Wishing all our families a joyful and blessed Eid al-Fitr! 🌙✨
Eid Mubarak! 🤍
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Blackburn CU
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Blackburn CU
@Blackburn_CU
Blackburn Children’s University™ aims to raise aspirations and reach out to communities so higher education will become a more obvious route for young people.
Katılım Mayıs 2013
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📚 Children’s Literature Festival Book Awards 2026 📚
We have now had over 100 reviews for this and they just keep coming! #lovetoread #EnrichmentForAll #childrensuniversity #alwayslearning #partnerships
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Loads of fun planned for the Easter Holidays! 🥋🎨
@MMABlackburn, Hospital Academy, @CanalsideBBurn visit, creative day, games & challenges, plus lots more. We can’t wait!
Available to pupils at Wensley Fold, @StSilas_Primary, Sacred Heart & @SMwSJPrimary✨
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What a fantastic February Half Term! 🙌
👩🍳 Cooking
🎯 Games & Challenge Day
🥋 Martial Arts
🎨 Creative Day
So many smiles, new skills and lots of fun along the way! Thank you to everyone who joined us — we can’t wait for the next one! 🌟
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🌿🐸 Our Rainforest Activity Day was a huge success! Pupils tackled a rainforest-themed Escape Room 🔐, created animal bookmarks & hanging parrots 🦜, and enjoyed a fun frog game.
A fantastic day of teamwork, creativity & problem-solving! 🌳✨
#ExperientialLearning #Teamwork
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📚 Children’s Literature Festival Book Awards 2026 📚
We have had so many reviews in already! The children are loving reading so many different books! #lovetoread #EnrichmentForAll #childrensuniversity #alwayslearning #partnerships
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The first two days of the holidays has involved cooking, cooking and more cooking!
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Our February Half Term holiday challenges! Why not try some of them?
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📚 Children’s Literature Festival Book Awards 2026 📚
The first lot of books have now gone out to children to review!
@BwDLibraries @ChildrensLFests #lovetoread
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January 2026 🚀
📚47 school clubs across our network
393 children involved in at least one club
🎶✍️ Music and poetry event planning
📅February Half Term plans well underway
🎓Graduation planning has begun
🤝CU activities moving forward
We are ready for February 2026! 💙✨
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🏔️ Winter Olympic Theme Activity Day!
Curling ✔️
Snow globes ✔️
Medal design ✔️
Sports trail to explore Olympic events, made our own torches 🔥 and finished with a snowball game ❄️
So much fun, learning & teamwork! 🥇
#OlympicDay #ActiveLearning #Teamwork
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Loads of fun planned for half-term!🥋🎨 Martial arts with @MMABlackburn, a creative day, games & challenges, plus lots of cooking. We can’t wait!
Available to pupils at Wensley Fold, @StSilas_Primary, Sacred Heart & @SMwSJPrimary. Check your school to sign up! ✨
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📚 Children’s Literature Festival Book Awards 2026 📚
We’re looking for keen readers in Years 1–6 to be judges!
✔️ Read & review books
✔️ CU members earn 1–3 hours per book
The more you read, the more hours you earn! 📖✨
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It is absolutely amazing to see one of our old CU members as well as current volunteers being nominated for this award. Very well deserved!! #CU #Volunteering #aspirations
One Voice Blackburn@1VoiceBlackburn
🌟 Introducing our first finalist for the One Voice Young Person of the Year 2026 🌟 ✨ Motunrayo Ainenehi ✨ Motunrayo serves as a Foundation Governor at Sacred Heart Primary School, where she supports school leadership and champions student success. Passionate about community impact, she volunteers with Children’s University, runs a joint tutoring business for SATs, GCSEs, and A-Level students, and creates engaging educational content online. Her commitment to making a difference extends further. Motunrayo has raised funds for Cancer Research UK, worked with Blackburn Rovers Community Trust to tackle violence against women and girls, and currently leads impactful initiatives as President of the Runshaw College Student Union. 💬 “I feel honoured to have been nominated for such an award. I believe almost everyone in Blackburn has heard of the One Voice Awards. Being nominated for this award in particular is a sad and beautiful thing. Being celebrated as a young person for the work I do is absolutely amazing.” 👏 Please join us in celebrating Motunrayo’s incredible dedication, leadership, and service to the community. #OneVoiceAwards #YoungPersonOfTheYear #CommunityLeadership #CelebratingYouth
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We have an exciting CU activity day planned. Details will be sent out out via the schools tomorrow so please keep an eye out for them! @WensleyFoldCE @StSilas_Primary @SMwSJPrimary
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Please remember to use @easyuk EVERY time you shop online. Over 7,000 brands will donate for FREE so you can support Blackburn Children's University no matter what you’re buying. If you haven’t signed up yet, visit: easyfundraising.org.uk/causes/blackbu…
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Please remember to use @easyuk EVERY time you shop online. Over 7,000 brands will donate for FREE so you can support Blackburn Children's University no matter what you’re buying. If you haven’t signed up yet, visit: easyfundraising.org.uk/causes/blackbu…
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We're off seeing the wizard, the wonderful wizard of Oz!
What a fun activity day on Sunday. We started off with Yoga, then we did so many crafts+activities from making the tin mans heart, the wicked witches hat, a medal of bravery for the lion as well as a trail, bingo+dominoes!
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We had lots of fun at our creative day! We created our own bonfire out of biscuits and marshmallows, created our own sand art picture and not forgetting we played bingo and matching pairs!
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