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News and Updates from the CU team
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Online and remote learning Update
Wed 10 Jun 202010/06/20
Dear Parents and Carers
First of all we hope you are all safe and well and getting the opportunity to share and have positive experience together, in this most difficult of times.
We know that many schools and extra-curricular organisations such as us have been quickly adapting their delivery to take into account closures due to coronavirus. Over the last three weeks we have been busy uploading content on our website so that you will have plenty of exciting things to do, even if you are not in school at the moment.
All resources are available on the Westminster Children’s University Website by selecting the For Children and Parents tab (orange, star balloon) or directly from me at Queens Park Primary School, W10 4DQ.
Arts award at home
Trinity College have produced a downloadable resource pack with a generic template log for Arts Award Discover called Discover at Home, guidance for parents, carers and children, as well as ideas for activities to complete for all parts of Discover at Home. Discover at Home is designed to be a light touch, easy to access version of Arts Award Discover to reflect the different way children and their families are currently accessing the arts and culture. Once your child has finished their log you can photograph it and email to me at swilson@queensparkschool.co.uk or deliver it to Queen’s Park directly. We are awarding 20 hours of CU time for any completed submissions.5 hours for the activity, 5 hours for reflecting, 5 hours for recording and 5 hours for sharing; this is in keeping with CU hour limits and the main objectives of arts award explore.
Dream Arts
Dream Arts is a great program of creative experiences, usually we attend in person but we are lucky to have the opportunity to access their great team remotely. Students will take part in online sessions via zoom and have a chance to explore and create together. We will award 5 hours for each session attended as each session will have a different objective and learning. Families wishing to do this will need to sign the consent form and contact the project director David Shopland via email at david@dreamarts.org.uk (Project Producer).
Virtual Tours
In Virtual Tours your children can travel to key learning and cultural destinations around the world. Eulina has created a great resource, allowing you all to continue to visit learning destinations from the comfort and safety of your homes. Just select a destination from the guide, click it and you will have direct access to your chosen tour. We are awarding 5 hours for each tour taken and an additional 5 hours for any work inspired by the virtual visit, so let your imaginations go wild! Once your child has finished their tour and creative response you can photograph it and email to me at swilson@queensparkschool.co.uk or deliver it to Queen’s Park directly. We will post the work on the website and there will be prizes for 2 winning entries. These will be announced in August.
Google Internet Legends
While I have been busily filling our lovely website with resources and information, I have been mindful of how much time we are spending online due to the current challenges we face. The web is an amazing resource full the answers to any question, but encouraging analytical thinking and keeping our young people safe is paramount. I am sharing this link for internet legends-a great resource with games and lessons for families to use at home, https://beinternetlegends.withgoogle.com/en_uk/parents completing the program will result in 10 CU hours as we will award for the doing and reflecting/sharing elements of the program.
Looking for an extra-curricular Schedule?
If you select the Parents Zone, in the For Children and Parents tab, you can access a planned daily schedule of links to work thorough with your children. These sites change the content daily so you will be able to use and re-use the schedule as much as you like. You can claim 1 hour for each activity and as they are all different, for as many as you have done.
How about some additional learning tools?
We want you to have fun learning while we are apart, to help you with this we have created the Kids Zone; if you select the Kids Zone tab, in For Children and Parents, you will have instant access to tonnes of online learning games and tools to explore. Keep a record of what you have done, we are awarding 1 hour for each piece of learning or activity and there will be prizes for the top 4 recorded learning logs. I have prepared logs for you which you can access in the parents zone or directly from Queen’s Park but if you prefer to create your own that’s fine as well you just need the day, activity and hours claimed.
What is coming next?
In the coming weeks, we will be launching a wellbeing project and a series of video and local walk routes to help you explore while you are taking your daily exercise so keep checking in with us at https://www.westminsterchildrensuniversity.co.uk/ for fun, updates and opportunities. Our friends and partners are currently getting content prepared to add to their own Parent and Kids tabs and we will update content on an ongoing basis so you’ll never run out of fun things to do together. Have fun together and stay safe.
Yours Sincerely
Stella Wilson
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Google internet Legends
Tue 09 Jun 2020Hi everyone,
While I am busily filling our lovely website with resources and information I am mindful of how much time we are spending online due to the current challenges we face.
The web is an amazing resource full of every answer to any question but keeping our young people safe is paramount.
