Don’t forget that the local elections will take place in England on 3rd May 2012.

Our Centre will be closed except for use as a polling station on that day.

You can find out more information about the Local Elections in England on the pages of The Electoral Commission. You can read more here…

The Commission also have web pages that can tell you more about the elections for the Mayor of London and the London Assembly. You can see more here…

if you would like more information on voting in general, why not visit the About My Vote website – full of useful information about how to register to vote, moving house, students and their vote and more. See About My Vote here…

This year you will soon be able to download a free World Book Day ‘app’ from the appStore – with exclusive short stories from Malorie Blackman, Anthony Horowitz and a whole load of other authors too.

There are all the usual resources for children, schools and libraries from the World Book Day website – with activity sheets, lesson plans and news about the latest books – for Nursery and Pre-school, Primary and Secondary school children too.

This year you can watch some great trailers and and see authors talking about their books too.

You can also enter a Design a Bookmark competition, with prizes for children up to 8 years, 9-12 years and 13-16 year olds.

Don’t forget you can use your World Book Day voucher to get some great books for just a Pound from a participating bookshop.

Get celebrating the book together – the World Book Day website is a great place to start!

Winter Daze for February half term is now available to view and download on the LBWF web site.

Packed with ideas and information about centres of activity for the forthcoming half term holiday. The range of things to do covers sport, crafts, gardening and much more.

As always Waltham Forest services cover a range of ages, with something to do for the under 5′s, 5 plus, 13 – 19 years…and people of all ages and abilities too.

You can see the latest edition of Winter Daze on the Waltham Forest borough web site here.

You can download and view a .pdf copy of the booklet here.

Happy half term break everybody!

Waltham Forest are holding two major FREE firework displays on Monday 2nd. January 2012.

You can see the details below, with events at the Marsh Lane Playing Fields and also at The Highams Park.

We are going to be welcoming in 2012 with a bang, as we light up the sky of Waltham Forest with two spectacular firework shows that will be choreographed to music from the movies.

Mark the end of your seasonal celebrations by coming down to Marsh Lane in Leyton or The Highams Park to marvel at the fireworks, while enjoying our fun packed entertainment programme including a fantastic fun fair, fire performers and food and drink stalls for everyone to enjoy.

You can register with the Borough to keep up to date with the Big Six events in Olympic Year, with a chance to get free tickets to events, here.

Did you know that we held a group especially for new mums every Wednesday morning?

At this drop-in session you can call in for a drink and a chat, meet other new mums like you and let your little one play with the soft toys and activities set up for you by our Play and Learn team.

Come on in, don’t be shy and we look forward to seeing you between 9.30am and 11.30am at the Centre.

You can find out location map on our main web site here,  where you can see all our activity locations in this area.

Why not check out our weekly newsletter to see what else we are up to. We’d love you to join us.

The Chingford Hall team

A new edition of Autumn Daze is now available online to download. See more here for the 2011 edition.

This great Waltham Forest publication offers parents and carers information about activities available on the borough for the forthcoming half-term break.

There are details of things to do for children under five, for children between five and ten years, as well as for young people aged eleven to nineteen years of age.

You can also find activities for the whole family – from Brooks Farm activity sessions to spectacular firework display.

Check out the pdf version here. Free pdf software available here.

We have a new professional curtainmaking course starting on Monday 10th October 2011.

This is a Level One award course, for ten weeks from 9.30 am to 3.00pm every Monday.

For more information and to enrol come into Chingford Hall Children’s Centre on Thursday 6th October between 1.00pm and 4.00pm.

Do bring along a proof of address and evidence of any benefits you are claiming.

Course fees:
Full cost: £188.00 | Free to those on JSA! | £1.00 per hour if you are on
income support!

See our Centre newsletter  for all our other news too!

We have just updated our Centre main web page with exciting new events and sessions for you.

You can see details of our Story Time sessions, dates for free baby clinics, as well as details of our Family Support Programme from Janet and Maria.

Look for details of our new Baby Signing sessions too.

Whether you visit us at the Centre or use our services at satellite locations you can check out our Centre home page here.

You can also see our new Autumn events calendar here too, for September & October 2011.

If you do – thanks for dropping in to see us!

The Chingford Hall Team.

You can see what we’re doing during August, everything including…

• Outdoor play
• Fun with food
• Film Friday
• A day at the beach!
• ZumbAtomic
• Splashing About and more…

Have a look at what we’re doing, why not check out the times, costs and the details on our website here.

Don’t forget to ring and register for your free smoothie on the day of Le Tour de Waltham Forest – Sunday 26th June 2011.

You can call on 020 8496 3000 and get involved in this great day of cycling, exercise and fun taking place in Walthamstow Town Square.

Why not go along and and check out the great cycle displays and get a free bike safety check?

On the day you can take part in bike rides around the borough. For the really keen try the bronze, silver or gold rides – from 6 to 22 miles.

Is your bike fit enough? See you there…

See the poster online here.