Category: Events

Read the latest news from Alexandra Palace here: Alexandra Park and Palace November update

Including:

Big School SEND

The Palace’s Creative Learning team has joined forces with Para Dance UK to run our Big Schools SEND dance initiative for more than 300 pupils at SEND schools in Haringey. The young people are taking on a number of music and dance inspired challenges, with an online performance set for broadcast via our social media channels on 16 December.

Biblio-Buzz 2022

The Alexandra Palace Children’s Book Awards 2022 – otherwise known as Biblio-buzz – will launch in December. The initiative is run in partnership between the Palace’s Creative Learning team, local libraries, schools, book shops and authors. More than 1,200 young people from across Haringey typically take part in the initiative. We’ll be announcing the shortlisted authors in the coming weeks.

A Christmas Carol

Mark Gatiss’ critically acclaimed A Christmas Carol – A Ghost Story is now running in the Palace’s Victorian Theatre and will continue throughout the festive period and into 2022. This month, alongside the start of the performance, we’re running a series of drama workshops for young people in the Creativity Pavilion. The sessions, led by the Crouch End Youth Theatre, will give participants the chance to re-interpret classic characters and festive tales.

Bruce Castle is holding a major new exhibition – on until April 2022

Explore the pioneering businesses, entrepreneurs and artists of the Windrush Generation in West Green Road, Tottenham in a major new exhibition at Bruce Castle Museum

West Green Road N15 has witnessed many important trailblazers and change-makers who, rooted in their communities, went on to succeed in building some of the most successful black enterprises in this country.

From Dyke & Dryden’s beauty and hair products, becoming Britain’s first black multi-million-pound business, to Althea McNish, the internationally-renowned textile designer and artist who made West Green Road her home for over 60 years, you can find out more about the stories of these pioneers and others – all starting out and finding their feet in West Green Road.

Book a school visit to the museum to explore more. School visits will include an accompanying teacher’s resource pack to help structure your visit.

For more information or to make a booking please email the Bruce Castle Museum education team at museum.services@haringey.gov.uk

There are lots of activities for families and children at Collage Arts this winter – find out more:

Collage Kids Rhythm and Songs flyer

Collage Kids 2021

Home – Collage Arts (collage-arts.org)

The Share Foundation poster

Over 50% of young adults are not claiming their Child Trust Funds

The Share Foundation is actively trying to support all young people nationwide aged 16-19 to locate their Child Trust Fund accounts.

Teachers of students in Year 12 and 13 can play a vital role in getting the message cross to these young people, so the Foundation has arranged a virtual event specifically for them.

We would be most grateful if you could support this event by passing on this information to the relevant department within your school or college, to inform as many teachers as possible of the virtual event (30 minutes) taking place on Thursday 4 November.

PLEASE HELP YOUNG PEOPLE AT YOUR SCHOOL TO FIND THEIR ACCOUNTS

Thursday 4 November at 12 noon or 5 pm.

Virtual event registration: www.sharefound.org/teachers1 for 12 noon

or: www.sharefound.org/teachers2 for 5 pm

Registered charity The Share Foundation, which works for the Department for Education (Children’s Services), is working hard to ensure that young people aged 16-19 are informed about their accounts, already open in their name; and that they know how to claim them from their account provider.

We’ve developed a special web search facility in conjunction with the account providers and HMRC, and we’ve produced three short videos specially designed for this age group which we can provide with a script for in-school presentations.

Teachers can play a vital role in getting the message across: please help your students!

Please display this poster where students can see it: The Share Foundation poster

In October renowned Harry Potter author J.K Rowling chose the Alexandra Palace Theatre to launch her new children’s book, The Christmas Pig.

Over 100 pupils from four Haringey schools had front row seats to the event and had the chance to meet Ms Rowling afterwards. All those attending were participants in Biblio-Buzz, the annual literary initiative run by the Palace’s Creative Learning team in partnership with local schools, libraries, authors and bookshops.

Read this blog from Highgate Wood School about their visit.