Bright Minds

Today we wish a happy retirement to the longest serving member of our team, Wendy. She has been making a difference in the lives of our children, their families and all of her work family for the past 24 years. Now it’s your time, now get those dancing shoes dusted off and show the young’ins how it’s done 💃🪩

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We have a limited number of places available from September, you may also qualify for a free place if your child is 9months or older.
These places need to be registered before 31st August.
You can find all of the information you need to know by following the link below. If you have any questions please call us on 0191 2867056 or email [email protected]

Free childcare for under fives | Newcastle Support Directory Could you be entitled to help with childcare costs? Get the help that fits with your family. The government has expanded the funding for Early Years to help with childcare costs.

🆓 = Free
💷 = Cost
☀️ = Sunny days
☔ = Rainy days
🐶 = Dog friendly
♿ = Accessible

Adventure Valley 💷☀️♿ - Durham
Alnwick Castle 💷☀️♿ - Children under 4 FREE Entry - Alnwick
Alnwick Gardens 💷☀️♿ - Children under 4 FREE Entry - Alnwick
Arbeia Roman Fort 🆓 ☀️☔🐶♿ - South Shields
Auckland Castle Deer House 🆓 ☀️♿ - Bishop Auckland
Auckland Castle 💷☀️☔♿ - Bishop Auckland
Baltic Conteporary Art Gallery 🆓☀️☔♿ - Gateshead
Bamburgh Castle 💷☀️🐶♿
Beamish Museum 🆓 💷☀️♿ - FREE Wheelchair Hire - FREE for under 5s - Beamish
Binchester Roman Fort 🆓💷☀️☔♿ - Children FREE undr 4 - Bishop Auckland
Broom House Farm 🆓 💷☀️☔♿ - Durham
Butterfly World 💷☀️☔♿ - Stockton
Castle Eden Dene National Nature Reserve 🆓 ☀️🐶♿ - Peterlee
Chester Le Street Riversie Park 🆓 ☀️🐶♿ - Chester Le Street
Cleadon Hills 🆓 ☀️🐶 - South Tyneside
Cleudini Escape Room 💷 ☀️☔ - Darlington - Yarm
Cresswell Beach - 🆓 ☀️🐶 - Northumberland
Crook Hall Gardens 🆓 💷☀️☔🐶♿ - Durham
Curlew Cafe at High Farm Holiday Park 💷☀️☔♿ - Bishop Aukland
Delta Force Paintball 💷 ☀️- Newcastle
Digger Land 💷☀️♿ - Durham
Discovery Museum 🆓☀️☔♿ - Newcastle
Dorman Museum 🆓 ☀️☔♿ - Middlesbrough
Down at the Farm 💷☀️♿ - Houghton Le Spring
Dunes Bowling 💷☀️☔♿ - South Shields
Easington Colliery Local Nature Reserve 🆓☀️🐶- Peterlee
Edenwell Equestrian Centre 💷☀️ - Hartlepool
Exhibition Park 🆓 💷 ☀️🐶 ♿ - Newcastle
Exit Newcastle (Escape Rooms) 💷☀️☔- Newcastle
Finchale Priory 🆓☀️- Durham
Finchale View Riding School 💷☀️- Houghton le Spring
Flamingo Land 💷☀️♿ - Malton
Forbidden Corner 💷☀️♿ - Yorkshire
Gibside 💷☀️♿ - Gateshead
Hadrians Wall 🆓 💷☀️☔🐶 - Hexham - Northumberland
Hall Hill Farm 💷 ☀️♿ - Lanchester
Haltwhistle Swimming Pool 🆓 ☀️- Haltwhistle
Hamsterley Forest 🆓 ☀️🐶 - Durham
Hancock Museum 🆓☀️☔♿ - Newcastle
Hardwick Park 🆓 ☀️🐶♿ - Sedgefield
Haven Point Swimming Pool 💷 ☔ ♿ - South Shields
Herrington Country Park 🆓 ☀️🐶♿ - All dogs allowed - Pensahw
Hetton Lyon's Country Park 🆓☀️🐶♿ - Houghton Le Spring
Heugh Battery Museum 🆓 💷☀️☔🐶♿ - Hartlepool
Holmside Park 💷☀️☔♿ - Chester le Street
Holy Island / Lindisfarne 🆓 💷☀️☔🐶♿ - Northumberland
Hopetown 🆓 ☀️🐶♿ - Darlington
Infinite Air 💷☀️☔ - Durham
Jarrow Hall 💷 ☀️♿ - Children under 4 FREE Entry - Jarrow
