Wild activities planned for children’s holiday club

YOUNGSTERS looking for an active Easter holiday can participate in Wild Days Holiday Club sessions at Dinton Pastures Country Park.

Children can enjoy two activities during each half day session, chosen from a wide range of land and water sports such as indoor climbing, archery, raft building, kayaking and stand-up paddle boarding.

Youngsters can also try out survival skills, crate stacking, and a Jacob’s ladder challenge. n For information and booking, visit: www. wokinghamcountryside.co.uk/ activities/holiday-clubs/wilddays

And newly added this year is fencing.

Sessions are designed for all children aged eight to 13, and take place every morning and afternoon during the school holidays.

Children attending morning and afternoon sessions need to bring a packed lunch.

The club takes place on weekdays from Monday, April 3 to Friday, April 14.

Sessions are from 9.30am to 12.30pm, and from 1.30pm to 4.30pm.

Each half day costs £30 until Saturday, April 1, when the cost rises to £32.

The sixth form centre, which was approved at a Wokingham Borough Council planning committee meeting on Wednesday, March 8, will be two storeys tall, and free up space on the campus, allowing for the increase in numbers.

Of the 210 additional students, 60 will be sixth formers, comprising 30 students for each year group.

To enable the centre to be created, an existing administration block will be demolished, and new facilities will be created in an extension to the main school building.

Both buildings will be wheelchair-accessible using ramps.

Speaking at the meeting, headteacher Nick Sweeney said: “The plans give us muchneeded teaching space to take the additional students, but also dependent study space so that our older students can develop those independent learning skills that they would need for university and apprenticeships.”