Talking Tots - Sprites, Sprinters and Sparklers

These unique classes, which follow the developmental stages of language, are bursting with fun ideas and games! Watch your child's language skills blossom, as they enjoy a variety of exciting and exclusive Talking Tots activities! Available at three different levels: Speech Sprites lays the foundations for ages 1-2, Speech Sprinters continues the adventure for ages 2-3 while Speech Sparklers prepares the 4 year olds for school. Classes take place in central Brighton, Hove and Fiveways. Nursery classes are now available too!

Baby signing the fun way!

Babies use all kinds of signs and gestures as a natural part of learning to talk. Encouraging your baby with extra signs like milk, more, change nappy or tired will help your baby communicate!

Baby signing with Sing and Sign is easy because we make it fun to learn! Your baby will recognise important words sooner and can use the signs to "talk" to you before speech.

Developed with the help of speech and language professionals and recommended by experts, Sing and Sign is Britain's longest running and best loved baby signing programme.

HEROES RUN Hits London 1st April 2012

HEROES RUN London takes place on Sunday 1st April 2012 on Clapham Common. Just like it's Brighton big brother, there will be a 5km and 10km for adults and also a 500m dash for the little ones. There are only 1000 spaces available in the first year so be sure to enter early. Enter Now

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Nursery Applications in Hertfordshire

Parents of children born between 1 September 2008 and 31 August 2009 can apply online for nursery places at Hertfordshire maintained nursery schools and classes from Monday 20^th February 2012.  Parents should approach private, voluntary and independent (PVI) providers direct for a place at these settings.

Applying online for nursery:

• is quick and easy to do
• you will have your own unique log in details
• you can change your application right up until the closing date
• your information is fully protected and secure
• available 24 hours a day 7 days a week up until the closing date
  
  

All you need is an email account and internet access whether it is your home computer, at an internet café or at your local library. Many children’s centres also offer access.

Nursery Applications

Apply online from:            Monday 20^th February 2012

Closing date:                        Sunday 1^st April 2012

Allocation date:            Monday 30^th April 2012

Accept your place by:            Sunday 6^th May 2012

For more information on how to apply please visit: www.hertsdirect.org/nurseryadmissions

Top 10 'Good' Gifts - Why not be nice to the world this Christmas?

Give a gift from the Good Gifts Catalogue (over 200 to choose, from £5 - £5,000) and do something amazing this Christmas. 

1.   Help revive the River Jordan – a gift truly in the spirit of Christmas. Sponsor a group of Israeli, Palestinian and Jordanian youngsters working together to clean up the river (one day work camp £50) and ensure it is disposed of safely (septic tanks £55.).

2.   A cherry tree for Japan – give a cherry tree to replace one destroyed by the tsunami. Cherry blossom is a symbol of hope, an integral part of Japanese culture. A gesture of support from us to them. (1 tree for £12.00 or 5 for £60.00)

3.   Christmas Hamper – our hamper crammed with necessities and seasonal treats goes to elderly people in the UK who may receive no other gifts. Pamper with our £25 hamper andbring joy into someone's Christmas Day. (£25.00)

4.   Bowls of rice – 50 bowls of rice for 50 hungry children in Africa. (£5.00)

5.   Trysting trees – a Scottish tradition. Plant two beech saplings together and they will intertwine romantically. These trees are planted around the UK and are great for combating global warming. (£30.00)

        6.   A Medical Sniffer Rat – in Tanzania, rapid diagnosis is required to limit the spread of TB. Conventional lab tests take hours to identify the bug in human sputum, so doctors are turning to a new, low-tech solution: rats. Super-sensitive rodent noses sniff in high definition and pin-point guilty microbes in seconds. (£15.00)

7.   Ducks to the rescue – in rural Orissa, women and girls are not allowed to eat chicken eggs, for cultural reasons. However, this results in large cases of malnourishment. Duck eggs are not banned so supplying duck to the women boosts both income and diet. (£25.00)

8.   Goats for Peace – Revolving goats repair the ravages of war. Well-tethered to protect local vegetation, families are started courtesy of a revolving ram. Kids go to restock families without goats. For communities slowly rebuilding themselves, goats are milk and fertiliser factories, improve local diets and help towards self-sufficiency (£20.00).

9.   Plant a Woodland – Everyone agrees, more trees add to the quality of life (and air). Many schools have, often unloved, space around the school. They'd welcome the chance to plant trees to improve their surroundings. Buy them a tree pack - 60 saplings of birch, rowan and cherry, or a hedgerow pack of hawthorn, dog rose, hazel and dogwood. Both kits provide year round colour, and the hedgerow pack, nuts and rosehips that the children can harvest. A bonus for the teacher is that it links into the curriculum (£60.00). Also clubs, housing estates, amenity groups, cricket clubs, allotment societies, hostels, youth clubs and groups of friends can plant trees on any spare land, even on verges (£105.00). Where a large space is available, a 420 tree pack greens an entire acre or grows nearly 100 metres of hedgerow (£420.00).

10. Elderly person's hospital kit - For an elderly person going into hospital can be humiliating if they lack slippers, dressing gown, nightwear and toilet bag. And that's why we prescribe our Hospital Kit to treat the condition. (£25.00)