Trips & Workshops
Thackray Medical Museum
Last Monday, Mummy and I went to the Thackray Medical Museum in Leeds. We were taking part in the All Change Workshop which was about growing up and puberty. It was run by Hannah and Rachel and it was their first time running the workshop. It was linked with their current exhibition on periods through ... Read more
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Biology | Physics | Science | Trips | UK Day trips - near Manchester
Farm visit to see lambs
This week’s forest school session was a little different. We went to a sheep farm to meet this year’s new additions and to learn about what farmers need to do over the lambing season. Sally, the owner of Higher Plainsteads Farm, was our host and she was great with the children. She offers free farm ... Read more
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Forest School | Natural World | Trips | UK Day trips - near Manchester
An introduction to orienteering at Dove Stones
We’re fortunate to live within easy reach of a lot of beautiful walks, and one of our favourites is Dove Stone Reservoir in Greenfield. It was somewhere we spent a lot of time when the girls were very small, but since lockdown we’ve given it a wide berth as the majority of Greater Manchester discovered ... Read more
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Stockport Air Raid Shelters
A visit to the Stockport Air Raid Shelters is a standard school trip for a lot of local schools so we thought we’d go along and check it out for ourselves. At just £5 per adult and accompanying children going free, it really is a bargain trip out. The girls’ knowledge to date of WW2 ... Read more
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Greater Manchester Police Museum
What an absolutely brilliant museum! We went for a tour at 2pm and had to leave at 3.30pm when it closed otherwise I think we would have stayed longer! There were so many displays to look at which covered everything from the hats/helmets they used to wear, to the weapons seized from the prisoners during ... Read more
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History | Law, politics and citizenship | Trips | UK Day trips - near Manchester
Wildcraft – Minecraft in real life!
The girls and their friends went on a day in Delamere Forest put on by Forest Explorers with the theme of Minecraft. It was run by Ranger Pete who we did the Stone Age Day with and a navigation course. Children over 8 didn’t need to be accompanied by an adult so I spent a ... Read more
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The Pankhurst Centre, Manchester
What a brilliant little museum! Right in the heart of Manchester between two massive hospital buildings lies this historic house and now an inspiring museum – The Pankhurst Centre. We spent just 45 minutes there but the conversations it triggered far exceeded that. Both girls already knew quite a bit about the Suffragettes thanks to ... Read more
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Manchester Architecture Tour
I found this free tour on Eventbrite and thought we’d give it a go. It was run by Ed Glinert of New Manchester Walks who led us on a walk, together with another 15 or so people, around the city centre looking at different styles of buildings from the Classical, Italianate, Gothic, Baroque and Modernist ... Read more
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Art, Design and Technology | History | Trips | UK Day trips - near Manchester
Beaumont Park, Huddersfield
Beaumont Park, Huddersfield HD4 7AY We’ve spent a blissful couple of hours at this park today on our first ever visit there. It’s described on it’s website as “a magnificent park with ornate features, cascades, grottos, steep cliffs and picturesque woodland walks for all the family”; this is absolutely spot on! Armed with a map ... Read more
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Meeting another Peggy!
Our family loves all things donkey-related and so we booked a visit to The Donkey Sanctuary in Manchester. Little did we know that Peggy human would get to meet Peggy donkey! The sanctuary manager took us to see the donkeys in the stables and told us anything we wanted to know about them. We were ... Read more
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