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Edition 42 • July/August 2016 @FamCheshMag The local magazine for families with children 0-12 years facebook.com/familiescheshire FREE www.familiesonline.co.uk ® In this issue > School’s out! Local holiday camps and loads of things to do > School’s back! Ease the transfer to secondary school Covering: Poynton, Wilmslow, Alderley Edge, Knutsford, Prestbury, Macclesfield, Congleton, Holmes Chapel, Sandbach, Northwich, Winsford, Crewe, Nantwich, Tarporley, Waverton, Chester and surrounding areas Welcome News In this issue Chester Zoo’s newest attractions It’s all happening for Families in The game is afoot for the 02: News Nantwich at the end of July! award-winning Just So Festival 2016 04: Parents’ place Dinosaurs! The Next Adventure is and lakeside spots in the Rode Hall now open at Chester Zoo until Friday Estate, Cheshire. 06: Education 2 September, and is free with normal Just So was awarded Best Festival in 09: Holiday Camps zoo admission. 2015 by the National Outdoor Events 12: What’s on Featuring twenty-three life-like Association and with an incredible mix robotic dinosaurs including the of regional, national and international giganotosaurus, the utahraptor and artists and performers, it promises to the brachiosaurus, the exhibition will On Wednesday 27 July, the Nantwich The #BigDayOut is in aid of the local take you on an expedition of mischief Hello! aim to highlight the threat of extinction Show, in its 120th year, and celebrating branch of Cardiac Risk in the Young, and mayhem, to lands full of magical faced by species at the zoo such as the Queen’s Award for Voluntary www.cry-for-matthew.org.uk and the The award-winning Just So Festival midnight feasts, raucous pillow fights, Happy days! It’s nearly holiday time, we’ve caught sight of the sun once or the Eastern black rhino, Sumatran Service, opens its gates for the largest MRI Scanner Appeal at Leighton (19 – 21 August) has revealed its tribal tournaments, curious creatures twice, and we’ve got a new website! orangutan and Sumatran tigers. one-day agricultural show in the UK. Hospital (www.mcht.nhs.uk). marvellous programme for 2016: and breathtaking beauty. With so much going on over summer, we can’t possibly cram it all into 16 And make sure you also visit their With all the usual sights you would Advance tickets are just £4 for adults Codes & Ciphers, Detectives & Weekend camping tickets: £125 pages – and now we don’t have to! Our new team of local mums is Islands Zone, which recreates the expect from an agriculture show PLUS over and £2 for children via Disguises, Mysteries & Mayhem! adult, £50 child; Weekend non-camping constantly updating information for you, so look no further than amazing tropical environments of six 4,600 CHEESES from around the world www.redshift-bigdayout.co.uk An annual, intimate, weekend-long tickets £75 adult, £30 child; Day tickets www.familiesonline.co.uk for everything you need! South East Asian islands – Papua, Bali, and celebrity chefs James Martin and Shaun WIN!! WIN!! WIN!! camping festival for children and their £50 adult, £20 child. Under3s free. Sumatra, Monsoon Forest, Sumba and Wilson, this is a fantastic event for foodies families, the Just So Festival showcases For the full line-up, information and Happy browsing, have a fabulous break from school and safe travels! A set of 4 tickets for the Nantwich Show Sulawesi. Explore them on foot, as well too! Get your tickets online the best art, music, literature, comedy tickets visit www.justsofestival.org.uk AND the Big Day Out by answering this as on the Lazy River Boat Trip. (www.nantwichshow.co.uk) and save £££’s! and theatre for families in a wondrous or follow them on Twitter question: How many years has the Nantwich www.chesterzoo.org/islands Sunday 31 July is South Cheshire’s landscape of woodland clearings, (@justsofestival) or Facebook Show been going? TEXT: your answer Caryl Hall Jayne Keep Big Day Out, a fun-filled family day out rolling parkland, arboreal amphitheatres (www.facebook.com/justsofestival). and name to 07886 633 370 that includes Paintball, Bubble Footie, EMAIL: [email protected] Karting, Archery, Tug-of-War, Donkey TWEET: @RedShiftRadioUK with Summer Reading Challenge 2016 Rides and giant inflatables for the children. New Website for Families! #competition and your answer Next issue: Sept/Oct 2016 Design: Paul Wilson Graphic Design, Congleton. The Grown Up Zone sponsored by to do both close to where you live – as Tel: 07743 111 694, www.withpaul.co.uk The winner will be picked at random Circulation: 25,000 copies of Families Cheshire are The Big Friendly Read will feature Richmond Village hosts a cocktail bar and well as across Cheshire. available through nurseries, schools, libraries, selected Print: Bishops Printers, Walton Road, Portsmouth, from all entries on Sunday 24 July and some of Roald Dahl’s best-loved lots of jewellery and gift stalls for you to You can look forward to seeing the best shops and other points throughout Cheshire. If you would Hampshire PO6 1TR notified by the same method you entered. like free copies for your organisation, please let us know. 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We take every care preparing the magazine, but the children to expand their own reading by motion and engineering will also find the local areas of East Cheshire, North ideas for things to do with the kids locally and Editorial contributors: publishers and distributors can’t be held responsible for exploring similar themes across the plenty of engaging exhibitions. East Wales, South Cheshire, Chester / helpful parenting tips and advice to support Liat Hughes Joshi: A parenting journalist and the author of the claims of advertisers, the accuracy of the contents best contemporary children’s writing. Take part in the “Design your future Ellesmere Port and Northwich / Winsford. you and your family. It’s also fully optimised four books including ‘New Old-fashioned Parenting’ and ‘How nor for any consequences. to Unplug Your Child’ (both published by Summersdale) This year’s Big Friendly Read Children can sign up free of charge car” competition, organized by Crewe This new hyper-local approach will for mobile devices! Bookmark it now – and Raising Children: The Primary Years (Pearson). @FamCheshMag Summer Reading Challenge which for the Summer Reading Challenge at Crewe Town Council brings you a Town Council and Families, or enjoy the allow Families Online to bring you www.familiesonline.co.uk Claire Muffett-Reece: Freelance journalist who writes will run across the school summer their local library as the school summer three day celebration of motion fab science square in Victoria Square. information about a wide range of things It’s the new word of mouth! on parenting, lifestyle, health and general interest. Mum to Jack, five, and Max, three, her work has been published facebook.com/familiescheshire holidays, is linking up with the term ends. and science, with a wide range of Discover the history of the old ice in The Evening Standard, The Metro and Cosmopolitan, global year-long Roald Dahl 100 www.summerreadingchallenge.org.uk themed activities across the town. cream van, or have fun at the Wheels in among others. celebrations, honouring the world’s Running from Saturday 9 – Monday Motion go kart race! Terms and Conditions of Families Competitions No.1 storyteller. 11 July, this family-focused event will Discover more about the children’s 1. This competition is only open to families living in Cheshire/Greater Manchester. 2. Only one entrant from the same email address or household will be accepted. 3. Under 16s must obtain parental consent before entering. 4. Entries must be received build on Crewe’s rich transportation activities and competition by visiting by the closing date and proof of sending cannot be taken as proof of receipt. 5. Winning entries will be randomly drawn from and engineering heritage with a large www.tractioncrewe.co.uk all correct entries. 6. Automated/bulk entries and entries from third parties will be disqualified. 7. All decisions of Families are final and no correspondence will be entered into.