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Primary Times Staffordshire WHAT’S ON WHERE WOW! what’s w 15 Oct – 4 Nov The Big Draw, PLAY! World Of Wedgewood ST12 9ER www.worldofwedgewood.com Come along and join in the World’s Biggest Drawing Festival with our Wedgwood Pageant themed colouring activities and competition. Children can take inspiration from the film footage, museum collection and original drawings by Gordon Forsyth, of characters like Prince Gas and Ceramic Queen to create historical or contemporary character costume. Runs daily. 15 Oct –Ongoing Play with Clay, Every Day! Middleport Pottery ST6 3PE www.middleportpottery.org 10am-4pm Suitable for all ages. £3 per person –adults welcome to play too! Aprons and tools provided. 16 Oct – 3 1 Oct Skull Trail Gladstone Pottery Museum ST3 1PQ www.stokemuseums.org.uk Tuesdays -Saturdays during October. Find the spooky skulls hidden around the museum -free pencil and entry into aprize draw for everyone who takes part. £1 plus admission. 17 Oct – 2 4 Oct Beatbox Workshop The Brewhouse Arts Centre DE14 1AA www.brewhouse.co.uk 5:30-6:30pm Anyone can beatbox with a little patience and some excellent tuition! Whether you’re completely new to beatbox and want to learn the fundamental sounds or if you’re a more experienced beatboxer looking to learn new sounds, we offer a safe and encouraging environment to build confidence and share skills. Ages 7+. £4 per session. Runs on 17 and 24 of October. 17 Oct and 21 Nov Pre-School and Junior Open Mornings Lichfield Cathedral School WS15 4PT www.lichfieldcathedralschool.com 9am-11am Welcome Wednesdays run at the Longdon site (WS15 4PT) on 17 Oct and 21 Nov. Come and meet our senior staff, teachers and pupils and see our fantastic facilities! 19 Oct –Ongoing Wildlings The Wolseley Centre ST17 0WT www.staffs-wildlife.org.uk 10:30am-12pm Give your children the chance to explore, get mucky and play independently in the beautiful on where e outdoors. Parents/carers must attend with child, but we’ll be encouraging parents to take astep back and observe their kids ‘in the wild’. Families can get involved for just £5 per child and £3 for additional siblings. 20 Oct October Wildlife Watch National Memorial Arboretum DE13 7AR www.thenma.org.uk 10:30am-12:30pm Each Wildlife Watch session provides agreat opportunity for you and your child to engage with the vast variety of nature that calls the Arboretum home. During the October Wildlife Watch session the young visitors will be discovering more about what small mammals can be found in the Arboretum. Parents/guardians must remain with their children at all times. Twilight Trek National Memorial Arboretum DE13 7AR www.lichfielddc.gov.uk 4:45-6pm Join the Arboretum as the sun begins to set, for the annual Twilight Trek. This atmospheric event offers the opportunity for visitors to experience and explore the Arboretum at twilight. In this final centenary year, walkers will be able to join one of their experienced guides on awalk which will feature memorials with links to the First World War. 20 Oct – 3 1 Oct Pick Your Own Halloween Pumpkin! Canalside Farm ST18 0RQ www.canalsidefarm.co.uk Our PYO Pumpkin Patch will be open daily from Saturday 20th October to Wednesday 31st (Halloween!). It will take afew minutes to walk to our pumpkin patch along aprivate track, so please keep this in mind when deciding what to wear when you visit. 20 Oct – 3 Nov Menacing Monsters Halloween Trail RSPB Coombes Valley ST13 7EU www.rspb.org.uk In the run up to Halloween. RSPB Coombes Valley has been taken over by monsters, who are scaring away our woodland creatures! But, armed with aset of clues scattered through the forest, brave visitors can help to banish the menacing monsters from Coombes Valley. During October half term, our visitor centre will be transformed in to Monster Hunters HQ, where your mystery adventure begins. Price: £5 per child plus £3 parking. 20 Oct – 4 Nov Hunt the pumpkins Emma Bridgewater Factory ST1 3EJ www.emmabridgewaterfactory.co.uk Hunt the pumpkins on our fun, free trail to win aprize. Make aClay Owl or Bat Emma Bridgewater Factory ST1 3EJ www.emmabridgewaterfactory.co.uk Make aclay bat or owl in the studio. 