Spring Term 2021
NEW! Lockdown After School Club 2021
Every week during lockdown the CU Trust will publsih a national worksheet with five suggested activities for the week. These will give you or your child fun ideas for activities that can be done at home. There's one for each day of the week, but you can do as many or as few as you like! Each activity is worth 1 credit.
To get a stamp code for Children’s University Online email contactus@childrensuniversity.co.uk with evidence - this could be a photograph, video, a work sheet - or a completed reflection sheet.
Download the reflection form as a PDF
Download the reflection form as a Word document
Click here for the After School Club week of 25h January
Click here for the After School Club week of 18th January
Hive Children's University Club
January Club Activities
Resources:
January
Dr Jo Science
Animals including humans: parts of the body
Animals including humans: staying healthy
Living things and their habitats: habitats
Adaptations and interdependence: camouflage
Animals: adaptations and evolution
Animals including humans: circulatory system
Counting The Stars Activity Sheet
Counting The Stars Record Sheet KS1
Counting The Stars Record Sheet KS2
Playing Fair Activity Sheet KS1
Playing Fair Activity Sheet KS2
Playing Fair Activity Sheet KS3
Autumn 2020
The Hive Winter Challenge
CU Trust Autumn Term Challenge 2020
Children's University Club
In place of our holiday Challenges, we are introducing The Hive Children's University Club. This offers a range of activities for our students to complete in their own time at home, over a complete term. We will produce three Club Acvtivity Packs each year and occasionally we will produce seasonal activities for festivals and celebrations.
Autumn Term 2020
Autumn Term Hive Children's University Club Activity Pack
Autumn Term Hive Children's University Club Record Sheet
Download the activity links below to directly access the Autumn Term Children's University Club resources:
SCIENCE
KS1 Science Museum
1: What would life be like without electricity?
Hive Activity Sheet Science Museum Video
2: What does sound look like?
Hive Activity Sheet Science Museum Video
3. Do you see what I see?
Hive Activity Sheet Science Museum Video
4: What’s in the clouds?
Hive Activity Sheet Science Museum Video
5: Where does the sun go at night?
Hive Activity Sheet Science Museum Video
6: Where can you find patterns?
Hive Activity Sheet Science Museum Video
7: Can you lift something heavier than yourself?
Hive Activity Sheet Science Museum Video
KS2 BBC Terrific Science
Videos and worksheets for all activities listed below:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/terrific-scientific/KS2/zr63d6f
How to build your own bottle rocket
Marshmallow catapult
Sticky rice
Make a rainbow
Bendy water
Hovercraft
ART : Tate Kids
MAKE POP ART LIKE WARHOL
Design your own piece of pop art inspired by this famous artist
https://www.tate.org.uk/kids/make/paint-dr/make-pop-art-warhol
DRAW A FRIEND
Follow along with the video to draw someone you love and then make them into an installationaw
https://www.tate.org.uk/kids/make/paint-draw/draw-friend
MAKE A SAND ART PICTURE
Grab some sand and create some art inspired by the seaside!
https://www.tate.org.uk/kids/make/paint-draw/sand-art-picture
MAKE A WAVE PAINTING
Be inspired by nature and use found objects to make your own unique paintings
https://www.tate.org.uk/kids/make/paint-draw/make-wave-painting
MAKE A KALEIDOSCOPE
Be inspired by Olafur Eliasson and make your own colourful kaleidoscope
https://www.tate.org.uk/kids/make/cut-paste/make-kaleidoscope
GO ON A COLOUR WALK
Take a colourful treasure hunt walk through your neighborhood or around your house
A colour walk is a walk where you try to look for all the colours of the rainbow. You might think of it like a treasure hunt, where the treasure is colour! https://www.tate.org.uk/kids/make/cut-paste/go-on-colour-walk
MAKE A PLAY DOUGH SCULPTURE
Be inspired by Saloua Raouda Choucair's sculptures and stack up your own play dough sculpture. https://www.tate.org.uk/kids/make/sculpture/make-play-dough-sculpture
MAKE A ROBOT
Grab some bits and bobs from around the house and create an art-inspired robot. Have a look in your recycling for good materials to use. You could try old cereal boxes, magazines or plastic bottles. Tin foil works really well to make a shiny robot!
You might need some adult help when using pliers or scissors.
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https://www.tate.org.uk/kids/make/sculpture/make-robot
HISTORY
History of Titanic Discover the story of the RMS Titanic in this activity pack, perfect for finding out more about the Titanic! Titanic Activity Pack https://seacitymuseum.co.uk/wpcontent/uploads/Titanic-Activity-Pack.pdf
Southampton Through Time Southampton Through Time Activity Pack Dive into the amazing history of Southampton with this fun resource pack. https://tudorhouseandgarden.com/wpcontent/uploads/History-of-SouthamptonActivity-Pack.pdf
Mayflower 400 Activity Pack Find out about the Mayflower in this fun activity and information pack. https://seacitymuseum.co.uk/wpcontent/uploads/M400-Activity-Pack.pdf
Hive Challenge: Be a Historian Find out about one person from the past who interests you. Make a fact file on this person. Make a list of 10 interesting facts about them and tell us why you have chosen them. Draw a Picture of them.
