WHEEE! International Children’s Theatre And Dance Festival returns to Lakeside at the University of Nottingham at the end of May – just in time for half term. They’ve got loads of shows in the theatre, a brand new luminarium (a maze-cum-space for you to explore) and a free Family Weekend in Highfields Park! You’ll struggle not to be entertained and amazed!
Plus the fantastic Free Family Fun Weekend!! And who doesn’t love something that’s free! This year the Family Fun Weekend is all about invention. If you want to get into the swing of things early, head over to Lakeside’s inventor’s lab and share your big ideas with them using #wheee16! You can also download the Wheee!-flet here. Plus, there’s a competition…
Competition Time
This year Lakeside have also teamed up with Nature Detectives from the Woodland Trust to offer you two great prizes. They inspire children to discover wildlife, woods and trees. After all, children who love nature become adults who love nature too. Find out more here or come and see them at Wheee!, where they’ll be hosting the lots of tree related family activities – including creating your very own leaf for our ever growing tree.
Send your entries to us at lakeside-marketing@nottingham.ac.uk or share on social media @LakesideArts #wheee16. Closing date: 30 May 2016
We love being nestled in Highfields Park and looking out onto the Lake and seeing all the beautiful trees around us. But we’re not the only ones nestled here. Trees are home to all sorts of tiny critters – some live there all the time and some just stop by to visit.
Some say that trees are nature’s greatest invention. For David Jones trees held great significance and he took inspiration from trees for a lot of his artwork.
Using trees as inspiration – invent your dream treehouse and share your design with us.
Beat the Street is hitting the roads and neighbourhoods of Nottingham for the next month and a half, and this Bank Holiday weekend is the perfect time to start your “street beating”.
But what is Beat the Street? Beat the Street is a fun, free challenge (much like OppNotts!) where we want to see how far you can walk, cycle and run around your neighbourhood! It’s a fully integrated part of OppNotts too and you can get loads of your Sport activities signed-off by taking part in Beat the Street.
Beat the Street is running in Nottingham from 27 April – 08 June. You can score points and win prizes by walking, cycling or running from point to point and tapping a registered and activated Beat the Street RFID (Radio Frequency ID) card or Fob on sensors (Beat Boxes) which are placed on lamp posts across the dedicated routes where the game is being played. You just tap your Beat the Street card or fob at various points on their way to and from work, school and to the shops. You’re also eligible to win regular spot prizes for a ‘lucky tap’ on a Beat Box but you must be registered. You can get your card from school (which will be pre-registered) or from local libraries, leisure centres and community centres (which you can register on the Beat the Street website).
The more Beat Boxes you tap, the further you travel and the greater your chance of winning a prize. You can also join teams by choosing from the list on the registration page. There are lots of prizes up for grabs for individuals and teams taking part in Beat the Street, including a daily prize of £25 Decathlon vouchers, where you can get some new sporty gear! Additionally, one prize goodie bag will be won by one pupil per participating school every week!
There are loads of routes too which you can find maps of here.
For more on Beat the Street, registering your fob or finding routes around the city, please check out the Beat the Street website!
Nottingham City Council is stubbing out smoking in the city and they’re focusing on you – young people right here in Notts! Pupils at the city’s primary schools have been asked to design an emotive poster asking smokers not to light up at a number of family events this summer. Smoking is an addiction of childhood, not an adult choice. Two thirds of all smokers start before the age of 18 years. Children exposed to second-hand smoke are also far more likely to suffer from asthma, middle ear infections, chest infections and breathing problems. Adult smoking prevalence for Nottingham is 24%, which is significantly higher than the national average of 18% and around 75 children in Nottingham under the age of five are admitted to hospital every year as a result of being exposed to second-hand smoke and many more need to visit their GP. This is very serious stuff.
Nottingham has a long-term vision to inspire a smoke-free generation and encouraging people not to smoke in outdoor public places is really important. This is because it shows young people that smoking is the exception rather than the rule. In 2015, Nottingham’s Beach, in Old Market Square, was a completely smoke-free event for the first time. The idea proved to be really popular, with an overwhelming majority of people saying that they wanted the authority to introduce more. This year the City Council is being more ambitious by aiming for a Smoke-free Summer with many more events aimed at children and families, including Splendour and the Riverside Festival.
The council wants your art-work to be part of this push and need you to design a poster which urges smokers not to light up at summer events this year. We will choose a number of posters that will be displayed at key city events, including the Beach and Riverside Festival. The winning pupils will be invited to a special ceremony where they will be presented with a prize and their artwork will be put up for thousands of people to see.
What we need
– The artwork should be on A4 paper, bright and colourful.
– The message should be smokefree and positive, i.e. ‘children run better when smokefree’, etc.
– It can be a picture and a slogan (we would like to move away from the traditional image of a red cross over a cigarette, if possible).
– The idea is for the poster to be emotive and ask smokers not to light up at a summer event where children will be present.
The deadline for entries is Friday 27 May and you can either choose to submit all your posters, or hold a school vote to decide on the best two or three to go forward.
They should be sent to Kate Smith, Smokefree Nottingham Coordinator, Smokefree Nottingham, Community Protection, Loxley House, LH Box 45, Station Street, Nottingham NG2 3NG. We’ll also share the winning entries on Opportunity Notts!
