Website last updated: Thursday 3rd May 2012

1968—2008

40 Years

Of Gymnastics

For ALL

Gyrus Gymnastics now accredited as a

“Learning Destination”

for the Colchester Children’s University.

 

What is a Learning Destination?

 

Learning Destinations are places and organisations to which children can 'travel' with their Passport To Learning. They provide high quality learning activities and experiences with a 'wow' factor and have passed the Children's University's own quality assurance process (Planning for Learning). A Learning Destination can range from a museum to a farm or from an airport to a university as long as the learning activity connects with Children's University learning which is linked to actual university course provision as exemplified on www.ucas.ac.uk/students/coursesearch/.

The status as a CU validated Learning Destination will in principle last for 3 years and is as such a licence agreement between the Children's University and the individual Learning Destination. As part of the local Children's University's monitoring and evaluation of learning activities additional local CU support may be available to individual Learning Destinations.

Learning Destinations display the CU's Learning Destination logo prominently in and outside their environment, clearly visible to children who may want to use their Passport To Learning there. Learning Destinations are also strongly encouraged to include the Learning Destination logo on literature, letter headed paper and to have a web link to the Children's University website.

Here are some resource documents for download, to accompany the information on this page.

· Information for Parents and Carers

You can pick up a ‘Passport’ from any school within the Borough of Colchester or directly from us here at Gyrus by completing the online form here.

Complete the form then hand it in to any coach in the gym with £3 and we will register you and issue you child’s passport.

Learning Destinations 'stamp' the child's Passport To Learning in correspondence with the time a child has been engaged in the validated learning activities within the Learning Destination. This thereby contributes to the child's record of achievements and CU certification.

Learning Destinations ensure attendance and evaluation records related to CU activities can be available to the local and national Children's University to assist in developments, evaluation and research.