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Give your Child the Skills to Cycle Safely

Bikeability is about giving people the skills to cycle on today’s roads.

Level 1 and 2 Course Level 1 teaches trainees to control and master a bike in a playground area, developing basic cycle control skills. Level 2 equips trainees with the skills to cycle on local roads, developing safe cycling skills and understanding of the road and traffic environment.

Level 3 Course Level 3 is for children who have successfully completed Level 2 and are an experienced, confident cyclist. It provides the skills to tackle a wide variety of traffic conditions, many different road layouts and challenging traffic scenarios.

Find out more about our Saturday sessions and Easter holiday courses, visit bournemouth.gov.uk/bikeability or call 01202 454636 to book.

Give Your Kids the Best Start With HC3S

With locally-sourced eggs, cheese and meat, the majority of HC3S school meals are cooked from scratch ensuring children eat a balanced, nutritious diet.

Whether your child is a veggie or meat-eater, both are on offer daily and come with homemade bread baked in the kitchen each morning as well as additional salad for children to top up their meal if they wish. From sweet potato and lentil curry and roasts to fish and chips, and award-winning bubble salmon, there are choices that children will love. Popular desserts often have hidden veg such as beetroot or butternut squash. Organic yoghurt, cheese and crackers and New Forest ice cream are also firm favourites. Look out for our theme day lunches too such as World Book Day and Easter, a fun way to eat with their friends.

A hot school lunch is full of goodness and as they are free for all children up to KS2, can offer children the best start in life. HC3S publish the following day’s menu at 3pm on Facebook @hc3seducation.

Find out more at www.hants.gov.uk/hc3s

Family Safety Week

Accidents are the biggest killer of children and young people with at least one child under 5 killed each week.

Every year, over 2 million children under the age of 15 have an accident in and around the home which takes them to A&E and half of the under 5s visiting do so as a result of a preventable accident.

Family Safety Week, which commences on 1 April, is run by the RoSPA (The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents) to help raise awareness of the “simple things you can do to stop your child becoming an accident statistic.”

RoSPA provides free resources and advice to help families keep children safe in their homes. Its free Keeping Kids Safe packs also enable schools, nurseries, playgroups and children’s centres to hold child safety session for parents.

More info: www.rospa.com

Join The Ultimate Pop Princess Party

Once Upon A Princess, the ultimate pop Princess party, is coming to Wimborne’s Tivoli Theatre on Sunday 12 May.

This glittering production features your favourite fairytale Princesses and a soundtrack of top pop hits and movie musical classics, with performances at 12pm and 4pm.

Once Upon A Princess promises to entertain, inspire and captivate you with its toe tapping, dance in the aisles set list.

Enjoy songs from Olly Murs, Meghan Trainor, Dolly Parton, Little Mix, Jess Glynne and more! Plus, West End and Broadway smash hits including songs from Shrek, Hairspray, Footloose, Annie and Wicked.

Get your golden ticket now! Only £12 from the Box Office at www.tivoliwimborne.co.uk or call 01202 885566.

Enjoy British Science Week

Families can enjoy a wonder-full time together during British Science Week 2019 which will take place from 8 to 17 March.

Science Week is a celebration of science, technology, engineering and maths with thousands of fascinating, entertaining and engaging activities for all ages taking place across the UK.

Events in Dorset include the European premiere screening of ‘Rubber Jellyfish’ at the Community Learning Centre in Wimborne on 14 March, which warns of the dangers of balloon-releases on ocean wildlife, in particular sea turtles who mistake them for jellyfish. Find out more about this and other events near you at www.sciencelive.net.

You can also download a series of FREE activity packs at www.britishscienceweek. org filled with resources and ideas to try out at home or school, without the need for a science background or expensive equipment.