Our playgroup offers care and education for all children from 2 ½ years to 4 years 11 months in a well established community based group.

We offer your children a safe and stimulating environment in which they can grow and blossom into self confident, self reliant and positive little people.

Our ultimate goal is to enable the children to have fun, explore and have the freedom to express their individuality, while forming the basis of their education.

We currently have a few spaces left and operate 4 days a week offering

full and half-day sessions.

We accept government nursery vouchers and other types of

employer supported childcare vouchers.

If you would like more details please contact

Mandy Owen, Playleader on 07977 342 742

 email eastingtonplaygroup@eygloucestershire.co.uk or visit our website www.eastingtonplaygroup.wordpress.com

Another busy term has been planned ………

World Book Week

We celebrated World book day in March and all that week the children were invited to dress up as a character from their favourite book - we saw some fabulous characters – Thomas the Tank train drivers, a Ninja Turtle, Spiderman, a firemen, princesses and even a Gruffalo and his child came along to play.

Our aim was to encourage children to enjoy listening and sharing stories both at Playgroup and at home to support their next steps of reading.

We are planning to grow some seeds for our allotment and whilst learning about growth and change in plants we will be linking this with stories, such as The Dandelion Seed and Jack and the Beanstalk.  

Topics for the half term

As many children welcomed new babies into their families we decided to have a focus on growing and babies. Children brought in baby photos and we looked at how we had changed and tried to guess who they were.

We have set up a Garden Centre on the decking and have started to visit our allotment again to prepare for the new season, the children are very excited about this and have been enthusiastic to help dig and transport soil, weeds and tools in their wheelbarrows whilst learning new skills outside in the fresh air.

We would like to say a big ‘thank you’ to Dave Gardner who kindly used his rotovator on our raised beds to give us a helping hand.

We have celebrated Mother’s day and everyone has made their Mummy a lovely card and a beautiful keepsake fingerprint keyring.

We are also planning an Easter Egg hunt and our resident ‘Paddy Bear’ is looking forward to a special treat in going home with one of our families to share his experiences with us after the Easter holidays. He already has his case packed!

We will be holding an open afternoon on Wednesday 20th April at 1pm, if you would like to find out more about our playgroup this is a great opportunity to come and meet us - we are taking names for our waiting list for September 2016.  We would love to meet you.  

Give us a ring on 07977 342 742.