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Bright Sparks Holiday Science Camps

on Fri, 07/07/2017 - 4:53pm

Bright Sparks Events science holiday activities are designed to entertain primary school aged children during the school holidays. The events provide a safe environment for children to get hands-on with science, with enquiry lead activities and exciting demonstrations each day. The science activities are suitable for years 1 to 6 (ages 5 to 11 years).

Join Bright Sparks Events for a day jam packed full of science tricks, messy experiments, fun games and science crafts.

Health and safety - All activities have been fully risk assessed, they have Public Liability Insurance and every instructor is DBS checked and trained on their kits.

Fun Science during the Summer Holidays - Exciting science workshops will be running daily, in various venues across Oxfordshire, where each day is dedicated to exploring the science behind all your favourite things!

CAMP DATES & VENUES  

  • Monday 24th July to Friday 28th July 2017 
    • West Oxford Community Primary School,
    • Ferry Hinksey Road, Oxford, OX2 0BY 
  • Monday 31st July to Friday 4th August 2017
    • Charlton Primary School,
    • Charlton Village Road, Charlton, Wantage OX12 7HG 
  • Monday 7th August to Friday 11th August 2017
    • Woodstock C of E Primary School,
    • Shipton Road, Woodstock, OX20 1LL
  • Monday 14th August to Friday 18th August 2017
    • Rush Common Primary School,
    • Hendred Way, Abingdon, OX14 2AW 
  • Monday 21st August to Friday 25th August 2017
    • Didcot Civic Hall,
    • Britwell Rd, Didcot OX11 7JN 

(All days throughout summer run from 9am to 3:30pm)  
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CAMP ​ACTIVITY TIMETABLE​

  • MONDAY - Spy Lab: Be a secret agent for the day and find out how a cryptographer can hide and decode secret messages. Use your spy skills to hide your identity, whilst uncovering your body’s own secret code. Have you got what it takes to complete our mission impossible? 
  • TUESDAY - The Colour of Light: ​What is light and where does it come from? Explore the rainbows of light using diffraction glasses, take a closer look at lasers to find out if light can bend, discover fluorescing chemicals, invisible messages and play in the dark with shadow puppets. 
  • WEDNESDAY - Watery Wonderland: Start to probe the properties of particles as we work in the weird and wonderful world of water. Discover its sticky properties, use your lab skills to create fizzy bath bombs, lava lamps and play with surface tension to create giants bubbles! 
  • THURSDAY - Up, Up and Away: Discover the dynamics of flight and find out how air resistance plays an important part. Explore how aeroplanes, helicopters and rockets fly and land safely. Make and launch a hot air balloon, design and test paper planes and turn a balloon into a helicopter! 
  • FRIDAY - Polymer Science: Let’s investigate a compound which can absorb up to 25 times its own weight, a mixture that has the properties of both a solid and a liquid and chemicals that can make instant reactions to form long chains of polymers.

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