February half-term, 2020
Some fun suggestions for your half-term
Saturday 15th February: The Theatre Royal in Winchester is showing The Adventures of Pinocchio
Monday 17th - Friday 21st February: Bright Sparks Holiday Club at the Winchester Science Centre
Friday 21st February: Victorian Games at the Winchester City Museum
Summer Holidays 2019
With six weeks to keep the children occupied, we thought we would offer some help with some ideas for activities, events and days out that are taking place over the summer holidays. Lots of these ideas are free so please take a look and use the links provided.
Summer Reading Challenge 2019
The Summer Reading Challenge takes place every year during the school summer holidays. You can sign up at your local library, then read six library books of your choice to complete the Challenge. There are exclusive rewards to collect along the way, and it’s FREE to take part!
The Summer Reading Challenge website helps you keep track of your reading all year round: find new books to read, take part in competitions and mini challenges, and play games. The link is below:
Winchester Discovery Centre
Jewry Street
Winchester
SO23 8SB
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Connect4Summer is a programme for children in 23 venues across Hampshire which provides an exciting programme that will include a range of sports activities, healthy cooking classes for children and their parents or carers, as well as additional support for our most vulnerable families who are in need. Most local to Winnall is the Carroll Centre in Stanmore.
Click on the link below for further information and to download a booking form. This form needs to be filled in and returned via the email on the form or alternatively, you can phone the number provided on the booking form to book your place.
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Park Sport Eastleigh 2019
Park Sport celebrates its 15th year and is Eastleigh's sport and activities programme for 8-16 year olds in the summer holiday break. The 2019 schedule runs from 29th July to 23rd August and sessions are £1 per session (as they are heavily subsidised). Sessions include sailing, football, dance, fishing, skateboard coaching and more... click on the link below of further information.
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River Park Leisure Centre - Winchester
Swimming is an inexpensive way for children and adults to spend time not only having fun, but getting fit.
The leisure centre also has other activities over the holidays and an indoor soft play area.
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Seaside in the Square
3 weeks of FREE activities and events from 19th July to 11th August including live music, outdoor cinema, beach sports and arts and crafts.
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Westgate Museum Winchester
Free admission (donations welcome)
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Wolvesey Castle - Winchester
Free entry to this National Heritage site
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Winnall Moors Nature Reserve
A stone’s throw from Winchester city centre, Winnall Moors nature reserve is a picturesque patchwork of wildflower-rich meadow, pasture and woodland, with a beautiful, clear chalk stream running through its heart. Free entry (donations welcome)
With the Adventure of Winnall Moors story trail, you can help the creatures of Winnall Moors rescue the Kingfisher from the evil clutches of the Toad Emperor and his army. Follow the sculptures and clues around the reserve to help you on your way to victory.
You can also follow the water vole trail, which takes you from Winchester city centre into the reserve. Look out for these charismatic little mammals, or listen out for the distinctive ‘plop’ of one dropping into the water as you follow the winding path along the River Itchen.
Winnall Moors has long, surfaced paths and boardwalks, making walking with a pushchair easy.
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Royal Armouries – Fort Nelson
Free admission (donations welcome)
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St Catherines Hill Nature Reserve
A dramatic 220ft climb up St Catherine’s Hill’s wooden stairs reveals showstopping views of Winchester city, as well as the Itchen Valley floodplains and the downland it nestles in. At the summit are the earthworks of an Iron Age fort, buried ruins of the Norman chapel that gives the site its name, and a copse of beech trees. In the summer you’ll be able to hear the cackle of a woodpecker, spy buzzards and kestrels hunting in the valley below, and meet our friendly British White cattle that graze the site to encourage wildlife to flourish.
On the way down look out for some of the 25 species of breeding butterfly that call it home, including chalkhill blues, brown arguses and marbled whites. Keen eyed visitors might also spot some of the rarer orchids dotted across the hill’s slopes and meadows, including musk orchids, frog orchids and autumn lady’s tresses. St Catherine’s Hill is a fabulous place to enjoy a summer walk and free (donations welcome)
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Beano Time Travellers at Mottisfont
Beano Time Travellers! takes place from Saturday 20 July – Sunday 8 September 2019, 11am-5pm (outdoor trail available from 10am)
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Other Family Days Out