KidZania London announces special events for schools

KidZania London has announced its 2019/20 programme, including a series of special events for schools.

Throughout June 2019, KidZania is hosting STEM festival that will encourage pupils to take part in STEM focused activities, giving them first-hand experience of jobs within this field. Activities include the Shell Forecourt and Energy Lab, where young scientists will learn about why we need cleaner energy and how to develop fuels for the future.

Students can apply their creativity and curiosity at the new ‘Coding 101’ degree in the KidZania University, in partnership with Children’s Intelligence Agency – an app created by award-winning Bright Little Labs (named ‘Top Coding Toy for Kids’ by the Evening Standard in 2018 and the Independent in 2017, plus EDF Stem Pulse Award winner in 2017), which complements the UK’s KS1 & KS2 Computing Curriculum.

Worksheet trails in Science and Maths will be available to collect from the KidZania National Library, where pupils can visit various activities around the city to answer questions and solve mathematical equations.

As part of UK Parliament Week (5-7 November 2019), KidZania has a programme of events and activities about parliamentary democracy in the UK. KidZania’s theatre will once again become the ‘House of Commons’, asking pupils to challenge and debate two motions based on anti-bullying and environmental issues. As part of the event, KidZania is partnering with WWE and NSPCC to raise awareness of Anti-Bullying Week, focussing on cyber bullying. There will be a workshop on how to debate, a Politics degree requiring pupils to budget for KidZania Government’s departments, and a voting booth so that pupils can have their say.

KidZania will host two career events (21-23 Jan 2020 and 2-5 March 2020) focused on careers to raise career aspirations and challenging career stereotypes. New for 2020, the January workshop will run specifically for secondary schools, geared towards building employability skills ahead of going into the world of work.

Workshops include CV writing, where pupils will be encouraged to develop their CV in class before their visit to KidZania and build on this as they undertake work experience around the KidZania city. Students will also have the opportunity to check-in to the interview workshop. The aim of the sessions are to give students the opportunity to build their presentation skills and confidence, to enable them to have the best chance in achieving jobs they’d like to do in the future, irrespective of background.

KidZania’s March event , available to both primary and secondary schools, will coincide with National Careers Week and International Women’s Day, with more exciting careers-related activities and partnerships to be announced soon.

In accordance with British Science Week (10-12 March 2020), KidZania will be bringing Science Week back for another year. Pupils will be encouraged to discover a range of careers that rely on Science, enabling them to utilise the subject learning in class to real-life jobs.