Bagshot Children's Centre

Unfortunately, we are not able to have our usual Stay & Play

session on Wednesday 30th November but we will be back on

Wednesday 7th December!!       

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For our Play and Learn sessions on Monday 28^th November, we will be going for a Welly Wander in the park next to the Children’s Centre.

Please wrap up warm and wear your wellies!!

We are incorporating our Messy Monday & Tiddler Time, so our Children’s Centre will open at 9.30am and go straight through to 11.00am

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Jumping For Joy!

EVERY CHILD A TALKER

A big thank you to everyone who took part in 100 metres task, particularly those of you who sent us photographs for our race track.

We achieved the goal of 100 photos of children running, jumping, balancing, sleeping, laughing, crying, walking, sliding, riding – you name it, the children are doing it!!  The certificate is taking pride of place on the wall next to the race track of photographs.

Also a huge thank you to Andy, one of our dads who comes to the Centre, for taking the fantastic photographs of our brilliant race track.

We have nearly completed the second task, Long Jump – so keep an eye out for the certificate and also details of the third task.

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Unfortuantely due to upcoming staff training we are not able to run any sessions on Thurs 1st and Fri 2nd Dec. There will be a few changes to our schedule over the next few months so please make sure you check the diary pages before coming to visit us. More information to follow. Many thanks for your understanding!

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We are holding a Weaning Workshops on Thursday 8th Dec and Thurs 19th January at 11.30am. If you have a baby who is 17 weeks old and over, and you would like advice on weaning, please either email the Children’s Centre on www.bagshotchildrenscentre.co.uk  or telephone on 01276 473093.

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Our Play and Learn activities are based on the Early Years Foundation Stage and Every Child Matters.  Following discussions with our families, other professionals in the local area and national research (1 in 10 children have speech and language difficulties. Source: Hello), we have decided to focus on developing communication skills from pre-birth, babies through to school age.

Fun In The Pool

Over the coming months we are going to take part in national/local themed campaigns which will link into our activities and focus on communication.  These include Every Child A Talker, Hello, Bookstart and ICAN.

2011 is the Year of Communication and Hello is a campaign to increase understanding of how important it is for children and young people to develop good communication skills.

Speech, language and communication underpins everything we do in life – communication is a skill that we learn and develop and is something we can all improve.

Hello aims to make communication for all children and young people a priority in homes and schools across the UK so that they can live life to the full.

Taking Aim

In addition to the Hello campaign, Surrey are running their Every Child A Talker (ECAT) initiative, which is spreading the word to parents and childcare practitioners about everyday activities, which can help a child’s language develop.

Inspired by the London 2012 Olympics next year, ECAT have launched a Communication Decathlon.  Each month the children and adults will have a task to complete which relates to an event in the Olympics Decathlon.  If the Children’s Centre successfully completes each task we will be awarded a Communication Decathlon Certificate!

The first task is the 100 Metres and we need 100 photographs of babies and children who use the Children’s Centre performing different actions such as running, jumping, crawling, waving, smiling, sleeping etc.  We will be talking to the children about what is happening in the pictrues and what actions and acitivities they are able to do themselves.  To further encourage communication, we are asking parents and carers to spend time at home talking to their child about what they can do and then take a photo of them doing the action/activity and email/bring the photo to the Centre.  Please help us reach our target of 100 photos – we only need 10 more to stick on our 100 Metres Race Track!!

Task 2 in the Communication Decathlon is the Long Jump and we are incorporating the autumnal season in our activities.  It would be fantastic if you could collect leaves, twigs, bark, cones, conkers and the like with your child and bring them to the Children’s Centre on Monday 31st October.  If you do not have the opportunity to get out and about with your child, any pictures you can find in magazines are just as good.  We will see which gets the longest jump (the highest number collected).  Don’t forget to have a chat with your child about the sights, sounds, smells and textures you come across whilst collecting your Autumn treasures!

There is lots of information on display at the Children’s Centre regarding Communication – please ask for a copy of the literature and, of course, if you have any concerns regarding your child’s speech or language please do not hesitate to ask any of the staff or your health visitor.

The Children’s Centre is now a distributor of Bookstart packs – please ask a member of the team.  Bookstart offers the gift of free books to all children at two key ages before they start school, to inspire a love of reading that will give children a flying start in life.

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Bookstart gives you…

• Free books to share with your child
• Support and guidance as you inspire a love of books in your child
• An opportunity to engage with other families at vibrant and fun community events
• A place to find everything you need to share books, stories and rhymes with your child, online.
  

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We have organised a Baby Massage Course here at the Children’s Centre for babies under 6 months. It is a five week course and will start on Tuesday 11th October 2011 until Tuesday 15th November 2011 (excluding Tuesday 25th October 2011). The start time is 10.00am. The cost will be £3 per session. If you would like to reserve a place, either call Sheila on 01276 473093 or email us on www.bagshotchildrenscentre.co.uk.

Baby Massage is beneficial in so many ways to you and your baby, you need no experience or equipment and it’s a lovely way to spend time with your baby.

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Our breasfeeding clinic is on every Thursday between 11.30 and 1pm. Our community midwife  visits the children’s centre to give one-to-one support and help with issues including:

          * attachment & positioning * frequency of feeds * maintaining lactation *

No need to make an appointment – just come along!

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“the under ones is a fantastic session to see friends and allow the babies to play together. A wonderful social session, we look forward to each week!!”  S from Bagshot

“Brill, lots of kids, loved the foil, see you every week”  J from Bagshot

“always a fantastic session, loved meeting more new mummies and staff as always were very welcoming” C from Lightwater

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