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That’s why we asked Christopher Green MBE from Summer Camps Trust to answer some of the burning questions parents have about summer camps in the UK.
As we informed you a few months ago, TheSchoolRun has had to make the difficult decision to close due to financial pressures and the company has now ceased trading. We had hoped to keep our content available through a partnership with another educational provider, but this provider has since withdrawn from the agreement.
As a result, we now have to permanently close TheSchoolRun.com. However, to give subscribers time to download any content they’d like to keep, we will keep the website open until 31st July 2025. After this date, the site will be taken down and there will be no further access to any resources. We strongly encourage you to download and save any resources you think you may want to use in the future.
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You should already have received 16 primary school eBooks (worth £108.84) to download and keep. If you haven’t received these, please contact us at [email protected] before 31st July 2025, and we will send them to you.
We are very sorry that there is no way to continue offering access to resources and sincerely apologise for the inconvenience caused.
Children (and parents!) learn a huge amount without pencils and paper, workbooks or a computer screen in sight! From world-class, hands-on learning experiences to seasonal excursions close to home, we suggest some of the UK's best educational days out, including our pick of the most child-friendly museums, all tested by parents and kids!
And who says the fun has to stop at museum closing time? We've rounded up the best UK museum sleepovers for children. Fancy sleeping next to a dinosaur skeleton or a blue whale? Now you can...
Bring history, science and every other school subject to life with a visit to one of the UK's best museums. Packed with opportunities to get hands-on with the exhibits, dress up, try some experiments and more, these venues come highly recommended by the most rigorous of critics: parents and children.
TheSchoolRun is looking for families to visit museums and other educational venues around the country and 'review' them. Get in touch to have your say about the best family days out (with a learning twist!).
Juggle fruit. Work on the technology of the future. Plot and design a lost city, create a zoo of invented animals, learn to talk sdrawkcab and bake a pizza clock and a pastry map. How many of our wonderful brain-boosting challenges can you fit into your summer? All you need are some art materials, imagination and an enquiring mind to have a go at a whole host of practical and reflective activities, suitable for primary-school children (and parents, of course). Have fun!
Whatever the weather, make the most of the great outdoors with some no-walls, no-screens educational fun. Make a mini-pond for frogs, experiment with time-lapse photography, feed birds with a home-made fat ball, try laurel leaf writing, sculpt an ice mobile, build a sun dial and prepare a scorch picture... brilliant fun whatever your age!
Discover the secrets of the Roman London, Londinium, find out more about the Great Fire of London and step back in time to Victorian London... our guides to the capital for primary-school children are packed with ideas for free activities and hands-on learning about the past.