www.hants.gov.uk/wdc

The Summer Reading Challenge

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

6 Box Office 01962 873603

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

8 Box Office 01962 873603

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