Weekly Home Learning Challenge - Week 7 - All about Oceania!

Our CU Festival of Fun 2020 concludes today - we've delivered over 75 FREE activities for children, young people and families to get involved in, throughout the whole summer holidays! Some of the activities remain downloadable though, so for the full programme, visit https://bit.ly/CUFestivalofFun2020

Today sees our weekly CU Home Learning Challenges focusing on the different continents of the world, coming to an end. Each one has contained 5 learning activities from arts and crafts, to cookery, music, science, maths and more! Don't worry if you've missed any - the links will still be available for some time yet!

Today we're excited to bring you the seventh weekly challenge, all about the continent of Oceania! Download it now from https://bit.ly/SCUChallengeOceania. 

Why not have a go at making some aboriginal art, baking some tasty Anzac biscuits, learning all about the Great Barrier Reef and the island of Kiribati? You could even have a go at the Haka traditional dance too!

To claim your CU credits, just download, complete and return the CU Festival of Fun Learning Reflection Diary with evidence of your learning. Download one now from https://bit.ly/CUFestivalofFunReflectionDiary It will need the number from your Passport to Learning so if you don't have one just yet, don't panic! When the libraries re open, we'll let you know so you can pop along and buy a Passport to Learning for £3.50, find the number and add it to your Reflection Diary and claim your CU credits.

Ready to jet off to our seventh and final continent for some fun learning all about Oceania? Then off we go..

Weekly Home Learning Challenge - Week 6 - All about Antarctica!

Our CU Festival of Fun 2020 is underway - we're into week six! Over 75 FREE activities for children, young people and families to get involved in, throughout the whole summer holidays! For the full programme, visit https://bit.ly/CUFestivalofFun2020

Although we're no longer publishing our daily CU Home Learning Challenges over the summer, we will be releasing weekly challenges, as part of our CU Festival of Fun, each containing 5 learning activities from arts and crafts, to cookery, music, science, maths and more! 

Each of the 7 weekly challenges will focus on a different continent of the world, and today we're excited to bring you the sixth weekly challenge, all about Antarctica. Download it now from https://bit.ly/SCUChallengeAntarctica   

Why not have a go at making your own fruity ice slushies or salt crystals, learn about icebergs, the Antarctic food chain or even the Southern Lights? 

Keep your eyes peeled on our blog and social media pages for the fourth weekly challenge coming to you from Monday - which continent will it be this time?  Our previous challenges can be found further down our blog or on our social media [ages.

To claim your CU credits, just download, complete and return the CU Festival of Fun Learning Reflection Diary with evidence of your learning. Download one now from https://bit.ly/CUFestivalofFunReflectionDiary It will need the number from your Passport to Learning so if you don't have one just yet, don't panic! When the libraries re open, we'll let you know so you can pop along and buy a Passport to Learning for £3.50, find the number and add it to your Reflection Diary and claim your CU credits.

Weekly Home Learning Challenge - Week 5 - All about Asia!

Our CU Festival of Fun 2020 continues into our fifth week! Over 75 FREE activities for children, young people and families to get involved in, throughout the whole summer holidays! For the full programme, visit https://bit.ly/CUFestivalofFun2020

We're also continuing into our fifth week of CU Home Learning Challenges focusing on the different continents of the world. Each one contains 5 learning activities from arts and crafts, to cookery, music, science, maths and more!

Today we're excited to bring you the fifth weekly challenge, all about the continent of ASIA! Download it now from https://bit.ly/SCUChallengeAsia Why not have a go at creating some Rangoli patterns, learn all about the orangutans and how we can help protect them, try some traditional dance and even create some Korean food, maybe even with chopsticks!? 

To claim your CU credits, just download, complete and return the CU Festival of Fun Learning Reflection Diary with evidence of your learning. Download one now from https://bit.ly/CUFestivalofFunReflectionDiary It will need the number from your Passport to Learning so if you don't have one just yet, don't panic! When the libraries re open, we'll let you know so you can pop along and buy a Passport to Learning for £3.50, find the number and add it to your Reflection Diary and claim your CU credits.

Keep an eye on our blog and social media for the sixth challenge coming next Monday...but which continent will it be?

Weekly Home Learning Challenge - Week 4 - All about South America!

Our CU Festival of Fun 2020 continues into our fourth week! Over 75 FREE activities for children, young people and families to get involved in, throughout the whole summer holidays! For the full programme, visit https://bit.ly/CUFestivalofFun2020

We're also continuing into our fourth week of CU Home Learning Challenges focusing on the different continents of the world. Each one contains 5 learning activities from arts and crafts, to cookery, music, science, maths and more!

Today we're excited to bring you the fourth weekly challenge, all about the continent of South America! Download it now from https://bit.ly/SCUChallengeSouthAmerica. Why not have a go at baking some tasty Brazilian Carrot Cake, learn all about the animals of the Amazon Rainforest or the history of Easter Island's mysterious statues, or even create your own Samba Band at home?

