21 September 2022
Looking for some Spring School holiday inspiration on the Northern Beaches? Here are some fun, local activities to keep the whole family entertained.
Northern Beaches Horse riding in Belrose
School holiday horseriding camps suitable for beginners and all riding levels, aged from 5-16 years of age. Lots of fun for everyone, activities include grooming, horse care, riding lessons, pony crafts, groundwork, riding through the bush and help with feeding. Located in a safe and caring environment with a focus on safety.
Bookings essential as place fill fast, text Orla on 0449 890 045.
Teddy Bear’s Picnic, Harbord Diggers
Monday 26 September: Bring your own teddy and come down for storytime! Suitable for 3-10 years of age. A snack and a drink included in the ticket price.
Cost: $5 per child
Make Your Own Teddy, Harbord Diggers
Tuesday 27 September: Teddy Bear making workshop, suitable for 4 – 12 years of age. Make your own teddy to take on a picnic with you!
Cost: $10 per child
Kids Bingo, Major Fun Indoor Play Centre
Also at the Harbord Diggers, Major Fun boasts a gigantic and fun-filled play space, with designated age-specific play areas for babies, toddlers and bigger kids to ensure the whole family enjoys their visit. These holidays they’re also hosting Kids Bingo on Friday, 20th September between 6pm-9.30pm. “Includes hours of bingo fun, games and a meal!”
Don’t forget your socks!
Bookings and further information here
School Holiday Intensive Swim Program, Andrew Boy Charlton Pool
Boost your child’s swimming skills with our intensive learn to swim program.
It’s a great alternative for anyone who cannot attend weekly lessons or to assist the regular weekly swimmer in perfecting that skill that’s required to progress to the next level.
- For children aged 3 years or over
- 1 x 30 minute lesson – timeslots available between 8 and 11am
- 4 or 5 day consecutive day programs (exc. public holidays). Note – You are unable to only enrol into part of a week.
- Attend one or both weeks of the holidays
School holiday dates
- Week 1 – Tue 26 Sep to Fri 30 Sep (5 day program).
- Week 2 – Tue 4 Oct to Fri 7 Oct (4 day program).
Cost
- 4 day program – $82.40
- 5 day program – $103
Warringah Aquatic Centre, Dive Boards and Giant Inflatable Fun
Get ready for some serious fun this school holidays!
- School Holiday Fun Giant Inflatable: Monday to Friday, 12.30pm – 3.30pm
- Dive Boards: Monday to Friday, 10.30am – 3.30pm
Pricing
Child (4-16yrs), $6.40 pool entry.
No booking required. You must complete a swim test to receive your wristband to go on the Inflatable.
Vivo and Spiderman: No Way Home at the Open Air Cinema, Brookvale
One of the best things about spring is warmer weather, ideal for outdoor cinema sessions. Catch your favourite films under the stars at Brookvale Oval’s popular Open Air Cinema, returning in the spring school holidays with screenings of the blockbuster Spider-Man No Way Home (2021) and the heart-warming, animated musical Vivo (2021).
Bring your picnic rug and pack your snacks or treat the family to dinner from a variety of local food trucks. PSA: The first 1000 people through the gate receive a free bag of popcorn.
Where: Brookvale Oval
When: 7 October, 5:30-9:00pm and 8 October, 5:00-8:00pm
Tickets: Friday and Saturday
Coastal Environment Centre ”Kids on the Coast” Spring School Holidays, Narrabeen
This would have to be one of the best resources in the area when it comes to helping kids be aware of how lucky they are to live by the coast! The Coastal Environment Centre (CEC) also offers a school holiday program with a difference. “With a unique theme for each day, your child will learn about our natural environment through a range of fun and interesting activities. This is a great opportunity for children to learn about our environment and how they can help preserve it. The holiday program is suitable for children six to 12 years. (unless otherwise noted).
Location: Coastal Environment Centre, 1 Lake Park Road, North Narrabeen
Evolve Sports School Holidays Camps
Evolve Tennis Academy and Game Ready Football unite to bring you the most exciting grassroots spring school holidays camps on the Northern Beaches. Our team of dedicated coaches across both codes aim to give an experience like no other, offering a structured program which is key to delivering your child/children a quality array of tennis and football activities they will want to visit each and every school holidays. We cater for more children at Evolve Sports Camps than any other location on the beaches with free before & after care (7.30am-9am & 3-5pm) plus discounts for full week bookings.
Locations: Avalon, Collaroy, Belrose, Roseville
Bookings: (02) 9971-0644
Kids Digital Art Classes
Keep the kids engaged and entertained this school holiday, learning how to create their own dazzling digital art with Belinda Young, a professional digital artist with 20 years experience working on Academy Award winning films, animated features, and children’s tv.
Class subjects:
- Mystical Owls: Tuesday 27th September, 2022 9:30am – 11:30am
- Happy Horses: Tuesday 27th September, 2022 12:30pm – 2:30pm
- Chattering Budgies: Wednesday 28th September, 2022 9:30am – 11:30am
- Sea Dragons: Wednesday 28th September, 2022 12:30pm – 2:30pm
Students will use professional equipment in a fun but professional setting, learning the basics to the finer points – along with lots of tips and tricks – from a veteran artist.
All equipment provided.
