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2009 Y Bont Spring Issue 29 www.clybiauplantcymru.org ISSN 1464-4282 In this issue • Regional Focus • Play, Learn & Grow Healthy • Training • Funding • Get Crafty! A company limited by guarantee 4296436 Registered Charity 1093260 and more! Working in partnership with: Pembrokeshire Children’s Information Service (CIS) is getting older... Within the fi rst few months of 2009 Pembrokeshire Children’s Information Service will have a new name and be evolving into Pembrokeshire Family Information Service (FIS) Issue 29 Spring 2009 In this issue... Pembrokeshire FIS.................2 In addition to holding information on childcare, early year’syear’s education and training in Pembrokeshire, the FIS will hold wide-ranging information for parents and carers of children aged up to their 20th birthday. NMT Nursery Awards..............3 The name of Family Information Service (FIS) will refl ect the extended age Fous on West Wales...............4 range that the service will now support. The FIS would be most grateful if out of school clubs in Pembrokeshire Focus on North Wales............5 continue to advise of any changes such as opening days, contact details or costs to enable us to keep our records up to date. Receiving timely Focus on South East Wales...6 information on any changes really does help us to ensure that we provide accurate and up to date information to parents and carers who are looking for quality childcare provision in Pembrokeshire. Training...................................7 Contact details: Pembrokeshire Family Information Service (FIS) Play, Learn & Grow................... 36 – 38 High Street Haverfordwest Healthy................................8-9 SA61 2DA Information Line: 01437 763344 Funding..........................10 - 11 New Email Address: fi [email protected] New WebsiteWebsite Address: www.pembrokeshire.gov.uk/fiwww.pembrokeshire.gov.uk/fi s Get Crafty!............................12 Clwb Plant Gellilydan and Maentwrog in Gwynedd were very fortunate to receive a grant from the Comic Relief Fund for a total of £5,000.00. The grant will be used to buy new and exciting play equipment for the children and subsidise staff salaries. A company limited by guarantee 4296436 Registered Charity 1093260 Clwb Plant Gellilydan a Maentwrog provides after Registered Offi ce: school care to children in two very isolated rural villages Clybiau Plant Cymru Kids’ Clubs, in the Snowdonia National Park. They provide a range Bridge House, Station Road, Llanishen, of activities and allow more children and parents to Cardiff. CF14 5UW access affordable childcare. Tel: 029 2074 1000 Fax: 029 2074 1047 Email: [email protected] Comic Relief have helped thousands of people Website: www.clybiauplantcymru.org in the UK and around the world. 2 Y Bont Congratulations to Debbie Forrest The judges commented that in a close contest, they were impressed by the and Helen Mathias of Happy Days company’s truly innovative growth, development and high quality, clearly setting Childcare (Wales) Limited who have the standard for childcare in their region. recently received the Award for Nursery Business Development at the Happy Days Childcare (Wales) Limited provide after school and holiday clubs prestigious NMT Nursery Awards in as well as their core day nursery business in Pembrokeshire. London. The New Year brings new staff to Caerphilly The New Year in Caerphilly brought with it a new Development Offi cer, although Carol Charles will be well known to all out of school clubs in NB Caerphilly, as she has been the Support Worker for the last four years. Carol regards this as a really exciting opportunity building on the work that For those people she has been doing for some time in her role as support worker, and now who have not yet expanding into the area of out of school childcare development. She is looking forward to continuing the good relationships that have been built sent in their Help Us with you all. to Help You please “It only seems a short time since I was a Play worker myself in Cardiff, which gave me the understanding of the challenges but also rewards of note that there is no being a Play worker.” need to use a stamp Over the coming weeks, Carol will be visiting all clubs in Caerphilly with if your return it using the new Support Worker, Claire Harris. Claire’s background, which goes back a number of years working in the childcare sector, includes working the FREEPOST with MYM both at a Cylch Meithrin and Ti a Fi group, as a childminder and also as a daycare and out of school childcare provider. She has a wealth address given on of experience dealing with CSSIW issues and should be an asset to all the reverse of the clubs in Caerphilly. form. Carol would like to thank you for your continued support and Claire is looking forward to meeting all club staff and children Y Bont 3 West Wales African