Festival Programme

The programme for the 2016 Festival is crammed with many exciting and innovative projects as usual. We are delighted this year the bring the very exciting, world speed record Bloodhound project to Rotherham. This global project will engage our children and young people in the world of science, technology, engineering and maths. As in every year all the festival acitivities will celebrate our children's achievements over the year and will also inspire them to continue to progress next year and beyond. The programme incorporates a range of curriculum subjects, it adds creativity to learning and achievement and recognises the talents of our children and young people.

If you would like to participate in any of our events then please contact Fiona Radford, Trish Sharp or Julie Garrow via telephone or the contact form on the Contact Us page.

Take a snapshot look at the Festival here.

Roscars

Thursday 30th June 2016

The infamous ROSCARS, our film and animation celebration, is a chance for schools to showcase their film and animation talents! The categories this year are simply a Film category and an Animation category. Entries can be submitted from schools into each Year Group and this glitzy event will provide the perfect stage to celebrate Rotherham's Talent.

Our host and compere this year is The Beast, Mark Labbett from The Chase

Please contact Trish Sharp regarding submitting your entry.

Rotherham's Got Talent

Friday 24th June 2016

The final of Rotherham's Got Talent, where a live judging panel will choose from vocalists, bands, solo musicians, groups, dancers etc… This event is open to members of the public as well as parents, carers & families of the Finalists.

Festival of Sport

Thursdau 30th June 2016 - Herringthorpe Stadium

Building on the success of last year's Festival of Sport, schools are invited to partcipate in a variety of sporting activities including football, track, field events, aerobics, bowls, boccia etc… This event is open to all schools

Picture This

Exhibition opens Monday 13th June 2016 at 4pm. and is ope till Friday 8th July 2016

The fabulous Picture This project opens it's doors to the exhibition of art works created for the 2015-2016 project.

One Voice

Wednesday 6th July 2016

This event is the culmination of this year's School Year. With over 1,000 voices coming together at Magna to sing a range of well-known songs from a variety of genres. This will be a true singing spectacular, as the children will have the opportunity to sing along with a live orchestra

We are delighted to introduce the fabulous Lucy Spraggen as our compere and guest artist.

Storybook Day

Wednesday 22nd June 2016

This literacy day will host a variety of creative and exciting opportunities. We will have a range of children's authors, a theatre production of A Twist in Time and a green screen film studio opportunity for our children to perform in their favourite story,

Strictly Come Nursery Rhyme

Monday 20th June 2016

How do we take part?

Please work with your Early Years children to come up with your very own dance.

Any queries, please contact Pam Hawkins on 01709 822694

RotherVision

Tuesday 21st June 2016

Hold on to to your seats because the award winning RotherVision Song Contest is once again returning! Get ready for singing, dancing and a live television experience… all in another language. Impress the crowds to gain votes and then vote for your favourite act. Who will be the winner of RotherVision 2016?

Healthy Schools Celebration

Monday 20th June 2016

This event is held every year to celebrate the excellent work going on in schools and to thank the colleagues of the Rotherham Healthy Schools Team who have supported this work in so many different ways. Throughout the evening schools and partner agencies will be formally presented with their awards and the good practice that has taken place throughout the year will be celebrated

Music Festival

Monday 20th June 2016

Rotherham Schools Music Service presents a musical extravaganza of young instrumentalists and singers. This clebration will be part of the BBC Music Day. School pupils from across Rotherham will join together to form bands, choirs and orchestras with literally thousands of children taking part.

Rotherham Charter for Parent and Child Voice

Thursday 23rd June 2016

A school celebration by invitation only.

Creative Carnival Day

Friday 24th June 2016

This exciting day will give children and young people the opportunity to take part in a range of carnival skills. The workshops will include mask making, african drumming and dance. The day will end in a carnival parade and performance.

STEM and The Bloodhound Project

You are invited to experience the BLOODHOUND project as part of this year’s Children’s Festival.

This is a unique opportunity for hundreds of children in Rotherham to witness this global engineering project and we are proud that the BLOODHOUND and Rolls Royce are working with us.

The BLOODHOUND project is using a 1000mph world land speed record in an attempt to inspire the next generation about science, technology, engineering and mathematics. It has three objectives:

1. Inspire the next generation about STEM

2. Share an iconic research and development programme with a global audience

3. Set a new World Land Speed Record of 1000 mph.

The BLOODHOUND project will be in Rotherham from Monday 13th June through to Saturday 18th June. There will be opportunities for families and the public to visit over the weekends but during the week the project is exclusively available, free of charge for schools subscribing to the School Improvement Service (£100 fee for non-subscribers), for children and young people in Rotherham’s Schools.

BLOODHOUND are proposing running the week as an ‘Air Rocket car Challenge’. Groups will be set the challenge in the morning and work in teams to design, build and test cars over the day with semi-finals and then the finals in the afternoon. There will be competition winners each day who will get their name on the tail Fin of the actual car taking part in the World Land Speed record. During the day, each group will also go through the Tour and Explore workshops around the Car as well as other STEM related activities.

We expect this to be a very exciting and popular addition to the Children’s Festival and ask that you let us know by Friday 27th May if your school wishes to send children and students to experience the project. A maximum of 30 places per school are available and we are allocating days to Learning Communities, as below:

The day will run from 9:30 until 3pm at MAGNA. Further details about the BLOODHOUND project are available at http://www.bloodhoundssc.com/project