inviting all small people up to the age of 14 to draw, paint, craft or sculpt a picture of them riding your bike. The pictures need to be bright, colourful and capture the spirit of freedom, fun and adventure that only riding your bike can bring. You can include your family in your picture, perhaps show us your favourite place to ride, whatever riding your bike means to you we would love for you to show us!
In addition to the main prize we’ll have more giveaways to give away to be selected at random.
Enter today by clicking here
Downside School is holding a Virtual Open Days on Friday 15 and Saturday 16 May 2020, from 9am – 1pm. The events, which will be held over Zoom,
will give visitors the chance to explore the school and talk to the Head Master and the Director of Admissions from the comfort of your home.
Please click here to reserve your place.
Chippenham Museum is supporting families learning at home by sharing a growing range of downloadable learning resources on its website.
Learn about the 878AD Viking attack on King Alfred the Great’s Royal Saxon settlement in Chippenham and the part Chippenham played in the life of celebrated Victorian engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel.
Information Sheets introduce each topic and its connection to the local area, starting with the Anglo-Saxons and Brunel. Worksheets and 5 Minute Makes then provide creative writing, research, design and problem solving activities to develop an understanding of various times in Chippenham’s history.
Parents, carers and teachers are being encouraged to use new educational resources released for free by children’s charity, The Primary Shakespeare Company, in a campaign fronted by some of the country’s most beloved actors.
Shakespeare at Home brings together more than 150 individual activities and educational resources including games, films, arts and crafts, along with easy-to-follow lesson plans for parents.
The resources will be released every week for six weeks, as children would have been heading back to school with the end of half term.
For more details, clicketh hereth
A competition has been launched by Royal Crown Derby to encourage young people to use their artistic skills to celebrate the NHS and leave a lasting legacy of the vital role of healthcare professionals in these unprecedented times.
The company has created the ‘Make a Mug, Make a Difference’ competition, which will see winning designs exhibited in the V & A, and rolled out into production.
The competition has two entry categories, for the under 12s and 12-18- year- olds.
To enter the competition click here
Artful Kids has created a series of six doodle sheets that are free to download. They can be printed off and used as they come, or trimmed and laminated to make re-usable doodle sheets, as illustrated here.
Get your doodle sheets here
Thank you to Tom who has told us about Clay and Paper, which is offering a variety of art projects for everyone to enjoy. Recently this has included Japanese Notan artwork, cartoon animals and creating a colourful forest of trees.
Find out more here
The Royal Mint offers a whole range of online learning opportunities, including resources designed to allow teachers and pupils in Key Stages 2 and 3 to explore the world of coins – their history, design and manufacture – through creative activities tailored to the National Curriculum, as well as ideas for families at home.
Cash in (geddit – ‘cash’ in!) these resources here
Wicked Weather Watch (WWW) is a charity that aims to provide clarity for children and young people about climate change and global warming. While schools are closed, the charity is offering free resources to allow children to have fun learning about climate change and the Arctic either through structured ‘lessons’ over several session, or one off activities in an area of interest.
Find out more here
The Young People’s Trust for the Environment has compiled a series of home learning packs, with a new one to be released each Friday for the duration of the lockdown. Packs currently available cover subjects as diverse as dinosaurs, rainforests, animals and habitat, plants and how to make milk bottles elephants.
Find our more here