A large soft play area for children and parents. There are other activities on site too such as…read morepainting and crafts. The play area contains bouncy castles and the usual climbing frames. There are three slides, a wave slide and two spiral slides. These aren't that great and felt sticky and slow to ride. Lots of food is available on site. Price of entry is very reasonable with most of the charge going towards the children rather than the adults.

Circomedia is the leading training centre for phsical theatre in Europe and has been established in…read moreBristol for ten years. It offers serious full time professional courses or three month tasters or part time evening classes for those curious to just have a go. Has a second home in a beautiful converted church in St Pauls which houses a large selection of equipment such as trapezes and rope ladders . If you just like watching circus check out their end of year show, often on at Bristol Old Vic for some high flying high quality performances.

My review is primarily for the Circomedia Portland Square, St Pauls site which they lease this…read morebeautifully restored church from the Church's Conservation Trust and have installed a permanent flying trapeze rig and a sprung dance floor. It is a wonderful space with the modern equipment and glass screens juxtaposed with the richly coloured stained glass windows and old stone font. Circomedia run a range of training courses from a two year diploma, teacher training, evening courses, workshops and team-building exercises. Some of the skills covered include clowning, corde lisse, acrobatics, juggling and unicycling. Circomedia also hosts performances here, the next one being Rapunzel and for just one short week in August, will be opening a continental style café at the front of the church with fair trade and organic produce and spontaneous circus performance

The reputation of this institute speaks for itself, and the past Alumni just further emphasise it's…read moregreatness. I once auditioned here before deciding on going to Dartington, I was a fresh faced 18 year old, excited about meeting new people and learning from great teachers, the one thing negative I do have to say about the Old Vic is that they seem to lach onto the nervous excitement and awe that young hopefulls have, they then seem to futher press thier eletism on you during your audition, making you feel a little like it's your privaledge to have travelled 2hours, paid £40 and sweated it out in the waiting room to just have 10 minutes with 2 tutors who will then assess if your worthy to have another audtions. Besides all this you can't deny the schools greatness, and if you did choose this as a point of study then you will not be dissapointed.

Bristol Old Vic Theatre school is first-class and world famous - neither of which are hyberboles…read more Sporting such amazing acting alumni as Jeremy Irons, Pete Postlethwaite and Daniel Day-Lewis, it was opened by Laurence Olivier in 1946. The building, tucked away up near the downs in Clifton is unassuming, like another grand Victorian residence. Inside, studios, glass walls and practice rooms bely its theatrical purpose. Short courses, youth courses as well as degrees and post-grad study. You'll compete with the best to attend and you'll have to have plenty of dosh for the fees, but for those serious about performing, this is right up there with RADA for prestige.

'Every child can shine'…read more.. A little optimistic I think, some children just aren't cut out to shine in the sky of Maths and English! Nevertheless, most children with a bit of extra help, are good enough - at Kumon they offer study programmes to provide that extra support and aim to build confidence. I'd never actually heard of them but apparently they have over 600 centre across the country, this one in Henleaze is run by Sophie Lennox. At Kumon your child can learn valuable study skills which will see them through their SATs (if they even still have these now days), GCSE's, A-Levels and beyond!

Fantastic child centric school. It is such a nurturing environment and the teachers are all…read moreamazing. We feel like we are part of a wonderful community. Highly recommend

Not a bad school, this rather historic large school building has been a school premises for well…read moreover a century now. The original 'Boys' and 'Girls' separate entrance signs can still be seen carved into the stonework to this day. The school has been through several periods of general improvement and is a generic all-fath primary school catering for children from reception class to Year Four. With good playground areas both at the front and rear, secure premises and large Victorian classrooms, the school now boasts a school-meals facility (only renewed after many years). For a handy local school with a solid history and hard-working and caring staff it's a good choice. My own offspirng went here for a few years and progressed well.

Are you looking for a new University to go to? I recommend this one in Newport; although, perhaps…read moreit depends on what you want to study exactly...? I went here for an open day and was pretty impressed..., but I did find that what I had in mind for accomadation standards where possibly a form of standard, that for me did not quiet reach my satisfactional level of requirement. That and I was already convinced and fixed with the exact type of University that I wanted to go to... But I was almost convinced to change my mind partly because the Media and Film departments in particualar looked really impressive and they nearly changed my mind as to what type of degree I wanted to do, especially since I had already done a National Diploma course at Coleg Glan Hafren in Cardiff. Newport is about twenty minutes to half an hour from Cardiff and by the use of public transport there are some buses to get back and forth from Cardiff to Newport, if you should need too... but the trains are alright to go on as well and you may find that you need both forms of transport. We met either the Vice Chancelor or the Headmaster of the University and he was really welcoming and was full of information about the Media and Film course and they did show a variety of different short films that some of the students the year before that open day had created. The short films weren't bad. The quality of them I thought was the best. If your thinking of studying a Media and Film degree in Wales then I certainly recommend this University as they are much more flexiable towards who they let into their University and the actual building of some of the buildings on this Campus in Caerleon looks fabulous, like an eighteenth century house or something... And the staff seem very supportive, friendly and helpful... Mind you if I had gone to study here I would have stayed living at home, but then I wouldn't have learn't how to live independantly... which I have found to become very useful.

The thing about selecting a university to attend is that most undergraduates-to-be want to escape…read morethe humdrum of their upbringing to climes unknown to them. Newport, on the face of it, isn't the tiniest backwater (although nobody's saying it's a sprawling cosmopolitan metropolis). But anybody not from the area should beware, because University Of Wales, Newport is split into two campuses: Allt-yr-yn and Caerleon. The former is less problematic, a suburbs base due to be replaced by the new City Campus in January 2011. The latter is entirely outside Newport, however, a good 10-15 minutes away by road, hardly ideal for convenient trips to the city and an even lengthier scoot over to Cardiff's more stimulating surrounds. Business, media and arts-led courses are probably the chief reason to attend the university. And on a positive note, with less nearby nightlife to readily splurge your loan and fairly dirt cheap rental housing in Caerleon, at least skint students can make their cash stretch a little further (if they don't spend it all on travelling to Newport/Cardiff anyway).

this really is a FANTASTIC nursery, my 3 year old boy loves it and he is learning so much. They…read moreprovide a healthy cooked lunch everyday included in price and healthy snacks. large garden and various rooms for different groups / activites. My little boy was having lots of behavioural probs at his previous nursery but since his very first session here he has been fine and they think he's great! he can now write his name etc and they also encourage independance which i think is a great thing (wash up their own plates after lunc etc) such a friendly and homely atmosphere.

The Learning Organisation…read more After a recent rebrand TLO are trying hard to appeal to the educational sector by using bright colours, cartoon characters, and phrases that begin "learning powered..." They claim to care about innovation, clarity and coherence, quality and detail, and long-lasting effects. If you ask me it's a long way round of saying "we get the job done"! They cater for primary and secondary schools providing things like posters, activity banks, and interactive quizzes as well as live talks and presentations. The staff here, rather than the directors, are really helpful.