At Mapledene & Queensbridge Children’s Centre we strive to provide a safe, happy and welcoming centre of excellence. With opportunities for all, where good communication, shared purpose and responsibility and effective use of resources, contribute to the happy development of confident, motivated and respectful life-long…
At Mapledene & Queensbridge Children’s Centre we strive to provide a safe, happy and welcoming centre of excellence. With opportunities for all, where good communication, shared purpose and responsibility and effective use of resources, contribute to the happy development of confident, motivated and respectful life-long learners We hope to provide a positive first start of learning experiences in a loving, caring and nurturing environment
- We work with parent/carers and the local community so that together we can build children’s confidence and self esteem
- We aim to stimulate developmental learning in a calm, consistent and purposeful atmosphere and also have fun!
- We encourage a healthy attitude towards life and learning
- We build on our experiences and support each other in achieving our potential both emotionally and physically, showing mutual respect for each other, sharing a sense of belonging
- A welcoming service which supports the local community
News
We are now putting our monthly newsletters online. Please take the time to read these to keep you up to date on your children’s achievements. We are very happy if you can share these with other parents/carers
Curriculum Overall Theme: “Personal, Social & Emotional Development”:
Extended Day!
Calling all Mapledene users … Look out for dates coming up …
*Functional skills in English
*Functional skills in Maths
*Information, Advice & Guidance Drop-in (every 2nd Thursday of the month)
*Book Start Corner
*Mums-To-Be session (collect your free pack)
*Stay and Play every day (see programme below)
*Accident & Prevention (free assessment for free resources)
We have an October half term programme celebrating Family Festival and Black History Week
Family Festival and Black History 2018 (003)
Cluster Volunteer Programme
We have an exciting programme continuing- our Cluster Volunteer Programme. Are you interested? See Miza at Mapledene or Tracy, Sarah, at Queensbridge for more details. Volunteers need two references and a clean DBS (police check). You will need to commit to a minimal amount of 3 months but you can do whatever days/ hours you wish as long as it works within each establishment. Please come along to our volunteers drop-in each 1st and 4th Wednesday of each month for more information
Menus
At Mapledene we always aim to provide healthy and nutritional food to our children, being especially aware of the amount of sugar and salt added or contained within the food we serve. Mapledene has been awarded an ‘Eat Better, Start Better’ certificate by the Children’s Food Trust for our achievements in promoting healthier food in nurseries. Our commitment is going to be of a real benefit to Hackney’s children and families. Please see our menu’s below and also why not take one of our Cook’s Sylvia’s recipes at home and let us know how you liked the dish offered to the children.
beef-or-lamb-and-spinach-cannelloni
beef-or-lamb-and-vegetables-gratin
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Parents Forum
Parent’s forums are designed for parents to meet, it gives parents a voice and enables them to contribute to Mapledene’s decision making. It also helps develop a partnership between parents and the setting. We welcome all our parents to join the forum and share their ideas.
Forthcoming events coming up:
We are fundraising for the MacMillan Trust on Friday 19th October 2018 by having a cake sale
We are also fundraising for Children in Need on Friday 16th November
We have our Winter Fayre coming on the Saturday 1st December we need volunteers to help plan, organise and help on the day