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Edition 57 • May/June2016 @FamiliesManch The local magazine for families with children 0-12 years facebook.com/familiesmanchester FREE www.familiesmanchester.co.uk ® MANCHESTER In this issue > Party up a storm > How to organise holiday childcare Covering: Altrincham, Trafford, Salford, Manchester, Bolton, Bury, Rochdale, Didsbury, Stockport, Cheadle, Bramhall, and surrounding areas. Welcome News In this issue Amazed by Science 2016 Join your local Families Spring into action with new 02: News 04: Education team in Manchester Tennis Tykes classes! 07: Clubs & classes and Cheshire! classes are also available in Bramhall, 08: Holiday camps Handforth, Heaton Moor and Wilmslow. 10: Parties Why not try a FREE taster lesson at one 13: Parents’ place of the venues? 14: What’s on The party season is also upon us, so ask about the Tennis Tykes parties for 2, 3 and 4 year olds! There’s a fun packed Fiddler’s Ferry Power Station, Golden hour of tennis activities, incorporating Square Shopping Centre, Hack Green lots of games and tennis ball skills, Hello! Secret Nuclear Bunker, Jodrell Bank, Marketing Cheshire and Jodrell Bank all supervised by qualified coaches Macclesfield Silk Museum, Lion Salt Works, With a certain other half careering towards his half century mark in May, we are teaming up to deliver the third and trained staff. The Tykes characters, Norton Priory, Tatton Park plus more. You should be: were definitely in the right frame of mind for this issue! But party ideas for Amazed by Science Festival this Tennis Tykes, the fun and educational Tommy and Tessa are also on hand to Many of the activities are Children’s • Enthusiastic and knowledgeable adults are a lot more difficult to decide on and we found ourselves wishing spring half term. tennis coaching and skills programme make it a truly memorable experience University Validated so don’t forget to about what’s on locally for families we were still at an age where we didn’t have to think twice about doing The week-long festival which promotes for children aged 2 to 4 years is opening for the birthday boy or girl. bring your Passport to Learning! This • Interested in working flexibly from something active before scoffing the food and cake – and where we also and celebrates science, technology, NEW classes in Hale and Didsbury. For further information on the term year’s event is sponsored by NNL, home at times that suit you didn’t have to worry about ending up with snapped hamstrings (as said engineering and maths will take place across We’re preparing to celebrate the Classes will now take place in time classes, summer holiday camps Waters Corporation, British Science • Online savvy and a regular user of nearly 50 year old experienced when he raced his sons on the beach last Cheshire from 28 May to 5 June and will launch of a fantastic new website Didsbury on a Monday from 1.35-2.20pm and parties, please contact Caroline Association, Urenco, Siemens, Sellafield Facebook and Twitter summer to prove he was still speedy)! be packed with events and hands-on this summer. Destined to become & a Friday from 10.00-10.45am & Buncall on 07843 342662, email and Clicky Media. • Able to write great articles which So we’ve settled for something a little more sedentary for us, and are leaving activities for you to get involved in. the number 1 resource for local 10.45-11.30am, plus on a Wednesday [email protected] To find out more about what’s capture the imagination of local the active stuff to the youngsters – and honestly, they’re spoilt for choice as There will be something happening families, www.familiesonline.co.uk in Hale from 2.15-3.00pm. Other or log onto www.tennistykes.co.uk. happening when go to families you can see in our party feature! every day and venues for this year’s will soon have over 300 local sites www.amazedbysciencecom or find • Have good networking and festival include Catalyst Science and across the UK. Like our magazines, them on Twitter (@amazedbyscience) communication skills, and Discovery Centre, Cheshire Oaks Designer the local sites in Manchester Happy celebrations! and Facebook (amazedbyscience). confidence when speaking to Outlet, Chester Zoo, Crewe Library, and Cheshire are guaranteed to customers/the public Why walk when you can run? give users the very best ideas for • A motivated self-starter who takes In the North West there are 6 Caryl Hall Jayne Keep spending time with their family ownership and pride in your work events: Marple, Northwich, Queen’s Manchester Day – Eureka! locally. Your responsibilities will be: Park Bolton, South Manchester, We have a number of highly flexible, • Posting daily online and on social Warrington and Wilmslow. families, residents and visitors to get home-based work opportunities media with great ideas for your Once registered with parkrun you together and celebrate