School Holidays Harrogate

Running throughout all school holidays, our active funday playschemes offer a whole range of themed activities for your child to enjoy in a safe, stimulating environment. All our schemes are registered and regulated through Ofsted.

• Ripon Leisure Centre

Our active funday playschemes are fun filled and offer a wide selection of different activities which are planned with children’s needs and interests in mind. Children must be in school years one to seven to attend.

The following event(s) are available for booking:

Monday 17 February
Sports mania
Try various team and individual sports.

Tuesday 18 February
Ninja warrior
Design your own mighty assault course and try and conquer it.

Wednesday 19 February
Wacky races
Design a team banner and cheer on your teammates in a range of weird and wonderful races.

Thursday 20 February
Mini commandos
Various individual/team challenges and amazing assault courses.

Friday 21 February
Party time
Fun, games and party food.

Book online

• Nidderdale Pool and Leisure Centre

Monday 17 February
Survival of the fittest
You will work in teams to undertake tasks and activities which will test teamwork, coordination and key survival skills such as den building, first aid skills and code cracking.

Tuesday 18 February
Get up and active
A full day of sport themed activities. Activities include football, cricket, dodgeball, team games, basketball, cheerleading, and street dance!

Wednesday 19 February
Find your talent
You will have the opportunity to have a go at a number of different activities. At the end of the day you will get to show off new talents to the rest of the group.

Thursday 20 February
Wizards and witches
Explore what it is like to be wizards and witches. Activities will include wand making, learning magic tricks, potion making and lots more.

Friday 21 February
Get creative
Let’s get creative! Cut, stick, build and paint. Make your ideas in to reality.

Book online

• Jennyfields Styan Community Centre

Monday 17 February
Under the sea
Help us create a giant under water collage with sea creatures galore.

Tuesday 18 February
JSCC superstars
Lots of different games and challenges with prizes to be won.

Wednesday 19 February
Cake bake
Everybody loves cupcakes…..let’s find out which are our favourites.

Thursday 20 February
Spring is coming
Spring art attack.

Friday 21 February
Supabounce
Bouncy castle and games.

Book online

• Knaresborough Community Centre

Monday 17 February
Monday movie day
Chill out with some movies of your choice and popcorn.

Tuesday 18 February
Baking and cooking
Help us create cakes and biscuits to take home.

Wednesday 19 February
Skates and scooters
Bring your own skates and scooters to whizz round the hall.

Thursday 20 February
Games galore
Giant chess, board games and puzzles.

Friday 21 February
Bouncy castle day
Come and finish the week with a bounce.

Book online

**Please note change of location to Grove Road Community Primary School HG1 5EP

Join us for this fun-packed, creative computing week at Harrogate Ladies’ College this February Half Term.

Explore our desert island survival map in Minecraft, can you avoid the creepers? Will you survive the night?
Step into the amazing world of game design, create your own platform games to share with friends & family.
Get your thinking cap on and adventure through coding your own fruit jukebox (yes, you can really make your bananas sing!) or get a leg up with our robotics and (fun)gineering day!

Monday – NewsMaker This workshop enables students to produce their own television news programme whilst practising their writing, speaking and presentation skills. As a group we will produce a news reel programme where each child will produce a section on a topic that is important or special to them.

Tuesday – Robotics Packed with some of our favourite robots – Edison, Lego & Botley. Children will delve into the world of robotics, learning all about pulleys, motors, levers, and sensors along with coding and programming 3 different robots with 3 different coding languages. This workshop is not to be missed!

Wednesday – Micro:bit The pocket sized computer with huge potential. Children will get a real understand of the possibilities of coding and programming with the micro:bit. Throughout the day the children will transform the micro:bit into a digital game of ‘Rock, Paper, Scissors,’ a light meter that will display images depending on the level of light, a secret message Morse Code machine, and even a fruit jukebox!

Thursday – Sploder Game Making! Playing games is great but making them and understanding behind the scenes of game making is the really cool part! During this workshop children will design and build their very own platform computer games that can be shared with friends & family. Children will have control over all elements of the design and look of their game, adding in scenery, sprites (characters), ‘baddies’ and ‘bosses’ along with health, gold coins, jewels, the possibilities are endless!

