How to take part in the challenge
The Summer Reading Challenge is a free
national programme to support children’s
reading. Reading levels can drop during the six
week holiday and we’re working hard to make
books and libraries fun this summer.
The Reading Challenge starts on 11 July and
finishes on 13 September. Colonel Crawley will
be visiting schools over the summer term to
encourage children and let them know how
they can take part in the Challenge.
We look forward to welcoming you this summer.
Graeme Pick
Winchester Discovery Centre Manager
1.
Visit the Winchester Discovery Centre
from the 11 July 2015.
2.
Speak to one of our friendly Summer
Reading Challenge experts – it takes no
more than three minutes to sign up.
3.
Once you have read one book, collect your
free Golden Ticket to our special Golden
Ticket show (subject to availability).
You’ll also get your poster and first sticker.
NOTES TO PARENTS
Sir Crawley
photography by
Gilbert Yates
Welcome to Crawley Acres at Winchester Discovery Centre!Record breaking explorer Colonel Crawley welcomes you to his ancestral home.
This year, by signing up to the Summer Reading Challenge, you can be part of a world
record attempt! Visit Winchester Discovery Centre on 11 July, sign up for the Challenge,
and help us break the record for the number of pledges received for a reading campaign.
The Summer Reading Challenge is for kids aged 4–11 of all reading abilities, and it’s
totally free to take part. Colonel Crawley, our resident record breaking expert, will be here
to guide kids through their attempt to read six books over the summer holidays, earning
stickers and free tickets to special events along the way.
Alongside the Challenge we are running a whole host of brilliant workshops, fantastic
storytelling sessions and showing our favourite family films.
We would like to thank the Winchester Science Centre for supporting the Summer
Reading Challenge in 2015.
Sir Crawley
We would like to thank the Winchester Science Centre for supporting the Summer
HANDS-ON FUNPlanetarium-only tickets availableEvents for adults and children
100 science exhibits & the UK’s largest stand-alone planetarium
Open 7 days a week
www.winchestersciencecentre.org01962 863 791SO21 1HZ
Golden Ticket Event
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After you have read your first book you can earn a free
Golden Ticket to our fab event simply by coming into
Winchester Discovery Centre and telling one of our Summer
Reading Challenge experts about the first book you’ve read.
Fri21 Aug
11am and 1pm
Prepare to be dazzled and amazed
with puzzles, numbers and lots and lots
of laughs.
Johnny is passionate about science
and maths and he wants you to Think
Again about Science, Technology
and Education. You will to be infected
with the enthusiasm and passion that
Johnny will bring!
Johnny joins us on 21 August at 11am
for children under 8 and 1pm for
children 8 and above.
Numbers are limited so get reading and
claim your ticket before it’s too late!
Meet the legend!
Johnny Ball
4 Box Office 01962 873603
24 Jul — 26 Jul
Wed5 Aug
Sat15 Aug
Winchester Science FestivalFamily Fun at the Winchester Science Festival
Hands-on Science activities
for enthusiasts of all ages –
visit www.winchestersciencefest.org
and see pages 24–25 for details.
T-Rex hand puppet workshop10am – 4pm Free drop in
Drop in to the Discovery Centre and make your
very own Tyrannosaurus Rex hand puppet. This
famously ferocious dinosaur lived over 65 million
years ago in what is now North America. This
event is part of the Dinofest 2015 festivities and is
suitable for age 7+. Adult supervision is required
at this activity. This is a free event and all
materials are provided but a donation to keep
our dino’s happy would be much appreciated.
Dinosaur DayTo accompany our exhibitions Dinosaurs in your Garden and Dinosaurium and as part of DinoFest
Join us for a monster day of Dinosaur fun
with our presented interactive dinosaur
show, fossil workshops and more.
Dinosaur Dome Show
10am, 11am, 1pm, 2pm and 3pm
£8 per person
A 360 degree interactive dinosaur show in a
planetarium setting featuring the award winning
film ‘Dinosaurs at Dusk’. You will see the origins
of flight, learn and be amazed by a presenter
who is passionate about dinosaurs. Experience
the thrill of paragliding over the countryside,
feel what it’s like to soar like a falcon, and travel
back in time to meet the flying pterosaurs
and the ancestors of modern day birds: the
feathered dinosaurs.
As part of your ticket get access to our
hands-on fossil workshop! The Dinosaur Show
will last 45 minutes, there will be a 15 minute
break and then the fossil workshop will start.
You will also find children’s crafts and a
dinosaur trail in the building. Look out!
The dinosaurs are coming!
Age 4+
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12 August
Peter Rabbit… and more
Interactive storytelling for
ages 3+ based on the
books by Beatrix Potter
14 August
The Jolly Postman… and more
Interactive storytelling for ages 3+ based on the
books by Janet and Allan Ahlberg
17 August
Tyrannosaurus Drip… and more
Interactive storytelling for ages 3+ based on the
book by Julia Donaldson
19 August
The Tiger who came to Tea... and more
Interactive storytelling for ages 3+ based on the
book by Judith Kerr
22 August
The Rainbow Fish… and more
Interactive storytelling for ages 3+ based
on the book by Marcus Pfister
24 August
Postman Pat… and more
Interactive storytelling for ages 3+ based on
the characters of John Cunliffe
26 Aug
Peppa Pig… and more
Interactive storytelling for ages
3+ based on the characters
created by Neville Astley and
Mark Baker
28 August
How to Catch a Star… and more
Interactive storytelling for ages 3+ based
on the books by Oliver Jeffers
Join our resident storyteller and we read some of the greatest children’s storybooks
together on our big screen. Sessions start at 10.30am and will last 45 fun filled
minutes. The sessions cost just £1.50 per person, tickets required in advance.
