October Holiday Challenge If you have some time to spare in the holidays, why not tackle some of these challenges. You will get one credit for each challenge you complete. To get credits, complete the challenges and show your work to your Children’s University contact teacher. 1 2 Mahatma Ghandi was born on the 2nd of October is National Pizza Month. Devise a October. Research his life (remember you can recipe for pizza, using your favourite do research in local libraries) and prepare a fact ingredients to make the best ever topping. sheet or make a presentation about it. 3 4 Paint or draw an Autumn scene. The Rose”, a famous battleship was sunk “Mary in battle in 1545, but was raised from the sea bed on 11th October, 1982. Find out all you can this famous ship. 5 6 Children’s University will be launched in lots of Write a spooky story for Halloween or create a Primary schools in the next few weeks. Design spooky story comic strip. a poster explaining why it is worth getting involved in Children’s University. 7 8 Make a Halloween costume and either get a World Space Week runs from 4th to 10th photo of you wearing it or get someone else to October. This year, we have heard all about model it for a photograph. Prepare a list of the Tim Peake’s adventures in the European Space materials you used to make the costume. Use station. Imagine you are an astronaut on the only things you can find around the house. space station. Design a postcard showing the view from the space centre window and write a message about the life you have there. 9 10 Art Picture Find a tree in your local area and keep a diary Go on a hunt in your local area for leaves, sticks of what happens to it over the October conkers etc. Use what you find to make a
October Holiday Challenge If you have some time to spare in the holidays, why not tackle some of these challenges. You will get one credit for each challenge you complete. To get credits, complete the challenges and show your work to your Children’s University contact teacher. 1 Mahatma Ghandi was born on the 2nd of October. Research his life (remember you can do research in local libraries) and prepare a fact sheet or make a presentation about it. 2 October is National Pizza Month. Devise a recipe for pizza, using your favourite ingredients to make the best ever topping. 3 Paint or draw an Autumn scene. 4 The “Mary Rose”, a famous battleship was sunk in battle in 1545, but was raised from the sea bed on 11th October, 1982. Find out all you can this famous ship. 5 Children’s University will be launched in lots of Primary schools in the next few weeks. Design a poster explaining why it is worth getting involved in Children’s University. 6 Write a spooky story for Halloween or create a spooky story comic strip. 7 Make a Halloween costume and either get a photo of you wearing it or get someone else to model it for a photograph. Prepare a list of the materials you used to make the costume. Use only things you can find around the house. 8 World Space Week runs from 4th to 10th October. This year, we have heard all about Tim Peake’s adventures in the European Space station. Imagine you are an astronaut on the space station. Design a postcard showing the view from the space centre window and write a message about the life you have there. 9 Art Picture Go on a hunt in your local area for leaves, sticks conkers etc. Use what you find to make a 10 Find a tree in your local area and keep a diary of what happens to it over the October
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