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Primary Times Birmingham 3 October Nature Tots at Brandon Marsh - Storytime in the Woods Brandon Marsh SSSI Nature Reserve and Visitor Centre CV3 3GW www.warwickshirewildlifetrust.org.uk 10.30am-12noon and 1.30-3pm. Nature Tots aims to encourage an early interest in wildlife. Activities outdoors in the natural surroundings of the reserve at Brandon Marsh. These sessions start with fifteen minutes of fun free play and everyone is here we head outside to get stuck in with some wonderful activities based on that weeks theme, before returning to the centre to make an amazing craft you can take home. T: 02476 302912. Candlelit Tours of the Back to Backs Birmingham Back to Backs B5 4TE www.nationaltrust.org.uk 6-8.45pm. Enjoy a tour of the Back to Backs in the atmospheric glow of Candlelight. Booking essential. Children welcome but must have their own ticket. T: 03442491895. 4 October Nature Tots at Parkridge - Storytime in the Woods The Parkridge Centre, Solihull, B91 3HG www.warwickshirewildlifetrust.org.uk 10.30am-12noon and 1.30-3pm. Nature Tots aims to encourage an early interest in wildlife. Activities outdoors, in the natural surroundings of the reserve at The Parkridge Centre. The session starts with fifteen minutes of free play, when everyone is here, then head outside to get stuck in with some wonderful activities based on that weeks theme, before returning to the centre to make an amazing craft to take home. T: 0121 704 0768. 5 October Tunnel Teds Dudley Canal and Limestone Mines DY1 4SB. www.discover.dudley.gov.uk 11am-3pm. An event specially aimed at the under 7’s, although everyone welcome. Tunnel Teds has absolutely loads on offer during the day, including: Get hands-on with bear themed and seasonal craft activities. Special 20 minute under-7’s boat trips at designated times during the day. Go on a bear hunt around the site to find clues and earn a reward plus much more. Ticket prices: Just £7.25 per child – two adults are free with each paying child on the boat trip. T: 0121 557 6265. Guided Pond Dipping Sessions Sandwell Valley B43 5AG www.rspb.org.uk 11am-1pm. Come and join in with a guided Pond Dipping session. Expert volunteers will be on hand to help you discover the pond minibeasts, how to idientify them and the best way to use our equipment. T: 0121 357 7395. 6 October Apple Day Blakesley Hall B25 8RN www.birminghammusuems.org.uk 11am-4pm. Blakesley Hall’s annual celebration of the apple with garden trails about the Blakesley Apple Trees. Find out about the history of the apple, how it was used in Tudor times and take part in the Apple Trail. Taste freshly squeezed apple juice from the Blakesley orchard. Apple themed cake and drinks for sale in the lovely tearoom. Free event but chargeable activites T: 0121 348 8120. Apple Day Brandon Marsh Nature Reserve CV3 3GW www.warwickshirewildlifetrust.org.uk 10am-2.30pm. Celebrate the wonders of this fruit and taste some freshly pressed apple juice. Prepare, mill and press apples. Explore the tastes of different varieties of apple and the juice made from them . Play apple games like ‘make the longest peel’ and ‘guess the weight’. T: 024 7630 2912. 7 October Wildlife Watch After School Club - Pizza Making Brandon Marsh SSSI Nature Reserve and Visitor Centre CV3 3GW www.warwickshirewildlifetrust.org.uk 3.45-5pm. Running monthly on Mondays. The sessions are aimed at children aged 4 years and up, but younger siblings are welcome, adults must accompany their children unless they are 8 years and over. Please be aware activities occur in all weathers, so please dress appropriately. T: 02476 302912. 8 October Wild Home School - Brilliant Birds Brandon Marsh SSSI Nature Reserve and Visitor Centre CV3 3GW www.warwickshirewildlifetrust.org.uk 2-3pm. Wild Home School sessions, happen every second Tuesday of the month. With each session varying between a mix of curriculum focused activities, bushcraft and nature based activities. Each session you’ll be heading outside to learn about something new, with every month having a different theme, aimed at home schooled children working at a KS2 level (around 8 years and up). T: 024 76 302 912. 10 October Candlelit Tours of the Back to Backs Birmingham Back to Backs B5 4TE www.nationaltrust.org.uk 6-8.45pm. Enjoy a tour of the Back to Backs in the atmospheric glow of Candlelight. Booking essential. Children welcome but must have their own ticket. T: 03442491895. Choosing a secondary school: more questions to ask! Primary Times is committed to helping you make the best choice of secondary school for your child Secondary education is almost always very I’d also be asking about where students different in approach to primary education go on to after Year 11 (if the school has no and choosing a secondary school for your sixth form). Talking to sixth form colleges child is a really tough and high-pressured about how well prepared the students who decision. Exam results are important but you come from secondary schools are, is an need to know whether the school you are important consideration. thinking about is a school you believe that Finally, the school where your child has been your child can thrive in. educated for the past seven years will know To a great extent the questions parents your child and will know the local secondary need to ask prospective secondary schools schools. Ask the school head which secondary are about how well the school will meet school your child would be best attending and the needs of your child. So, if your child has why. It will give you another perspective as to specific needs, even if it is about making how well your child might settle and learn. and keeping friends, then ask the secondary Making decisions about your child’s future school what pastoral support is in place to secondary school, based on the narrow help develop and encourage friendships. measures from Ofsted and DfE is only part of Great secondary schools often have a head the picture. It’s worth doing the legwork as of year who follows the year group as they described above as this is the school that will move through school. In our case, we know support your child over the next 5 years and that we can email the head of year and he onto GCSEs. will follow up any concerns as the school By Andy Mellor: a national leader of education and Head Teacher of St Nicholas C of E wants the children to be happy and settled which will help them to achieve their best. Primary, Blackpool. Diary dates You must apply for a secondary school place by 31 October 1st March 2020 is National Offer Day. Parents can log onto their local authority’s <strong>web</strong>site to see their offer, after which letters will be posted out You must apply for a place at a school, even if it’s linked to your child’s current primary school 12 BACK TO SCHOOL 2019 | www.primarytimes.co.uk/birmingham
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