New Books New Books!
We have had lots of new and exciting junior fiction books arrive this month!
Visit your local library to browse or log in to our online catalogue with your library card number to reserve.
bit.ly/3G9FXqY#NewBooks#ChildrensBooks#Libraries
ALT Image shows front covers of some of our new junior books including Doggy dance off by Steve Smallman and That's not my shark by Fiona Watt.
Our #Cambridgsehire Children and Young People’s Service are here to help 😊 Professionals, you and your families can contact our Single Point of Access for help with a child’s care and development. Call 0300 029 50 50 📱☎️ We are open Monday-Friday from 9am - 5pm. #CPAS#CYPSPA
You can find the Health Fair on Midsummer Common, CB5 8DJ
20, 21, 22 June
10:00am - 3:00pm
To include:
•Free Health Checks
•Maternity Support
•The Vaccinators
•CPR Training
•Education Support
•General Support & Advice
⭐We are launching our new "Stories Behind the Stitches" children's trail.
🎀Track down Mischief the Monkey and find all the ribbons scattered through the Museum
⏰Launching at our Late Night Opening, 27th June.
🎟️Included with standard entry, children 16 and under visit free.
🌞We're getting ready, are you? It's Zoology Live! Sat 22 June. Help us to create a huge nature connections paper chain with artist @bettyetiquette. Plus walks, tours & specimen handling. All welcome! All FREE. Book ahead for tours/walks. museum.zoo.cam.ac.uk/events/…@CamUnivMuseums
📢Calling all professionals working with families in #Cambs and #Pboro📢cambspborochildrenshealth.nh… is a new online NHS resource. Designed for parents/carers with children and young people, explore expert advice to help navigate the journey of parenthood #ChildrensHealth
🐯FAMILY AFTERNOON THIS HALF TERM🦁Thurs 30 May - join us for a craft afternoon, including having a go at building a bear skeleton 🐻 & making your own mini animal to take home. Museum entry & activities FREE - all ages welcome. 12 noon to 4pm - just drop in! 🙂@CamUnivMuseums
Last night our Glasshouse team captured a twin blooming of our moonflower - Strophocactus wittii.
This year the moonflower has rewarded us with multiple blooms. We expect these to be the final flowers for this year.
#moonflower#floweringcactus#strophocactuswittii
🦔Spotted a hedgehog lately? Hedgehogs hibernate during the winter & emerge in the warmer spring weather. 🌞 We can help them by building a hedgehog shelter or making a hole in the garden fence to help them get around. #HedgehogAwarenessWeek 🦔ow.ly/eJFI50Rsn7a.
“What I like best in the whole world is Me and Piglet going to see You, and You saying, “What about a little something?” And Me saying, ‘Well, I shouldn’t mind a little something, should you, Piglet,’ and it being a hummy sort of day outside, and birds singing.” #SaturdayMorning
We didn’t always know that ammonites are the fossilised remains of extinct cephalopods.
In Whitby, legend has it that they are snakes which were turned to stone by St. Hilda. Local curiosity dealers used to carve out snake heads to encourage the idea!🐍
#SnakeStone#FossilFriday
ALT A small ammonite resting in a pair of hands. A rudimentary snake's head has been carved into the large end of the spiral.
They try to pretend that nobody cares
Whether you walk on the lines or squares.
But only the sillies believe their talk;
It’s ever so portant how you walk.
And it’s ever so jolly to call out, “Bears,
Just watch me walking in all the squares!”
~A.A.Milne #wednesdaythought
Don’t forget to join us on Saturday 23rd March between 11am and 3pm! Meet the team and the scientists of @EarthSciCam and take part in exciting activities, including making mountains, at our Earth Sciences Fair. 🏔️
#CambridgeMuseums#MuseumActivities#EarthSciences
ALT A Sedgwick museum volunteer runs a mountain making demonstration using layers of different coloured sand in a clear, Perspex container. The layers are pushed together to form folds of sand which mimic the folds of sediment found in mountains. A child is holding onto the Perspex container to admire the finished result. The text over the image reads: Join us on Saturday 23rd March to...make your own mountain!
Thursday 21st March 2024
One of the biggest floral spectacles in Cambridge has just come into blossom for the first time at St John’s College. Lining both sides of Limes Avenue are expanses of Narcissus Jet Fire and February Gold Daffodils intermixed with Chionodoxa Blue Giant flowers.
This new installation is the brainchild of Head Gardener David Austrin who with his team and volunteers from the college and the wider horticultural community of Cambridge, planted over 57,000 bulbs.
It took the whole month of November last year to plant the bulbs by hand - no machinery could be used due to the risk of damaging the roots of the lime trees that line the pathway. David tells me that there is a second surprise timed later in the spring and of course being perennials we can expect this gorgeous display for many years to come.
So if you missed the Thriplow Festival, take a walk along Queen’s Road where you can view the avenue of daffodils.
@stjohnscam
If you haven’t yet had a chance to see this amazing #youngcarers exhibition you now have until the 17th April to check it out. 🙌 A great free Easter activity with photos, video and beautiful views over St John’s college! Located at Gallerie V, St John’s St, Cambridge CB2 1TW🌟
Two weeks of free events for everyone starts today! 🎉
From new exhibitions, talks at @CambridgeUnion and your chance to hear from experts in AI, the environment, health and history.
Plan your #CamFest now 👇
🎉 And today we start! We've got two weeks of over 350 events (most of which are completely free!) for everyone to enjoy.
Get planning your #CamFest now: bit.ly/3bQt5ck