NEWS & VIEWS glasgownews Do you have news to celebrate? We’d love to hear! Email sam.shepherd@primarytimes.co.uk Foster Care Fortnight Every year, tens of thousands of children need foster care whilst they are unable to live with their own families. Fostering is a way that you can help children who desperately need support and somewhere to call home. It is rewarding for children and carers and can genuinely be a life changing experience for everyone. Foster Care Fortnight, led by fostering charity, The Fostering Network takes place from 14th – 27th May and aims to spread awareness of fostering in the UK. It highlights the work of foster carers round the country whose dedication, support and commitment make such a huge difference to so many children. There are a number of ways you can get involved. On social media you might consider including tags such as #ProudToSupportFostering or #proudtofoster on Twitter or Instagram. If you’re already a foster carer you can help spread the word and encourage others to become foster carers or perhaps make a short film showing why you’re proud to foster and share it! If fostering is something you would like to get involved in – visit thefosteringnetwork.org.uk for more information. It’s All Happening at Glasgow Museums this Spring! To keep everyone entertained and inspired over the Spring school holidays or at weekends, Glasgow Museums has a fantastic programme of FREE activities and events, including art clubs, craft sessions, interactive workshops, storytelling, film shows and lots more. Our museums also offer a great experience for kids of all ages through our collections and displays. At Kelvingrove, we have dinosaurs, an Egyptian mummy and Sir Roger the Elephant and friends in our Life Gallery. The mini-museum for the youngest ones also provides lots of do with all sorts of fun things to try out or try on! At Riverside, there are the locomotives, the trams, the Subway and Main Street with interactive displays to inspire young minds! In the People’s Palace you can explore the way families in Glasgow used to live and discover objects and i<strong>mag</strong>es that will transport you back in time. Our other museum venues also have lots going on where you can get creative, make things, handle museum objects and share stories. And look out for our special <strong>Easter</strong> themed events including egg hunts and origami bunnies! Up-to-date information on what’s on at any of our museums is available from our website – www.glasgowmuseums.com – where you can search for all our events. Comedian and Children’s Author David Walliams named Judge of the 10th National Young Writers’ Awards! The National Young Writers’ Awards returns with a bang as children’s author David Walliams has been named judge for 20<strong>18</strong>! The competition, organised by tuition provider, Explore Learning, has inspired hundreds of thousands of children across the UK to put pen to paper and give writing a try. The theme for this year is ‘Heroes’ where children are tasked with writing a 500-word story about their hero. The winner will be surprised at a school assembly by David who will announce the National Young Writer of the Year and present them with a trophy, a trip to Disneyland Paris for their family and £500 of books for their school! David says: “It is a real privilege to be named judge for this year’s National Young Writers’ Awards and I am so looking forward to reading what the brilliant brains of our country’s children come up with.” The competition will run from 5th March to 29th April and is easy to enter. Children can pick up an entry form from their local Explore Learning or via explorelearning.co.uk/youngwriters Wear a Hat Day 20<strong>18</strong> Please get involved in Wear A Hat Day on Thursday 29th March 2108 (or any day in March) to help raise funds for research into brain tumours. This devastating disease kills more children and adults under the age of 40 than any other cancer. Just 1% of the national spend on cancer research has been allocated to brain tumours. During Wear A Hat Day 2017, individuals, families, schools and other organisations all came together and raised over £300,000 to fund our research. Together we can reach our target of £600,000 – enough to fund a team of researchers for a year. Register online today: www. wearahatday.org. Thank you for helping to fund the fight. 4 Primary Times SPRING ISSUE www.primarytimes.co.uk/glasgow
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