Monday 25 November 2013

Celebrating in style - part 2!

Our second awards ceremony of the season took place on Wednesday 20th November with over 200 children, parents and carers and school staff descending on the Town Hall to celebrate in style.
Children from Whiteways Primary School receive their awards

Children from 16 schools attended along with their parents and carers and were presented with their awards by the Lord Mayor, Councillor Vickie Priestley and our Sheffield CU Chancellor Eliot Kennedy. There was also a marketplace where some of our fantastic Learning Destinations displayed information about their activities and involved parents/carers, children and even in the Lord Mayor in some demonstrations!

During the ceremony, there were a number of inspiring speeches by some of the children involved in Children's University from Whiteways Primary school. A group of pupils from Prince Edward Primary School also read out their Remembrance Day poems.


Pupils from Prince Edward read their Remembrance Day poems
HUGE congratulations to our fantastic award winners, their parents/carers and school staff. We are so very very proud of all of you!

All photos from the ceremony are on our Facebook page. Click here to view them now!

Friday 15 November 2013

Celebrating in style!

Our first awards ceremony of the academic year took place on Wednesday 13th November with over 200 children, parents and carers and school staff descending on the Town Hall to celebrate in style.

Pupils in their caps and gowns have a photo call with the Lord Mayor
Children from 12 schools attended along with their parents and carers and were presented with their awards by the Lord Mayor, Councillor Vickie Priestley There was also a marketplace where some of our fantastic Learning Destinations displayed information about their activities and involved parents/carers, children and even in the Lord Mayor in some demonstrations!

During the ceremony, there were a number of inspiring speeches by some of the children and young people involved in Children's University from Carterknowle Junior School, Dobcroft Junior School and Malin Bridge Primary School. Each student spoke about their out of school activities and what CU meant to them (and succeeded in bringing a tear to our eye!)

Pupils from Malin Bridge talk about their CU activities
Tempest Photography were also on hand to take portrait photos of children and their familes in their caps and gowns, and our CU Souvenirs superstars Sakina and Leah were very busy making sure awards badges were securely fastened to newly purchased CU lanyards!

Siblings from Birley Primary try on our new caps and gowns

HUGE congratulations to our fantastic award winners, their parents/carers and school staff. We are so very very proud of all of you! A special thanks too to our spectacular events team - Chris, Dee Helen, Leah, and Sakina. We couldn't do it without you!

Visit our Facebook page to view all the photos from the event! www.facebook.com/sheffieldcu





Monday 4 November 2013

CU LIVE! - Day of the Dead Celebrations

 
202 children and 134 adults attended the CU LIVE! Day of the Dead Celebrations in the Winter Gardens last Friday. Many thanks to Weston Park Museum and the Spanish Society from Sheffield Hallam and members of the Mexican community, for helping CU to organise this.
 
Children were able to take part in a wide range of interesting and unusual activities
 
 
Decorating sugar skulls with paint, sequins and glitter

 
Day of the Dead songs
 
 
Day of the Dead dance
 
 
Colouring in
 
Also on Halloween over 200 children and adults tried out craft activities linked to spooky animals.
Many more CU credits were logged.
 
Come and join us for more fun CU LIVE! activites in February half term 2014.