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All our staff are qualified, have completed CRC checks and are trained in First Aid & Child Protection. We are also fully insured.

All Day: Children will need a morning snack and a nut free packed lunch. Please also ensure that they bring plenty of still drinks.

All children will need weather appropriate sports clothing & clean trainers. Please also pack a rain jacket & sun hat. Should it be sunny, you are requested to apply sun cream at home. Staff are not allowed to help apply suncream during the day.

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All our staff are qualified, have completed CRC checks and are trained in First Aid & Child Protection. We are also fully insured. All Day: Children will need a morning snack and a nut free packed lunch. Please also ensure that they bring plenty of still drinks.

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Create some wild art with natural materials. National Trust / Barbara Taylor

When it comes to creating wild art, the only limit is your imagination. What will you use, and how? There's so much to choose from in the natural world - but make sure you're not making your art from another creature's home.

Creating wild art is no. 18 of our '50 things to do before you're 11¾' activities. It's a great way to make you think a little differently about nature. You could perhaps try and find things that vary in colour and texture so that you had even more choice and can pull together something really wild.

What you could use (there's simply too much to list here, so this is just to get you started):

leaves

twigs

feathers

seeds

pine cones

seed pods

sheep's wool that's been caught on a fence post

grasses or flowers

pebbles

moss

mud

paper

glue

string or wool

How many dimensions?

You could make a flat piece of art, or something like a sculpture, but you'll probably need somewhere dry to work out of the weather. If you are making a sculpture, then are you designing it to be seen from all sides, or do you just want people to look at the front/sides/back of it?

Obviously you're going to need lots more materials if you're going to make something really big, so try and think about the size of your finished artwork too.

The rules are there are no rules

Yes, you did read that right: there are no rules (apart from not taking anything from nature that already makes a home for an animal). So you can use your imagination to create whatever you like from whatever you like, which is one reason why making wild art is so brilliant.

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Fun-filled activities for everyone

Get ready for a whole lot of fun this summer, with activities to cater for everyone as part of our Summer of Play, sponsored by Starling Bank. Try your hand at a game of cricket, follow a nature trail through wide-open spaces, spark your creativity with arts and crafts workshops or play dress up and put on a performance for your friends and family. With plenty of ice creams and sandwiches in our cafés and shady picnic spots to choose from, bring everyone together for an adventurous day out at a place you love.

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Family days out, activities and attractions

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Explore our collection of fun activities for families throughout the year. There are plenty of indoor and outdoor family activities, come rain or shine.

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Mr Thorne's Phonics with Geraldine the Giraffe

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Mr Thorne's Phonics with Geraldine the Giraffe

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Get more activities, more resources and of course, more Geraldine, from Mr T's Phonics - here: https://www.mrtsphonics.com/more-geraldine-youtube We make learning essential reading and phonics skills easy - and fun! Let YouTube sensation Geraldine the Giraffe take you on a learning journey through the world of phonics, grammar, spelling and punctuation, learning letters and sounds along the way.

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If you have a Lexia account at school, use this link to carry on practising spelling patterns.

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Lexia Core5® Reading® is a research-proven, blended learning program that accelerates the development of fundamental literacy skills for students of all abilities in grades pre-K-5. Following a rigorous scope and sequence, Core5 provides explicit, systematic instruction through personalized, adaptive learning paths in six areas of reading.

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With a library of activities and resources for every stage of the learning journey, curated by the team at Oxford University Press, we are here with inspiration to help your little ones learn, grow and flourish at home, in the classroom and beyond.

Just click on the sections in the menu to explore by subject, or use the options below to uncover content by age group.

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Oxford Owl is packed with expert advice, tips and activities to help parents support their child's education. Help your child with reading, phonics and maths.

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From the 13th July, Tonbridge Library is reopening. Although you won't be able to choose books like you usually do, you can order them online and pick them up.

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Select your books

To select your books online:

1. log in and check our online library catalogue to see the availability of our books

2. note down the author and title the books

3. complete our online form with your request.

Fill in your select and collect form
If you prefer, call us on 03000 41 31 31 to speak to a member of staff.

We will then contact you to arrange a collection date and time.

For more information about the select and collection service read our frequently asked questions (PDF, 108.9 KB).

Charges

Charges for overdue items will be applied to books taken out via the Select and Collect service. We are offering extended loan periods of 6 weeks for up 6 items from this service.

No charges will be applied to items taken out before the lockdown. These items will be automatically renewed until 31 December 2020.

Returning your books

Books requested via the Select and Collect service or before lockdown can be returned to any of the 12 open libraries drop boxes or return bins from 7 July.

Books that were taken out before lockdown will have extended loan periods for all customers until the end of 2020. If you already know you will need further extensions after December, please email libraries@kent.gov.uk. Some of these changes may take time to implement so please bear with us while we work through them.

Home library service and mobile library service

We have restarted our home library service deliveries, alongside our postal loan service. We expect to restart the mobile library service in late August.

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To select your books online: log in and check our online library catalogue to see the availability of our books note down the author and title the books complete our online form with your request. Fill in your select and collect form If you prefer, call us on 03000 41 31 31 to speak to a member of staff.