| 09 December 2009
Programme Description
Busy Buddies is a play centre for children aged 6 months and above where they discover and learnthrough a wide range of hands-on activities and experience such as art and craft, cooking, story-telling, puppet work, sand play and water play. Guided by dedicated teachers who truly love children, your child will be able to express their own creative thoughts and ideas and develop key life skills in a fun, relaxed and positive environment.
Alpha Babes
(6 -8 + Months)
Babes and families share fun-filled activities together in a happy, relaxed environment
100% Parental involvement is the key to providing your baby with the most benefit from this programme and sessions also give parents a chance to share valuable ideas and build new friendships with other families. From a very young age, infants benefit hugely from the stimulus of regular social interaction with other children and adults and at this stage every day brings major changes in their growth and development.
al normal 12px/normal Arial; text-align: justify; ">We introduce a wide range of stimulating multi-sensory experience s, including our exiting Mystery Box and hands-on Touchie-Feelie activities to explore and discover the world around them, specially designed art and crafts and rich language building activities including stories told through colourful picture books, puppets as well as finger songs for children and parents to enjoy together.
Busy Bods
(1 ½ -21/2 Years)
Inquisitive toddlers are encouraged to explore and learn through hand-on activities
This is the age of mobility and exploration! – a fabulous time when each moment brings new discovery and understanding… but also it can be one of the most challenging thanks to their tireless energy and so our Busy Bods programme is designed to keep minds and bodies fully engaged, with many opportunities to proactive their new found skills.
We will enjoys plenty of physical games and activities, from parachute play to mini-sports, music and movement, hands-on, cooking experiences, arts and crafts, nature exploration including sand and water play. This is also critical phase for encouraging strong language development through stimulating language-rich stories and puppet show. Songs and finger rhymes are enjoyed at a child-friendly pace that allows them to fully grasp the words and participate with the actions. We also begin to introduce alphabet letters and basic math concepts, like numbers, colours and shapes.
Children are encouraged to attend twice a week so they can enjoy regular contact wit tier friends and to enable them to build on the learning concepts covered over the weeks.
Creative Critters
(2 ½ - 3 ½ Years)
Moving towards a smooth transition into independent school
During our Creative sessions we begin to introduce a number of pre-reading and pre-writing activities to compliment their developing cognitive skills, through concrete example and hands-on exploration at a pace that suits each individual child’s interests and abilities.
These sessions are ideas for parents who want to continue to participate in their child's journey of discovery and support their move towards independence.
Arty Smarties
(4-6 Years)
Expressing ideas creatively through the Arts
Using storybooks or songs as inspiration, our Arty Smarties are encouraged to express their own creative thoughts and ideas through a variety of means. They may choose to interpret or retell the story physically through drama and action, write new lyrics or create their own puppets for a performance in the puppet theatre. By using different artistic media, emotions can be depicted through colour and form, fabulous creations modeled from clay and collage.
Special focus is given to build their problem solving skills and when children are allowed to explore and become familiar with different materials in a friendly. Positive environment; their inherent creative abilities are released. These sessions are held once a week.
BB Playgroup
A family playgroup for children of mixed ages to enjoy learning together
One Fridays we conduct our unique busy buddies playgroup – this enables families with several young children to attend together!
These sessions combine a variety of structured and unstructured activities to cater to the different abilities and interests of the children and each week we will have a special focus, for example Art Farty Day, Super Sports Fun-days, Cookery Capers, Nature Wonders, Recycling Crafts, Clay Play, Dress-Up and much more!
Working with children ages in a single group is a wonderful experience, with the younger ones trying to emulate their elders. And the older children helping out the less able. It provides multiple opportunities for sharing and caring and creates an amazing energy and group dynamic. As this a family day we get parents involved through the session!
