Hi Everyone just a quick update on what Heroes has been up to over the last coming months.
Heroes Flexi School
Tuesdays
Heroes Started its Flexi School in January with one day which was Tuesday and it has been extremely successful.We have 18 children who attend on a regular basis and the ages mainly range from 10 years – 13 years with a few children either side. The day is very structured but still plenty of day for play and chat.
The day consists of an animal care course in the morning.Each week a different animal is bought in and the children learn about the care for that animal, living conditions, diet, exercise, grooming. So far they have looked at snakes, ducks, dogs, cats, dogs, guinea pigs and rabbits.
After the animal care session the children get ready for hip hop dancing with Natalie
our tutor who is bouncy, bubbly and just loves dancing.
Cooking is available for children who do not want to do the dance, and they get involved in cooking the meal for everyone which is normally a soup and homemade bread.Lunch is always taken together at one big table where they all take time out to chat.
After lunch, Pam Hobbs joins us to run her art session, and this can be anything from drawing with charcoal, painting with oils to making cards, tile painting, & mosaics
The day is finished off with a children’s video about a famous person or inventor.The videos are bright colourful and very enjoyable. They last for around 30 mins.
Heroes flexi school has been a great success offering many home ed families a little structure to their week and time out to spend with their younger children or just time out for themselves. We are now opening up on other days. If you would like to know more please contact us.
Cost £35.00 per day
Heroes Big Home Ed Meet
This group meets every Wednesday and we have children of all ages from very small to 17 years.It is a mixture of unstructured and structured.We have cooking, drama, animal farm, brain teasers, plus a craft for the mums.We have around 25 families on our membership and around 35 children. We hope to be able to offer swimming from May onwards.
Cost £10.00 per family please note parents must stay on site with their children
NEW*NEW*NEW*
Starting in April 2010
Heroes flexi school Senior -Tuesday is now taking on older students from 14 years – 17 years this will run along side the other group and their will be a choice of subjects.
In the morning the classes which are running will be running circuit training, cooking, animal care, hiphop dance, cooking, and a two hour Art session with South African Artist Inge Du Plessi who specialises in portraitures and day will end with discussion. Maths and English will be available through our online programmes
and IGCSE can be taken in May and November.Tutors are available at extra costs.
Thursdays Flexi School is opening shortly so please book your place.Subjects running will be Cooking, Drama, Spanish, Painting, Maths and English online will be available.
If you feel your child would really benefit Heroes Flexi school but it is out of your budget please still contact us as we are applying for grants daily and might be able to help you.
The courses below will be running on the same day.
Animal Care Course
A 5 Week taster course in small animal care for ages 14 years plus.
Limited places available
Sports and Leadership course
A 13 week sports and leadership course, covering a variety of sports including wall climbing, water sports, team building, swimming, trampoline, self-defence plus many others, some will be on site, others off site.
Suitable for 13 years upwards
3 places available
We have also had a number of requests for a younger flexi school, if this is something you would be interested in please let us know.
If you would like any more information on Heroes please email me on heroesberkshire@aol.co.ukor call on 01628 783107
Just a quick update on what has being happening at Heroes over the last few weeks.
Heroes Flexi School Started at the beginning on January 2010 and is very successfully. At the moment we only run on a Tuesday from 10.30 - 4.00 but have 15 young people attending from the ages of 9 years - 13 years, so far we have run workshops on small animal care, hiphop street dance, art and history. We are looking at starting up a second day shortly.
Wednesday is still proving very popular for the Big home Ed meet, we have around 19 familes who attend on a regular basis. Lots of parents have got together and organised workshops and even workshops for parents have been going on, e.g. singing, dancing, its a fun day and we are looking forward to meeting with more people. Its a day where parents can get together and have fun as well and the youngsters, where they can chat together and talk about interests and arrange activities together.
Thursdays we run a whole day based on animal care programme and work presently with a small group of teenager boys. This also has proved very popular and we are looking at extending this and being able to offer an OCN Accredation in working with small animals.
Heroes Flexi School will be up and running in November. This unique education centre, the first in the UK, will be open five days a week. The centre is suitable for children from the ages of 8 years upwards A full time- table will be running each day and children can choose which sessions they want to join in with.
We will be offering a huge variety of workshops including animal care, history, sciences, environmental studies, sports, art. We will be making our films and documentries and designing our own cook book
We will also be working off site at an organic farm, an environmental centre, and taking trips out to theatres and events.
Heroes new venue, until we purchase our own, will be Scouts HQ in Loddon Valley Road, Twyford.
A lovely brand new two storey building with underfloor heating, large professional kitchen and large hall and two smaller rooms.
Outside space is large playing fields with huge recreation, skate park, basket ball pitch, childrens play area. Outdoor pool nearby open May - September.
We are neighbours with Twyford Youth Centre and will hopefully get involved in some projects with them, there is also Yoga, Line dancing, Keepfit, and a mother and toddlers group running there weekly for parents who might want to get involved in something for themselves.
We will be running five days a week from November 2009
It is very exciting new venture and I look forward to meeting with you all