Off With Their Head: Find out more about the terrifying Tudors in this pack filled with activities to do at home or at school. https://tudorhouseandgarden.com/wpcontent/uploads/Off-With-Your-Head.pdf
Write you Own Spooky Story Use this pack to help you write your own spooky story set in Tudor House. A fantastic resource to encourage your imagination!
https://tudorhouseandgarden.com/wpcontent/uploads/ghost-story-pack-newpics.pdf
Black History Month
Museum of Croydon
Croydon’s Famous Music History
Draw a picture of a famous black Croydon resident (or just your favourite Croydon black resident) using our frame.
Post it on social media using #MOCBlackhistorymonth and we will share them!
Activity can you complete this word search containing words relating to music in and out of Croydon
Migration
Activities: Migration:
- Colour in or collage the drawing of the Hengist plane which is similar to the passenger planes flown to and from Croydon Airport
- Design and write a postcard to a loved one.
Find Downloads : https://museumofcroydon.com/black-history-in-croydon-learningpack
SOCIAL AND COMMUNITY ACTION
Fairtrade Foundation
Thank you for the chocolate:
A story about thanking the people who make our food. Tom receives a very special gift on his birthday. But as his Grandma reminds him, when you receive the gift of chocolate, there’s more than one person you have to say thank you to!
Patrick’s Virtual Visit
Home Learning Challenge sheet available for ages 7-11
Patrick talks about climate change and the impact it is having on tea farmers in the part of Kenya where he lives. There are also supporting documents and activities including:
A Home Learning Challenge sheet
A worksheet for students – using Google Maps or an atlas to find out more about where tea is grown plus a design activity where students think about what information they want to see on packaging
Film length: 06m 47s
https://schools.fairtrade.org.uk/resource/patricks-virtual-visit/
Pawprint Badges
Remembrance Day - 2020
Challenge packs comprise of 4 sections: games, food, craft and other.
https://pawprintfamily.com/product/remembrance-day-2020/
March 2020
25th March 2020
We are aware that children and families are currently being directed to participate in a wide range of online learning activities and parents may be concerned about internet safety.
We are ‘Thinkuknow’ Ambassadors and it is our pleasure to share with you a brilliant set of resources called #OnlineSafetyAtHome.
Thinkuknow is an education programme from National Crime Agency (NCA) and Child Exploitation and Online Protection (CEOP), a UK organisation which protects children both online and offline.
We will provide 1.5 hours of Children's University Learning for all completed activities upon submission of evidence, in the usual way, to us by email.
Here are the downloadable resources:
Thinkuknow Activity Sheet age 4-5
Thinkuknow Activity Sheet age 5-7
Thinkuknow Activity Reward Chart age 4-7
Thinkuknow Activity Sheet age 8-10
Thinkuknow Activity Sheet Age 11-13
Activities to do at home and online
Children’s University is all about encouraging participation in learning beyond the classroom. At present many of the destinations, clubs and social spaces that we typically signpost people to are not as accessible as they would normally be due to the spread of COVID-19.
Croydon CU Seasonal Challenges are changing
We have been asked by some parents if they could have longer to complete the seasonal challenges, as sometimes there isn’t time to complete all the challenges the children would like to do. We think it is great that children want to complete more, so we are going to publish Termly Challenges which will cover some school holidays too!
The next Challenge is now ready and is called ‘The Summer Term Challenge’ starting from the beginning of the Easter school holiday and will run to the end of the Summer Term 2020. The activity folder sheets (can be downloaded below) should be completed for each activity and emailed to lstout@thehive-croydon.org by the end of September 2020, parents can support younger children to complete these. We will email a certificate with the relevant CU Codes to claim the credit. We are happy to receive several activity sheets at a time so that individual codes can be included on one certificate.
This will be followed by our usual ‘Summer Holiday Challenge’ covering August and then ‘The Autumn Term Challenge’ will run from September to the end of December 2020.
The Hive Summer Term Challenge
Summer Term Activity Folder Sheets
Challlenges shared with us by our CU partners:
East London CU Bumper Challenge sheet
Essex and Suffolk CU Bumper Challenge Sheet
Resources from Children's University Trust
Activities to do at home and online
Learning can take place anywhere including the home and online. Here are resources from our network and all across the world in order to keep you active, learning and entertained! We’ve put these into different categories so you can easily find something new to do.
https://www.childrensuniversity.co.uk/get-involved/activities-to-do-at-home-and-online/
February 2020
The Hive February Challenge 2020
The CU Trust February Half Term Challenge
Spring Term Activity Folder evidence sheets
Please note for all challenges completed an activity evidence sheet must be completed in order to retrieve the CU Online Code, parents and carers of younger children can help their children to complete these. Completed sheets should be emailed to lstout@thehive-croydon.org and the code will be sent by return.
December 2019
The Hive Children's University Christmas Challenge
My Winter Reading Mini Challenge Reading Record
Children's University Trust Winter Challenge
The Children’s University has a number of activities and resources that you can download and complete either at home or take with you to a learning destination.
https://www.childrensuniversity.co.uk/get-involved/downloadable-activities/
You can also find the learning providers in the area where you live as well as when you are visiting family and friends away from home or on holiday on the Children’s University Digital Platform:
