Monday, 12 July 2021

The Bears are here!

Happy Monday everyone! Today we have some bearilliant news to share...the Bears of
Sheffield have arrived and we have TWO CU challenges to help you get involved!
From today until the end of September, there are 100 little bears and 60 big bears out and about on the streets of Sheffield and some will be hiding in indoor venues too. So, there's plenty of time to get out exploring the city, and do some bear-spotting along the way.

The Bears of Sheffield is being coordinated by Sheffield Children's Hospital NHS and Charity and will help fund a new Cancer and Leukaemia Ward at Sheffield Children’s through donations, merchandise, sponsorship challenges and fundraising throughout the trail. At the end the Bears will also be auctioned off to the highest bidder to raise money!

You can find details of the trail and more information at www.bearsofsheffield.com

In addition, the Sheffield CU Team have been working incredibly hard with the Bears of Sheffield Team and have developed TWO special Children's University Bears of Sheffield Challenges - and if you have a CU Passport to Learning, you can earn 3 CU credits for EACH challenge!

CHALLENGE 1: The activity trail

We'd like you to visit some of the bears on the trail with your families, then complete the challenge sheet, telling us which three bears are your favourites and why. Make sure you read the information plaques with each bear so you can also tell us some facts and new information you've learned. Then, it's time to get creative and use the template to design your own Bear of Sheffield. Once complete, email pictures of your completed challenge to us at CU@sheffield.gov.uk and we'll award you with 3 CU credits for your Passport to Learning.

CHALLENGE 2: The Sheffield CU Bears of Sheffield Fundraising Challenge

Since March 2019, we've created and published over 150 Home Learning Challenges so we couldn't let the Bears of Sheffield go by without creating a special one-off challenge! For this activity, we're challenging Sheffield CU members to create their own fundraising activity - it might be a sponsored activity, it might be raising money by volunteering to do jobs about the house or for others, or maybe even selling craft items or baked goodies that you've made. The choice is yours! Ask an adult to help you plan and run your fundraiser, then pay in the money afterwards. Everything you raise will help the Sheffield Children's Hospital's fundraising towards the brand new cancer and leukaemia ward so let's see how much Sheffield CU can raise together! Make sure you send us a Learning Reflection Diary (download it from https://bit.ly/SCULearningReflectionDiary) and photos or other evidence to show us your amazing fundraising efforts, and we'll award you with 3 CU credits for your Passport to Learning.

Get involved...

You can download both challenges from https://bit.ly/SCUBearsofSheffield2021

If you attend a Sheffield school and haven't yet got a CU Passport to Learning, don't worry! You can buy one from us (£4.50 inc postage to your home address) using this link: https://bit.ly/SCUOrderPassporttoLearning

We hope you all have a bearilliant summer with the Bears of Sheffield and we can't wait to see your adventures!






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