Location: Avalon Creative Space, 32 Old Barrenjoy Road, Avalon Beach
Pricing: $60.00
PCYC Spring School Holidays Activities, Dee Why
PCYC NSW runs a variety of safe, fun, creative and inclusive school holiday activities for primary and high school aged youth. The programs include a selection of sport and creative based activities to ensure we offer something for everyone! From multi-sport, gymnastics and boxing to painting, dance and crafts. From pirate days and graffiti, to coding classes and skateboarding, we have lots on offer! PCYC Northern Beaches school holiday activities are run by qualified coaches that have a passion for working with young people in a sport and recreation environment. Creative Kids vouchers also accepted.
Location: 40 Kingsway Dee Why
Indoor Rock Climbing, Umbrella Nine Co, Brookvale
Umbrella Nine Co is a family focused bouldering gym located in Warringah Mall. “We are keen on getting more kids into the climbing scene and wanted to create a space specifically for them and their families.” There is one main point of difference with this indoor climbing centre – no ropes! “The walls are obviously lower, and they are surrounded by soft padded mats (in case you fall). It’s fun, challenging and empowering. It is super social and best of all anyone can do it.”
Location: Shop 6010, Warringah Mall, Pittwater Road, Brookvale
Manly Surf Guide Surfing Lessons, Dee Why
The perfect activity for our little surfies! Manly Surf Guide has made teaching surfing their business and in the school holidays they run surf camps that operate from Dee Why Beach from 10am-2pm. On the camp kids will learn:
- Ocean safety & surf etiquette
- Ocean & wave positioning
- Paddling & catching waves
- Control, standing up & riding waves
Good to Know: Surf school is for beginners to intermediate levels, for kids aged 6 to 15 years old. What’s included: 2 x surf Lessons, use of surfboard and wetsuit, lunch and beach games, surf education
Contact here
Science Show – Destination Moon and Beyond, Mona Vale & Dee Why
3,2,1…BLAST OFF!
In this fun interactive show, you’ll discover the science required to reach the Moon and the space programs that made it all happen. From trajectories & orbits to rocketry & materials science, we’ll look at current and future space programs, operations and missions. This show is presented by Fizzics Education.
Good to know: Suitable for primary school aged children. Adults are welcome to stay for the show, however you will need to book a FREE ‘accompanying adult’ ticket to attend.
When: Wednesday, 28 September 2022 – 10:30am to 11:30am (Mona Vale) and 2.30-3.30 (Dee Why)
Cost: Child ticket: $8 + booking fee. Accompanying adult: Free
Bookings
Seussical The Musical, Glen St Theatre Belrose
“Just imagine a world where anything’s possible – an elephant in a tree, a person too tiny to see, a heroic child and dreams running wild!
Seussical is a fantastical, magical, musical extravaganza that brings the witty, wild and whimsical world of Dr. Seuss to the Glen Street Theatre stage. Conceived by Monty Python’s Eric Idle, with music by Tony award winners Ahrens & Flaherty, a cast of over 100 performers and a live orchestra, Seussical is a fun, heartwarming and sensational show for the whole family!
All profits raised from Seussical will be donated to The Sydney Children’s Hospital Foundation.”
When: Sat 24 Sep – Sat 1 Oct 2022
Tickets and more info
The Big Bounce, St. Ives Showground
Spend your spring school holidays at the world’s biggest (and most over-the-top) jumping castle! As part of its 2022 Comeback Tour, The Big Bounce’s 1500 square metre inflatable kingdom is coming to St. Ives Showground. Kids can run, roll, dip and dunk with the park featuring obstacle runs, ball pits, giant slides, climbing towers and basketball pits.
The fun doesn’t stop there. Kids can also compete in the bouncy Sport Slam arena, adventure through 50 unique obstacles in The Giant maze and get lost in the out-of-this-world inflatable world called Air Space. There are dedicated sessions for toddlers ages 3 and under, juniors ages 7 and under, bigger kids ages 15 and younger, plus adults only sessions (ages 16+).
Where: St. Ives Showground
When: 30 September, 1 October and 2 October
Tickets
St Ives Treetops Adventure + Playground
Families have a new experience to explore along the southern border of Ku-ring-gai National Park. St Ives is our newest Tree Ropes Course Park, hosting 95+ aerial obstacles and 10+ ziplines, all suspended between platforms to create a maze of activities in the treetops. Courses start at 1m for little climbers and jump up to 15 metres for bigger adventurers!
Sessions run for 2.5-hours to climb as many courses as you can during your session. You can choose to start on low easy courses or go straight up on a higher course. If you don’t feel like climbing up on a higher level, you are always welcome to complete a lower or same course again during your session. Your session includes harnessing, training and approx 2-hours of climbing.
When you’re done there’s a spectacular new playground to explore as well! Perfect for spring school holidays!
Location: 450 Mona Vale Rd, St Ives
Opening hours: School and Public Holidays Monday – Sunday 9am-5pm
More info
Room on the Broom, The Concourse Chatswood
Following sell-out seasons across Australia, CDP Kids’ adaptation of the popular children’s book, Room on the Broom, is coming to the Concourse. This theatrical show follows the adventures of a witch and her cat on a dark and stormy night. A helpful dog, bird and frog find the witch’s lost things, and they all hop on the broom for a ride. But is there room for everyone on the broomstick and who will save the poor witch when a hungry dragon appears? See how it all unfolds with songs, laughs and scary fun at this stage show for children aged three and up – and their grown-ups!
Where: The Concourse Theatre, Chatswood
When: 24 – 26 September, multiple sessions
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