Grangetown Children's Centre is based within the same building as the Grangetown Primary School. Staff from the School, the Children's Centre, and from Daisychain, work together to ensure that the building as a whole offers first-class provision for the local community.

A range of activities and services - geared to helping and supporting families and young children - are provided through the Centre. Some are held at Grangetown, and some at other venues within the local and neighbouring communities. Click here for the current timetable.

To sum up the role of Children's Centres, here's a quote from the main Sunderland Children's Centre website:

There are 17 Children's Centres now open in Sunderland - all exciting places for you and your children to visit on a regular basis. Your child can make friends and learn as they play, whilst you can get professional advice on health, family matters and learn about training and job opportunities. You can also meet other parents, carers, grandparents and childminders in a safe and relaxed environment.

The centres provide:-

- play and learn activities for you and your child to enjoy together

- the chance to meet other parents

- family learning courses to develop skills and prepare parents and carers for work

- child and family health services, including advice on healthy eating, giving up smoking, breastfeeding groups and specialist health services for children

- affordable childcare from 8am - 6pm

- volunteering opportunities and many more activities and services.

 

The staff based in the Centre lead activities within the local and neighbouring community. Click here for the full schedule.

February half term: click here to see what's on this half-term holiday.

Treasure baskets
Touch play is a very important part in the life of young babies. Because it is well developed even at birth, it provides babies with more immediate access to their world than any other sense, and this is why it is the first in the senses collection. The touch basket promotes exploration of texture, shape, weight and of coldness, smoothness and pattern.

Messy play
This booklet has host of wonderful ways in which your children can learn about the world around them by plying with everyday objects. Messy Play promotes a child’s all-round development through creative activities such as painting, play dough and sticking.

Playdough Recipe Cards
There are many types of dough which can be safely used with babies and children. Dough is a great learning experience for babies and young children, meeting both emotional and physical needs.