Friday – Minecraft Desert Island Survival! The one we’re all waiting for! Our Minecraft Desert Island Survival map sees the children work in collaboration to build a new home on our desert island, encouraging the children to think about sustainability will see them collect materials from our ‘shipwreck’ in order to start building our village, for the trees we ‘break down’ we will plant more by collecting saplings. The children will grow their own food, keep their own animals and build their own transportation links. Towards the end of the workshop, we will venture out of our village to explore the abandoned castle for loot… or is it abandoned? We will gear up in Diamond Armour, just incase!

Our February half-term workshop has been designed to offer some real fun for tech-enthusiasts (and those who just want to know a little bit more) while providing a solid foundation in the understanding of creative computing, coding, robotics and game design. The children will work individually, as well as part of smaller or larger groups, reinforcing collaborative skills, problem solving and (often) leadership skills as they bounce off one another to ‘debug’ their programming, solve their engineering issue, or simply beta test each others games.”

Scribblers – Introduction to story writing for 8-11s

Ideas flowing out of your fingertips? Join us for a lively Scribblers session as we re-imagine The Snow Queen through games, role-play and words. Don’t worry if writing isn’t your thing, we can capture your incredible story ideas with pens and paper, voice recorders and iPads.

Speak Up! – Introduction to spoken word for 12-18s

This high energy, fun workshop will play with rhythm, words and your ideas to help you find your spoken word voice. Led by Henry Raby, punk poet and artistic director of the critically acclaimed company Say Owt.

For more information or to book please visit our website.

https://www.harrogatetheatre.co.uk/whats-on/?searchDate=&search-terms=introduction&searchVenue=0

Dates and Times:

Scribblers 10:00 Thursday, 20 February 2020

Speak Up! 13:00 Thursday, 20 February 2020

Get ready for the Grange Partnership February Half Term Outer Space Week!

We will be getting messy with shaving foam and galactic playdough, decorating solar system cookies, making nebulas and puffy planets and much, much more. Free choice of crafts, puzzles, games, books and toys always available. We will be building a space station in our role play area!

On Tuesday 18th February we are going to the cinema to see the Odeon Kids Club Film.*

All children need to bring a packed lunch and a drink. We provide breakfast and snacks and water is available throughout the day. Please wear old clothes as we love to get messy! Don’t forget your coat and wellies too in case the weather is against us. We are a child lead setting so free choice of games, toys and craft is always offered alongside our advertised activities.

*£3.50 surcharge for the cinema trip which includes refreshments. All children in club on Tuesday 18th February MUST attend the trip. We will walk to the cinema. If the weather is good we will walk back too, if not we will get the bus back to the club. Children must be at the club for 9am on Tuesday 18th so we have enough time to get to the cinema. Bookings for Tuesday 18th can only be made up to Sunday 16th February.

Children from 3 to 11 are welcome, please contact us if your child is preschool age and we will arrange a trial session for you.

For more info and to book online click here

February: 18th-19th February 2020

Easter:  7th-8th April & 14th-15th April 2020

May: 26th-27th May 2020

Simon Scholfield, founder of SCS Sports Coaching Services is also Head of Prep PE at Gateways School. The camps provide a range of sports experience and activities including Unihoc, Softball, Tag rugby, Football, Basketball, Netball, Dodgeball, swimming (8 and over) and short tennis.

If you’re looking for something fun, educational and active for your kids to do during the holidays, look no further! Below are testimonials from parents who have used SCS camps before:

We genuinely cannot recommend SCS coaching enough, we have two boys aged 8 and 6 and they look forward to the school holidays so much just so that they can go to the sports camp. They love the staff and the variety of activities that they have each day, swimming is a highlight for my eldest child. They also enjoy meeting children from other schools as well as their own, so we cannot thank you enough for providing such a rewarding, reliable and trustworthy camp for our boys, we would be lost without you! Mr & Mrs Burnley

The camp is run by experienced sports coaches who have worked in schools and are DBS checked. The camps are held at Gateways School, Harewood with swimming sessions at Wetherby Leisure Centre (transport included). The camps run from 9.30-4.00pm with wraparound care available from 8.00 to 5.30pm.  Individual days can be booked.