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30th January 2012
The weather is getting colder this week - we would like to remind you all that if local schools are forced to close at any point over the coming weeks due to heavy snow, it is important to visit our website before visiting the Children's Centre to check that we are open.
Little Stars Toddler Group at Symonds Green Community Centre has now closed but we are delighted to tell you that we will be working with a local parent to re-open the group on Wednesday 22nd February. A member of staff from the Children's Centre will be at the group each week, helping to run the group, but also there to see how the Children's Centre can support local families. The group will run from 1.00pm to 2.30pm each Wednesday and we look forward to welcoming families to the group! More information to follow on our website over the next few weeks.
A reminder that Lily's Day Nursery is holding an Open Evening on Wednesday 8th February from 5.30pm until 7.00pm - if you would like to visit please confirm your attendance by contacting 01438 842233 or text 'Open Evening' and your name to 07546 570631.
Finally, we now have a Comments Box located in our Children's Centre foyer - whether you are a parent, grandparent, carer or early years setting, if you have something you would like to tell us you can post your comments in the box next time you are in the Children's Centre. Alternatively you can always send us an email to the above address.
23rd January 2012
Join us this week as we welcome in the Chinese Year of the Dragon here at Bridge Road Children's Centre! We have a Chinese New Year drop in activity session taking place at the Children's Centre on Wednesday morning from 9.30am until 11.00am, please do come along! We are looking forward to welcoming staff and children from both Woodlands Pre-School & Nursery and Lily's Day Nursery who have asked if they can join us for this event.
This Thursday evening, from 7.00pm - 9.00pm, we are holding our first Parents' Network of the year - this takes the place of our ealier Parents' Forums - and, carrying on with our Chinese New Year celebrations, parents will have the opportunity to help prepare and taste some simple dishes and meet other local parents. This event is only open to families living in the Bridge Road Children's Centre catchment area. Places are limited and must be pre-booked - to book a place, please contact Lucy at the Children's Centre (please note this event is for adults only and we do not provide a creche for evening activities).
This week a representative from Hertfordshire County Council's Family Finance Project will be visiting our New Start and Movers and Shakers groups - if you are a family living in Stevenage and would like to make an appointment with an advisor from the Project please contact Lucy at the Children's Centre.
Finally, staff from the Children's Centre are looking forward to joining staff from early years settings across our Children's Centre area for an "outdoor spaces" training session on Wednesday evening at Fairlands Primary School & Nursery - as the session will be outside we are all keeping our fingers crossed for dry weather!!
16th January 2012
From this Thursday, Toy Library will be operating at its new earlier opening times of 10.00am until 12.00 and this week families will be able to make gloop within our Thursday Toy Library session. If you haven't already visited our Toy Library please do pop along! If you are not able to visit on Thursday, please remember that we run a second Toy Library session every Monday (during term time) at Letchmore Infants' and Nursery School from 9.30am until 10.30am.
If your child was born between 1st September 2008 and 31st August 2009 you will shortly be able to apply for a nursery place for September 2012. You can apply online from Monday 20th February 2012 at www.hertsdirect.org/nurseryadmissions. The application deadline date is Sunday 1st April 2012.
Finally, a date for your diary - we are having a drop-in Chinese New Year activity session here at the Children's Centre on Wednesday 25th January from 9.30am until 11.00am. Please join us to find out more about Chinese New Year and enjoy some traditional activities!
9th January 2012
Important information about Toy Library - we have taken the decision to change the opening times of our toy library session that operates every Thursday here at the Children's Centre. From Thursday 19th January our new opening times will be 10.00am until 12.00pm. This enables us to free up our community room in the afternoons for other Children's Centre services. We will shortly be writing out to toy library members about these changes. If you are an early years setting that currently uses our toy library facility, please do not worry as these changes will include some new arrangements for settings which we hope will make things easier for you to use resources from our library.
Please don't forget that there is no rhyme time session this Thursday!
Staff at Lily's Day Nursery have asked us to let all our families know about an Open Evening they are holding on Wednesday 8th February from 5.30pm until 7.00pm. If you would like to attend please let them know on 01438 842233 or text 'Open Evening' and your name to 07546 570631.
Finally, if your child was born between 1st September 2007 and 31st August 2008 you need to apply for a school reception place by this Friday 15th January!! You can apply online now at www.hertsdirect.org/admissions. If you do not have internet access at home or need help with making an application please contact us.
2nd January 2012
A Happy New Year to all our families!
Bridge Road Children's Centre re-opens this week after our Christmas break. We are closed for staff training on Tuesday 3rd January, but baby clinic will operate as usual.
There will be no adult numeracy and literacy courses this week. Rhyme Time and Toy Library will be running on Thursday 5th January and New Start and Movers and Shakers will be running on Friday 6th January.
Rhyme Time - Please note that there is no rhyme time session on Thursday 12th January. We are currently in the process of recruiting a new member of staff to join our team but in the meantime Sarah will continue to run our rhyme time sessions as often as possible. There may be times, however, when Sarah is not available due to other commitments and so we may have to cancel the session. Please check the diary page on our website each week to see if the session is running.
Please keep watching our website for details of events we are planning for this term!
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