Rocketing into the Summer Term with the Floating Classroom

The blog's been a little quiet recently, but that's changing dramatically this week with the launch of 3 new Floating Classroom projects. 

We kicked off yesterday with a family day to start our after-school science project - WeLikeWhy - with pupils from Westminster's Children University. The boat was a blur of hyper-excited children learning and playing with their parents as they made bath bombs and slime on the decks before sending bottle rockets up into the skies over Paddington. 

Huge clean-up afterwards - blame the slime! - but a fantastic day of hands-on, fun learning. We're all really looking forward to another 10 weeks of similarly action-packed learning and discovery.

Tuesday sees the launch of Life Afloat - our 6-week local area / canal heritage project. Funded by British Land we'll be welcoming two Year 5 classes from Queen's Park Primary on to learn all about the local waterways. More about this later in the week.

Wednesday sees the launch of the Meanwhile Gardens Classroom: a pop-up classroom in the beautiful green space at Meanwhile Gardens right next to the Grand Union Canal in North Kensington. It's a great opportunity for children living in the centre of London to learn all about planting, growing and harvesting herbs and vegetables which they will then cook and eat at a celebratory meal to finish off the project.

If all that wasn't enough, we have 3 days of the annual Canalway Cavalcade over the Bank Holiday Weekend from Sat 4 - Monday 6 May. Keep an eye on our Twitter account for more details of what we're doing, but if you've ever wondered where to find fantastic beasts, you might want to start with the Floating Classroom this weekend.

I'm exhausted just typing all this. Time to post this then and to crack on with preparing for all these amazing learning activities.