Jesmond Dene 🆓 ☀️🐶♿ - Newcastle
Jump 360 💷☀️☔♿ - Stockton - Hartlepool - Newcastle
Jumbo Jim's 💷☀️☔ - South Shields
Karting North East 💷☀️- Sunderland
Kielder Water & Forest Park 🆓 ☀️🐶♿
Kirkleatham Owl Centre🆓 💷☀️☔♿- Children under 3 Free - Redcar
Kosmic Kingdom 🆓 💷☀️☔ - Under 12 months FREE - Hartlepool
Level X - 💷☀️☔♿ - Middlesbrough
Life Centre 💷☀️☔♿ - Newcastle
Lilidorei - 💷☀️♿ - Alnwick Castle, Alnwick
Little Haven Beach 🆓 ☀️🐶 - South Tyneside
Locomotion Museum 🆓☀️☔♿ - Shildon
Long Sands Beach 🆓☀️🐶 Dog friendly certain times of the year - Tynemouth
Low Force Waterfall 🆓 💷 ☀️🐶 ♿ - Durham
Marsden Beach 🆓 ☀️🐶 - South Tyneside
Make Believe Children's Role Play Cafe - 💷☀️☔♿ Some half price sessions in the 6 weeks - Hartlepool
Metrocentre 🆓 ☀️☔♿ - FREE shows during the festival
Murton Equestrian Centre 💷☀️☔ - Newcastle
Newham Grange Farm 🆓💷☀️♿ - Children under 2 FREE - Coulby Newham
North Marine Park 🆓 ☀️🐶♿ - South Tyneside
Northumberland Zoo 💷 ☀️☔♿ - Morpeth
Ocean Beach Pleasue Park 💷 ☀️- South Tyneside
Ormesby Hall 💷☀️☔♿ - Middelsbrough
Ouseeburn Farm 🆓 ☀️♿ - Newcastle
Parkrun 🆓☀️☔ - Across North East
Penshaw Monument 🆓 ☀️🐶 - Sunderland
Peterlee Leisure Centre 💷☀️ ☔ - Peterlee
Potters World 💷☀️ ☔♿ - Lanchester
Preston Park Museum & Grounds 💷☀️☔♿ - Children Under 3 FREE Entry - Stockton
Preston Park 🆓 ☀️🐶♿- Stockton
Quaser Laser 💷 ☔ - South Shields
Quayside 🆓 ☀️♿ - Newcastle
Raby High Force Waterfall 💷 ☀️🐶 ♿ - All dogs allowed - Forrest-on-Teesdale
Rainton Meadows 🆓 ☀️🐶 ♿ - Durham
Redcar Beach 🆓 ☀️🐶 - Redcar
Riverside Park 🆓 ☀️♿ - County Durham
Roker Park 🆓 ☀️🐶♿ - Sunderland
Ruff 'N' Tumble Adventure World 💷☀️☔Newton Aycliffe
Saltwell Park 🆓 ☀️🐶♿ - Gateshead
Sandhaven Beach 🆓 ☀️🐶 - South Tyneside Dog friendly certain times
Seaham Town Park - 🆓 ☀️🐶♿ - Seaham
Seal Sands Nature reserve - 🆓 ☀️- Stockton
Silksworth Sports Complex & Ski Slope 💷☀️☔♿ - Sunderland
Simonside Climbing Wall 💷☀️☔- South Tyneside
Skate Park 🆓 ☀️- South Shields
South Marine Park 🆓 ☀️🐶♿ - South Tyneside
South Shields Museum & Art Gallery - 🆓☀️☔♿ - South Tyneside
South Tyneside Festival 🆓 💷 ☀️☔ ♿ - Across South Tyneside
Stephenson Railway Museum 💷 ☀️♿ - Children under 4 FREE Entry
Stewart's Park 🆓 ☀️🐶♿ - Middlesborough
Stockton International Riverside Festival 🆓 💷 ☀️☔ ♿ - Across Stockton
Sports Camps NE 🆓☀️☔♿ - FREE places for those eligible for FREE school meals - North Shield - Ponteland - Walkergate
Sunderland Museum & Winter Gardens 🆓 ☀️☔♿ - Sunderland
Ten Pin Bowling 💷 ☔ ♿- Across North East
Teesside Auotdrome 🆓 💷☀️☔🐶♿ - South Bank
The Gruffalo Trail - Hamsterley Forest 🆓 💷☀️🐶 - Durham
The Play Place 💷 ☀️☔♿ - Peterlee
TopGear Karting 💷 ☀️☔♿ - Durham
Tweddle Children's Animal Farm 💷☀️♿ - Hartlepool
Tynemouth Aquarium 💷☀️☔♿ - Tynemouth
Tynemouth Priory 💷☀️☔🐶♿ - Tynemouth
Vallum Farm 🆓 ☀️♿ - Newcastle
Ward Jackson Park 🆓 ☀️🐶♿ - Hartlepool
Washington Wetland Centre - 💷 ☀️♿ - Children under 4 FREE Entry - Washington
Whitegates Equestrian Centre 💷☀️ - Durham
Whitehouse Farm 💷☀️♿ - Morpeth
Whitley Bay Ice Rink 💷☀️☔ - Whitley Bay
Wynyard Hall 🆓 💷☀️♿ - Wynyard
Yorkshire Zoo 💷☀️♿ - Doncaster
Zetland Lifeboat Museum 🆓☀️♿ - Redcar

