Celebrating in style - part 2!

Our second awards ceremony of the season took place on Wednesday 20th November with over 200 children, parents and carers and school staff descending on the Town Hall to celebrate in style.

Children from Whiteways Primary School receive their awards

Children from 16 schools attended along with their parents and carers and were presented with their awards by the Lord Mayor, Councillor Vickie Priestley and our Sheffield CU Chancellor Eliot Kennedy. There was also a marketplace where some of our fantastic Learning Destinations displayed information about their activities and involved parents/carers, children and even in the Lord Mayor in some demonstrations!

During the ceremony, there were a number of inspiring speeches by some of the children involved in Children's University from Whiteways Primary school. A group of pupils from Prince Edward Primary School also read out their Remembrance Day poems.



Pupils from Prince Edward read their Remembrance Day poems

HUGE congratulations to our fantastic award winners, their parents/carers and school staff. We are so very very proud of all of you!

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Celebrating in style!

Our first awards ceremony of the academic year took place on Wednesday 13th November with over 200 children, parents and carers and school staff descending on the Town Hall to celebrate in style.

Pupils in their caps and gowns have a photo call with the Lord Mayor

Children from 12 schools attended along with their parents and carers and were presented with their awards by the Lord Mayor, Councillor Vickie Priestley There was also a marketplace where some of our fantastic Learning Destinations displayed information about their activities and involved parents/carers, children and even in the Lord Mayor in some demonstrations!

During the ceremony, there were a number of inspiring speeches by some of the children and young people involved in Children's University from Carterknowle Junior School, Dobcroft Junior School and Malin Bridge Primary School. Each student spoke about their out of school activities and what CU meant to them (and succeeded in bringing a tear to our eye!)

Pupils from Malin Bridge talk about their CU activities

Tempest Photography were also on hand to take portrait photos of children and their familes in their caps and gowns, and our CU Souvenirs superstars Sakina and Leah were very busy making sure awards badges were securely fastened to newly purchased CU lanyards!


Siblings from Birley Primary try on our new caps and gowns

HUGE congratulations to our fantastic award winners, their parents/carers and school staff. We are so very very proud of all of you! A special thanks too to our spectacular events team - Chris, Dee Helen, Leah, and Sakina. We couldn't do it without you!

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CU LIVE! - Day of the Dead Celebrations

 

202 children and 134 adults attended the CU LIVE! Day of the Dead Celebrations in the Winter Gardens last Friday. Many thanks to Weston Park Museum and the Spanish Society from Sheffield Hallam and members of the Mexican community, for helping CU to organise this.

 

Children were able to take part in a wide range of interesting and unusual activities

 

 

Decorating sugar skulls with paint, sequins and glitter

 

Day of the Dead songs

 

 

Day of the Dead dance

 

 

Colouring in

 

Also on Halloween over 200 children and adults tried out craft activities linked to spooky animals.

Many more CU credits were logged.

 

Come and join us for more fun CU LIVE! activites in February half term 2014.



 

CU LIVE! - Imagination Gaming

Thanks to the Imagination Gaming Team, who provided lots of fun and educational modern board and card games for families to try out in the Winter Gardens on Wednesday this week. Over a hundred people aged from 3 to 75 years, came to try their hand at games which develop thinking skills, numeracy, literacy and hand eye co-ordination.

There were some brand new games which Nigel from Imagination Gaming had discovered at a recent International Games Festival in Essen, Germany, which went down really well with all ages!

CU LIVE! in the Winter Gardens

 

Many thanks to the student volunteers from Sheffield University who put on a series of exciting activities as part of CU LIVE! this week. Over 150 children visited on Monday and Tuesday and had lots of fun decorating biscuits with smiley and scary faces

 

                                                    Extracting DNA from strawberries

                                       Learning about teeth and making them out of play dough

                   Trying on an interactive body tunic and learning about our internal organs

 

                         And making paper buildings and placing them on a map of Sheffield and creating the face of a judge on a paper plate.

 

A special thankyou from CU to Amy Jones and Meredyth Hayler from Sheffield University.

Young achievers celebrate their success!



Sheffield CU Passport to Learning children and young people receive their awards 

It was time to celebrate at the University of Sheffield this autumn as we held our 6th secondary awards ceremony at Firth Hall. Over 100 young people from 6 secondary schools, and 50 students who have been collecting credits with their Passport to Learning at Learning Destinations across the city were invited along to receive their Children's University awards.

A fantastic performance by Razzamataz Theatre School

The glittering celebration, hosted by the University's Outreach Team, honoured young people who have dedicated more than 100 hours to out of school learning activities in and around school and also at community and citywide Learning Destinations using their Passport to Learning.

 

One of our award winners tries on our new Sheffield CU caps and gowns!





A student from Forge Valley receives her award

The Chaucer Bezzies!

Firth Park stuents receve their awards

Students from Chaucer School receive their Awards

Jane O'Brien from Languages Sheffield speaks about the HoLA project 

 Sheffield CU also works in partnership with Languages Sheffield to ensure students who give up their time to learn their home language are celebrated and rewarded through the HoLA (Home Language Accreditation) project. Representatives from each of the language schools involved will also attended the ceremony to receive Gold awards on behalf of students for giving up their time to learn their home language.

Representatives from Sheffield Star Mandarin School receive their award

Huge thanks to the University of Sheffield for all their help and support. And a massive congratulations to all our award winners!

CU LIVE! - Chess fun at Fir Vale

 

Twenty five children and many parents joined the successful CU LIVE chess event at Firvale School. Andrew Ledger (International Chess Master) and Alan Potts (Hallam University) led the session. A junior chess champion, Sam Cobbold (Silverdale School), was also present to give advice,  having just returned from playing in the junior England squad in Romania. Andrew and Sam provided an impressive simultaneous chess display by playing twenty games of chess at the same time, with all the children attending.

 

The Chess Master Class covered the following topics:

• Middle game tactical themes e.g. 2 move checkmates
• Checkmating with a queen or a rook - and avoiding stalemate
• Pawn break-throughs

 

Children even took home a booklet of notes to help them improve their game.

 

One parent emailed CU to say:

“I just wanted to say thank you to all the people who were involved in the chess master class at Fir Vale School. I thought it was well organised, fun and the kids learnt new skills. Please pass my thanks on to all involved.  We look forward to the next one!”

 

 

Many thanks to Jeremy Hamm, Sakina Kingswood, Rashida Hassanali, Farshad Ali, Alan Potts, Sam Cobbold, Andrew Ledger, Phil Nichols, Richard Steele, Firvale School and all our volunteers for making this event possible.