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Digital Special—MAY 2020
Welcome to our special ‘Stay at Home’ edition of Raring2go! Well, Spring 2020 hasn’t turned out quite how I imagined it would! Whilst the current situation is very strange, there are still plenty of ways to keep boredom at bay. It can feel like we are being bombarded with ideas to entertain the kids or help with their school work so I have tried to bring them together for you in one place.
I am looking forward to sharing some fabulous ideas for you and your family once things return a little more to normal but in the meantime, stay safe!
Nicola Editor
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Gallery We asked you to share your ‘rainbows’ and tell us about the amazing job your teachers have been doing while you’ve been at home!
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Keeping Active Our local clubs have been brilliant at adapting to offer new ways for children to stay active
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Aspire Sports have created the Aspire Active Hub. It is a free, easy to use, online timetable full of activities, resources and physical challenges for your Primary School aged child to have fun whilst continuing their learning at home.
Onside Coaching are releasing a new 60 second skill school video every day on their Facebook page. It could be an awesome new skill, a fun challenge or a live feed activity. Take a look and have fun joining in!
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Complete Cricket have launched individual and group coaching sessions online. Individuals can focus on developing technical, tactical and mental skills. Groups sessions will offer opportunities to learn from the very best in the game with some special guests!!
Fitt4Kids has a free PE lesson for families and children daily at 10:00 every Monday to Friday. There will also be sessions for toddlers so that the little ones can stay active too.
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Music & Dance Music lessons don’t need to stop just because we are at home If your family love a boogie together there are all sorts of online dance activities out there now - aside from just TikTok!
Oti Mabuse is dancing at home, without all the sequins. See her daily dance workshops, live on her Facebook page at 11:30 each morning. Mylene Klass has free music lessons on her YouTube Channel.
The Strings Club have a range of amazing online music sessions, lessons and concerts. Join a session from once a week to every day! Choose from Morning Music Club (no instrument needed) to ukulele to violin to guitar!
BBC Ten Pieces is a new initiative for the summer term 2020 and aims to connect UK music students with musicians, for online workshops – offering children the chance to meet a musician, hear them perform and ask them questions.
Looking for something for your child to work towards? As partners with Music Medals, the Royal Schools of Music, you can join two sessions per week including a free book and CD.
To find out about these and more, click here to read our online feature.
They even offer free sessions every Saturday including their Ukulele Extravaganza, Big Family Music Quiz and Guitar Gurus too! Book ahead as these sessions book up Click here quickly as you can imagine!
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Fun Outdoors Laura, the founder of Wellie Tots, a preschool class focusing on gardening, nature and everything outdoors, has shared a couple ideas to try and keep your little ones occupied during this difficult time.
I hope you find these ideas helpful, engaging and fun, using things you have lying around the house. Make a bird feeder out of an empty juice carton or a fairy garden with things you found on your daily walk.
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Dealing With Anxiety In Children For children, lockdown is one big holiday? Children are finding this easy? No! If you think you are finding this hard, for a child it is harder. For them it was a novelty at first but now we are a month in the novelty has worn off and reality has set in. They don’t know when they will be able to play with their friends again. They are missing their activities and believe it or not they are missing school. Have you ever said “your school years are your best – make the most of them”? Here they are missing months of school. 8
By Kymberley Fearn, Clinical Hypnotherapist Hypnotherapy by Kym
Big life changes disrupt emotional wellbeing and increase anxiety.
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Raring2go! has teamed up with some of our local museums and attractions to produce a Local History Quiz and a Science and Nature Quiz. Will you take on the challenge? Who will get most questions right in your house? See if you can spot your family’s favourite place to visit.
Get Reading You might not be able to head out to your local library or bring a book back from school but there are loads of resources out there from e-books, audio books and celebrities reading bedtime stories Audio Books Audible are offering a free 30 day trial. You can download David Walliams’ “The Beast of Buckingham Palace” for free at the moment.
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If you’re bored of the same old books have a look at these book reviews from Kenilworth Books. 9
Online Classes for Babies and Toddlers Clubs and classes are often the highlight of the week for preschoolers in normal times. With these regular activities are no longer taking place, many of the amazing people who are running our local clubs have put together online versions which you can join in with! Bilinguasing has an online virtual course taking place in a closed Facebook group which will have a weekly Spanish class for babies, pre-schoolers and primary schoolers to keep children (and their grown-ups!) entertained and add some much needed structure to your week.
Twirling Toddlers are running live online dance and movement based classes for pre-school girls and boys from 12m upwards. Available to anyone who would like to join. 10
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Rhythm Time are doing live classes in their closed Facebook group on Tuesday and Friday mornings and also sending out a pre recorded video for everyone on the Monday of each week. It is ÂŁ4 per week per family. They also have a YouTube channel with 4 years worth of videos for everyone to view. These are also on Facebook.
