Rated Outstanding 2022
As of 1st October 2024 we are changing from a Registered Charity to a Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO) our new charity number is 1206270
Here's all the latest
news and events for your diary.
Term Dates 2024
Monday 3rd June - Friday 19th July
Essex School term dates and holidays 2023 to 2024
Thank you so much to the Grassroots Charity for awarding us a grant of £1,000 to update things in our soft play/sensory room, this will mean so much to the children who find this room a safe and fun environment where they can be themselves and express who they are.
Being able to update and improve things in the room is vitial to how we support our amazing children and familes so thank you so much for your support.
Here is our Admin lady Liz accepting the award from the wonderful Nigel Spencer MBE DL. #grassrootschartiy #charity #support #thankyou
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Thank you so much to the Asda Foundation for awarding us a wonderful grant of £960 towards nursery shopping which covers offering our children a healthy snack, supporting our topic activities which includes making playdough and gloop etc and towards our general nursery shopping.
Here is our local Asda Community Champion Elaine presenting the cheque. This money will really make a huge difference to our children . #thankyou #AsdaFoundation #charitysupport #eathealthyfood #asdacolchester
We are excited to announce we have been supported by the East of England Co-op and recevied funding from the East of England Co-op Community Cares Fund managed by Essex Community Foundation which will support our key workers working with children with complex additional needs.
We are extremly grateful to them for supporting our charity and can assure them that this funding will really make a difference!
We had a lovely visit by our local store manager Zak who has also nominated us for another award. Thank you Zak and the East of England Community Care Fund you are amazing! #communitycaresfund#charity#support
A big shout out to The Saffron Building Society for supporting us with a grant which is managed by The Essex Community Foundation.
We are so thankful to them for supporting our key workers working with children with complex additional needs.
We had a wonderful visit by Lorna from Safffron Building Society who saw first hand the work we do and saw for herself that this funding will really make a difference to the children we work with and the families we support. Thank you so much. #fundedbyecf
Links to this wonderful organisation supporting us are below:
Twitter Essex_CF
Instagram essex_cf
Facebook EssexFoundation
“Copyright: Warren Page Credit: East of England Co-op”
Dates for your diary 2024
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Christmas Fayre
(Date coming soon)
OUR CURRICULUM
We have recently changed our curriculum so we have even more focus on the prime areas of learning; Personal, Social and Emotional development, Communication and Language development and Physical development.
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Each term we will focus on one area;
Spring term – Communication and language
Summer term – Physical development
Autumn term – Personal, Social and Emotional development
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Most children will be taking part in daily small group activities where we will focus on that area of development (this term is Communication and Language). We plan our activities based on children’s interests and next steps (what we are currently working on to develop) and we offer a wide range of activities.
Within our curriculum we will also be including the following; -Colour monster (a book about emotions, visited every term) -Chinese New Year - Easter -Eid - Growing -Querks - School Readiness -Halloween - Fireworks -Diwali - Christmas
If there are any other celebrations/festivals that you celebrate as a family, please let us know and we would be more than happy to fit it in our curriculum. We will continue to share with you some of the children’s learning through tapestry and encourage you to share with us anything they get up to at home.
Here is an updated Autumn term
2024 Newsletter (June 24)
Here is our Fundriasing
Newsletter Autumn 2024
© 2017 Stepping Stones Play and Learn. Registered Charity 1033539.
Stepping Stones Play and Learn Group,
Wilson Marriage Centre,
Barrack St, Colchester CO1 2LR
01206 860467
