Brook Cottage Childcare

We had the pleasure of meeting Kathy Tallentire - Children's Author this morning - who is the author of a brilliant 'stokie' story called Nana Duck. It was great to hear the story read by Kathy and to hear about all the personal touches within the book. The children sat beautifully and we will definitely love to see her again.
A big thank you to those that have ordered signed copies, we hope you enjoy reading these together!
If you would like to see more of Kathy's books or to arrange for her to come out to your School/Setting you can find information on her website - https://kathytallentire.com/

Happy January!

Here is just some of the things we have been up to in our Curious Caterpillar and Brilliant Butterflies room this month so far.

From exploring treasure baskets, socialising with others, reading, writing and working on our social skills. Lot's of learning through play happening and our new children are settling in really well.

We are looking forward to having a special visitor tomorrow to link in with our topic of the month in our Butterfly room; Where We Live. Kathy Tallentire - Children's Author will be coming to read her amazing story Nana Duck to the children.

Come join our home from home setting ❤️

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Norton Green Residents Association

Are you planning on potty training your little one soon or have you already started your potty training journey and could use some help?
This free online webinar for parents and carers is led by ERIC'S Family Services Team, who will be answering some of the commonly asked questions about potty training and talking you through how to prepare your child to use the potty and practise potty skills before eventually stopping using nappies as your child gains confidence.
📆 Thursday 25th September
🕧 7pm-9pm (via Zoom)
❗️ Booking closes at 12pm on Wednesday 24th ️September
Find more information and how to book your place:

Talking about Potty Training - parent / carer event - ERIC A free event for parents and carers to find out more about bedwetting, understanding the causes and finding out what treatments are available.

If you have any questions or are not sure if you are entitled to any funding please feel free to give me a message.
Full and half days available as well as school hours

Donate to Fund the fight to keep Norton Green GREEN., organized by John Kay Norton Green Residents Association work towards improving and maintaining all aspe… John Kay needs your support for Fund the fight to keep Norton Green GREEN.

Our Brook Cottage Family are fully backing the Keep Norton Green GREEN campaign! ✊🌳

You may or may not be aware that Stoke-On-Trent City Council are planning on building 3100 homes on the villages green belt and we plan on supporting the local residents in stopping this from going ahead. We plan to do this by coming together and creating a voice for nature, our children and future generations.

Our local walks and the amount of learning opportunities on our doorstep will not be around for much longer if we allow this change to happen.

Ofsted/Local Authority want Early Years to adopt a Climate Action policy and make changes to our day to day practice as well as teach children about climate change. To adopt this, we use our local area a lot for nature-based learning. How can we fully embed this when our council is planning on taking these learning opportunities away and doing the opposite of what we are trying to teach. Building on our green belt is not protecting our planet!

For more information and to get involved please follow Norton Green Residents Association and Ball Green Residents Association

MAKE OUR MP WORK FOR US!
SEND THAT EMAIL NOW!!!!
Further to our personal objections we make to the City Council on Norton Green being included in the local plan we urge you to contact our MP David Williams asking for his support towards our campaign to keep Norton Green GREEN and his intervention to keep our Green Belt intact.Get all the family involved and take a few minutes to make your concerns heard.

[email protected]

It's down to us folks, it's our time, our efforts and our commitment that can only save Norton Green from becoming the biggest building site in the City of Stoke-on-Trent!
Lets make our MP work for us and fill his inbox over the weekend asking him to support his constituents.

Please comment 'done' below when you've sent your email, the more comments, the more shares, the more it will snowball.

Like & Share on social media, family & friends urging them to do the same and send that email.
Keep Norton Green GREEN

September so far...
A month of new beginnings; whether it is the start of a nursery journey or down a new path settling into a different room or a new journey into School!

Here are some pictures of what we have been up to so far.

We also hope that all of the children who have sadly left us for School are all settled in to their new School.
We would also like to take this opportunity to say Thank You again for all of our cards, gifts and kind words but most of all Thank You for allowing us to be a part of your child's journey ✈️