Activities

Gain Children's University activity credits while improving your skills in drama and dance.  A seasonal programme is on offer with a range of: 

• Performance workshops
• Dance workshops

For more details of the activities visit their website Victoria Hall / Regent Theatre website

Ask for your passport to be stamped if you take part in:

• Personal Guidebook
• Family Learning Pack 

Visit the Wedgwood Museum website

Activities validated include:

• Mind, Exercise, Nutrition & Do it (MEND)
• Summer Soccer School

Visit Port Vale FC's Football in the Community page

Activities run at weekends and during the school holidays. 

• Arty Party (Fortnightly)
• Holiday drop-in activities
• Digital workshops (Summer vacation activity) 

Visit the Potteries Museum & Art Gallery website

Activities run during the school holidays

• Holiday drop-in activities  

Visit the Gladstone Pottery Museum website

Activities run during the school holidays

• Holiday drop-in activities

Visit the Ford Green Hall website

Activities run during the school holidays

• Holiday drop-in activities

Visit the Etruria Industrial Museum website

Activities run at Stoke-on-Trent libraries can gain you Children's University activity credits.  For more information visit the Stoke-on-Trent Libraries website.

• Awaiting activities programme

See also the Stoke City FC community web pages

There is a varied programme on offer:

• Museum Trails
• Holiday Workshops
• Try Something Tuesday

Visit the Newcastle Borough Council website

Look at the web links to see how we learn through sporting activity

• Street Games

The following Family Learning activities are validated and award Children's University credits:

• Art & Craft Course and Workshop
• Bust the Bin
• Family ESOL Courses and Workshop
• Family Finance
• Family First Aid
• Family Fitness
• Family Health
• Family ICT
• Family Languages
• Family Literacy & Numeracy
• Family Robotics
• Family Scrapbooking
• Family Technology
• Flair for Fashion
• Fun with Books
• Fun with Numbers
• Grow your own Grub
• Keeping up with the Children Course & Workshop
• Look Good Feel Fine
• More Magical Music
• Play & Rhyme
• Shake Rattle Rock
• What is it?  What is it for?
• Wild about Nature Course & Workshop
• WOW Workshop

Children's University credits are awarded if you take part in any of these activities:

• Belles and Crooks
• Blast Off
• Brass Ensemble
• City Youth Brass Band
• City Youth Choir
• City Youth Recorder Ensemble
• City Youth String Orchestra
• City Youth Trainng Choir
• City Youth Wind Orchestra
• Clarinet Ensemble
• Clarinuts
• Concert Band
• Flute choir
• Fun4Strings
• Impact - Percussion Group
• Mezzo Strings
• Music & ICT
• Music Theory Lessons
• Rootz Folk Group
• String Sounds
• Superspikes
• SuperStrings
• Training Brass Band

The Staffordshire Police 100 club is validated and awards Children's University credits.

Staffordshire University in partnership with The Sentinel run this annual competition.  Submitting an entry gains a Stoke CU credit. 

• Young Journalist Award

The following activities are available at the Staffordshire Wildlife Trust.  Visit their website to find out more.

• Environmental & Seasonal Activites
• Wildplay

The following activities are available at FRONTLINEdance.  Visit their website to find out more.

• Community performance group (Breakthrou' dance) 
• After school dance clubs
• Residential dance

The following course has been validated for SAFE Angling based in Hanley Park.  Contact them at www.safeanlgling.co.uk

• Introduction to Canal fishing

Park Hill Farm offers a range of activities:

• Exploring the senses through science, food, farming and farm animals

• Seasonal activities such as Piggy Pumpkins

Visit their website at www.parkhillfarm.co.uk

Take part in Children's University validated activities at Ironbridge Gorge Museums

• 'Design, Make, Test and Take' at Enginuity
• Drop-in, have a go and make at Blists Hill Victorian Town
• Tube line a tile at Jackfield Tile Museum
• 'Design & Decorate' at Coalport Chilna Museum
• Take the 'Maths Trail' at Blists Hill Victorian Town 

Visit www.ironbridge.org.uk for more information

Visit Acton Scott Farm and join in with their

• I spot a Victorian farm

Visit their website at www.actonscott.com

Collect Children's University activity credits in the Shropshire Hills.  See the Secret Hills Exhibition and look for extension opportunities, family workshops, educational visits, outreach workshops and extended school activities. 

Visit their website at www.shropshirehillsdiscoverycentre.co.uk

Have fun making a variety of different puppets from recycled materials.  Kim is available to deliver workshops for your school or organisation.  Contact Kim by email:  kim.machin212@gmail.com

Adventurous and educational activities at Stanley Head OEC can earn you activity credits.  See the centre's website for more details www.stanleyhead.org.uk/index.php