Children's Centres provide a variety of advice and support for parents and carers. Their services are available to you from pregnancy right through to when your child goes into reception class at primary school. They're somewhere your child can make friends and learn as they play. You can get professional advice on Health and Family matters, learn about training and job opportunities or just socialise with other people.

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Contact your Sure Start Centre on 0116 305 5993

What's Happening

Keep up-to-date with what's happening in your area with Sure Start Children Centres.

Childrens Centres Busy over the Summer Holidays

Our childrens centres are all open over the school summer holidays, the sessions continue as normal, pictured below are Mums and Babies enjoying their singing session at the Little Gigglers Group at Woodcote on Monday Mornings. All activities FREE come along all welcome, socialise with others.

CHATTERBOX at Ashby Childrens Centre

Chatterbox Sing-a-Song-a-Story, Thursday 9.30am-11.30am. Every Two Weeks ring 0116 305 5993 for dates. Enjoy a sing song and rhymes, story times with arts and crafts to encourage your children to be creative. FREE.

Stay and Play at Moira Childrens Centre

Thursday morning 9.30am - 11.30am. Join other parents at drop in session for children aged 0-5yrs to enjoy a range of FREE activities in a warm and welcoming environment.

Start to PlayTraining Rolls Out to Schools

All our schools were given the opportunity to complete the Start To Play training for Foundation Stage staff at Moira Childrens Centre. Pictured below are some of the staff who took part.

Hood Park and DMs Donisthorpe Events

Our Get Ready for Schools events in the Ashby area were well attended and over 50 families were able to gain vital information about starting school. Pictured below are families and agencies at the events.

Ashby Young Mums Group

Ashby Young Mums group meets at 12 noon until 1.30pm every Tuesday at the Sure Start Childrens Centre in the grounds of Woodcote Primary School. The group meets in an informal setting and offers advice and support for young parents during pregnancy and early childhood. This is a lively group and gives you the chance to meet other peope in similar circumstances and learn all about parent craft, healthy eating, craft sessions, outings etc. These FREE sessions are open to all and Dads are especially welcome, for more information contact Group Leaders - Cathy Aldridge, Community Midwife on 07717 530999 or Natalie Halliday - Community Nursery Nurse on 077646 89834

FREE Weekly activities for 0-5 year olds

We have two Surestart Childrens Centres in our area, on in the grounds of Woodcote Primary in Ashby and the other in the grounds of Moira Infants School. Both these centres offer a wide range of free activities for you and your children, i.e. Little Gigglers, Active Tots, Child Health Clinic, Young Parents Group, Toy Library, Baby Massage, Tiny Tums, Stay and Play, Messy Play, Chatterbox, Pip Squeaks. Come along to these free friendly sessions and meet other people the same as you. For more information and times of sessions ring 0116 305 5993. Also see our Sure Start Children Centres page.

Early Years - START TO PLAY Training

Kelly Baker from NW Leics District Council has completed the START TO PLAY staff training for all early years settings in the Ashby Family of Schools area. On completion of training each nursery or pre-school receives a sports bag full of play equipment and is accredited with a certificate. In the next phase of training all Childminders and School Foundation Stage Classes will have the opportunity to received the training. Pictured below at the final training session at Moira Childrens Centre are Staff from Ivanhoe, Oakthorpe and Moira Pre Schools.

Downloads

Download the Sure Start Booklet for NW Leics