I am sharing this link for internet legends-a great resource with games and lessons for you guys to use at home ,enjoy!
https://beinternetlegends.withgoogle.com/en_uk/parents
In the for parents tab,I have uploaded the teacher and parent resources.
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Cllr Hamza Taouzzale to join CU Westminster team
Tue 21 Jan 2020We are so lucky to have Cllr Hamza Taouzzale joining our team,He will be offering talks and workshops in our partner schools as well as parent and student surgeries.
Hey everyone!
My name is Hamza Taouzzale, I am 20 years old and I am one of the local Councillors for Queens Park (QP)! I have represented the residents of QP for just under two years all while studying for my Politics degree at Goldsmiths, University of London.
As part of my degree and as a result of it being my final year at uni, I have chosen to carry out a work placement module which will last for the duration of the winter half term and the first spring half term resulting in me staying until the end of March. I gratefully accepted the role at QP Primary as I wanted to do something that would not only allow me to ‘give back’ to an area that I hold so closely to me but it would allow me to gain experience in an environment that I was not too used to.
Over the course of the 8 weeks I am here, I will be working on the amazing Children’s University Project, as well as a few other things! It’s an area that I really wanted to focus on because I wholeheartedly subscribe to the principles of doing extracurricular activities which then allow the children to graduate. It means that the children get to widen their experiences vastly and are able to get out and about a lot more!
Being a Councillor, I have vast experience in connecting and working with different groups of people and therefore I am elegantly suited to interact with all our partners here in Westminster (other schools and charities). With this I hope to increase the reach of the Children’s University project so that more young people can take part in activities that they normally wouldn’t get involved in. I would also like to carry out parent-student advice surgeries. Being involved in local politics means that I am in a unique position to be able to help people on a range of issues from rubbish dumping to Housing problems. Offering this would allow those who can’t normally make my other surgery a chance to have some of their questions answered.
Finally, being a student myself, I would love to see all the young people successfully graduate in February, with myself following shortly after from my own University in September!
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Third Annual Graduation
Tue 21 Jan 2020We are all getting ready for our third and biggest annual graduation to take place on the 28th February in Kensington Town Hall.
We can not wait to see all of our amazing CU cohort celebrate their achievements this February,each and every one of you should be incredibly proud of your commitment to learning and exploring the world of learning all around you.
This year we have continued the positive trend seen in engagement, with more of you graduating with greater numbers of activity recorded.We have tripled our partnerships and Arts Award participation and have some great new projects for you all to take part in during 2020.
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Graduation 2019 Dates Announced: Thursday 14th/ Friday 15th February 2019
Tue 22 Jan 2019We are pleased to announce that our second graduation will be held at the University of Westminster over 2 days in February. -
Passports and hours
Mon 21 Jan 2019Just a reminder, all schools need Children's University Passports collected in by Friday 25th January 2019. This is so we can organise logistics for the graduation and print our certificates! -
Graduation Date Announced
Sun 19 Nov 2017We are pleased to announce that the first official graduation of Westminster Children's University will be on Friday 9th February 2018 at Regent Street Cinema, University of Westminster. A fun packed ceremony is being planned with Michael Rosen, Avril MacDonald, the Lord Mayor of Westminster and many others coming to celebrate. -
Quinn Competition
Fri 24 Feb 2017Quinn London Ltd would like to invite students from The Children’s University to take part in a drawing competition.
We are a construction company from London and we want you to design a mascot for us! Your mascot can be anything you like but try to relate it to the Quinn colours and name (have a look at our logo for ideas).
You need to;
- Give your mascot a name.
- Decide what your mascot will look like and where he or she lives.
- Draw your mascot.
- Don’t forget your mascot is from a construction company so he or she needs safety equipment and tools!
The five best drawings will be displayed on our project hoarding and the person with the best drawing will receive a prize worth £50.
The deadline for entries is the 8th of March, 2017 so get drawing!
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Tom Palmer (Author) has signed books to support Westminster CU
Sat 28 Jan 2017Mr Commins and Mrs Killip were delighted to meet Tom Palmer and pick up 2 signed books especially for Westminster CU!
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Queen's Park Rangers join Westminster CU
Sat 28 Jan 2017We are delighted that Queen's Park Rangers have invested in Westminster Children's University and can't wait to be involved in mini lectures, sporting events and stadium tours!
