Beechwood Bees

Whilst we’ve been exploring under the sea, we also took a trip to the beach hut cafe to cool down! The summer kitchen has had a revamp, ready for the last term of the academic year!

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𝚆𝚎 𝚊𝚛𝚎 𝚜𝚘 𝚕𝚞𝚌𝚔𝚢!
𝙰 𝚕𝚘𝚟𝚎𝚕𝚢 𝚌𝚑𝚒𝚕𝚍𝚖𝚒𝚗𝚍𝚎𝚛 𝚜𝚎𝚜𝚜𝚒𝚘𝚗 𝚠𝚒𝚝𝚑 Marcia Brierley
𝙳𝚊𝚗𝚌𝚒𝚗𝚐, 𝚜𝚒𝚗𝚐𝚒𝚗𝚐, 𝚜𝚑𝚊𝚔𝚒𝚗𝚐, 𝚕𝚒𝚜𝚝𝚎𝚗𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚝𝚘 𝚜𝚝𝚘𝚛𝚒𝚎𝚜 & 𝚊 𝚠𝚑𝚘𝚕𝚎 𝚕𝚘𝚝 𝚘𝚏 𝚏𝚞𝚗. 🦋 🐛

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💛 Can You Help Restock Our Trolley of Sunshine 💛

When a child is in hospital, life can suddenly become filled with worry, uncertainty, and long days away from home, friends, school, and everything familiar. For parents and carers, every moment is focused on their child's wellbeing, often leaving little time to pause, rest, or simply breathe.

That's where our Trolley of Sunshine brings a little magic.

Each week, our incredible volunteers visit every bedside on the Children's and Young People's Ward at Calderdale Royal Hospital, ensuring no child is left out. For children who are unable to leave their bed, the trolley brings fun, creativity, distraction, and joy directly to them.

Filled with crafts, colouring, painting, bubbles, books, puzzles, games, Play-Doh, sticker books, and so much more, these play sessions give children the chance to do something so important — just be children. For a little while, hospital appointments, treatments, and worries can be replaced with smiles, laughter, imagination, and play.

These precious moments also offer parents and carers a chance to catch their breath, enjoy seeing their child smile, and find a brief moment of respite during what can be an incredibly difficult time.

Sadly, our Trolley of Sunshine is running low and needs your help.

We would be incredibly grateful for donations of:
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• Children's reading books
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• Stickers, glitter items, build your own headbands and creative supplies
• Plain sketch paper
• Card Games - Uno, Dobble
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Every donation, no matter how small, helps us continue creating moments of happiness, comfort, and magic for children and young people in hospital.

Together, we can help ensure that every child has something to smile about, and every family feels a little less alone.

Thank you for helping us keep the magic alive.

Donations can be delivered in person to Volunteering Services, Huddersfield Royal Infirmary, Charity Office, HD3 3EA

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Thank you 💛

Can you make a coral reef? 🪸 we’ve used pasta, gems and buttons to create our own reef for the fish. 🐟

A mess free tuff tray - exploring under the sea. 🌊

🐟 🐠 A little trip to our local garden centre to see the fish, to tie in with our under the sea theme. Things we spoke about; size, colour, patterns, names & amounts. The children discussed other things such as; what they could see in each tank, what the fish were doing, positioning of the fish & their own feelings (excited, scared - when the fish jumped and made them jump) 🐠 🐟

An under the sea sensory bin using our we have really enjoyed exploring this tray today. Naming the different sea creatures, discussing colours, sizes and shapes. As well as filling and scooping the bowls and making pretend play (feeding the creatures)

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Alongside our outings this week we’ve had some dinosaur themed activities available for the children.

What have these activities covered for their learning?

- small world tray - developing our imagination & story lines, counting, colour identification, naming the different dinosaurs

- insert jigsaws- problem solving, matching, shape and number recognition

- colour matching- fine motor skills, colour recognition, colour matching, counting

We love a trip to Harold park especially to visit the flower garden. Always looks stunning, lots of wildlife around & lots of learning opportunities for the children. Today we discussed colours of the flowers, identified bugs and spoke about different heights. 🌷 🌺 🌻 🐝 🐌

Today was our first visit to - what a fun morning we’ve all had! We created a pinecone bee, planted sunflowers, went on a bug hunt & got messy as we expect to do at forest school! We even got to watch 7 butterflies be released. 🦋 🐝 🌳 🌻