Your What’s On activity guide from NappyValleyNet!

Last Updated on : 13th October 2022

Dear NappyValleyNetter,

Welcome to your weekly What’s On from NappyValleyNet!

Half term is soon. Really soon. For some, Friday. For others, next Friday. Before you run screaming from the room (a bit early with the Halloween excuses), scroll down for ideas and inspo to keep you and yours entertained. Then you can run screaming from the room (read more).

Looking for a new place to call home? We have all the homes for sale and to rent in the neighbourhood brought to you by four local agents and PrimeLocation, with school catchments all mapped out (read more).

Take a look at these homes from our Preferred Property Partners

For sale with Portico is a 2-bedroom flat in a Victorian conversion within walking distance of Clapham North and Clapham High Street, bright and airy and with communal gardens including a heated pool, on the market with no onward chain (read more).

For sale with Rampton Baseley is a 5-bedroom family home just off Clapham Common and within easy reach of Northcote Road and several popular schools, with a light and spacious kitchen breakfast room opening onto a pretty, landscaped garden (read more).

For sale with Marsh & Parsons is a 3-bedroom family home on the ever-popular Shaftesbury Estate close to the amenities of Clapham Junction, Battersea Park and the river, offering open-plan living and plenty of original and characterful features (read more).

For sale with John Thorogood is a handsome 4-bedroom Victorian family home on one of the most sought-after roads running off Clapham Common Westside, with over 2,100 sq ft of bright living space including a contemporary open-plan kitchen family room opening onto the garden (read more).

Community and culture

Amélie’s Follies is supporting Breast Cancer Awareness Month as they do every year with raffle tickets on sale until mid-November and fabulous AF-style prizes to be won (read more).

Battersea Power Station opens tomorrow! Wend your way there via bus, Battersea Park or the shiny new tube station and stroll down the new pedestrianised high street, Electric Boulevard. To celebrate, there’s a Festival of Power this weekend and next with family-friendly goings-on. So exciting! (read more)

Win tickets (click here) to the fabulous new show, Frameless, a completely immersive and spectacular art installation in central London – we know, we were lucky enough to go – read the review here, just perfect for half term (read more).

Sticking with art, the Affordable Art Fair will be opening its doors in leafy Battersea Park next week, with 1,000s of pieces of artwork on show and available to buy over the course of a long weekend, with a family friendly hour in the schedule too (read more).

The Independent Schools Show is back in Battersea Park in November, the perfect one-stop-shop for any parents considering choices with over 200 schools to talk to, plus insightful Q&A sessions and seminars. It’s free but do book in advance (read more).

Wimbledon Art Fair is another date for your November diary when the artists, creators and makers with studios in these incredible labyrinthine buildings open thier doors for you to admire and possibly purchase (read more).

The Streatham Festival is in full swing down in SW16 with music, art, performances, music, photography, workshops and exhibitions (read more).

Get those grey cells in gear and head to Ernest Bevin tomorrow evening for their Curry & Quiz Night with the food kindly donated by the Royal Mahal – quizzing and curry, what could be better? (read more)

Children front and centre

Snap up 50% off the autumn term with Playball London – outside while the days are bright and indoors once the clocks change, with skills and development at the heart of fun-packed sessions (read more).

CeCe & Me’s mobile children’s shoe fitting service hits Wimbledon today with a great range of brands available for their sweet little feet (read more).

Mummy & Me Bootcamp is a session in the fresh air of Clapham Common run by BusyLizzy Clapham and designed for you and your baby to be there together (read more).

First Aid for Life has posted why it’s so important for teenagers to learn life-saving skills and a reminder that it’s a good DofE qualification too (read more).

Meta for Learning is launching a new Book Reading Club for 11-to-14-year-olds after school each week starting on Monday with a short story or one chapter to discuss (read more).

Half term shenanigans

Battersea Park Zoo have Halloween-themed events on offer including magic shows (disappearing meerkats?), face painting and pumpkin trails (read more).

At Miniversity they can try their hand at being an architect or a film director (read more).

It’s sports of all sorts with Julian Cousins’ Sports by the tennis courts on Clapham Common (read more).

Make a movie with Sparks Movie Making Clubs in Clapham South to boost confidence and creativity and set them on an exciting path into film (read more).

Get stuck into cooking at the Young Holiday Classes with the Avenue Cookery School (read more).

Get your skates on for ZebraSkate at Clapham Common and in Fulham and Kensington – perfecting the art of rollerblading and skateboarding. Too cool for school – it’s half term anyway! (read more)

Take the plunge with Kimberley Swim Clinics at the Ernest Bevin pool (read more).

Run free with rosy cheeks and smiling faces with Open Air Fit on Wandsworth Common – both multi-sports and football camps on offer (read more).

Bach to Baby is performing a special half term concert: Over the Seas and Far Away in Putney (so not so far after all..) (read more).

Join the award-winners atcourts across south-west London with All Star Tennis Camps (read more).

Polka Theatre in SW19 has a range of workshops for young ones in their Autumn Adventures: Take Park Workshops based around We’re Going on a Bear Hunt (read more).

FC Battersea is holding its popular ProCamp daily for girls and boys aged nine to 15 and they promise 100% football (read more).

Join London Wayfarers Hockey Club for two days in Battersea Park for a mixture of honing skills and fun tournament play across a range of age groups (read more).

WenLin Chinese School is holding a Mandarin Activity Camp for five-to-12-year-olds at Belleville Primary with fun at the heart of the activities and learning (read more).

At MAMA Codes Coding Workshops let them revel in the wonderful world of cyberspace (read more).

Dulwich Lawn Tennis Club is running a great raft of Halloween-inspired spooky sessions for children over two weeks (read more).

Kids Eden Camp is filled with fun and creative activities for five and six-year-olds at Fresh Ground (read more).

Open Days

As half term approaches, many of this term’s open days have been and gone, but there are always further opportunities to visit so do contact the school in question – you’ll find contact details in our full listing