Days: Mondays in school term-time, re-starting September 2017.
Age range: 5 to 11.
Time: 50 minute classes.
| Age | Time | |
| Group 1 | 5 & 6 | 12 noon – 12.50pm |
| Group 2 | 7 & 8 | 1pm – 1.50pm |
| Group 3 | 9 to 11 | 2pm – 2.50pm |
Venue: Pirate’s Play Centre, 41 Rowley Drive, Sherwood, Nottingham, NG5 1GD.
Area: western side of Sherwood, towards Basford, about 2 miles north of the city centre. Brown Line buses go nearby.
Price & booking: £5 per class includes a 50 minute class and 1 hour of soft play. This is payable to me (Bekky) as a block of classes in advance.
Typically there are 6 classes per block, though it may vary slightly in order to coincide with term-time.
If places are full, I can put your child’s name on a waiting list, and contact you if a place becomes available for the next block.
At the moment, I am unable to offer any one-off trials.
Enquiries: To make the email address, put “bekky_robinson” in front of “yahoo.com” with the “@” sign in between.
What happens:
An hour of hands-on experiments and mathematical discovery, crafts and art, enabling children to develop mathematical and scientific thinking skills, and learn more about how the world works.
It takes place at the Pirates Play Centre in Sherwood, and the owners have very kindly agreed to let those attending the class have a free play before or after the class.
Students practice learning in groups, pairs and individually; they practice their fine-motor-skills through craft work; develop design and creative skills by producing art work and inventions; and learn to use critical and analytical thinking skills to solve problems.
The classes are non-national-curriculum, which gives a wider basis of topics, and prevents us being hemmed in to cover a syllabus.
Each lesson is a self-contained unit and requires no previous knowledge of the subject.
Examples of topics of previous classes include: Dinosaurs; Patterns and Bubbles; Energy; Changes of State; Floating and Sinking; Music and Sound; Space; Ciphers and Codes.
Map showing Pirate’s Play Centre:
Bigger map showing Pirate’s Play Centre
Pirate’s Play Centre web site – the page with maps on.
Nearest bus stop coming from the north: “Leonard Avenue“.
Nearest bus stop coming from the south: “Perry Road” – but there’s not much in it. Leonard Avenue is nearly as close.
Both are on the Brown Line along Hucknall Road. There are frequent buses throughout the day; the 15, 16, 16C or 17 all go there. In town, these buses go from stops T1 and T2 on Milton Road just north of Trinity Square, opposite the Victoria Centre.
Alternatively, if you’re coming from out of town along the Yellow Line along Nottingham Road, your nearest bus stop is called “Haydn Road”. Or if you’re coming from out of town along the Purple or Lime lines, your nearest stop would be a different one called “Haydn Road”. Compared to getting a Brown Line bus, these options mean a bit more walking.
Cars & parking: Note that vehicle access is only along Kelham Drive.
There is parking at Pirate’s, which should be ample during the day when it’ll be mostly us using the venue.