Half Term

According to the V&A Museum of Childhood in east London, the school half term holidays are from Monday 26 to Friday 30 October. The museum has free, drop-in activities for all ages for the holiday period, including the Big Draw (CLICK). On 24 October it opens On Their Own: Britain's Child Migrants, a collaborative exhibition between the Australian National Maritime Museum, National Museums Liverpool and V&A Museum of Childhood. Thousands of unwanted British kids were shipped to the colonies, where they were often treated as slave labour and abused in various ways. It seems an inappropriate show for the Museum of Childhood.