all things available for Area Managers to run our readers bring your barcode to each event and Mancunian. As well as an amazing local sites. As an Area Manager you’ll • Populating and updating your site your results get recorded. This means Next issue: July/August 2016 Adrian Warner: A sports journalist for 30 years, he parade through the heart of the city, enjoy a fun and flexible role which fits with useful and timely local content Junior parkrun is a series of 2km runs has reported from 13 Olympic Games and 5 World you can keep track of your finishing Circulation: 25,000 copies of Families Manchester are Manchester’s city centre squares will around you and your family life, whilst for children aged between 4 and 14. Cups for Reuters, London’s Evening Standard and for families available through nurseries, schools, libraries, selected times and also work towards milestone the BBC. He also lectures in Sports Journalism at the feature a dazzling array of performances, affording you a great challenge – and • Marketing and selling your site to Held on Sunday mornings in areas of shops and other points throughout Greater Manchester. rewards – for juniors you earn University of Bedfordshire. If you would like free copies for your organisation, decorations and mouth-watering food the opportunity to make money! There local businesses and families open space around the UK, they’re open wristbands after 11, 22 and 50 events. please let us know. and drink throughout the day. This are no set up costs involved, you’ll be to all, free, and are safe and easy to Design: Paul Wilson Graphic Design, Congleton. • Building relationships with your Nothing beats a run in the park with Contact details: Families Manchester, Tel: 07743 111 694 www.withpaul.co.uk Head into the city centre on Sunday year’s theme Eureka! will celebrate trained by industry experts and you’ll take part in. Adults can run with younger clients and users and helping them some friends! www.parkrun.org.uk 3 Hall Hill, Bollington SK10 5ED 19 June for a fantastic parade, Manchester as a pioneering city that’s develop valuable new skills in the children but can’t cross the finish line! Tel: 01625 801 801 www.familiesmanchester.co.uk Print: Bishops Printers, Walton Road, Portsmouth, get the most from your site Hampshire PO6 1TR amazing spectacles and lots of still at the forefront of modern discovery, digital, print and social media marketing Editorial: [email protected] To register your interest, please email Tel: 023 9233 4900 www.bishops.co.uk Advertising/artwork: [email protected] exciting things to do. European City of Science for 2016 and industry. [email protected]. Events, diary dates, what’s on: [email protected] Families Manchester is part of Families Magazines This annual event celebrates everything home of the National Graphene Institute. Ltd, a franchise company. All franchised magazines in great about the city; it’s a day for www.manchesterday.co.uk Cover Photography: Shutterstock the group are independently owned and operated Raise a bunch at lunch for Talbot House! www.shutterstock.com under licence. Families® is a registered trademark of Families Magazines Ltd, Remenham House, Regatta that’s been supporting the parent carers Editorial contributors: Place, Marlow Road, Bourne End, Bucks SL8 5TD. The Liat Hughes Joshi: Parenting journalist and author of four contents of Families Manchester are fully protected by of people with learning disabilities for books including ‘New Old-fashioned Parenting’ and ‘How to copyright and none of the editorial or photographic Manchester’s newest indoor WIN! A COPY OF over 35 years. As demand for their Unplug Your Child’ (both published by Summersdale) and matter may be reproduced in any form without prior services increases and cuts affect Raising Children: The Primary Years (Pearson). consent of the publisher. trampoline park opens its doors! We take every care preparing the magazine, but the their core funding, they’re reliant on Sally J. Hall: Writer and editor who has written for all the NOAH’S PARK! publishers and distributors can’t be held responsible main parenting titles as well as The Independent and The donations from the local community in for the claims of advertisers, the accuracy of the Mail. Author of Eco Baby and contributing author to Watch contents nor for any consequences. basketball, battle beams, freestyle Once upon a time a little boy called order to keep providing their services. My Baby Grow (Dorling Kindersley). airbag jump zone, a dedicated jump Noah told his daddy about his secret, Holding a Great Manchester Lunch Claire Muffett-Reece: Freelance journalist who writes on parenting, lifestyle, health and general interest. Mum arena for under 6s and mini soft imaginary park that only he can enter is really easy; do it at work or at to Jack, five, and Max, three, her work has been published play for under 3s.