Half Term Fun

It's half term week in most of the country this week; some of you celebrated a week with the children at home last week, it's true, but for the majority it's this week where parent's midweek peace and quiet is shattered and many a mom or dad are looking for something to do with the kids.

It's always struck me as funny that as a child we look forward to half term week with great delight, probably due to the week without school and homework, and yet as we get older we lose that mid-term break that falls between the Summer and Christmas, or Christmas and Easter, or Easter and the Summer.

As a museum educator myself, I'm very used to planning half term events into the calendar. We spend more time on February half term than almost any other holiday, in fact, as parents are struggling to find a week's worth of activities to entertain their children with. And yet, I wonder as I do all this planning whether perhaps half term holidays are in fact a perfect opportunity for planning something that isn't family focussed at all.

Think about it. Christmas already feels like years ago, and it seems like there are months yet until the Easter holidays and bank holidays roll around. Couldn't we all do with a break, a chance to do something fun and different to break up the monotony of the coldest months?

I'd love to hear of anywhere that is running something this half term that isn't aimed at the under sixteens. An evening opening, maybe, or a special event. A sort of mid-term adults. An anti-work, remember-when-we-used-to-get-a-break-between-Christmas-and-Easter sort of thing.

Let me know if you find one, won't you?