21 Oct The Big Draw The Brewhouse Arts Centre DE14 1AA www.brewhouse.co.uk 12-3pm Come and join the world’s biggest celebration of drawing and take part in aday of painting and drawing madness! This year’s theme is “Play.” You’ll be able to graffiti our walls, create the biggest and brightest children’s book in town and we have a whole room dedicated to messy play where young and old alike can get hands on and hands in under expert guidance. This is aday with something for everyone, no artistic skills are required just old clothes. Free. Classic Bus Running Day Gladstone Pottery Museum ST3 1PQ www.stokemuseums.org.uk The Potteries Omnibus Preservation Society will be holding arally and running day at Gladstone. Come along and see preserved buses and take aride on aclassic vehicle using the comprehensive free bus service around the area. Suitable for any age. Mayor’s Charity Fireworks Lyme valley parkway ST5 3FF www.visitcastle.co.uk 5-9pm Make your way to the Lyme Valley Parkway on Sunday 21st October for an evening of spectacular fireworks, fair ground rides and much more! Free. 22 Oct –Ongoing Wildlings The Roaches ST13 8UA www.staffs-wildlife.org.uk 10:30am-12pm Nature based activities for 6 months -5years. Join us for free Wildlings sessions at The Roaches. Give your children achance to explore, get mucky and play independently in this beautiful woodland. Parents/ carers must attend with child, but we’ll be encouraging parents to take a step back and observe their kids ‘in the wild’. 24 Oct – 3 1 Oct Meet the Owls Emma Bridgewater Factory ST1 3EJ www.emmabridgewaterfactory.co.uk Meet magnificent owls on Wednesday 24th and Wednesday 31st October from 1:30pm. Halloween Steam and Scream! Statfold Barn Railway B79 0BU www.statfoldbarnrailway.co.uk Kids and dults dress up in your scariest Halloween costumes and come and join us for our Halloween steam and scream trains! Every evening from 24th Oct to 31st Oct frequent scream trains will run from Statfold Junction to our Round House where there will be fun and entertainment for all! 25 Oct –Ongoing Wildlings Hem Heath Woods ST4 8FR www.staffs-wildlife.org.uk 10:30am-12pm Nature based activities for 6 months -5year olds. Join us for free Wildlings sessions at Hem Heath Woods, every second and fourth Thursday of the month. Give your children achance to explore, get mucky and play independently in this beautiful woodland. Parents/ carers must attend with child, but we’ll be encouraging parents to take a step back and observe their kids ‘in the wild’. 26 Oct – 2 7 Oct Halloween Specials Chasewater Country Park WS8 7NL www.chasewaterrailway.co.uk Check online for updates on this event. 26 Oct – 2 8 Oct Spooktacular Beaudesert Activity Centre WS15 4JJ www.beaudesert.org Beaudesert turns eerie for the weekend with lots of activities, Grimm’s grotto, spiders webs, spooky mazes, zombie survival, the haunted hike, the abandoned cinema, a crackling campfire, pumpkin carving, creepy craft, cooking cauldrons and the monsters ball. Weekend ticket £26 includes camp fees. Bonfire, Fireworks and Lantern Walk Biddulph Grange Garden ST4 8FR www.nationaltrust.org.uk Collect asparkler on your way in, have your face painted, then enjoy awalk around the candle lit garden, brave the spooky gothic tunnel, then wander to the tennis lawn to try the BBQ and bar. Then it’s time to light your sparklers, enjoy the bonfire and watch the fireworks. Enter the free annual costume competition on arrival. 26 Oct – 4 Nov Halloween Spooktacular National Forest Adventure Farm DE13 9SJ www.adventurefarm.co.uk Hair raising fun at the Farm! Pick afree pumpkin from our patch, take part in scare school, broomstick training, explore the haunted house and much, much more. Check online for further updates. 27 Oct Children’s Halloween Evening Tamworth Castle Grounds B79 7NA www.tamworthcastle.co.uk 5-8pm Afun evening hosted by the Friends of Tamworth Castle charity. Bring all the family, get dressed up in your spookiest costume and enjoy the ghostly goings on around the Castle. Free pumpkin lantern for all paying children. Hallowe’en Heebie Jeebie Ancient High House ST16 2JA www.staffordmuseums.co.uk 10am-4pm Children’s ‘drop in’ Halloween workshops. Join the funny bones to build your own skellywag – then watch him dance! £2 per session. 4 OCTOBER 2018 | www.primarytimes.co.uk/staffordshire
Illuminated Arboretum 12 -21December2018 Astunningand awe-inspiringimmersive experience, this event will seethe Arboretumand some of its memorials‘shown in another light’. Ticketsfrom; Adult: £10*;Under 16:£6*;Under 5s:Free. Groups† discounts available. Advance booking required. THE NMA Awinter’s eveningnot to be missed! Visit www.thenma.org.uk or call 01283245 100 formoreinformation aboutour autumn andwintereventsand activities,and to book. *Earlybird ticket price available until31October 2018. Advancetickets£12.50per adult, £7.50per child. †Groups of tenormore National Memorial Arboretum Part of TheRoyal BritishLegion T: 01283245 100 E: info@thenma.org.uk Charity No.1043992
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