Let's join together and open doors and windows tonight to clap for all key workers who are keeping us safe and keeping things running. We're applauding everyone including teachers, supermarket staff, delivery drivers, refuse workers, cleaners and administrators as well as NHS doctors and nurses.
Let's join together and open doors and windows tonight to clap for all key workers who are keeping us safe and keeping things running. We're applauding everyone including teachers, supermarket staff, delivery drivers, refuse workers, cleaners and administrators as well as NHS doctors and nurses.
Yesterday (24 April), Sheffield City Council announced the shared launch of two new brilliant resources to support Sheffield children and young people (aged 0-24) and their families in lockdown.
Create Sheffield and 50 things to do before you’re 5 are available from today and completely free to use.
Create Sheffield’s new website hosts a series of fun, creative adventures for young people, children and their families, brought together by Create Sheffield and their partner arts and cultural organisations from across Sheffield. The launch comes at the end of the week which should have seen the start of the summer school term. The website’s activities have been transformed into #homeadventures to try in lockdown. Participants are encouraged to share what they get up to on each home adventure on social media, and to invent their own #homeadventures to share with others across in the city.
‘50 Things to Do before you’re 5’ is also launching a Sheffield-focused version of their website and app. This fantastic resource particularly aimed at the under 5s has been funded by the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government and special additional material has been put onto the website to help with its use for families in lockdown.
The app offers alternatives to the exciting visits available in Sheffield, with links to museum websites and ideas for home and garden. The 50 Things include activities that are based on research of how children learn. More importantly, they are low/no cost, accessible to every child aged 0 to 5 across the city and are great fun.
Families can get involved and share their adventures on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram using #50ThingsSheffield #homeadventures
Go online at www.sheffield.50thingstodo.org and www.createsheffield.co.ukand start your adventures today.
Have you exhausted all your literary content in the house? Sheffield's e-library can help.
Sheffield Libraries subscribes to a digital platform called RBdigital.
It is a simple to use app for your Phone, Tablet or Computer, and can give you access to a variety of library services. These include Magazines, ebooks, current magazines, audiobooks and comics.
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With much thanks to the Carterknowle and Millhouses residents group...
"You really don't need to put a name to the bird to enjoy its song, but most people recognise some birds' songs and usually wish they could know what they've heard. Well, Mark Avery can help you a bit with that because in this time of lockdown he has been writing a series of blogs about bird song: what particular birds sound like and bits and pieces of science, literature and personal stories thrown in. There are 20 short blogs on bird song so far and they lead you through some of our commoner songsters, and tell you something about them. At this time of year, more and more bird species are arriving back with us from their wintering grounds in Africa and he will be writing about them over the next few weeks too.
Here are links to the first 20 published blog posts. See https://markavery.info/blog/
This series of blog posts is illustrated with Tim Melling's photographs and the sounds come from the xeno-canto website.
Let's all open doors and windows tonight to clap for all key workers who are keeping us safe and keeping things running - so people including teachers, supermarket staff, delivery drivers, refuse workers, cleaners and administrators as well as NHS doctors and nurses.
Let's all open doors and windows tonight to clap for all key workers who are keeping things running - so people including teachers, supermarket staff, delivery drivers, refuse workers and cleaners as well as NHS doctors and nurses.
FIND MY PAST
Sheffield Libraries is offering free home access to findmypast and the British Newspaper Archive for library members during the covid-19 closedown. To access this service email archives@sheffield.gov.uk for log-in instructions.
"Click here for a directory of local businesses that are providing services to your door. It has been painstakingly compiled by Judith Rossiter from the Whirlow and Millhouses Covid-19 Mutual Aid group.
Judith updates the directory on a regular basis, and the latest version can always be found here
https://docs.google.com/document/d/10XxJ3LFYG_MTdwKs01IxXI9tf2MQhuQU9wjaOucgvzE/edit?usp=sharing
If anyone wants to add new entries or correct anything they can contact Judith via whirlow.millhouses.mutual.aid@gmail.com (just put attn. Judith Rossiter in the subject box)"
