Physical Activity & Play Programme

Babies aged 8 weeks – 9 months.

We will incorporate Touch, Smell, Taste, Movement, Balance, Sight and Hearing during each Fun Filled session.

Sensory Play provides children with the opportunity to explore, discover, and make sense of the world around them through interesting and stimulating experiences in a calming environment

The play session will incorporate:

Touch

Smell

Taste

Movement

Balance

Sight and Hearing

Sensory play supports language development, cognitive growth, motor skills, problem solving skills, and social interaction through activities that naturally encourage children to use scientific processes whilst they play, create, investigate and explore.

The programme runs as one off sessions over various months and each session is for 1 hour.

The programme is suitable for children aged 18 months to under 4 years old.

This programmes allows a child to take the lead in their play experience, which is commonly known as free play. 

Participating children will develop their:

· Social skills

· Language skills

· Communication skills

· Confidence

The programme runs for 3 weeks each session is for 1 hour.

The programme is suitable for children aged 6 months to 2 years old.

Play is your baby’s window to the world and is an important part of your baby’s healthy development and early learning experience. 

A 4-week programme aimed at giving your babies stimulating play experiences, offering a range of resources and materials for your baby to enjoy including stories, music, sensory play, creative play and much more. The 4- week duration will allow the babies the opportunity to become familiar with each other, give them time and space to investigate and explore the materials and activities and repeat experiences as much as they need to in order to extend their learning in a fun and engaging environment.

Suitable from babies from 0-12 months. 

Time for Play provides a fun, learning experience for children aged between 18months to 4 years old.  It provides a range of resources from outdoor physical play with bikes to indoor play with the toy kitchen, dinosaurs, books, arts and much more.

Suitable for children aged from 2 to under 4 years.

Creative arts play creates an environment in which children lead the session by exploring their interests and imagination.  Using a wide variety of activities these programmes aim to promote children's social and emotional development, mental health and wellbeing and the importance of using arts to help children regulate their emotions.

Children will experience a number of activities throughout the year including:

· Painting, mark marking

· Role play and storytelling

· Music and movement

· Messy play

Let’s Play is our supported play programme for children (0-4 years) who have received or are awaiting a diagnosis of additional needs.

This programme is specifically tailored to providing stimulating play experiences for children in a relaxed and nurturing environment. Using sensory stimulation within the programme we help strengthen children’s skills to help them navigate and explore the world.

Using the medium of play also offers us the unique opportunity to support the specific difficulties they might have in a fun and relaxed environment. These sessions also offer parents the opportunity to get advice, support and strategies from staff and from other parents in the group.

The programme is suitable for those children who are in the referral process or have received a diagnosis of an additional need.

The Creative Babies and Creative Toddlers’ programme will be specifically designed to cater for different age groups according to their stage of development and will be ran over a number of weeks. Using a wide variety of activities these programmes aim to promote children's social and emotional development, mental health and wellbeing and the importance of using arts to help children regulate their emotions. Through the use of creative art activities children can develop their self-confidence and self-esteem, be innovative and engage their imaginations whilst also practicing their fine motor skills. Children will experience a number of activities throughout the year including: Painting Role play and storytelling Music and movement Messy.  Suitable for children from 2 years to under 4 years old

Tiny Dancers is a Zumbini inspired music and dance programme for caregivers and their children aged 2 to 4 years old. The Tiny Dancers programme is a four week journey into the world of movement, rhythmic musical instruments, dance, and the natural response music provokes in both children and adults.

Miles with Smiles is a very popular programme, which gives families an opportunity to get together to enjoy the great outdoors on bikes.

This programme is tailored for novice cyclists. It will be on flat routes, at a pace which can be described as light to moderate exercise. The children will enjoy a relaxing cycle in the bike carts as their parent / carer pulls them along at a steady amble.

Cycling is beneficial for the environment and for your health:

Improving your mental wellbeing

It is good for your cardiovascular fitness

Reducing the risk of health conditions and illnesses

Improving your sleep

Strengthening your immune system.

The programme runs as one off sessions over various months each session is for 1.5 hour.

The programme is suitable for children aged 18 months to under 4 years old.

Creative arts play creates an environment in which children lead the session by exploring their interests and imagination.  Using a wide variety of activities these programmes aim to promote children's social and emotional development, mental health and wellbeing and the importance of using arts to help children regulate their emotions.

Children will experience a number of activities throughout the year including:

Painting

Role play and storytelling

Music and movement

Messy play

This programme is suitable for babies up to the age of 18 months.