Start your new year in style with a new skill or qualification. We have a wide range of courses beginning shortly, from arts and crafts, modern foreign languages, beauty, accountancy, Care Academy, digital skills and much more.

Take a look at what is on offer in our new brochure https://bit.ly/3glbeQZ and book on to your next course now by calling us on 0800 073 0911.

Earlier doesn’t always mean better.⁣⁣
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Her kid walked at one year, yours walked at eighteen months, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 it doesn’t matter.⁣⁣
Her kid potty-trained at two years old, yours didn't potty-train until four years old, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 it doesn’t matter.⁣⁣
Her kid recognized all his letters and numbers before pre-school, yours had no interest until almost four, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 it doesn’t matter.⁣⁣
Her kid was sleeping through the night by three months, yours wasn’t sleeping through the night until two years old, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 it doesn’t matter.⁣⁣
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Because reaching developmental milestones early means 𝘯𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 in the long run.⁣⁣
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Because a college professor won’t wonder how old her students were when they could count to one hundred or spell their names.⁣⁣
And no one will know or care if the Harvard graduate or the CEO had a pacifier or didn't potty-train until five years old.⁣⁣
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What matters most is the whole child,⁣⁣
who 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 are,⁣⁣
and how kind 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 are⁣⁣
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So let the pressure go,⁣⁣
and let your kids be kids.⁣⁣
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Don’t rush them through their childhoods,⁣⁣
and make them miss out⁣⁣
because they’re too busy meeting milestone after milestone.⁣⁣
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Besides, earlier doesn’t always mean better.
𝘐𝘵 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘮𝘦𝘢𝘯𝘴 𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘭𝘪𝘦𝘳.

https://ukhsa.blog.gov.uk/2022/12/05/group-a-strep-what-you-need-to-know/

Group A Strep - What you need to know - UK Health Security Agency The official blog of the UK Health Security Agency, providing expert insight on the organisation's work and all aspects of health security

How to make a frozen bubble
What you will need
• A really cold day (preferably below zero - the colder the better!)
• A sheltered area in your garden
• Bubble mixture
• Bubble wands
Helpful tips
• Blow the bubbles high in the air so that as they float to the ground they have time to freeze.
• Depending on the temperature or weather it can take a few seconds for the bubbles to freeze and to start forming crystalline patterns.
• Gently wave your wand instead of blowing into the wand to make bubbles, then catch it on your bubble wand you can then transfer it onto a branch and watch the crystalline patterns happen.
• Blow your bubbles early in the morning or in the evening. This is the colder part of the day and will help your bubbles stay frozen.
*You need lots of patience and persistence but once you get the hang of it, its truly mesmerizing to watch.
Tina Argent
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