Lisa Pollard has run an online Facebook resource “Cool for Kids” for some years. It provides ideas of what to do during holiday periods in particular but now it is perhaps even more relevant. Cool for Kids link Take a look for inspiration. Lisa’s mother, Maggie, has been a twice…
Here is an idea From one of the Shedders in Staithes for Kidz Making Good to try as a workshop. We are thinking about this for a workshop at the end of the Easter school break. Give a hog a home We are always on the lookout for ideas for…
This coming Wednesday 19th February in the morning at Sleights Scout Hut, Narrowfields YO22 5DH. Arrive 9.45pm with a 12.30 pick up time. £8 per child. Advise Janine Pemberton to check last minute availability. Facebook Kidz Making Good That was the announcement and this the action. Great colours involved. First,…
When we started the Friday night Youth Shed we did not know what to expect. We now have a few under our belt. We still don’t know what to expect on any evening! The youngsters are full of ideas and energy too. We have every sympathy for teachers! However, not…
But not just children. Adults too. And it is worldwide. According to a World Heath Organisation (WHO) report summarised on BBC news. “Four in five 11- to 17-year-olds around the world are not taking enough physical exercise, according to the first such analysis.The World Health Organisation says children’s health is being…
The youngsters at Sleights Primary know “Mrs Vicar” although the Rev. Veronica has retired and vacated the manse. The Youth Shed has benefited from the move and downsizing, however! In the previous blog on the Youth Shed the snooker/pool table is evident. That was a donation from Veronica and Shedder…
Sadly, Bob who helped with the Youth Shed on the first night was unwell. A disaster? It could easily have been but Graham’s good lady stepped in at first but along came two mums. Brilliant. It’s exactly what the Sheds are about, community – and community starts at family! So,…
A night well done! Half a dozen. Others from Sleights and the hinterland are now expressing interest from their youngsters and themselves. It is work – like the adult Sheds – to benefit and develop Shedders who come. We started with a ring of chairs to meet each other and…
You will realise that starting anything new that is not purely entertainment means that success will depend on building numbers slowly and getting to know those who come. Thus we are not looking at present for more than a dozen youngsters and across the 8 – 13 year old range…
All about levers, cams, cogs, pulleys and more. We want to make a working automaton in a day with 10 youngsters! Something like in the video! Automata are like robots but there are no motors and the movement of the object is repetitive = like the ever cobbling cobbler in…
