Primary Times Oxfordshire May 2017
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RIVER & ROWING MUSEUM<br />
This half term, dress up like a Viking and head over to the River & Rowing<br />
Museum in Henley to the land of the Norsemen!<br />
On Thursday 1 June, the Museum will be hosting a fun packed family<br />
day - A Viking Quest from 10.30am – 4pm. Children can discover<br />
how the Vikings lived, ate and travelled, be part of a giant longboat,<br />
make Viking music and decorate a brooch. There will also be a series<br />
of children’s creative workshops running during the week, including<br />
Adventures with an Ice Dragon and Volcano: Loads of Lava! Older<br />
children can enjoy a screen printing and mixed media workshop with the<br />
Museum’s art expert, full details on all events<br />
can be found online at: rrm.co.uk or by calling<br />
01491 415600. There is a last chance to enjoy<br />
the gorgeously nostalgic Clangers, Bagpuss &<br />
Co exhibition, featuring the original Bagpuss<br />
and the Clangers, closing on 4 June. Located by<br />
the river in Henley, with free parking and a great<br />
café, the Museum makes a fun family day out!<br />
SUMMER HOLIDAY FUN – AND VERY DRAMATIC!<br />
We are lucky to have so many wonderful outlets for creativity in<br />
<strong>Oxfordshire</strong> – harness all that while learning valuable life skills<br />
too, creating a musical in just a week. With long summer holidays<br />
approaching, it’s a bright and sunny way to use<br />
drama as a learning experience.<br />
Stagecoach holiday shows and workshops<br />
offer youngsters the chance to stage a full<br />
musical with costume, lights and all the dazzle<br />
you would expect of junior youth theatre – from<br />
the age of only 4! The holidays are sure to buzz<br />
amongst an array of exciting venues and shows<br />
including ‘Merlin and the Unicorn’, ‘In Your<br />
Dreams’, ‘A Dalmatian Tale’, ‘Singin’ In The Rain<br />
Jr’, ‘Oliver’, ‘Aladdin Kids’ and many others to<br />
choose from this Summer. Contact your local<br />
Stagecoach centre now as places are limited!<br />
Oxford 01869 278600, Banbury 0808<br />
208 5134, Abingdon 01865 390970, Thame/Watlington<br />
01865 763767, Henley/High Wycombe 01494 533203,<br />
Faringdon 01367 240663<br />
Andy Taylor Golf provides a fun, safe learning environment for<br />
young people to experience and develop golf. The use of games ensures<br />
that while children put into practice technical skills, they are not weighed<br />
down with technique only. The coaching is ideal for children at various<br />
ages from 6 upwards, the players are grouped accordingly to where they<br />
are in their own golfing and personal journey.<br />
We have a high emphasis on young people learning social aspects of<br />
sport and etiquette as well as the physical sport itself. The benefits of<br />
this are the young people are engaged in the game of golf and from there<br />
they learn the finer points to get better to improve<br />
themselves, this develops their self-motivation.<br />
We have a proven track record of developing<br />
young people from beginners, two of the assistant<br />
coaches now with the program were former pupils,<br />
to National squad players.<br />
Within these principles of delivery, we create<br />
learning opportunities for the young people to<br />
discover, with guidance, their correct technical<br />
points of the game, including putting, chipping and<br />
driving.<br />
William and Ailsa Stonor were keen to ensure that<br />
Stonor Park continues to be a destination for the<br />
whole family to enjoy, creating somewhere that is<br />
safe and engaging for the youngsters.<br />
Timber Play, were invited to create a<br />
stimulating and fun environment for all children<br />
up to the age of 15, located on the edge of<br />
woodland, the wooden and steel structures are<br />
designed to embrace the grassed landscape,<br />
and as new saplings take root and grow this truly<br />
becomes a wooded wonderland.<br />
For the younger children, the play area has a raised play house and<br />
slide surrounded by soft sand, leading to the water pump where children<br />
can divert water through channels and water wheels. Plus see-saw,<br />
wobble dish, rocking fallow and swings are close by.<br />
Further into the woods older children will see the wooden climbing<br />
structure that leads to a rope climbing forest, connecting to a tree house<br />
with slide and 50 metre zip wire and tunnels adding to their fun.<br />
Lots of seating has been created close by, the Pit Stop café is close<br />
by too, offering coffee, drinks and artisan snacks for the whole family.<br />
Bathrooms and baby changing facilities are adjacent to the café.<br />
THE OXFORD & CAMBRIDGE SINGING SCHOOL, 26-<br />
28th July <strong>2017</strong>, MERTON COLLEGE, OXFORD<br />
With summer approaching, we are looking forward to some more<br />
exciting music-making with The Oxford and Cambridge Singing<br />
school. This summer we are exploring the music of the Romantic<br />
era. In particular, Schubert and Mendelssohn; and we welcome<br />
any child between the ages of 7-13 who loves to sing, whatever<br />
their previous experience. Repertoire includes such classics as<br />
Schubert’s Ave Maria and Mendelssohn’s ‘O for the Wings of a<br />
Dove’, as well as more light-hearted works and there is plenty in<br />
the varied course structure for any enthusiastic young musicians<br />
to get stuck into. We run regular courses during the holidays<br />
in Oxford, Cambridge and London. As one parent put it... “My<br />
son loved every moment of (the course) and now I can’t stop him<br />
singing!” For more information on all courses, please look at<br />
www.oxbridgesingingschool.co.uk or call 07867 778326<br />
Waterperry Gardens The gnomes are out and about at<br />
Waterperry Gardens again for half term fun (27th <strong>May</strong> – 4th June). Find<br />
the eight gnomes who have forgotten their names around the gardens<br />
and claim a prize from the Teashop. The <strong>May</strong> break is surely one of the<br />
most beautiful times of year in the gardens and so a complete treat for<br />
adults as well as children. After a<br />
look around the Gift Barn, Gallery,<br />
Museum & Garden Shop there is<br />
also the Children’s Play Area to<br />
have fun on. Don’t forget all the<br />
child friendly theatre productions &<br />
operas on at Waterperry over the<br />
summer season too.<br />
SUPERCAMPS<br />
Super Camps’ fabulous new Multi-Activity programme allows children<br />
to get involved in some great new activities. As well as taking part in<br />
the fun-packed programme, children are cared for by fully qualified and<br />
vetted staff to create a thoroughly enjoyable time on camp. As Ofsted<br />
noted, Super Camps runs “an excellent programme of well-planned, fun<br />
and exciting activities that contributes highly to the children’s play and<br />
learning environment”.<br />
The Early Years programme just for 4 to 5 year olds ensures learning<br />
and development within a fun environment. The 6 to 9-year-old crews<br />
can explore new activities and take on new challenges such as The<br />
Avengers School of Archery, Super Camps Driving School and Motor<br />
Mania. Our 10 to 12 year olds can come together in their very own<br />
common room as well as spend more time tackling activities in depth.<br />
Camps run throughout the school summer holidays. Save 15% with<br />
code PRIMARY15.<br />
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