Haringey Schools Bulletin
Spark young imaginations with a school visit to Bruce Castle and see learning come alive as you explore the building, collections, and grounds. The museum learning programme is now open and taking bookings for the Spring and Summer terms.
For a full list of our sessions please see our education programme:
Bruce Castle Museum Education Programme 2022_
To make a booking please email the education team at museum.services@haringey.gov.uk or call us on 020 8489 4250 (option 3).
Sustain, the alliance for better food and farming, is planning an exciting event with GROW on 24 Feb on how London schools and peri urban farms can work more closely together.
If anyone from your school is interested in attending, you can book via our eventbrite link. Please share the event details with anyone in your school who might be interested.
Event details:
Thursday 24 February from 4-6pm at GROW and Totteridge Academy
Book here: www.capitalgrowth.org/training/feb-24-schools-and-farms/
Sustain: the alliance for better food and farming
The Green House, 244-254 Cambridge Heath Road, London E2 9DA
www.sustainweb.org | www.londonfoodlink.org
@UKSustain | @londonfoodlink
There’s lots happening to keep children occupied during half term next week, including free sporting activities, Bruce Castle family trails and £1 swims. Please can you circulate our leaflet to your school communities:
In partnership with Haringey Rhinos, Little Cubs, London Skolars and To The Whistle, the team at New River Sport and Fitness will be hosting a fun-packed programme over the February half-term holidays this month (Monday 14 – Friday 18 February 2022, 9.30am-3.30pm).
The camps will boast a range of NEW activities for children, including:
Check out the daily schedule: New River February 2022
With World Book Day just around the corner, there are lots of exciting activities and resources for your school to celebrate our 25th birthday and have a fun World Book Day party of your own.
We’d like to encourage children aged 9 to 12 from across Haringey to take part in Biblio-buzz 2022: the Alexandra Palace Children’s book award, which aims to inspire a love of reading and writing through a series of literary challenges, inspired by six professional authors.
Biblio-buzz is run by Haringey Library Services and Alexandra Park and Palace Charitable Trust. Participants are challenged to read six shortlisted texts, before voting for their favourite. Biblio-buzz will culminate at an award ceremony on Friday 25 March at the Alexandra Palace Theatre, whose stage has been graced in recent times by renowned authors like JK Rowling, Phillip Pullman, Jacqueline Wilson, Michael Rosen and many more.
There is an exciting programme of activities in Wood Green Library, including opportunities to hear readings from one of the shortlisted authors, Anna Goodall, and work with artist Alice Haskell. Over the next three months, Haringey libraries will also be running a variety of workshops, as well as opportunities to meet with the shortlisted authors. Enquire at your local library about how to get involved.
The award was founded by a team of dedicated school librarians who have built a passionate following amongst primary schools who use Biblio-buzz as a cherished part of their annual enrichment programme. The support of Alexandra Palace and partnership with Haringey Library Services has helped to grow the scheme and give greater access to the reading challenge – ensuring every child in Haringey aged nine to 12 can get involved.
The Biblio-buzz 2022 shortlisted novels are:
• The Soup Movement by Ben Davis
• When Life Gives You Mangoes by Kereen Getten
• Maggie Blue and the Dark World by Anna Goodall
• How I Saved the World in a Week by Polly Ho-Yen
• The Beast and the Bethany by Jack Meggitt-Phillips
• Dark Peak by Marcus Sedgwick
Contact the Learning team at Alexandra Palace on learning@alexandrapalace.com to find out how your school can take part in Bibio-Buzz 2022.
Official suppliers All Good Bookshop Muswell Hill Children’s Bookshop and Pickled Pepper Books are offering discounted packs of the shortlisted books to schools who take part in Biblio-buzz. Email control@allgoodbookshop.co.uk or education@pickledpepperbooks.co.uk to order your packs.
Devonshire Hill Primary School will be hosting an ice rink during February half term! This event will be open to the public so please encourage your friends and family to book tickets.
10am – 5pm | Friday 19 February – Monday 21 February
Tickets are now available via our Event Brite page:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ice-skating-tickets-242657323587
Food and drink vendors
This is a great opportunity for our school to engage with the wider community including local businesses. We are on the search for fully licensed food and drink vendors that would be interested in hosting a food/drink stand for the duration of this event at very reasonable rates. If you or someone you know would be interested in this opportunity please get in touch for more information by emailing:
The Paddock is an 8-acre triangular green space in Tottenham Hale, bordered by the river Lea and Ferry Lane road.
The site is made up of a diverse mix of habitats including woodland, scrub, meadow, two small wildlife ponds as well as the river and its surrounding margins. This provides the potential to support a range of mammals, birds, insects, and plants.
The site is a valuable place for the local community, with a grassy open space with picnic benches and a network of pathways and seating areas.
The Conservation Volunteers (TCV) offer opportunities to be involved in practical conservation volunteering, education activities for school children and a range of community events.
Visit: www.tcv.org.uk/thepaddock for more info!
There will be a borough-wide celebration of mental health on Friday 28 January, London’s first ever Great Mental Health Day. Haringey has joined the Mayor of London and mental health organisations Good Thinking and Thrive LDN, to encourage Londoners to talk about mental health, to understand that it’s okay to ask for help, and to learn more about the local support available to them.
Great Mental Health Day will see organisations and individuals across the city come together to host a range of activities designed to boost mood and improve resilience. Taking place online and face-to-face, activities will be designed for a range of age groups in an effort to give all residents a chance to participate. They include mindfulness classes, yoga sessions and panel discussions, as well as coffee mornings to allow people to connect with each other.
To find more about the local schedule of events, visit our Great Mental Health Day webpage.
These Girls Do offers a varied programme of activities for girls and women at the Broadwater Farm Community Centre, to enable them to learn skills, increase their self-confidence and enhance physical and mental wellbeing in a safe environment.
See the latest programme here: These Girls Do