4WHAT’S ON WHERE 4 If you are looking for more inspiration, there are many more events on our website www.primarytimes.co.uk/cardiff LOOKING AHEAD Friday 1st - Monday 25th March Wednesday 7th May Lambing at Llwyn yr Eos Farm Early Years Open Morning St Fagans National History, Cathedral School, Llandaff, Cardiff, CF5 2YH Museum St Fagans, CF5 6XB www.cathedral-school.co.uk www.museum.wales/stfagans For Nursery and Reception class. 10am - 5pm. Free. Celebrate the start of spring 9.30am - 11am. Contact with the annual baby boom in the registrar@cathedral-school.co.uk lambing shed. Follow the progress Tel: 029 2083 8504. of the mums and babies on the Don’t forget to Museum website via #lambcam. ONGOING say you saw it in Tel 029 2057 3500. Sunday 24th March - Primary Times! Sunday 14th April Saturday 16th <strong>February</strong> - Egg Fest Sunday 10th March Noah’s Ark Farm, Clevedon Road, Winter Wonders – A Walking Trail Wraxall, Bristol, BS48 1PG Dyffryn Gardens, St Nicholas, www.noahsarkzoofarm.co.uk Vale of Glamorgan, CF5 6SU Paint and egg then heard round the www.nationaltrust.org.uk/dyffryn-gardens zoo to find your own egg on the afternoon 10am - 5pm. Free event but normal admission Easter Egg Hunt. Tel: 01275 852606. applies. No booking necessary. Discover what is in flower at Dyffryn this winter with this Saturday 30th March - self-led trail. This walk will take you around Sunday 7th April the property, taking in the highlights of our Cardiff Children’s Lit Fest winter garden. See the snowdrops, seek out Various locations in Cardiff the camellias and admire the stripped-back www.cardiffkidslitfest.com structures of some of our best trees. Take your The Cardiff Children’s Literature Festival is now time and follow the route to discover the best in its 7th year, running across two weekends of what Dyffryn has to offer this season. with free school events mid-week. With over 40 Tel: 029 2059 3328. ticketed events, FREE craft sessions and an extensive programme of school FEBRUARY events running across iconic We check Monday 11th <strong>February</strong> venues across the city centre listings carefully but Amser Chwarae including Cardiff Castle, City event details and prices Toddler Time Hall, National Museum Wales may be subject to change. St Fagans National History, and The Old Library. The festival, Please always check Museum St Fagans, CF5 6XB aimed predominantly at children with the venue. www.museum.wales/stfagans ages 3 - 11, continues to create 1.30pm - 3pm. Enjoy themed toys lifelong readers whilst entertaining and activities with museum staff. Story and enthusing them about reading. Events at 3pm. Free. Tel 029 2057 3500. include writing workshops, book readings, craft activities, quizzes and games and the occasional Wednesday 13th <strong>February</strong> appearance of a character or two! Sessions are Beach Academy extremely popular and may sell out in advance. Newton Beach, Porthcawl, CF36 5NF Email: events@cardiff.gov.uk Tel: 029 2087 3394. www.beachacademywales.com 11am - 1pm. Home Educators group session. Every Saturday £7 per child (one adult free per child). Free Family Saturdays Additional siblings £6, under 18mths free. Wales Millennium Centre, Register by emailing Bute Place, Cardiff Bay, CF10 5AL beachacademywales@gmail.com or www.wmc.org.uk texting 07966 572273. 11am - 4pm. Age guidance 3+. Based in the Glanfa Foyer and hosted by a team of bilingual Thursday 14th <strong>February</strong> - Saturday facilitators, everyone is encouraged to unleash 2nd March their inner Picasso and make something special Woo at the Zoo together in a safe, nurturing environment. This Noah’s Ark Farm, Clevedon Road, family programme was developed to give an Wraxall, Bristol, BS48 1PG opportunity for families to experience being creative together. Create your own flying kite, Follow the heart trail, keeper talks, promise make a beautiful stained-glass window, mould a tree and afternoon tea. Celebrate the animal plasticine monster or just get messy at a sponge couples and conservation. Tel: 01275 852606. paint party. Tel: 029 2063 6464. www.noahsarkzoofarm.co.uk Primary Times FEBRUARY HALF TERM <strong>2019</strong> Friday 15th <strong>February</strong> Carry on Screaming Screening: