Children

Summer Holiday threatre workshop at Centre Stage

14 July 2015

The Centre Stage Summer Course returns to keep your performing dreams alive during those Summer Holidays! This years theme... DISNEY! Places book up fast, so don't delay and get yourself booked in for a week of Singing, Dancing and Acting, resulting in an 'End of Week Performance' on the Friday! Call 0208 886 4264 or email to reserve a place now! www.centrestageuk.com.......

Symphonic Tots: new classes start next week

16 September 2014

Symphonic Tots - Mondays at Baskervilles Weekly 40 min classes cover all areas of the early years foundation stage. Class sizes are small to maintain quality and interaction with every child and carer, chance to try a small instrument and develop active listening skills. Quality percussion kits for each child, orchestral instruments are introduced by Marianne and her team of professional musicians throughout the course, alongside live Cello & Kodaly Method musical training. Symphonic Tots.......

Children reclaim the street!

19 May 2014

Residents of a Palmers Green street are closing their road to traffic one Sunday a month to let their children play outdoors. Drivers tend to use Devonshire Road as a rat run to avoid the traffic lights on the high street, but on the afternoon of Sunday 1st June, barriers will be placed at both ends and supervised by volunteer stewards. Only residents’ cars will be allowed in and out – at walking pace – and children will have the freedom play in the road as they choose. This.......

WOW - the year-round walk to school challenge is back

09 August 2020

WOW is a pupil-led initiative run by Living Streets, the charity for everyday walking. Children self-report how they get to school every day using the interactive WOW Travel Tracker. If they travel sustainably (walk, cycle or scoot) once a week for a month, they get rewarded with a badge. On average, WOW schools see a 30 per cent reduction in car journeys taken to the school gate and a 23 per cent increase in walking rates.

Mums for Lungs say 'Ditch pollution'

14 July 2020

Overnight on Sunday/Monday this week a thousand posters popped up around London and other parts of the country, encouraging people to ditch the car and walk, scoot or cycle instead when schools resume in September. The posters had been sent out in secret to supporters by the clean air campaign group Mums for Lungs, which was established in 2017 when a group of parents walking around South London with small babies became aware of the toxic levels of air pollution on London's streets.