Tickets available via the website www.hants.gov.uk/wdc by calling 01962 873603
or in person from the Discovery Centre Box Office.
Interactive Storytelling Sessions
on the books by Oliver Jeffers
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Summer Holiday
WorkshopsDinosaur T-Shirts
Thursday 30 August
1 – 4pm £10
Get inspired by our Dinosaur exhibitions and
make yourself a Roarsome printed T Shirt.
Please provide a plain light coloured T-Shirt for
this workshop. Age 5+
All day workshop The T-Shirt of Champions!
Monday 3 August
9am – 12pm £18
Champions of the Word: Would-be writers,
rappers, and finger-snappers are required for
this fun-packed morning working with music,
beats, rhythm and rhyme to create poems,
songs and short stories that celebrate the
written and spoken word. Age 5+
12.30 – 3.30pm
Take your inspiration forward from the morning
session design and print your own celebratory
T-Shirt in this crafty workshop.
You will need to provide a plain light coloured
T-shirt for this event. Age 5+
Mini Beasts
Tuesday 4 August and Thursday 13 August
10am, 11am and 12pm £5
Mini Beasts sessions will introduce you to the
incredible world of small animals including
giant stick insects, chameleons, tree frogs,
leaf insects, geckos and Rosie our gentle
tarantula. Learn about the animals, their habitat,
camouflage and how they hunt for their food.
For ages 5–10.
Writers on the Rampage
Friday 7 August
9.30am – 12.30pm £10
Be inspired this summer as we enter a world of
stomping, romping dinosaur fun at Winchester
Discovery Centre. Working with games and
prompts, in groups and alone, today’s session
will encourage young writers to create fantastic
creatures and set them free to rampage in
poems and stories. Age 8+
World of Costumecraft
Saturday 8 August
9.30am – 12.30pm and 1.30pm – 4.30pm £10
Take inspiration from your favourite computer
game and craft a fantastic cardboard costume
to take adventuring! Age 5+
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Willow Workshop
Monday 10 August
9.30am, 11am and 1pm £7
Learn the basics of Willow Weaving and craft
something cool to take home with you! Age 8+
Land Speed Records
Tuesday 11 August
9.30am – 12.30pm and 1.30 – 4.30pm £10
Build you own World Land Speed Record car
and race it. Will you set the record for the Fastest
cardboard car raced in a Library? Age 5+
Custom Costumes
Friday 14 August , 9.30am – 12.30pm £10
Make a spectacular fable inspired costume to
take home in this creative workshop. Age 5+
Bag Printing Workshop
Tuesday 18 August, 1 – 4pm £10
Take inspiration from the record breakers of
the world and print a fabulous cotton bag. All
materials provided. Age 5+
The World’s Biggest?
Wednesday 19 August
9.30am – 12.30pm and 1.30 – 4.30pm £10
Marvel at and model the world’s biggest
objects, from the Largest Pizza to the
Biggest chainsaw. Take part in a ‘worlds biggest’
diorama and take your models away! Age 5+
Preposterous People
Tuesday 25 August
9.30am – 12.30pm and 1.30 – 4.30pm £10
The tallest Man – The Longest Moustache – The
Stretchiest Skin – Learn about these incredible
humans and make 3D characters of them
from wire and plasticine! Age 5+
Animal Record BreakersA ‘Dinosaurs in your Garden’ Workshop
Wednesday 26 August
10.30 – 11.30am, 12 – 1pm, 2 – 3pm
and 3.30 – 4.30pm £3 per child Ages 4–11
Parental supervision required
Have a go at a range of hands-on activities
investigating animal record breakers, the
biggest, smallest and fastest of the animal
kingdom. Featuring some of the record-
breaking dinosaurs and birds in the ‘Dinosaurs
in Your Garden’ exhibition in The Gallery and
specimens from the Hampshire Cultural Trust
natural science collection.
Children under 8 must be
accompanied by an adult
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Free Family Film ScreeningsTo fill any breaks between reading books
over the summer Winchester Discovery
Centre – ‘Crawley Acres’ – has a huge
selection of DVDs to borrow.
We also bring you some of the best family
films shown on our big screen in a family
friendly environment. All for free! Film
screenings are in the Performance Hall –
no tickets required.
Expect dinosaurs, princesses, dragons,
knights, ogres, monsters, fish, toys and beasts!
Don’t forget to bring your library card with
you so you can join the Reading Challenge!
We will be showing our favourite family
films at 11.30 on:
Monday 27 July
Wednesday 29 July
Friday 31 July
Sunday 2 August
Friday 7 August
Sunday 9 August
Tuesday 11 August
Sunday 16 August
Tuesday 18 August
Sunday 23 August
Tuesday 25 August
Sunday 30 August
Thu6 Aug
Thu20 Aug
Plastic FantasticA Great Waste Drop-in Workshop
1 – 2.30pm or 3 – 4.30pm
£2 per child (accompanying adult go free)
Pay on the door
Milk cartons and drinks bottles make
wonderful birds, money boxes and
bird feeders. For children aged 4+
accompanied by an adult.
Waste WondersA Great Waste Drop-in Workshop
1 – 2.30pm or 3 – 4.30pm
£2 per child (accompanying adult go free)
Pay on the door
See what beautiful things you can make from
stuff people just throw away. We could be
making bags, purses, bird feeders or money
boxes. Give them away or keep them! For
children aged 8+ accompanied by an adult.
Tuesday 11 August
Sunday 16 August
Tuesday 18 August
Sunday 23 August
Tuesday 25 August
Sunday 30 August