The House by the Sea Chapter Arts Centre, Market Road, Cardiff CF5 1QE www.chapter.org Every Friday at 11am, Carry on Screaming allows parents or carers to see a film at Chapter without having to worry about their baby causing a disturbance. Free entry for babies. £2.50 -£4.50. Book online or on 029 2030 4400. Toddler Time Wales Millennium Centre, Bute Place, Cardiff Bay, CF10 5AL www.wmc.org.uk 11am - 2.30pm. For babies and toddlers up to 5-years-old. Toddler Time is a monthly favourite for new mums, dads and babies where everyone can make new friends, express themselves and be curious! Tel: 029 2063 6464. Free Toddler Time National Museum Cardiff, Cathays Park, Cardiff, CF10 3NP www.museumwales.ac.uk 11am - 4pm. Every Friday during term time toddlers can enjoy special boxes of toys, games and books in different galleries to help parents with children explore the Museum through play. Themed toys and activities with museum staff 1.30pm - 2.55pm, story at 3pm. Tel: 0300 111 2 333. Saturday 16th <strong>February</strong> Cardiff Devils vs Milton Keynes Lightning The Viola Arena Olympian Drive, CF11 0JS 7 pm face off (Doors open at 6) Website: https://www.cardiffdevils.com/ tickets/match-tickets/ Booking is necessary and we advise doing so in advance as games do sell out at this point in the season. They can be booked online or by calling 0800 0842 666. Children tickets cost from £8 and adults from £16 Parent & Child Workshop - Resin Coaster Making Cardiff MADE Café & Studio, 41 Lochaber Street, Roath, Cardiff, CF24 3LS www.larkdesignmake.co.uk 2pm – 3.30pm. This workshop will encourage team work from the parents and children as you will make 4 resin coasters together, there will lots of decorative items to add to ROYAL MINT your coasters but feel free to also bring small items that you’d like to set in your resin, small photographs can be really effective to personalise the designs. £20 per adult and child team. Book online or or call Gemma on 07419 731772. Family Feature: Bumblebee (PG) Chapter Arts Centre, Market Road, Cardiff CF5 1QE www.chapter.org 11am & 3pm. On the run in the year 1987, Bumblebee seeks refuge in a junkyard in a small California beach town. Charlie, on the brink of turning 18 years old and trying to find her place in the world, soon discovers the battle-scarred and broken Bumblebee. When Charlie revives him, she quickly learns that this is no ordinary yellow Volkswagen… £2.50 - £4.50. Children under 12-years-old must be accompanied by an adult. Book online or on 029 2030 4400. Monthly Nature Ramble Forest Farm Warden Centre, Forest Farm Road, Whitchurch, Cardiff, CF14 7JJ www.outdoorcardiff.com 10am - 12pm. Free. Take your binoculars (if you have them) and join the Friends of Forest Farm on a guided walk to identify the ever changing array of birds and wildlife which call Forest Farm home. Tel: 029 2044 5903. Space Day National Botanic Garden of Wales, Middleton Hall, Llanarthne, Carmarthenshire, SA32 8HN www.botanicgarden.wales From 2pm. Emma Ride, of AstroCymru, and her 3D cinema, making rockets, studying meteorites and fossils. From 6pm - 9pm: Star Party – join the Swansea Astronomical Society and gaze at the stars. Talks, demos and telescope clinic for those wanting to get more out of their equipment. Tel: 01558 667149. Saturday 16th <strong>February</strong> - Sunday 3rd March Zoo Detectives Bristol Zoo, College Rd, Clifton, Bristol BS8 3HA www.bristolzoo.org.uk Enjoy a detective trail, evidence vault - join the line up and much more. Tel: 0117 428 5300. Continued on page 6
WWW.GLAMORGANCRICKET.COM MAKING WALES PROUD GLAMORGAN CRICKET HOLIDAY CAMPS FEBRUARY HALF TERM 25 TH - 1 ST MARCH £30 FOR ONE DAY £55 FOR TWO DAYS £75 FOR THREE DAYS £90 FOR FOUR DAYS £100 FOR THE WEEK Coaching 9am till 4pm 02920 419363 // stuart.grimmond@glamorgancricket.co.uk Sain Ffagan Amgueddfa Werin Cymru St Fagans National Museum of History Orielau newydd a llawer mwy… New galleries and much more… Be part of the story of Wales Eich stori chi yw ein stori ni www.amgueddfa.cymru/sainffagan www.museum.wales/stfagans MYNEDIAD AM DDIM FREE ENTRY www.primarytimes.co.uk/cardiff | FEBRUARY HALF TERM <strong>2019</strong> Primary Times 5
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