Carding Mill Valley Trip

Sam and the sheep sign

Shropshires rolling hills

time for a snack break

The waterfall was flowing quite fast

the sheep were very friendly

we tried to slide down the hillsides on cardboard sleds

Rowan crossed the stream by rope

The view from the reservoir

The view of the reservoir

Attingham Park - Spring 2012

On Tuesday we revisited Attingham Park to see what had changed for the spring. This time we took Eleanor along and we had eight pre-schoolers with us.

Leaves are starting to shoot on the trees

Tyler loves the sunny weather

We saw some cattle out on the fields

Eleanor taught us how to play 'Pooh Sticks' ask her nicely and she will explain it to you so you can have a go

We saw a helicopter flying low over the trees

We saw lots of deer, the stags have horns called antlers

We all sat quietly to watch the deer 

We saw a pair of swans

It was a long way up the hill to see the deer so we sat on a log pile for a rest

Amee collected a lot of pine cones

Education Show 2012

Last weekend we presented at the National Education Show at the NEC in Birmingham

CLUB 0-14 Easter holidays 2012

Book and pay for your days before 6pm Friday March 23^rd 2012 and receive 15% discount on our normal daily rate (trip costs not included)

	Monday 2nd	Tuesday 3rd	Wednesday 4th	Thursday 5th
7am-8.30am	Breakfast and early morning chill out time (free play)
AM	Fun and games in the park then Chinese for lunch £3.50	Cinema       £6.00 10-12pm ‘The Pirates an adventure with scientists’  by the makers of Wallace and Gromit Special offer - £10.00 cinema only deal 10am til 12pm	Park hall farm £6.00 Lamb feeding, pig racing, pony grooming and lots of small animals, adventure play area 9am to 3pm	Jungle land Telford £4.00 9am to 3pm Giant indoor safari soft play and the Animal man
PM	Easter Egg trail Make your basket to get the clues to find your eggs	Egg race challenges Devised by Paul! Mini egg prizes
			A range of Easter games and activities will be going on	A range of Easter games and activities will be going on
5-6pm	Chill out time (free play)

	Tuesday 10th	Wednesday 11th	Thursday 12th	Friday 13th	Monday 16th PD day
7am-8.30am	Breakfast and early morning chill out time (free play)
AM	Activities at Attingham Park 9am to 3pm	CrockyTrails      £9.00 lots of rides and thrills Come and join Paul for this great day out Leaving at 9am Returning at 5pm Please send your child with a change of clothes and shoes as they may get very muddy!	Spring candle making Eggs, chicks, rabbits you decide	Trip to Weston Park        £3.00 9-3pm Adventure playground- zip wires, climbing walls and much more	Picnic and games at Cardingmill Valley 9am to 3pm Don’t forget to wrap up warm and bring a change of clothes
			1pm-3pm Quasar    £4.00 Minimum of 4 children have to be 8yrs and 5ft to go OR Bowling      £4.00 Children under 8 yrs
PM	A range of Easter games and activities will be going on			A range of Easter games and activities will be going on	A range of Easter games and activities will be going on
5-6pm	Chill out time (free play)

Toddle to the Quarry for Children in Need

From the Column in Shrewsbury

Last Thursday we went up the Lord Hill Column in Shrewsbury to take some pictures for use with Microsoft's Photosynth. Between us we gathered almost 200 images. These images were then loaded onto the Photosynth web site and we have spent some time annotating the file so you can find various points of interest around Shrewsbury.

You can find the final images here - Shrewsbury Photosynth.

The Lord Hill Column is 13 feet taller than Nelson's Column in London and is a fantastic place to see around Shrewsbury. Be warned though, the column is 172 steps top to bottom and is quite steep - but the views are definitely worth it.

See the video

Haughmond Hill

A walk through the woods, tons of nature to observe from fossils to seedlings and then an amazing view - that is what we found at Haughmond Hill.

Crocky Trails

Loved by everyone, Crocky Trails is always fun. Super slides, Giant Roundabouts, the Titanic and then all those bridges and swings over the stream. Great day out and fun for everyone.

Dudley Zoo

Dudley Zoo is an old-fashioned zoo, with animals in relatively small cages and runs. It was an interesting day out as there was also a castle in the middle of the zoo.

There was thunder in the valley!

Well not real thunder, just the sound of 12 pairs of young feet running up and down. Before lunch we went of up the trail to the waterfall - only to find barely a trickle. Then in the afternoon we went up another trail to the reservoir to launch our paper boats.The reservoir was still only a trickle so we

had fun rolling down the dam and stopped at one of the pools part way down to race our boats. Henry was the winner and poor Jess's boat unravelled and sank.

Wet and tired we headed back to Shrewsbury.