Penpals Growing Children The assistant Playworker at Broadhaven after school club, Judy, Growing Seeds has recently returned from teaching at St.Joseph Millenium School in Tiddlywinks Childcare Centre based in Neath Port Talbot has been Tanzania. As a result of her visit, established for 13 years in the Swansea Valley and employs 22 staff. children from this Pembrokeshire after Tiddlywinks provides all aspects of childcare as well as being the local school club are now embarking on a Integrated Children’s Centre. The demand for their quality childcare new pen pal project and are writing to has proven to be so successful, they are now outgrowing their current the children in Tanzania. Parents have premises. given permission for their children to write and draw pictures and to develop Pictured are just one of the play activities they have undertaken with this activity to exchange cultures. g a r d e n i n g equipment provided Christmas Fund Raising by Clybiau Plant Cymru Kids’ Clubs, Event a Success! funded by Neath The Sunshine After School club which Port Talbot Early is based at Swansea Children’s Centre, Years Development held a Christmas Fete to raise money and Childcare for the club and raised £190. Staff, Partnership. The parents and volunteers all worked hard club also participated to organise the event. Project worker in a Clybiau Plant Mandy Cutliffe said ‘The event was a Cymru Kids’ Clubs huge success. We were lucky to have Nature Zone training lots of lovely donations from parents course. and other community projects. The fete included stalls selling gifts, toys, jewellery, fair trade, and attracted lots of people from Clwyd school and the neighbourhood.’ Big Lottery funds The children who regularly attend the Carmarthenshire clubs! club have been given the opportunity Many congratulations to Clwb Miri to decide what they would like to Meidrim, Clwb Gofal Cae’r Felin and have in the club and after much Llwynhendy Children’s Centre, all of discussion, they decided they would whom have recently received grants like to purchase a Nintendo Wii for the from the Awards for All programme. benefi t of all. 4 Y Bont North Wales Healthy Living Event in Wrexham Plas Madoc’s fi rst Healthy Living Day was held at the Opportunity Centre just before the end of last term. 13 agencies in total attended the event, where around 100 people of all ages got advice, information and freebies. The aim of the day was to support people living in Plas Madoc and surrounding areas to fi nd out how they can lead healthy lifestyles, both physically and emotionally. Sandra Thompson, Team Leader for North Wales and Val James, Training Offi cer for North Wales encouraged Active Club Pack Training in Denbighshire adults and youngsters from playgroups and afterschool clubs to make or try Playworkers in Denbighshire took advantage of the money awarded to fruit smoothies. Clybiau Plant Cymru Kids Clubs from the Denbighshire Wellbeing Grant when they attended the Active Club Pack training events that ran in In the afternoon the Diabetes XPERT November with more planned for January and February. programme tested people’s glucose levels and provided information on The Active Club Pack is a resource pack that helps playworkers encourage diabetes. Students from college gave children to take part in physical activities by providing step-by-step guidance complimentary Indian Head Massages sheets and templates for them to use to people attending the event, which everyone enjoyed. Three lucky prize Participants were asked to complete a baseline questionnaire during winners won a Jamie Oliver cookbook, the event to see what physical activities were provided prior to attending a fruit hamper and a basket of healthy the training. Those clubs that attended were then asked to complete the food toys. Due to the event being a questionnaire again three to four weeks after the training had taken place, great success, we will be holding a to see if there had been any marked improvement in provision after having Men’s Health Day in 2009. received the pack. From the returned copies we have received so far the physical activities provided are on the increase in Denbighshire. Following the fi rst event last November Sian Bennett who is the Health Improvement Offi cer from Denbighshire County Council sent in the following comments “I enjoyed the training on Saturday.Saturday. It was clear to see that all the other participants also found it a fun and informative day.day. The resource pack is easy to understand and full of great ideas. Hopefully the evaluation will confi rm that there has been an increase in the levels of physical activity.”activity.” Y Bont 5 South East Wales Jane Hutt AM Attends Cymru Cooks Celebration Event Acorns to In October fi ve After School Clubs from the Vale of Glamorgan took Oaks part in the Cymru Cooks celebration Congratulations event held at Barry Comprehensive.