Children's University news and photos

If you do anything amazing with your passport, we’d love to hear about it.

Share any photos on stories with us, either via e-mail norfolkchildrensuniversity@educatorsolutions.org.uk, or via our Facebook page, and we’ll try to include these in our next newsletter.

News

To all our schools, families and learning destinations.

The current situation we find ourselves in is unprecedented and this has been a challenging year for us all. We have been looking at alternative ways to continue running CU successfully during this difficult time and have been working with National CU, to ensure that we can offer the service you all deserve going forward.

As you may be aware our CU Project Officer (Alix McGarvey-Leggett) has been on maternity leave and during this time the service has gone through some changes.

Norfolk Children’s University now sits within the Education Strategy & Infrastructure service within Norfolk County Council.

All colleagues have been working from home since the start of lockdown and will continue to do so for at least the next few months. Alix returned from maternity leave in July and during the past couple of months she has been looking at ways of working in order to better support our schools, families and learning destinations during these turbulent times.

We will be offering more online learning opportunities to ensure our learners can continue earning CU credits and working towards their awards.

Although some of our learning destinations are back up and running as normal, providing they are able to adhere to government guidelines and run activities in a socially distanced environment.

We are aiming to run our next lot of graduations virtually with hopes to run our first trial virtual graduation this year.

We appreciate all your support and patience during this time of great change.

Learning resources

At the Children’s University we believe that learning can and should be fun.

Why not check out these fantastic online quizzes, jokes, competitions, games and puzzles which prove that learning can be fun.

Learn why they were Rotten Romans and Terrible Tudors with the Horrible Histories team
What better way to improve your spelling and vocabulary than these wordsearches and crosswords from the BBC Literacy team?
Barnaby Bear is there to help you understand more about weather, maps, Britain and recycling
Forestry Commission England - follow a trail and complete the ‘Discover your forest’ activity
Night Zookeeper - write creative stories, invent unique characters and learn pretty much anything by completing interactive and fun activities
The Principia Space Diary - make your own book as you learn about space
The Woodland Trust - visit your local woods and complete one of the ‘Nature Detective’ challenges

Challenges

World of flavour

Did you know that Norwich Market offers a range of cuisines from across the globe?

You can earn credits this term by visiting these stalls, and extra credits for trying the cuisine on offer.

Simply click on the name of the country below to download the flag/s and print off, then visit the stall/s relating to the flag/s, take a photo and share with us. If you want to earn additional credit/s try the cuisine/s on offer and send us a photo either via email norfolkchildrensuniversity@educatorsolutions.org.uk, or via our Facebook page.