insideSUSSEX Magazine Issue 06 - August 2015 | Page 68

DAYSOUT
summer holiday activities

cont.

Willow Farm

Maynard’s Fruit Farm

www.willowfarmholidays.co.uk // Skegness

www.maynardsfruit.co.uk // Ticehurst

If the thought of a bit of hard work during the summer hols doesn’t worry
you, then why not venture out to a PYO (pick your own) farm and not only
get some good old fashioned fresh air, but come home with an abundance
of fruit too? At school holiday time, you should be able to find plums,
strawberries, raspberries, blackberries, cherries, cobnuts, apples, and more.
At Maynard’s Farm in Ticehurst, East Sussex, a 22-hectare fruit farm in the
High Weald Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, the elevation, soil, and
position is ideal for growing bumper, tasty crops, so when you arrive for
some picking you certainly won’t go away empty handed.

Tom Daley Diving Academy
www.londonaquaticscentre.org // London

At Willow Farm, children are welcomed on riding holidays to look after, ride,
care for and compete a pony as their own for a week. They can also help
with other animals, watch chicks hatch, and even learn to milk a goat if they
wish. The team prides itself on being the best. At the heart of the farm are,
of course, the ponies, and if a child falls in love with a particular pony they
can become a ‘Borrower’, meaning they can adopt the pony for a small
weekly fee. The ponies at Willow Farm are great fun; they will teach
responsibility, a good work ethic, keep the kids fit, and make them new
friends.

Premier Tennis
www.premiertennis.co.uk // Surrey, Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire,
Oxfordshire and London

At Premier Tennis’ summer tennis camps, the focus is on fun, fun, fun –
and it’s all about tennis. Every day is action packed with team games, drills,
exercises, and information about the game itself, and because the activities
and groups are divided by age, everyone can get stuck in without any
worries. At the end of each camp, there is a tournament to see who comes
out on top! If your little one is already a fiend on the court then they might
be interested in the tennis leader courses for children of 13 and above. This
will enable them to learn how to be a coach, and they will also pick up many
other valuable skills along the way.

Ever wanted to emulate your Olympic heroes? Who hasn’t? Now, at the
London Aquatic Centre’s superb Tom Daley Diving Academy, you can.
Courses include fundamentals for children, learn to dive for children and
beginners, intermediate and advanced diving for adults, and competitive
diving. From giving you and your little ones the confidence to get up on the
boards, to teaching you all the basics of safe diving, through to showing
you how the Olympians do it, these weeklong activity courses give you
everything you need to become the next Tom Daley – who knows, perhaps
you’ll be bringing the gold home in the future?

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