【推荐1】Museums are now giving history lovers the chance to explore exhibits after dark in an all-night adventure.

New York Last August, NY’s American Museum of National history held its first-ever adult sleepover. After all the $ 350 tickets sold out in three hours, these grown-up slumber parties have become a regular event. Guests can enjoy a glass of champagne and participant in fossil-finding tours and live shows with nocturnal animals (夜间动物) before settling down for the night beneath the iconic 29m-long blue whale.

Sydney The Australian Museum mixes it up with themed sleepover events throughout the year. During the slumber parties children can snooze in the company of prehistoric skeletons and giant squids.

Singapore The Art Science Museum has held several Jurassic sleepover parties. With movie screenings, interactive and educational workshops, and special after-hours tours to enjoy, midnight museum goers can learn more about dinosaur’s origin at the “ Dinosaurs: Dawn to Extinction” exhibit.

London The British Natural History Museum also hosts Dino Snores for prehistoric devotees. Both kids and adults can take part in a torch-lit journey in the dinosaur gallery and have an opportunity to sleep m the Central Hall next to the Diplodocus (梁龙) skeleton. Besides, adult parties include live music, a midnight feast and horror movie marathons.

【推荐1】Online art classes are often an affordable and convenient way to learn a new skill without committing to the expense of art school. While some online learning platforms focus on a specific type of art like drawing, painting, photography, and even sewing, others let students explore a variety of skills. Here we recommend the best overall: New Masters Academy.

Key Specs

Cost: $36 to $79 per month

Class length: Varies; 1 to 5 hours

Availability: Open registration

Why We Chose It

Advantages:

Unlimited access to the offering of drawing and painting classes

Students can sign up for a free 7-day trial

Access to more than 2, 500 hours of streaming art instruction videos

Community forum lets students communicate and learn from each other

Disadvantages:

Does not include courses for other skills like photography

Overview

Courses range from art theory and drawing to painting, sculpture, and digital art. Classes are designed to artists of every skill level, so it’s easy to find lessons that will match your experience and needs. Beginner-friendly lessons include color mixing, an introduction to landscape painting, and two-hour water-color painting classes.

The Library Plan costs $49 for a month-to-month membership or $36 per month when billed annually. Membership includes unlimited streaming access to more than 2,500 hours of instructional videos taught by true maters.

Alternatively, ambitious artists can join the Library plan for $79 for a month-to-month membership or $59 per month when billed annually. In addition to standard features, Library+ members get access to an extensive library of reference images to support daily practice and make it easy to find inspiration.

【推荐2】Should swimming lessons be compulsory in schools?

Guangdong Province is set to make swimming lessons compulsory (必修的) in primary schools starting from 2020, proposing (提出) the courses should be given from the fourth grade. Do we need to make swimming compulsory in schools? Forum (论坛) readers share their opinions.

White Bear (Poland)

In Poland swimming lessons are not compulsory, but most of the schools have them. I think that when it is only possible, there should be the swimming lessons for kids. It is a life-saving skill.

Mister Panda (France)

I come from France where swimming lessons in school are compulsory (dating back to Charlemagne). I even got my life-saving certificate in school.

Boilermaker (Expert in China)

There are swimming lessons in my city, but I was very disappointed in how they were taught. The kids spent 45 minutes of the one-hour lesson practicing strokes on dryland. They only spent 15 minutes in the water. All of the children panicked and sank immediately to the bottom. Then all of the parents scolded the children, telling them they weren’t paying attention to the teacher and that they were failures.

Yunzhang (China)

It is a pity that many Chinese athletes have won world championships in swimming while most schools don’t have the swimming facilities. Swimming is an important life-saving skill that everyone should have access to. The earlier, the better. The government needs to put money into the popularity of the sport.

【推荐3】Courses Available at North Coast College Campuses

Agriculture

Specialist agriculture centres of the North Coast College offer courses ranging from agricultural skills to beef production, horse studies and rural management. The Wollongbar Campus is famous for its Tropical(热 带的) Fruit Growing program and has introduced courses on bush foods and coffee production. Taree offers the Veterinary(兽医的) Assistant program and has introduced “Agristudy”, which enables students to learn flexibly and by correspondence( 函 授 ), using a mixture of student learning guides, telephone tutorials, information sessions and workshops. Mullumbimby has the popular Rural Business Management program, which can also be studied by correspondence. Grafton, meanwhile, offers traineeships in agriculture including beef and dairy.

Health Programs

The continued improvement of healthier living within the community has seen an increase in fitness awareness and a need for trained staff in the Fitness and Sport industries. Fitness Instruction courses are offered at Tweed Heads and teach students how to keep healthy and lead a safe fitness program.

Lismore offers the Aged Support program and Port Macquarie offers the Early Childhood Nursing program. These courses give you the theoretical skills, knowledge and practical experience needed to work in a variety of residential and community-based health care institutions. For students interested in working in the Medical Health Care industry, Kingscliff is a specialist centre for the Natural Therapy Diploma and has a health clinic on campus.

Environmental Studies

The Environmental Studies courses offered by the North Coast College have been developed to help students increase their awareness and understanding of environmental issues and to enable them to determine their environmental impact. The Environmental Practice course, which includes Coastal Management, is offered through the Ballina Campus.

For people interested in working to protect natural forests, the North Coast College offers the Forest Protection course at Casino. This course can provide a pathway for students into the Natural Resource Management Diploma at university.

【推荐3】April 7^th is the World Health Day. To celebrate it and draw people’s attention to health, Class 17 has held a Health Corner. Here is a health tip from a student.