Since new Government regulations came into force last year, 189 parents in Plymouth have been fined for taking their children on holiday during term time.
Plymouth City Council received the alerts from schools across the city highlighting unauthorised absence for the reason of family holidays from 1 September 2013 to 24 January 2014.
A unique interactive music event for the under 5s and their grown ups! Come and have fun and join in with this concert led by two of the finest folk music performers and song leaders in the South West. Sarah and Paul from Wren Music will bring songs from projects they have been involved with - from the hugely popular Nice Warm Socks to the more recent Songbox - as well as new tunes for you to enjoy.
There will be audience participation including singing and a chance to make an instant band! Wren Music will provide some instruments, but please bring along your own as well if you...
Festive fun for families at City Museum and Art Gallery
Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery’s 'Make and Take' programme for December has a decidedly festive feel, with two creative workshops for all the family.
On Saturday 14 December there's a chance to make a variety of Christmas-themed keepsakes to take home, including spiral hats, candy cones, pom-pom decorations and wrist bands. The ‘Santa Stops Here’ sessions will run from 11am to midday and from 1.30pm to 2.30pm.
The second event, on Christmas Eve, is called ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas’. Again, two...
Charity launches emergency appeal after investigation finds children living in ‘shameful’ conditions.
Shelter has launched an emergency appeal after an investigation by the charity uncovered the shocking conditions that many homeless children will be living in this Christmas.
2,038 children in the South West which includes 111 in Plymouth alone, are currently homeless and...
Plymouth Play Association, alongside Plymouth Arts Centre, invite you and your little sparks, to come and ignite your creativity with a fireworks themed workshop. Artist and learning specialists support these open-ended activities for children under 6. Don’t forget to dress for mess. Come along to Plymouth Arts Centre on Tuesday 12 November from 1-2.30 to have the chance to make some exciting bonfire night inspired art!
Advance booking is essential. Please call the box office on 01752 206114.
More information is available at www.plymouthartscentre.org .
A free fireworks-themed workshop to ignite children’s creativity following Bonfire Night is being held next week.
The event next Tuesday at Plymouth Arts Centre, run in conjunction with Plymouth Play Association, is for under 6 year olds. Artists and learning specialists will help children ignite their creativity.
The workshop, at the venue in Looe Street, will run from 1-2....
Staff and volunteers at Buckland Abbey, Garden and Estate near Yelverton are gearing up for a bumper half term week full of activities, crafts and Halloween events. There will be plenty for families to do throughout the day, every day between 26 October and 3 November.
Families can set off with a bag full of activities to complete on the estate’s Autumn Adventure Trail which boasts...
Over half-term there will be free autumn activities ranging from seed gathering, Shed on Wheels to autumn art and design to get children and their families outdoors. They take place on:
• Monday 28 October 11am to 2pm Forder Valley meet at Sheeptor Road (just off Novorossiysk Road, parking available). • Tuesday 29 October 11am to 2pm, Woodland Wood, just off Ringmore Way, West Park. • Wednesday 30 October 11am to 4pm – the All Ways Apples event at Devonport Guildhall in Ker Street, a-peeling activities for everyone with apple pressing, arts and crafts workshops, cookery...
Five children are locked up overnight in Devon and Cornwall Police cells each week, figures obtained by the Howard League for Penal Reform reveal today (14 October).
New research by the charity shows that there were 285 overnight detentions of children aged 17 and under in police stations across the region during 2011.
The total across England and Wales was 40,716 – which...
