What’s on in York: Knights rugby half term activities

Fun In The Sun – May Half-Term Camps

Join us this May half term as we able to offer 4 park sessions for local children to enjoy. Fun, engaging, multi activity sessions based in the local Parks and green spaces.

Designed to help keep you fit and active during the school holidays, with each participant receiving a free drink and snack at each session. These sessions have been made possible through Ward Committee funding who we would like to thank for their continued support.

Booking is essential with limited availability. Please see each individual link below to book on an event.

Event 1 – Westfield Primary Community School

When: Wednesday 2nd June Time: 10:00 – 11:30

Where: Westfield Primary Community School, Askham Ln, YO24 3HP

About: Free fun for 5 years and upwards. Includes a free snack and drink

Cost: Free of charge           To Book please click here              Note: Advance booking is essential.

Event 2 – Woodthorpe Green Play Area

When: Wednesday 2nd June   Time: 2:00 – 3:30pm

Where: Woodthorpe Green Play Area, Summerfield Rd, YO24 2RU.

About: Free fun for 5 years and upwards. Includes a free snack and drink

Cost: Free of charge          

To Book please click here             

Note: Advance booking is essential.

Event 3 – Oaken Grove playing area

Friday 4th June            Time: 10:00 – 11:30

Where: Oaken Grove playing area, YO32 3QW

About: Free fun for 5 years and upwards. Includes a free snack and drink

Cost: Free of charge                      

To Book please click here 

Note: Advance booking is essential.

Event 4 – Acomb Green.

Friday 4th June            Time: 2:00 – 3:30pm

Where: Acomb green. Acomb Green, Acomb, YO26 5LR

About: Free fun for 5 years and upwards. Includes a free snack and drink

Cost: Free of charge                      

To Book please click here             

Note: Advance booking is essential.

If you have any questions, please email a.prentis@yorkcityknights.com or call the Knights office on 01904 876 527.

What’s on in York: New heritage “Euro trail” launches on Sunday

Europe in York, York in Europe TRAIL event map

 

To celebrate Europe Day on Sunday May 9th, York for Europe is publishing a new trail “York in Europe, Europe in York”.

York has always been in the heart of Europe. Whilst Roman Eboracum and Viking Jorvik are all around us, many more countries of Europe have their markers in the city to the present day.

The trail explores York’s wide European heritage – through buildings, businesses, communities, individual stories and belongings.

The trail starts with three key points of York’s European connections, which merit a special visit in themselves: the old trading rivers of the Ouse and Foss, the Merchant Adventurers’ Hall, and the National Railway Museum which exhibits our historic and modern rail links across the Channel.

The trail then moves on to highlight 19 individual European countries present in York today, from Italy to Iceland, France to Finland, Portugal to Poland, Sweden to Slovakia and Norway to the Netherlands – allowing of course for the changes of country names and borders over time.  The compilers of the trail offer an “apology” to York’s Romans and Vikings: since they are already visible everywhere, they are side-lined a little to allow the limelight onto other countries.  However, they are still there in some remarkable personal items they left behind.

Sketch maps of the trail as well as a list of the countries in the trail with their numbered sites are attached.

York for Europe hopes that York people will enjoy a different way of looking at their city with perhaps some surprises, that our fellow European residents in York will find their longer history here, and that tourists from mainland Europe will have fun finding out if a bit of their country is built into York.

To access the trail guide go to 

www.yorkeuropean.uk   (click)

https://www.yorkeuropean.uk/trail_info.html

What’s on in York: Plant sale on 21st May confirmed

Poppleton Community Railway Nursery will be staging their annual plant sale in the Foxwood Community Centre car park on Friday 21st May.

The event will take place between 10:30am and 1:00pm.

The Foxwood Residents Association will also be running their “everyone a winner” tombola

What’s on in York: “Finding the Words” poetry events restarting at York Library

York Library is beginning to gets its events programmes sorted out for the post pandemic world.

Their poetry access sessions have been a popular choice in the past

 

Thursday 27 May 2021 at 7pm
Join us online on for our monthly warm and welcoming poetry evening Finding the Words with Rosalind Easton, Jill Penny and Jeffery Sugarman. 

 

 

 

 

Thursday 24 June 2021 at 7pm
Join us online on for our monthly warm and welcoming poetry evening

Finding the Words with Kathryn Bevis, Ellora Sutton and Shash Trevett

 

 

 

 

 

Thursday 22 July 2021 at 7pm
Join us online on for our monthly warm and welcoming poetry evening.

Finding the Words with Rachel Bower, Hannah Hodgson and Maggie Mackay

What’s on in York: Roald Dahl at half term

The Twits (Colour Edition): Amazon.co.uk: Dahl, Roald, Blake, Quentin: 9780141369341: Books

With half-term coming up York Library have some special treats for children of all ages.

Storyteller John Kirk is going to be appearing on YouTube live with an exclusive telling of Roald Dahl’s The Twits on 24 October and again with Spooky Stories for Halloweenies on 31 October.

The sessions are free, but people need to register to receive the YouTube link see below.

Our partners at Hoglets have created 6 exclusive online storytimes for the under-fives featuring stories from around the world for children, every Tuesday morning from 27 October on our YouTube channel.

We have a page on our website dedicated to bringing you information about reading, fun and learning for children and families, including our Bloodaxe Challenge in partnership with the Jorvik Viking Centre, Mumbler’s Halloween Train and online stories and activities.