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TOOTHILL North toddler places Playgroup places offer
NURSERY Sunflowers Toddler Group has Link & Learn Pre-school in the
spaces available for parents with Link Centre is offering care for 2
PLacES avaILabLE babies/toddlers up to the age 4. and 3 year olds on Tuesday and
This long-running group is part Wednesday afternoons between
For children born between of North Swindon Baptist Church 1.30pm and 4pm from 9 January.
1 September 2008 and meets on Wednesday morn- Places are limited and the cost is
& 31 March 2009 ings, 10am to 11.30am at Abbey £9 per 2.5 hour session.
to start in January 2012 Meads Primary School. For details call the pre-school on
Activities include playtime, crafts, 465464, Monday to Friday, between
To book your child’s place, Bible stories and singing. For details 9am and 12noon or mail: ann.
call Jo Luke on call Anna Marshall on 706906. [email protected]
01793 497250 or
mail: [email protected]
Wall of hands ready at Kidz About
Part of Toothill
Primary School to support Hop, Skip & Jump charity
Stokesay Drive
Children and parents visiting Kidz About indoor activity centre in the
old Renault building in West Swindon can now lend a hand to the new
Hop, Skip & Jump respite centre for children with severe disabilities
LittLe Foxes ChiLdCare at Upper Shaw Farm community centre, less than a mile away.
The idea developed by Kidz spend quality time with siblings
& eduCation About marketing manager Clare who perhaps lose out on the atten-
For children and their parents Milton and The Link means that, tion they need.”
Established 1986 in return for a £1 donation to the Since opening in mid-July well
the common, Brinkworth, Wilts charity, children enjoying an outing over 100 families have registered
tel: 01666 510356 to the play centre can decorate hand with Hop, Skip & Jump with new
Just a 15 minute drive from West Swindon & Priory Vale on B4042 shapes that will be displayed on a parents visiting daily. Verity said
l An independent family run nursery offering quality care and education within a safe, wall of names. awareness of the centre was spread-
secure, stimulating environment for all babies and children from 0-5 and an out of Clare said: “It’s a really creative ing with families coming from as
school club for children aged 5-11 years way to get parents and children far away as Salisbury and Oxford,
l Open: Monday to Friday, 7.30am-6.30pm, 51 weeks of the year from Kidz About involved and raise and added that business and com-
l Full, part time and term time places. Government funding for awareness of the fantastic service munity support for the centre has
3-5 year olds
provided by Hop, Skip & Jump. The grown hugely. “There has been a
l High staff to child ratios with qualified and experienced teaching carers and volunteers do such great snowball effect with more and more
staff and nursery nurses
l Nutritious 3 course meals, hydro pool, multi sensory room, work with special needs children people wanting to organise events
school hall with gym apparatus, secure gardens, mini bus for trips out and about and provide much valued respite to raise money for us; it’s fantastic
for their parents and siblings.” how the charity has captured the

ISTD - Ballet - Tap
- Modern - Jazz
Contemporary
Street Jazz
Musical Theatre &
RAD Major Ballet Verity Brooke-Maple, right, and Kirsty Markham of Kidz About

bring this advert with helping hands children
Hop, Skip & Jump manager imagination.”
and get first two Verity Brooke-Maple said she was Hop, Skip & Jump is open for
weeks free delighted with the Kidz About in- care from 8am to 6pm, providing a
terest and support. “It’s wonderful breakfast and after-school care club
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Classes from 2 /2 years upwards. to know that a business, almost next and support to parents and children
Lessons held at: door, has taken such a great initia- during the day. Opening hours on
tive. All the parents and children Saturday, all holidays and Bank
The Haydon Centre who display a picture on the wall Holidays are 10am to 4pm. A youth
Haydonleigh School will be helping us.” club for teens to under 25s is held
She added that the closeness on Thursdays 6.30pm to 8.30pm.
Abbeymeads Community School of the two centres had positive
Blunsdon Village Halls benefits for families with disabled Become a volunteer
Tel: 07825 543529 or 01793 524112 children. “Kidz About is proving a To find out more how to offer time to
tremendous asset to parents who
Hop, Skip & Jump - or to organise
Visit our website for more details: bring their disabled children to us a fundraising event - call Verity on
www.swindonacademyofdance.co.uk for respite care. It’s really nice to 07557 435012 or mail: manager.
say to parents there is a place to go
[email protected]
just down the road where they can

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