To claim your CU credits, just download, complete and return the CU Festival of Fun Learning Reflection Diary with evidence of your learning. Download one now from https://bit.ly/CUFestivalofFunReflectionDiary It will need the number from your Passport to Learning so if you don't have one just yet, don't panic! When the libraries re open, we'll let you know so you can pop along and buy a Passport to Learning for £3.50, find the number and add it to your Reflection Diary and claim your CU credits.

Keep an eye on our blog and social media for the next challenge - which continent will it be?

Weekly Home Learning Challenge - Week 3 - All about Europe!

Our CU Festival of Fun 2020 is underway - we're into week three already! Over 75 FREE activities for children, young people and families to get involved in, throughout the whole summer holidays! For the full programme, visit https://bit.ly/CUFestivalofFun2020

Although we're no longer publishing our daily CU Home Learning Challenges over the summer, we will be releasing weekly challenges, as part of our CU Festival of Fun, each containing 5 learning activities from arts and crafts, to cookery, music, science, maths and more!

Each of the 7 weekly challenges will focus on a different continent of the world, and today we're excited to bring you the third weekly challenge, all about Europe. Download it now from https://bit.ly/SCUChallengeEurope 

Why not have a go at making a Russian matryoshka character, create your own Mount Etna volcano, learn some of Europe's most spoken languages, stage your own garden Olympics or even taste some Polish pierogi treats?

Keep your eyes peeled on our blog and social media pages for the fourth weekly challenge coming to you from Monday - which continent will it be this time?  Our previous challenges can be found further down our blog or on our social media [ages.

To claim your CU credits, just download, complete and return the CU Festival of Fun Learning Reflection Diary with evidence of your learning. Download one now from https://bit.ly/CUFestivalofFunReflectionDiary It will need the number from your Passport to Learning so if you don't have one just yet, don't panic! When the libraries re open, we'll let you know so you can pop along and buy a Passport to Learning for £3.50, find the number and add it to your Reflection Diary and claim your CU credits.

Weekly Home Learning Challenges through the summer!

Our CU Festival of Fun 2020 is underway - we're into week two already! Over 75 FREE activities for children, young people and families to get involved in, throughout the whole summer holidays! For the full programme, visit https://bit.ly/CUFestivalofFun2020

Although we're no longer publishing our daily CU Home Learning Challenges over the summer, we will be releasing weekly challenges, as part of our CU Festival of Fun, each containing 5 learning activities from arts and crafts, to cookery, music, science, maths and more!

Each of the 7 weekly challenges will focus on a different continent of the world, and today we're excited to bring you the first and second weekly challenges!  

Week one included activities all about the continent of AFRICA! Download it now from https://bit.ly/SCUChallengeAfrica Why not have a go at making then playing some traditional African drums, learn about Egyptian hieroglyphics and even taste some flavours of Africa too?

Week two brings activities all about the continent of NORTH AMERICA! Download it now from https://bit.ly/SCUChallengeNorthAmerica  You can have a go at making your family's totem pole, create your own rainbow like the ones at Niagara Falls, learn about the Mayan people of Chichen Itza or even make and taste some fluffy pancakes!

Keep your eyes peeled on our blog and social media pages for the third weekly challenge coming to you from Monday - which continent will it be this time?

To claim your CU credits, just download, complete and return the CU Festival of Fun Learning Reflection Diary with evidence of your learning. Download one now from https://bit.ly/CUFestivalofFunReflectionDiary It will need the number from your Passport to Learning so if you don't have one just yet, don't panic! When the libraries re open, we'll let you know so you can pop along and buy a Passport to Learning for £3.50, find the number and add it to your Reflection Diary and claim your CU credits.

#SCUChallenge 98 - We LOVE Sheffield!

We have some news! As the school year is ending and summer holidays are beginning, our home learning challenges will now become weekly as part of the Festival of Fun 2020. Thank you SO much to everyone who has taken part so far! We have absolutely loved seeing your photos, videos and work. They have inspired us to keep going and have proven that learning and fun can indeed happen absolutely anywhere! If you have missed any of the challenges so far, or would like to revisit some of them too, you can find a full list here: https://bit.ly/SCUHomeLearningChallenges1-98

As this will be our last daily/weekend Home Learning Challenge, we thought we'd focus on something close to home…Sheffield…a FANTASTIC city to live in! It's steeped in history, famous for its cutlery, has beautiful open spaces and woodlands, and many successful people proud to be from Sheffield too! This challenge helps you to think about just some of those things that make Sheffield fantastic!
You can download the full challenge here: https://bit.ly/SCUChallenge98

To claim your credits, please complete and return a Sheffield CU Home Learning Challenge Reflection Diary which can be found here: https://bit.ly/SheffCUReflectionDiary

Once you have completed all the challenges, email your reflection diary along with evidence of your completed activity to cu@sheffield.gov.uk (photos/videos etc.) and we'll award CU credits. We can't wait to see your work - please send us a picture along with your reflection diary and feel free to share photos/videos on Facebook and Twitter! #SCUChallenges