In Practice: Up & running - Airy Hill gets revamp
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Children who attend an after-school club at Airy Hill School, Whitby, celebrated the completion of a major revamp of its premises.
The Endeavour Fun Club for four- to 13-year-olds is based in a former caretaker's cottage and now has a new entrance, kitchen, and brighter playroom.
Baby massage and father-and-child storytelling sessions are among the services available at a new children's centre based at Up Hatherley Library in Gloucestershire.
Plans to build a children's centre on the site of Barwick and Stoford Community Primary School in Dorset have been approved. The centre will offer outreach services via a specially adapted bus.
Children dressed up as pirates for a fancy dress competition, one of the fun activities that took place at the launch of Looe Children's Centre in Devon last month. The centre is based in a former church hall.
Oxfordshire County Council is planning to bring together a children's centre and youth club under one roof. The proposed £1.2m facility would be built on the site of a former youth centre in Wallingford.
How Wood Primary School in St Albans is hoping to build a log cabin-style building to house a breakfast and after-school club.
Daisy Children's Centre in Papworth, Cambridgeshire, was officially opened by chairman of Cambridgeshire County Council Tony Orgee and Isobel Davies, who won a competition to name the centre. The centre is on the site of Pendragon Primary School.
