Background

The Children’s University (CU) aims to help Portsmouth children find out about themselves and to help them learn in fun and exciting situations. We encourage them to learn new skills, make new friends from other schools and experience new learning environments.

Local venues such as the Kings Theatre work alongside us to provide learning experiences to help children gain a more in-depth knowledge of their city. Our aim is to open up a child’s eyes to see what wonderful facilities we have available to us in Portsmouth, for them to go into buildings that they walk past everyday to school and go inside them. In short to understand their city and their community.

This special piece of artwork was created in conjunction with the Pompey Study Centre’s new premises opening in September. Eleven lucky CU children were selected to take part in a one-off special workshop to showcase the Children’s University at the opening. Together the children created a stunning collage to advertise the Kings Theatre’s new pantomime, Cinderella. Each child created their own drawing of a mouse and this was then added onto the bottom of the artwork. The finished artwork will be displayed on the side of the Kings Theatre itself!

The Children’s University was started in 2002 and has had 5659 different children on its courses totalling an astonishing 143000 hours of learning between them. The project offers over 1000 places on courses to children across the city every term. Our aim is to find the very best in new and exciting activities for children to come and try. Courses are as varied as possible to really challenge and engage different personalities. We also offer some after-school clubs and occasionally themed one-day specials. The Children’s University (CU) is for children in Years 4, 5, 6 & 7. Kids’ College (KC) is for children in Years 2 & 3 and Youth Uni children in Years 7,8 and 9. The Project does not charge for course places, but accepts voluntary contributions to ensure that the whole of the community can take part in extra learning opportunities.

Jo Valentine Children’s University Project Manager

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