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High Performance Podcast

The resource content is taken from the conversations Jake has had with people in sport, business and the arts. Such as adventurer Bear Grylls, England Rugby manager Eddie Jones, actor Sam Heughan – discussing what drives them, their values, the importance of resilience and failure in achieving success. We hope to highlight the importance of having the right mindset for children to achieve what they want to in life. 

www.thehighperformancepodcast.com

Dinosaur Careers

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Challenges at Home:

  • Look out for grass snakes during the hot summer months.
  • Can you guess what different herbs and spices are just by your sense of smell?
  • Create a scent scrapbook – talk about memories that different smells can spark off for example a wax crayon may remind you of your time at playschool, a bonfire of Guy Fawkes’ night and record them in your memory book for posterity.
  • Make your garden reptile friendly. 
  • From 9:08 in the video: Talk about the different careers linked with animals and the Roarr! Dinosaur Adventure.  When you listen to the film you will discover that the staff have had many different jobs on the journey to their current role. Think about volunteering.

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Working in a Zoo

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Challenges at Home:

  • When you visit an attraction, think about all the different jobs that are available.
  • Consider volunteering to build up experience on your CV.
  • Visit a zoo or wildlife park.
  • Design an obstacle course/something fun for a pet at home. 
  • Face paint zoo animals.
  • Invent an enrichment toy for your pet.

Challenges at School:

  • Debate whether zoos are ethical.
  • Investigate careers in zoos.
  • Find out about the history of zoos.
  • Learn more about the animals in Banham Zoo.
  • Design an enclosure for a zoo animal. Think about the animal’s natural habitat and how you can recreate this. 
  • Links to Maths – use weighing scales, practise making estimates and reading decimal places.
  • Send an email to the zoo to ask some questions (remember email safety)

I Was Called Dolly

Part One – Dolly’s Story

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Challenge at Home:

  • Search through your family photos/memory books – what can you find out about your relatives?
  • Ask one of your relatives about their childhood experiences.
  • Find out about your family history.
  • Try fruit picking like Dolly.
  • What are your family traditions?

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Part Two – My Life in Service

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Part Three – Background to Dolly’s Story

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  • How have buildings changed in your locality over the years? 
  • Visit Norfolk archives or your local library to find out about your local history.

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Inspiring Norfolk Scientists

Pint of Science

Pint of Science is an international science festival, run by volunteers. It brings the researchers and members of the public together in local pubs. We believe that everyone has a place at the table to discuss the research going on both on our doorsteps and far beyond.

Website – YouTube – Twitter – Instagram – Facebook

Learn a bit more about where these scientists work – Norwich Research Park

Norwich Research Park vision video. Kirsty (went to school in Norfolk) did a recent interview with the New Anglia LEP’s Coffee and Careers series where she talked about her career and how she got into working in Science and then at Norwich Research Park.  

Take a look at our Partner YouTube sites they also have video about careers:

Earlham Institute (EI) –  John Innes Centre – Quadram Institute – SainsburyLab – UEA – NNUH FT

Alice Godden, a final year PhD from UEA Bio recently recorded a podcast about her career choices in the I belong Here podcast series which includes interviews with other women working in science.

We have about 30,000 people on the Park, 3000 of which are scientists/clinicians and about 17000 of which are students, the rest are support staff and staff working in the 150 businesses located here. Find out more here: Changing Lives book – A Chronicle

Redwings Horse Sanctuary

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Meet the Artists at the Norfolk and Norwich Festival

We would like you to invite you to meet some of our 2021 Norfolk & Norwich Festival artists, in these special video interviews. This trailer video is a gateway to many more full interviews with Festival artists, where they tell you all about themselves, their art form, their inspirations, give advice and talk about their careers. Each artist sets a Creative Challenge for you to try yourself linked to their art form and the work they do. Please give some of them a try and share what you do or create with us, either on social media by tagging @nnfest or email to Creative Learning Manager Sarah.Witcomb@nnfestival.org.uk These videos are also perfect for supporting an Arts Award or Artsmark journey, so please enjoy and make use of these great resources.

All videos can be found at nnfestival.org.uk/meet-the-artists

Fly-on-the-Wall Painting with Dr Kate Grant

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Challenge at School:

  • Find out why visual and tactile literacy and manual dexterity skills are important in the STEM subjects in higher education.
  • Use Dr Kate’s technique to create a gallery of people in your school/college/setting like this.
  • Think about use of colour.

Keiron Williamson – Capturing Landscapes That Inspire

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Challenge at Home:

  • Develop your own artistic interpretation of your local landscape through photography, sketching or painting.
  • Visit a local art gallery; sometimes your local cafe or garden centre may have an art exhibition where you can browse.
  • Find out about one of Keiron’s inspiration, John Crome.
  • Fancy a career in creative arts and design?

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Britten Sinfonia

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  • Scan the QR code and enjoy the whole concert from the comfort of your own home.

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