Primary Times Hertfordshire Back to School 2018

www.primarytimes.co.uk
Hertfordshire
BACK TO SCHOOL 2018
5 SEP – 14 OCT
Contents
4 News
Dear Readers,
BACK TO
SCHOOL2018
56,000 COPIES FOR FAMILIES
OF PRIMARY SCHOOL CHILDREN
WELCOME
6 Fact & Fiction
8 Early Times
10 WOW: Family events
18 Fun Activities
22 Focus on Education
27 Box Office
30 Competitions
Welcome to our back to school edition! We hope you had a
wonderful summer break and have been enjoying the recent
sunshine, and are now feeling refreshed and ready to start
another school year.
We also want to give a warm welcome to all of our new
readers who are just starting their first year of school. It’s such
an exciting time and a whole new chapter in life, and we hope
your first few weeks are everything you’d hoped they’d be. For
all of our regular readers, we hope your new school year brings
positive change and many more opportunities for fun with your
families.
In this edition you’ll find lots of upcoming local activities and
events on our WOW pages, many of which are free and low
cost. Don’t forget to check out our box office page too for an
array of local theatre performances suitable for your little ones!
Details of our Christmas card competition are inside too and
we can’t wait to receive your entries!
With very best wishes,
The Primary Times Team
DAYS OUT • EDUCATION • COMPETITIONS • FAMILY FUN
Publishing Director:
Nuria Macdonald
nuria.macdonald@
primarytimes.co.uk
Sales: Julie Daruvalla:
julie.daruvalla@
primarytimes.co.uk
Tel: 01491 411848
Production: Niki Ince-Green
niki.ince.green@
primarytimes.co.uk
Design: Owen Mooney
Primary Times is independently published and distributed free through national primary schools in Hertfordshire . It aims
to inform families and children about current educational issues, forthcoming events, courses, attractions and to give
teachers, pupils and parents the opportunity to participate in the magazine by adding to its contents or by joining in
the competitions. It is NOT our intention to publish any racist, sexist or politically based material whatsoever. We also
undertake not to carry any advertising which we would consider to be offensive to young families or harmful to the
best interests of young children. Primary Times would like to thank all the schools in Hertfordshire for their assistance
in distributing the magazine and for their contributions to its contents. We would also like to thank all the advertisers
who have supported this publication and therefore made it possible. Please support their endeavours when and where
you can. The copyright on all written material, logos and advertising artwork produced by our studio remains with
Primary Times or with the relevant contributor. Primary Times is currently publishing over 2 million copies per issue under
franchise licences throughout Britain.
Primary Times in Hertfordshire is
published by: Schools Publishing Limited
Unit 1A, Thamesview Industrial Estate,
Newtown Road, Henley on Thames
RG9 1HG Telephone: 01491 411848
www.primarytimes.co.uk/Hertfordshire
The UK’s biggest free ‘what’s on’
magazine for parents! Primary
Times in Leicestershire and Rutland
distributes 54,000 copies seven
times a year, and is part of a
national network distributing more
than 2.7 million copies in
59 regions across the UK
and Ireland
www.primarytimes.co.uk/Hertfordshire | BACK TO SCHOOL 2018 3