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Thames Valley East FREE! July/August 2017 - Issue 91 SUMMER FUN SPECIAL! PRICE 14 MATCH YEARS PROMISE EXPERIENCE TRY BEFORE YOU BUY! BIGGEST DISPLAY IN THE THAMES VALLEY 01628 660893 • justoutdoortoys.co.uk Abbey Rose Nursery, Burnham, Slough SL1 8NJ RECRUITING NOW Successful ‘business mum’ is seeking 5 working partners to work part-time from home, alongside & without compromising family commitments or current career. If you have a supervisory, managerial, sales, marketing, recruitment or self-employed background, or you wish to develop an extraordinary lifestyle, please call Diana Page 01235 533362 07747 086518 ...endless ideas for families of young children. Packed with interesting features and fun things to do with the family in Maidenhead - Windsor - Marlow - Ascot - Slough - Egham An lndependent Preparatory School & Nursery for boys aged 3 to 7 and girls 3-11 years It All Adds UP Contact us to arrange a visit www.coworthflexlands.co.uk Chertsey Rd, Chobham, GU 24 8TE, near Sunningdale & Virginia Water 01276 855707 5.15 6 ON OFFER AT REDROOFS... FULL TIME CO ED DAY SCHOOL REDROOFS AGENCY Years 5-13+ Academic Education up to GCSE and 6th Ages 4-18 Representing our Talented Children and Form. BTEC Level 3 Extended alongside the best providing TV, Film, and Theatre opportunities for Performing Arts Training. suitable pupils. GOLD TEAM SUMMER SCHOOLS 2017 Ages 6-16+ Due to popular demand we are delighted Ages 5-14+ Our hugely popular Put on a Show Summer to be launching BRAND NEW GOLD TEAMS ON TUESDAY Schools are now bookable online. Daily swimming in our AND SATURDAY. Our Exceptional Training Package for heated outdoor pool. Choose from: Talented Children. Repertoire Style Intensive Workshop •The World's Worst Children (24th - 28th July) Sessions delivered by our expert team and visiting West DO YOU HAVE A TALENTED CHILD? •Redroofs School of Rock and other Mind-Blowing End Professionals. Huge performance opportunities. Musicals (31st July - 4th August) JOIN OUR GOLD TEAM! PART TIME SCHOOL •Matilda and other Miracle Children (7th - 11th WE ARE LOOKING FOR TALENTED CHILDREN FOR OUR Outstanding Saturday and After School Classes in August) BRAND NEW GOLD TEAM TUESDAYS AND SATURDAYS. Performing Arts, Young Performers Company, Musical •A Spoonful of Musical Theatre (29th August - 2nd Theatre, Acting, RAD Ballet, ISTD Tap and huge Please email [email protected] to September) performance opportunities. reserve your son/daughters audition slot. REDROOFS ART WEEKS ADULT MUSICAL THEATRE Tuesday Gold Team will run from September 2017 Adult Musical Theatre and Tap Classes commence Into the Woods Art Week (24th - 27th July) at 5.15-7.15pm for children ages 7-11 September 2017 and run on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Redroofs Painting Week (31st July - 3rd August) Saturday Gold Team will run from September 2017 at 11am-1pm for children ages 6-16 PART-TIME CLASSES AND SUMMER SCHOOL NOW BOOKING ONLINE www.redroofs.co.uk/coursesandworkshops 26 Bath Road, Maidenhead, SL6 4JT and Littlewick Green, Maidenhead SL6 3QY | Tel: 01628 674092 | EMAIL: [email protected] | www.redroofs.co.uk in this issue So, the summer holidays are approaching fast! Don’t panic if you’ve not got some 3-5 News & Information ........From the Editors........ entertainment lined up for your children yet - this issue of Families has got lots of 6 Clubs & Classes News ideas for you to choose from. See our Summer Fun article on pages 17-20 and check EDUCATION out some local child-friendly bike routes on pages 13-14. Some parents out there may 7 Explore Learning also be getting their children ready to start school which can be a big change for all the 8-9 Changes to the 2018 Bucks 11+ family. On page 10 we have some tips to help with that transition. Meanwhile, make 10 Starting School sure you have a great time with the kids this summer! 11 Education News SUMMER FUN 13-14 Local child friendly bike routes 15-16 Summer camps and classes part 2 17-20 Making the most of the summer holidays 21 Exploring sport with your children 22 Get your children enjoying the outdoors 23 COMPETITIONS 24-27 WHAT’S ON EATING OUT 28 Bateaux Windsor – Thames restaurant cruise review KIDS’ DEVELOPMENT 29 School shoe fitting guide 30-31 SHE MEANS BUSINESS Mum dating app helps build local friendships Being a stay at home mum can be very their social circle. The app is also useful for R rewarding, but also very lonely. If you’ve mums to be, as expectant users can search ever struggled through your days with for others due around the same time and young children, longing for some adult create a social group before the baby has www.familiesonline.co.uk conversation, Mush might be worth a look. even arrived. Launched last year by two T: 