children's university

The Children’s University is a UK charitable trust which facilitates collaborative projects between local educational and training institutions and Primary schools; they provide access to high quality out-of-school hours learning activities to children aged 7 to 14 years of age. I took a voluntary role in supervising a group of trainee lecturers in the lesson planning, resourcing, preparing and the delivering of short activities on themes as diverse as the First World War, William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Nights Dream and the centenary of British women’s right to vote. Once they have finished the programme, the children are then invited to 'graduate' alongside the University Centre's students.