Families Oxfordshire Magazine

09/08/2025

📚 Find out how d'Overbroeck's Oxford independent school can embrace your child’s unique talents and ambitions, and empower them to believe they can achieve anything.

📚 D’Overbroeck is a high-achieving day and boarding independent school for 11 - 18-year-olds offering a progressive education.

📚 To make enquiries, or to book a visit, go to https://www.doverbroecks.com/

📚 Applications for 2025 are still open.

Welcome to d’Overbroeck’s, a high-achieving independent school in Oxford where every student enjoys a progressive education that unlocks their unique potential.

08/08/2025

Sign up for your one week FREE TRIAL with Kumon Connect, between 1 Oct and 15 Nov, at Kumon Thame Study Centre

Contact Kumon Thame
https://www.kumon.co.uk/thame

25/07/2025

🌞 Science Oxford Summer Holiday Club 🌞 at Science Oxford Centre, Headington
📅 5 – 14 Aug
⌚ 9am-3.30pm (wrap around care 8.30am-4pm)

At ‘Tech, Trees, and Tomorrow: A Holiday Club for Young Explorers,’ children will embark on hands-on technology projects, woodland adventures and science investigations. A tech-filled, project-focused adventure where curiosity and innovation lead the way!

Activities include interactive sessions in the Exploration Zone, woodland and outdoor Water Lab.

Age 7-11 years (unaccompanied)

Explore a world of discovery at our fun-packed Science Oxford Holiday Club this summer

24/07/2025

Trunchbull’s Flying Tricks
📅 Tues 26 and Weds 27 Aug
⌚ 10.30am, 12pm, 1.30pm and 3pm
WHERE: The Roald Dahl Museum and Story Centre, Great Missenden

An exciting hands-on science session inspired by the things that Trunchbull makes fly through the air! Investigate what flies the furthest as well as what launches up the highest. Don’t worry, it will be safe to wear pigtails…
Age 5+

Ages 5+ Trunchbull’s Flying Tricks Tuesday 26 and Wednesday 27 August Book today Times 10.30am, 12pm, 1.30pm and 3pm Prices £5 per participant in addition to Museum entry Age range For age 5 and up Under 16s must be accompanied by an adult Access information The workshop room is on the first floo...

22/07/2025

🌿 Under The Leaves 🌿
📅 17-18 Aug
⌚ 2.00pm
WHERE: Pegasus Theatre, Oxford

The dreams of beasts from the forest floor! A family show filled with music, sound and packed with colourful characters this is a perfect fusion of storytelling, circus arts and enormous personalities. Age 6+.
Enjoy fun, pre-show circus workshops on 18 Aug.

A story told like never before, the dreams of beasts from the forest floor! When the world towers above you, and the lives of those around seem so…

22/07/2025

🚂 Steam Days 🚂
📅 July - Aug
WHERE: Didcot Railway Centre

Travel back in time and savour the sights, sounds and smells of steam as you explore this 21-acre living museum. Steam trains will be operating on at least one of the Centre's two demonstration lines. Under 3s go free, prices from £10.00

https://didcotrailwaycentre.org.uk/product.php/840/steam-days

21/07/2025

🌿 Nature Club 🌱
📅 Sat 16 Aug
WHERE: Science Oxford Centre, Headington

Fun nature-inspired indoor-outdoor discovery at this hands-on summer session for kids and their grown-up. Set in workshop and 15 acres of woodland, meadows and ponds around the Science Oxford Centre.

Age 5 - 9 years.

https://scienceoxford.com/whats-on/

18/07/2025

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16/07/2025

🚂 Discovery Days 🚂
📅 July - Aug
WHERE: Didcot Railway Centre

Explore this 21-acre living museum and unearth almost two centuries of railway history. Trains will not be running, meaning there's the chance to get up close. Remember to visit the play area! Under 3s go free.

https://didcotrailwaycentre.org.uk/product.php/841/discovery-days

16/07/2025

🏛️ FESTIVAL OF ARCHAEOLOGY 2025 at Ashmolean Museum
Free family event!
📅 Saturday 19 July
🕰️ 11am–4pm

Go along to Ashmolean to take part in the celebration of their redisplayed Rome Galleries.
Drop in to enjoy a huge variety arts and crafts, demonstrations, and storytelling celebrating their Roman theme.

Join our 'Really Roman' Festival of Archaeology day for all the family and take part in a range of exciting, free activities and tours across the Museum and its galleries.

15/07/2025

🌞 Summer Fun 🌞
📅 Open daily
⌚ 9.30am – 5pm
WHERE: Cogges Manor Farm, Witney

Family fun, craft demos with the living history re-enactment group and lots more. See sheep, Shetland ponies, goats, turkeys, free roaming chickens, cockerels, ducks, rabbits and guinea pigs. Explore the historic manor house, walled kitchen garden, orchard and meadows. Under 3s go free.

Discover Cogges Manor Farm – a hidden gem at the heart of Witney in the beautiful Oxfordshire Cotswolds. A unique 17 acre heritage Manor House and farmyard with 1000 years of history, today Cogges is an award-winning visitor attraction for all the family to enjoy. For fans of Downton Abbey, Cogge...

15/07/2025

🌞 School Holiday Camps 🌞 with Ignite Sport UK

Fill your child’s summer with non-stop action and fun with Ignite Sports!
They can choose from:
⚽ Football
🎨 Art
🎮 Game Tech
🏓 Multisport
💃🏾 Dance Fusion
🏃🏼‍♀️ Girls Only Football
and more!
For ages 4 – 16.

Book online at
https://www.ignitesportuk.com/course/summer-holiday-clubs