CareersEducationService

Primary Activity Brochure 2018-19

Who we are

Contact: Graeme Peace, Careers Education Service Manager

Email: ces@halton.gov.uk

Telephone: 0151 511 7300

We deliver exciting, engaging, hands on activities for primary schools across Cheshire and the Liverpool City Region suitable for children in key stages 1 and 2.

Many of the activities link with several subject areas to introduce children to the world of work, including STEM subjects, art, history, geography and English.

We know that each school is different and one size doesn’t fit all so schools can book as many or as few activities as they wish and at a time of year that suits you.

We are a small, friendly team and I very much look forward to supporting your school.

Graeme PeaceCareers Education Service Manager

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Humpty’s New Wall

Team building activity for younger students based on the humpty dumpty nursery rhyme.

Students are challenged to build humpty a new wall which he won’t fall off. Students work first as a class with jumbo bricks before pairing up and working off plan.

Students use real miniature bricks, mortar (which dissolves in water!), miniature tools and PPE including hard hats and high visibility jackets.

Age range Years 1 – 2

Timings Morning

Location Classroom with access to a sink

Cost £395 per class (max 30 children)

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Super Suds

A fun, hands on enterprise, art and science activity.

Students work through four tables in a round robin looking at the branding of existing soaps, blind smell tests, designing their packaging and finally creating their own soaps.

All students make several soaps which they can take home at school’s discretion.

Age range Years 3 – 5

Timings Morning

Location Classroom with access to a sink

Cost £395 per class (max 30 children)

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Town of the Future

Half day activity in which children step into the shoes of architects and town planners to design their very own community.

They will first examine how their town developed and the challenges and big ideas which shaped it. They will consider sustainable solutions to issues such as housing, pollution, transport and quality of living for the local population.

The children consider different types of housing in their community and design their own dream home. The activity culminates with a challenge for young people work together in groups to design and create their own 3D sustainable town.

Age range Years 3 – 6

Timings Morning (but children can carry on into the afternoon or another day)

Location Classroom

Cost £395 per class (max 30 children)

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The Giant Tetrahedron

Popular STEM and team building activity. Students begin in the classroom where they examine the properties of different shapes and the tetrahedron.

They build small scale models of the tetrahedron before moving into larger groups to problem solve how to create a larger one out of four tetrahedrons.

Later (usually after morning break) students move into the school hall where they work in small teams to create a giant tetrahedron. After packing away, students return to the classroom to complete a maths challenge.

Age range Years 4 – 6

Timings Morning

Location Classroom moving to school hall later

Cost £395 per class (max 30 children)

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The Enterprise Game

The Enterprise Game is a board game and learning platform which aims to help students better understand how business works in a simple and yet very powerful way.

Pupils taking part in the activity play the board game in groups of 4 and compete across the class to have a business that is worth more than anybody else’s at the end of the game.

Students are introduced to new vocabulary such as assets, profit and marketing and are challenged to calculate their own finances.

Age range Years 5 – 6

Timings Morning or can be shortened to an afternoon activity

Location Classroom

Cost £395 per class (max 30 children)

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The Mersey Gateway Challenge

The Mersey Gateway Challenge STEM activity with a focus on civil engineering.

Students learn about concepts essential to all bridges such as tension and compression before examining bridge designs from around the world.

Later, students move into the hall to build an impressive model of the bridge. The morning concludes with a fun competition to see who can race a remote control car across the Mersey Gateway model.

Age range Years 5 – 6

Timings Morning

Location Classroom moving to school hall after morning break

Cost £395 per class (max 30 children)

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Careers Fair

Opportunity for students to engage with and learn about jobs, employers and education providers in a fun format.

Employers bring along objects from their work to trigger and can provide interactive demonstrations for the children.

Careers fairs complement other activities happening in school and help to demonstrate practical applications for what pupils are learning in school.

A fantastic way to ensure that “pupils are well prepared for the next stage of their education, training or employment”.

Age range Years 3 – 6

Timings Morning or afternoon

Location School hall

Cost £600 (multiple classes can take part in turn, usually Years 5 and 6)

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Bookings

School

Activity Class Date(or leave blank for any date)

We will always try to book your preferred date but this may not always be possible, in which case we will contact you to arrange another date.

When complete, please return this form by:

Email: ces@halton.gov.uk

Post: Halton CES, Halton Borough Council, Rutland House, Halton Lea, Runcorn WA7 2ES

Thank you

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