News – The Sunshine Centre

World Book Day – Early Years Trip

For #WorldBookDay, a small group of children from our Early Years setting were invited down to Waterstones in Banbury, for a 1 hour workshop where the children could colour, craft and write stories. At the end of the workshop, the children swapped their Free £1 book vouchers from National Book Tokens, for a “You Choose Your Adventure” book for them to take home and keep. Here are some photos of us all enjoying the trip.

#earlyyears #books #reading #Banbury

Family Fun Day

We had a LOVEly time at our Family Fun Day. Thank you to all that attended.

Fruit & Vegetable Bags

To help keep our community eating well especially during the cost of living crisis, The Sunshine Centre will have Fruit and Vegetable bags available to purchase for £2 from February 7th, on Tuesdays and Fridays, between 10:30am and Noon.

The bag will contain more than £2 worth of fruit and veg and will be available on a first serve first come basis.

Thank you, Thank you, Thank you!

We were truly overwhelmed by the generosity of companies and individuals over the festive season. Thank you for helping us help those in our local community.

Primary School Registration

If your child turns 4 on or before the 31st August 2023, then it is time for you to register for your school of choice.

Registrations are done online and families that need to, can come into the Sunshine Centre to use our community laptops to complete the registration process.

The DEADLINE for registering your child is January 15th 2023.

Winter Wishes 2022

Join us for some festive fun at this year’s Winter Wishes event.

Entrance is FREE with no booking required.

Children can visit Santa Clause and receive a gift. (£2/child booking required). Santa bookings must be booked in reception and paid for at time of booking. Limited slots available.

Christmas Snacks from Around the World will be available to buy. Some games and activities are pay per play.

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Talking Tales Entertains Our Early Years

Yesterday, Kevin from Talking Tales visited some of the children in our Early Years. The children loved listening to and watching the story being told with the use of props and instruments

. They also enjoyed participating in the story and drawing parts of the story on paper to reveal it at the end and we all had a giggle at some of our EY staff who had to pretend to be cheeky monkeys

To find out more about Talking Tales and how the session aims to help to nurture creativity and foster communication in a fun and interactive way, please visit https://talkingtales.org/early-years.html

Just Giving Fundraising Page – Now Live

As a non-profit organisation, The Sunshine Centre is hoping to raise money to refurbish parts of the centre and give it some much needed updates to maintain a safe and welcoming environment for the children in our early years classes and our other centre users from our local community.

Visit our Just Giving page to donate or to become a fundraiser for us and please share our Just Giving page to spread the word

https://www.justgiving.com/campaign/thesunshinecentre

We thank all donors for their generosity during this tough time.

Spooky Day Success

Spook Day went down a treat! We are glad that everyone had a great time

And of course, Spooky Day calls for spooky houses! It was great to see all of the families getting stuck in and creating spooky haunted houses. Congratulations to the winners!!

Take a look at some of the photos of everyone enjoying all of the different activities and of all the creepy creations.

Don’t forget to keep an eye on our Facebook page and stories to stay updated on our next event day, sessions, courses and activities!!

Thank You TK Maxx and Homesense Foundation

The Sunshine Centre would like to share our deepest gratitude to the TK Maxx and Homesense Fondation for their generous donation of £500. The money will go toward helping us support the community through the current crisis.

So, this donation will greatly contribute to helping us support our local community.

Queen, Wife, Mother, Grandmother, Great Grandmother. Rest in peace Queen Elizabeth II.

Heart felt condolences from The Sunshine are with the Royal family at this sad time.

OUR NEW ACTIVITIES BROCHURE FOR AUTUMN 2022 IS NOW AVAILABLE

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