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Under 5s booklet needs information Tumble Tots is Britain's leading national
Last month The Link announced that we were helping the West active play programme, for children from
Swindon Family and Community Project to update Toddler Out 6 months to 7 years. Our structured play
West, the out of print, but very useful, booklet of information for ° is specially designed to build your child's
parents with under 5s. self-confidence and sel f-esteem through:
We will also be including North social group for parents of this age O Developing physical skills of agility, balance and co-ordination
Swindon in the new edition, and group, and would like to be in- ^L^ O Developing language with action songs and rhymes.
will need suggestions for a new cluded, please send details as soon
name. as possible to: Carol McGill, West El Trained staff and specially designed Tumble Tots equipment.
If you run a toddler or play- Swindon Family and Community O Great fun, with more than 60,000 Tumble Tots members and
group or some other group that Project, 15 Gainsborough Way, 450 centres in the UK.
involves pre-school children, or a Freshbrook, Swindon.

Make music early
Pre-school music workshop Music Time opens a new session in Purton,
designed to cater for families in West and North Swindon.
The emphasis is on lots of fun with music, combined with movement,
rhythm, song, circle games, finger plays and plenty of percussion work
with a wide variety of quality instruments.
To find out more, call Tracy Treacher on 01285 713842 or Jane Phipps Have fun at Music Time!
on 01285 713613.
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Sing new songs • learn new rhymes
Pre-school not to be confused with nursery P '.. Meet Cleo Crochet and her friends in the Note family
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Many parents in Toothill, Freshbrook and Grange Park are under the Play sound and rhythm games • Explore the instruments
impression that the Oliver Tomkins Pre-school has closed down y,^ F, /
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since a nursery unit opened at Oliver Tomkins infants school. • Dance to the music and join in with the actions
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The volunteer management
NEW Purton Village Hall starting 5th March 1999
committee would like to make it Sessions eve ry Friday for under 2yrs and 2 to 3 years+
quite clear that the group is still
going strong, and there are places
available. In fact, an afternoon has Book now -Tei:01285 713613/713842
been opened for unaccompanied We also run workshops in:
children aged from two years and
three months. Cirencester every Wednesday Under 2's, 2-3's, 3+ years
There are two afternoons for Fairford every Monday, Under 2's, 2-3's, 3+ years
three year olds; the morning ses-
sions are for 4 year olds.
Now in its eleventh year, the
pre-school is the only one in West Giving Your Child
Swindon with its own building,
off Beaumaris Road, Toothill. The Best
To find out more, call 877299
between 9am and 3pm weekdays. In Quality Education
Left: Oliver Tomkins pre-school su-
pervisor Judy Sturgess with Daniel Ridgeway Pre-School
Coombs and Sarah Finney
Inverary Road, Wroughton

[tp Quality education and childcare
for 24 months to 5 years

•. Open 50 weeks a year, 8am-6pm

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Sandpits • Play Sand • Nursery Equipment • Rubber Tiles & much more Qualified teachers following the
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