BrightonScience Festival’s special sciency

Half term programme – October 24 – November 1

Please, if you find some new sciency, crafty, cookery, pottery, hands-onish activities, click on
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and send them to us. We know there are hidden gems out there – we have found some already!

Fishbourne Roman Palace 

Chichester PO19 3QR

Roman Army Week 

The Palace is seeking new recruits to enlist in its Roman Army and learn what it takes to become a fully-fledged soldier, activities every day for the trainee Roman soldiers. Once signed up, soldiers will don a uniform, train with sword and shield, and learn to write Latin and play Roman board games

Times 10.00am – 4.00pm From Monday 26th – Friday 30th Oct

Suitable for ages 7+ Tickets £1 per child,   plus entry: from £7.50

Event information HERE

Moree on Sussex Past’s events HERE

Escape Rooms

You are locked in a room. The only way to get out is to solve a series of puzzles and riddles using clues, hints, and strategy to complete the objectives at hand. Sounds like torture? Actually they are great fun. They run just about every day, all day. Sessions last from 30 mins to 1 hr. Pick between:

Pier Pressure

33 Upper North St., Brighton BN1 3FG Daily from 10.00 am

Details and booking HERE

Escape the Vault

Presuming Ed’s, 115-116 London Road, Brighton, BN14LJ

Daily from 10.00 am Planning and Booking HERE

BewilderBox

The Brunswick, Brighton, BN3 1JF

Planning and Booking HERE

Cluetivity 

(Outdoor escape room, as it were, using GPS and fancy techy stuff. It’s for older kids; plus spare a couple of hours for it!

Planning and Booking HERE

Solve the City

Stalk the streets of Brighton, armed only with an app, and a parent or two.

Planning and booking HERE

Go Completely Pots

The Painting Pottery Café

31 North Road Brighton BN1 1YB

Runs daily pottery painting sessions. See website HERE for details

Plus a Kids Holiday pot throwing taster session  on Thursday 26 Oct. 11.00am – 3.00pm

Paintpots

39 Trafalgar Street Brighton, BN1 4ED

Monday-Saturday 11am – 6pm

To find out what’s on, Telephone: 01273 696 682 and tell Vicky you’re from the Brighton Science Festival and she’ll take the kids down to see how the kiln works!

email paint.pots1@gmail.com

website is  HERE

Art-ful Pottery 

71 Rowlands Rd, Worthing, BN11 3JN

Mostly for adults, but THIS looks interesting for kids,

Monday-Saturday from 10am

Amberley Museum

Always lots happening! Their October Half Term Fun includes

 Sun 25th, Weds 28th,Thur 29th, Fri 30th 11am – 2pm.

Herstmonceux Science Centre

The best science playground in the UK, if not the world, weaving amongst the magnificent telescopes of the Observatory, (which also runs regular events).

Plan a day out HERE

And include their free SPOOKY SCIENCE talks:

every weekend in October and throughout East Sussex half term holiday for some spooky fun!

Your daytime visit includes:

A Spooky Science Show

Bewitching Bat Trail

Shocking Electricity exhibits in our eeriest dome.

As well as all the usual science fun!

Don’t forget to stop by the cafe for some creepy coffee and scary sweet treats.

FREE with entry to the Science Centre – book HERE

Arundel Museum and Art Gallery

Mill Road   Arundel    West Sussex, BN18 9PA          01903 885866        office@arundelmuseum.org

A great museum, with a special half-term workshop:

Adventures with LEGO on      28th October.  2.00 – 3.30   £5

Knepp Rewilding

Since they began rewilding in 2000, life has poured back to Knepp, including nightingales, turtle doves and purple emperor butterflies – some of the rarest creatures in Britain. Roaming herds of cattle, ponies, pigs and deer shape the land, creating dynamic scrubland, wild meadows, wetland and wood pasture. Knepp is a story of hope, showing how nature can bounce back if we let it.the estate, near Horsham, is open to explore, with 16 miles of footpaths, tree platforms, bird hides, deer, Exmoor ponies, Tamworth pigs, longhorn cattle and white storks.

At other times of the year Knepp runs a very child-friendly “Rewild Your Child” programme: bushcraft, fire-lighting, wildlife tracking and building mini-beaver dams. Maybe not at this time, but at any time it’s exhilarating. FIND OUT

Archaeodiscovery

Hove Museum of Creativity

Hosting events all year, all through Half Term and beyond. Almost beyond belief. Set aside an hour on their site to plan your year, but include the photography, the makes . ….  FIND OUT …….    and of course Alice in Funderland – (of which more HERE)

 

Sussex Wildlife Trust

Too many activities to list! Browse to your heart’s content, select carefully, then go to everything!  HERE

 

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It’s party time at Preston Manor! on Thursday October 29th, 10am – 5pm  – entry free with admission to the Manor – book HERE

The stately Victorian home is host to the kinds of entertainments the Victorians played – Parlour Games of all kinds – Charades, Consequences, Thumb Wars, Chopsticks, Good News/Bad News, and more. And we have some of the science tricks they hadn’t yet invented, for shrinking children, reversing time, etc. Plus a ghost

… there’s always a ghost at Preston Manor …

Are We Nearly Here Yet?

Six weekly sessions, from Monday November 2nd  – 2.00 or 4.15 pm

Venue: your house! It’s six Zoom sessions of 1 hour each

Richard Robinson will be telling the story of life, the universe and everything, chapter by chapter, blow by blow.

This is an important story; it’s all about you – your appearance as a hydrogen atom at the Big Bang, and your adventures through the next 14 billion years – exploding stars, under-water volcanoes, evolution, bacteria, worms, dinosaurs, apes, humans, civilizations …

… until the marvel that is YOU emerged, triumphant!

Each week, two 5-minute chapters in the story are followed by questions, games and experiments.

If you can’t make any episodes, no matter: the video will be sent to you anyway; all you miss are the Q&A, chat and extras.

Suitable for ages 8 – 12 and adults

Tickets – £14 (£1 per billion years) per family for the whole series of 6 weekly events,

Information and booking HERE

For more, contact mailto:Richard@BrightonScience.com

Some evaluations:

…”Thanks so much for all your wonderful Are We Nearly There Yet? zooms. Christopher has absolutely loved them. … I particularly liked your cartoon molecules at the start!”

… “I loved the Zoom calls and I think that it should be made into a book because I loved the illustrations – they were fun –  and the facts are told in a funny way. I liked that you make the creatures have faces and say funny things. I also loved the activities and I think it would be nice to include them in the book.”

… “Absolutely wonderful. So excited to be able to take part in something like this. Richard has an infectious enthusiasm and manages to make complex ideas relatable and fun.”

THERE’S MORE BELOW:

Always available and often in action;

busy, busy, busy.

Stop us and buy one!

The Pocket Science Funfair

…will be popping up when and where possible, taking the teasers of ordinary life and gamifying them: Splat the Rat, Guess the Weight of the Cake, learn to Draw Upside-Down, Shrink the Kids, build the Incredible Machine; this will Float your Boat,

Click HERE for THE POCKET SCIENCE FUNFAIR

Climate Science for Kids

…tells the story of climate change, past present and future, with clear, simple demonstrations and clear, simple language. Refined at London’s Natural History Museum and Brighton’s Unitarian Church. Check here for details and reviews:

Click HERE for CLIMATE SCIENCE FOR KIDS

book us for your school or community centre

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