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Around 750 childminding groups, networks and individuals
held special events to mark National Childminding Week 2005,
from 18-25 June. The theme for the celebrations was Childminders
Make Chatter Matter. The National Childminding Association
(NCMA) joined forces with I CAN, the charity that helps
children communicate, to encourage everyone to incorporate
a fundraising Chatterbox Challenge into their festivities.
Following are a selection of some of the special events
held around the country:
- Childminders and children from Bolton
in Lancashire celebrated with a 'chatter to the animals'
fun day at Smithhills Open Farm.
- Newcastle-under-Lyme
Childminding Network in Staffordshire visited Copeland
Cottage for their childminding week festivities, which
had the theme 'if you go down to the woods today'. They
were joined by Edwina, a very special bear who helped
them all 'make chatter matter'.
- Mother and daughter childminding team Pam Marshall
and Michelle Pickering of Rotherham,
South Yorkshire, held an 'after-school showtime' where
the children performed their own stories and poems.
They also organised a 'teddy bears' sing-along', for
under-twos.
- The Wigton Moor Childminding
Group in Leeds held a fundraising fancy dress sing-along.
Each child came dressed as a character from a song or
nursery rhyme, and they enjoyed a lovely morning inside
and out.
(Extracted from Who Minds?,
the magazine of the National Childminding Association,
Autumn 2005)
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