Dalesplay

20/06/2024

A few things on for you all to visit with family over the next few months 🥰

What do you have planned for the next couple of months? There are so many events happening all over the Yorkshire Dales, you might need to plan some extra trips? Here's a selection of them. Please do add any others - or tag the events you've involved in or enjoy going to:
Skipton Sheep Day: 30th June
Great Yorkshire Show: 9th – 12th July
Settle Flowerpot Festival: 13 July - 1 September
Masham Steam Rally: 20 & 21 July
Ingleton Gala: 20th July
Ripley Show: 11th August
Art in the Pen: 17-18 August
Kettlewell Scarecrow Festival: 10 – 18 August
Gargrave Show: 17th August
Burnsall Sports: 24th August
Malham Show: 24 August
Wensleydale Agricultural Show: 24 August
Reeth Show: 26 August
Hebden Sports: 26th August
Kilnsey Show: 27 August
Muker Show: 4 September
Medieval Music in the Dales: 13 – 15 September
Bentham Agricultural Show: 7 September
Horton in Ribblesdale Show: 7th September
Nidderdale Show: 22 September
Grassington 1940s Weekend: 20 -22 September
Richmond Walking & Book Festival: 20 - 29 September
Yarndale: 28 – 29 September
Masham Sheep Fair: 28 - 29 September
Yorkshire Dales Cheese Festival, Celebrating Local Produce: 11 to 14 October

Which events have I missed? What are your favourite events? Any photos to share?
Image by Stephen Garnett Photography.

20/06/2024

This week in Ducklings we have continued our theme of summer exploring ice cream, it was very cold and hard. The children used the spoons to scoop it up and put it on their cones. They then tasted it, it was very cold and creamy. We have been filling and emptying with the cups and teapots and we have been helping our flowers to grow by using the watering cans to pour water on them. We learnt new words and explored new textures.

17/06/2024

The Ducklings have been busy crafting doing our Seaside theme. We practised our threading adding hoops onto a jelly fishes te****les counting numbers of hoops on each te****le 1-5. We explored in flavoured water using lemon and lime and even had a taste, with some funny faces being pulled after biting into the fruits. We made pirate hats mark making with chalk, decorated fish gluing and sticking and also some star fish shapes to make a decoration.

14/06/2024

This week in sunshine’s we have been developing our counting skills and number recognition. We counted the beads that we threaded onto the shooting stars to match the numerals. This helped us develop our fine motor skills because the threading was quite tricky for some of the younger children, it took a lot of concentration. Some of the older children made patterns with the beads they threaded on. We found the missing numerals to put on the countdown for the space rocket and made planet pictures. We explored the different colours and patterns we made whilst making the planets. We jumped up the numerals to get into the rocket role play area and sang some of our favourite space rhymes.

14/06/2024

11/06/2024

07/06/2024

In the ducklings room this week they have started a new topic all about summer. They have been exploring sand by making different shapes with the moulds, digging, filling buckets and making pictures. They have been playing with coloured ice and coloured frozen balls on the colour changing table. We used different describing words and modelled new words. The ducklings children played with the boats in the water and and with the solar water fountain outside.

07/06/2024

We have transformed our sunshine’s room into a solar system. The children have been learning all about living on planet earth, we have been learning about the other planets and where they are. The children have developed their counting skills with the alien counters, used lots of describing words whilst playing in the moon rock sensory tray, enjoyed learning about astronauts and dressing up. They made spaceships using different 2D shapes and learnt the names of these shapes. Our story this week has been 10 little aliens.

05/06/2024

💊Think Pharmacy 💊

💊For seven common conditions (see image for more details and restrictions) your pharmacist can provide some prescription medicine if needed, without you needing to see a GP first.

💊Find out more at www.nhs.uk/thinkpharmacyfirst

💊You can visit Central Dales Pharmacy in Hawes or Day Lewis Pharmacy in Leyburn who both offer this service.

30/05/2024

Did you know? 😁

Photo credit - Unknown

24/05/2024

Just a reminder that there will be no funded sessions next week as it is half term. Funded sessions returns on Tuesday 4th June until Friday 5th July. We are open for paid sessions only.

23/05/2024

Five ways you can save your baby’s life.

Credit - St John Ambulance

20/05/2024

Here is some information about funding for children to attend Dalesplay. We are now taking bookings for September 2024, don’t delay as places are filling fast. Contact Joanne or Louise at [email protected]

16/05/2024

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16/05/2024

Over the last couple weeks the Ducklings have been practising our action rhymes; wind the bobbin, twinkle twinkle. We have been creative making sunshine’s and umbrellas for all weathers. We have explored our feelings playing instruments as we sing to make us all happy. We built towers and giggled as we knocked them down, made cloud foam, you all loved the texture pulling it apart watching it fall. We have even had a little beach to build sand castles.

15/05/2024

📚Reading Together 📚

The most important things that parents/carers can do to support their children’s reading & writing, from birth onwards, are to share lots & lots of books & stories with their child & to always make book-sharing an enjoyable experience.

➡️peeple.org.uk/peep-tips-for-you-and-your-child

02/05/2024

Children will learn at their own pace, each child is different to the next. Keep encouraging the learning process 💜👶👼👧

01/05/2024

Here are some pictures of some of the activities that the Sunshine’s room have explored throughout April. We have been developing our fine motor skills, learnt new vocabulary, developed different movements to act out insects and learnt about their habitat. 🦋🐝🐞🦟🦗🪲🪳🐜🪰🕷️

29/04/2024

Please could we kindly ask children who come to Dalesplay in wellies to also bring a pair of shoes or trainers to put on and wear inside.

We have lots of children coming in wellies which is fine but they have no other footwear to pop on when playing inside. We need suitable footwear on at all times incase we need to quickly evacuate the building. Thank you 😊

29/04/2024

Last week in the Ducklings room we have been adding 5 stalks onto carrots, we explained the oat sensory tray; counting our scoops of how many we put in the bowls. We practised our fine motor skills threading Cheerios onto pipe cleaners and had jelly play using our different senses.

13/04/2024

Are you pregnant or have children under the age of four? You could qualify for the NHS Healthy Start scheme to help you buy food, milk and get free Healthy Start vitamins.

Find out if you're eligible here: https://www.healthystart.nhs.uk/how-to-apply/

11/04/2024

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10/04/2024

5 tips for establishing healthy sleeping habits🥱😴

09/04/2024

In the Ducklings we are learning how to count to 5. We made 5 Little Ducks puppets to use when it’s song time. We made a Spring Display with flower pots 1-5, we used out footprints for leaves and handprints for the flowers and also made a nursery board of Old McDonald with lots of animals.

09/04/2024

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05/04/2024

Our Easter Holiday club have enjoyed lots of crafts to keep them entertained. We made butterfly’s, painted vases and egg cups, baked rabbit cookies and made crispy cake nests. We had an egg hunt, made pop up chicks, played instruments and a whole lot more. Fun for all ages 🥰🐰🐣🪺🍫🎨👩‍🍳👟