01628 788058 E: [email protected] A free app that connects mums with other mums who met by chance in a playground, editors:Anna Collins local, like-minded mums with kids the same Mush now has more than 60,000 members and Rachel Bailey age, Mush aims to help mums who are new across the UK. circulation: 19,5 00 to the area; struggling to get out with their For more information visit next issue: Sept/Oct 2017 - baby; or mums who just want to widen www.letsmush.com due out: Sept 4, featuring: Back to School copy/advertising deadline: July 17 Cover Image: istockphoto.com twitter.com/familiestve • facebook.com/FamiliesTVE Singing, dancing and acting BE classes for 4 - 18 year olds, where GOOD students learn to embrace life with AT creativity and courage BEING ASCOT YOURSELF 01344 206466 stagecoach.co.uk/ascot BRACKNELL HENLEY AND MARLOW MAIDENHEAD 01344 568658 01494 533203 01628 281128 stagecoach.co.uk/bracknell stagecoach.co.uk/henleyandmarlow stagecoach.co.uk/maidenhead BRACKNELL NORTH (Warfield) HIGH WYCOMBE WINDSOR ™ 0808 208 5134 01494 533203 0845 293 7207 ® Creative Courage For Life stagecoach.co.uk/bracknellnorth stagecoach.co.uk/highwycombe stagecoach.co.uk/windsor Telephone: 01628 788058 JULY/AUGUST 2017 FAMILIES Thames Valley East 3 ........News & Info........Being a parent could ‘Cake & Fun event’ for ‘Reuben’s help you live longer Having children could improve your chances of Fight' raises just over £2,000 living longer, a new study has found. The research, from Sweden’s Karolinska Institute, Great community spirit was to be used national registry data to analyse the found at the ‘Cake & Fun’ event at St mortality rates of nearly 1.5 million Swedes aged Peter’s Church in Maidenhead at the between 60 and 100. It found that those with end of May, held to help raise funds for children tended to live longer than those little Reuben who was diagnosed with without. Stage 4 Neuroblastoma in December The study also found that men benefited more last year. from being parents than women when it came to longevity, despite the fact that women had a In addition to all the cake-eating, longer average lifespan overall. there was also lots of entertainment At age 60 fathers had a life expectancy of a for little ones including a BilinguaSing further 20.2 years, compared to 18.4 years for music session, cupcake decorating, face men without children. 60-year old mothers could expect to live for another 24.6 years compared painting, baby and toddler play area, to 23.1 years for childless women. name the teddy competition and a The researchers suggest that one reason for raffle. The event was a great success the findings could be that children are able to and many people from Maidenhead and provide better care, emotional support and beyond showed their support. argue for better treatment for their aging parents. Just over £2,000 was raised and Another factor could be that parents tend to donated to the ‘Reuben's Fight’ fund. live healthier lifestyles than those without to donate please go to the ‘gofundme’ children. Neuroblastoma is a rare and very link via www.facebook.com/ReubensFight Research co-author Karin Modig said: “In nasty childhood cancer and the terms of all other causes that would affect your family/community need to raise The organisers and family are very death risk in these old ages, having a child is not £250,000 for Reuben to get life-saving appreciative of the great attendance and among the greatest ones. But it is still a 1.5% treatment in America. If you would like support they received for the event. difference [for 90-year-old men] which is still substantial.” Come and be part of the adventure! Weekdays at Windsor Leisure Centre and Magnet Leisure Centre, Maidenhead and at the Beacon Centre, Saturdays at BCA (Berkshire College of Agriculture) Classes across all the major dance disciplines, including ballet, modern, tap and street dance, with fully teachers from one of the area’s best- loved and longest-established dance schools. to book your free trial, email Candy. 4 FAMILIES Thames Valley East JULY/AUGUST 2017 E-mail: [email protected] ........News & Info........ the beginning or end of the day, Calling all Ninjas in training! that’s the ride everyone heads to when the park opens. When ® Ninjago is a very big deal in our attraction however, is LEGO we went originally, queue time house so when my 6 year old NINJAGO™ The Ride! was about an hour. It wasn’t as got wind of a Ninjago ride he Billed as the first ride in the painful as it sounds though given was desperate to try it out. As UK with 4D effects and state of there’s a large area full of Lego luck would have it, he had an the art technology allowing you bricks ideal for keeping young inset day on the Friday before to throw fireballs, lightning bolts fans occupied.