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Ideas for a ‘Virtual’ Birthday With many of us celebrating birthdays at home during the lockdown, we asked our Raring2go! readers what they have been doing to make birthday's special during the restrictions. "The local fire station came to wave outside as my son is obsessed with fire engines and being a firefighter! “
"Our son was 5. We had a picnic in the garden with party food. Pin the tail on the donkey, a scavenger hunt etc. He had a group call with his school friends and video messages."
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The Chocolate Shed team want to help you survive lock down. We understand how difficult it is to find activities to entertain and keep children happy when it's not possible to go out at the moment (the majority of us are parents and so know this first hand!). Hence we have racked our brains and are making up home chocolate making kits, complete with full instructions and our signature high quality (and ethically sourced) ingredients.
For those with birthdays, no need to cancel a celebration when you can host your own mini party as a family at home! More activities are being added regularly and we would be delighted to put together something bespoke, just for you if desired contact us info@thechocolateshed.com. Click here
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Get your crayons out! Colouring Sheets and Craft Ideas Colouring in can be quite therapeutic, can’t it? We’ve all enjoyed making rainbows for our windows, but if your family still have the colouring bug, then have a look at all the different colouring sheets on the Kids Zone section of the Raring2go! Click here to download your favourites and start colouring!
Fun in the Kitchen Cooking and baking If baking is something your children enjoy, then we have all sorts of recipes for families on the Raring2go! website. Click here to see what you fancy trying today and get baking!
Jamie Oliver has turned his skills to a series of TV programmes on how we can all use store cupboard ingredients to whip up a tasty meal and even a treat or two.
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WIN! Tickets to Sealife Centre In a UK first, two rescued Alaskan sea otters have become residents in our brand new £multi -million marine rescue facility. After their epic journey from Alaska to Birmingham, the pair have been settling into their new home. After their time in quarantine, this cuddly pair are now ready to meet the public! Click here to enter
WIN! Tickets to LDC Birmingham LEGOLAND® Discovery Centre is designed for children 3-10 years old, and great fun for the whole family to have fun together under one roof! Featuring more than two million LEGO® bricks, children and adults will have Click here to enter
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A family ticket to the British Motor Museum
Explore this family friendly motor museum in Warwickshire and its impressive Collections Centre to discover the fascinating story of the British motor industry. As lock down continues, we have worked hard to put together some exciting activities for you to enjoy together at home. Click here to enter
WIN! A Eurocamp Holiday Win a 7 night holiday for 2 adults and up to 4 children (aged 17 and under), or 4 adults at a European parc of your choice. We build holidays around you. Not us. And with over 175 parcs in wonderful locations throughout Europe, each offering its own unique recipe of active adventures and peaceful treats, we're sure we've got the perfect place for you. Click here to enter 15
Can you help? The Covid-19 crisis has hit our local attractions hard, with many now fighting for survival. Let's try and support them if we can, so that they are still standing when the restrictions are lifted, and we Click here can enjoy them once again.
Spotlight on local charities The Friendship Project for Children is a Warwickshire-wide Charity that recruits volunteers to take out children in need of support for a few hours a week for friendship and fun. Our volunteers are keeping in touch with their younger friends by sending letters in the post, face to face calls online and reading chapters of books to send to them. Please like and share our social media pages (Twitter and Facebook) @FriendshipProj and tell all your friends and family about us. To find out more about volunteering with us please see: https:// www.friendshipproject.co.uk/about/how -you-can-help/ and https:// www.friendshipproject.co.uk/about/ older-friend-application-process/.
Every month The Myton Hospices need to raise £750,000 to continue providing services for those who need them most, now and in the future. They have launched some fun virtual fundraising ideas encourage people to help raise vital funds. You could walk up and down your stairs and step-bystep scale their very own virtual #MytonMountain or chop your mop. Just set up a JustGiving page and share your photos! Find out more at www.mytonhospice.org. When Myton’s shops re-open they will need your good quality, saleable items more than ever so they’ve launched a collection service following social distancing guidelines. Find out more at www.mytonhospice.org/collection.
Helping Hands normally run soup kitchens and drop ins to help feed and support people in need. We also support local families in need through out House2Home Project. At the moment we are delivering meals, emergency household packs of food, cleaning and household items to those in refuges, temporary accommodation, hostels and mother & baby units. The items which we desperately need for our food distribution set up can be found on our Amazon Wishlist. Alternatively, you can donate so that we can buy things as the need arises. Please get in touch if you are a caterer or chef with the ability to cook meals which can be delivered to us to pass on to those in need or email us at helpinghandslwkdonation@gmail.com if you have food which is in date which we can use to feed people or use as ingredients.