1000 hours and first National League Competition

Max Force - NDP level 4 Semi Finals

Max Force - NDP level 4 Semi Finals 

Wetlands Centre - London

The Wetlands Centre is a great place to go to if you want to see birds. This was the first time that I visited in winter. They provide lots of activities such as crafts, otter feeds and family trails that you can download before your visit.  In the photos you can see that I am jumping in a puddle. This is because they had an annual puddle jumping competition. It was great fun, but you do need wellies and waterproofs.

                    

Max Force Trampolining - National Development Plan Level 4 competition

I have been doing trampolining for a long time and it is great fun and keeps you fit. I started off doing only 30 minutes a week and now train for 6 hours a week. 

I have been lucky enough to go from beginners to intermediate level and wish to move up to elite when I am older. My club has only just joined Children's University so I am now excited to be able to add more hours to my passport for the activity I love best.

I recently got a gold medal in the South East area, Kent, Sussex and Surrey, for my age group. I am just about to compete to see if I can get a place in the South East area team.

This is one of the routines I am doing.

Bodiam Castle -National Trust

These are some of my pictures of my visit to Bodiam Castle for the very first time. On the outside of the castle it pretty much looks like a lovely place to live and I wish I was around in the medieval times so that I could have looked in the castle before it turned to ruin .

The National Trust have been able to keep some of the rooms how they looked like back in the day and you can climb the towers and look inside them which  gives you an idea of what it looked like.  The stairs are very steep. 

If you are lucky enough to visit you can go on a guided tour of what is left of the castle and in one of the pictures there is a photo of me and the tour guide,  she knows a lot of facts about the castle and made my day very enjoyable one. There us also a very good video about Bodiam, which you can watch when you arrive and a good audio tour.

'Joan the Brewster' Tour Guide

Parent's guide to safe blogging

Dear parent,

Welcome to my daughter's Children's University blog. Hopefully it will inspire you to get your own child(ren) documenting their visits and activities.  But if you are like me, you will want to ensure that your child's blogging experience is safe.

This blog has been created over a period of four years, but I have only just made it public as initially it was a private record of my daughter's journey through CU. But the more I looked at it the more I thought it would be a valuable resource to share to spread the word about CU to other parents and children.

In case you have never used a blog before there are a couple of ways to navigate through the posts:

1. You can simply scroll down and you will see each post... The newest one is at the top of the page. When you reach the bottom click on Older Posts to see another batch of posts.

2. You can look at the right of the screen to see the dates in the blog archive, Click on the little arrow next to the date to see the months, click the next arrow to see the posts added in the year.

If you see something you like please feel free to add a comment. However, you won't see your comment added immediately as I have set it to moderate. That means I get to vet each comment made and add it as long as it is appropriate...... More about that in the guide.

The guide covers:

• Creating a Google account
• Creating a blog
• Adding a post
• Adding a photo
• Setting your blog as private
• Preventing your blog being searched for on Google search engines

Guide to using Google Blogger (To be added)

Christmas Challenge 2015 - Wrapping paper

First you get some potatoes, cut them in half and get some Christmas shaped cookie cutters . Push the shape into the potatoes and then cut around the potato up to the cutter. When you pull the cutter out it is ready to use.

Here are four I cut. I only used 3 on the paper, the star, tree and gingerbread man.

lay the paper out and put some weight on the corners to keep it flat. I didn't use glossy paper in case the designs didn't stand out or smudged.

Then put some paint onto a paper plate. Dip your stamp into the paint and wipe off any extra paint. Using the stamp push it onto the paper gently.

Keep stamping until you are happy with the design.