Coming soon - the Parent Power Forum
7.15 -9.15pm

An informal evening to take home parenting tips and learn about more opportunities for parenting support

7.15 Speak with trained parenting facilitators and related experts
8.00 Presentation
8.20 Small group discussions on various topics

The Meeting Place
Bradbury Centre
Wokingham Methodist Church
Rose St, Wokingham, RG40 1XS

For more information contact Parenting Matters at 07787 565 676 or info@parentingmatterstrust.org

A Successful Partnership: the Dingley Project

Parenting Matters has been able to secure another grant from www.greenham-common-trust.co.uk to continue the good work with the Dingley Family and Play Therapy Group based in Wokingham and Newbury. www.dingleyplaytherapy.org.uk These centres offer children from birth to 5 years, with development and special needs, an opportunity to meet and socialise with one another and their siblings.

Parenting Matters support the parents and carers of these children by running on site workshops to address common challenges of parenting. The workshops allow the parents to share and support each other as their children are cared for by the team at Dingley. The subjects covered are often suggested by the parents and have covered areas including sleep challenges, discipline, play and puppets. 2009

Our  workshops for the Newbury Centre will be held at

The Picnic Enclosure, Newbury Racecourse, Newbury, RG14 7NZ – 01635 552458, please call for details.  

 

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Tie Advertiser NEWS Tuesday, 10 February, 2009

Children and parents explore the world of feelings through puppetry

A youngster gets to grips with some fun-packed role play at a puppet show hosted by the Dingley
Family and Specialist Early Years Centre held recently at Newbury Racecourse Ref: 05-07096

A NEWBURY-based group,
which supports children with
special needs and their parents,
had a fun filled day at a
workshop held at Newbury
Racecourse recently.
The role-play workshop was
hosted by the Dingley Family
and Specialist Early Years
Centre and involved a colourful
puppet show, staged by Jo
Bryant, of Pottytree Puppets,
which used puppets to explore
aspects of behaviour.
A spokeswoman for workshop
organisers, Parenting Matters,
Katharina Weber, said that children,
parents and staff participated
enthusiastically in the
show.
Each child took on a role in the
story about a princess in trouble
with a dragon, before making
their own puppet to take home.
"Parents discovered how corn-
Parents discovered how
communication with young
children can be improved
and the tricky area of
feelings can be tackled with
the help of a puppet
munication with young children
can be improved and the tricky
area of feelings can be tackled
with the help of a puppet," said
Ms Weber.
"One parent said how easy the
puppet making was and that she
wouldn't usually try this type of
activity because it always looked
so difficult. She was pleased
with how much her daughter
could do with little help."
Wokingham-based charity
Parenting Matters supports children's
parents and carers by
running workshops to address
common challenges of parenting,
such as sleep issues, discipline
and play, with topics often
suggested by the parents.
The workshop was run thanks to
the continued sponsorship of
the Greenham Common Trust.
Three more workshops are
scheduled in coming months.
The free of charge sessions will
be held from 10am to 11.30am on
Thursday, May 7, Thursday, June
18, and Thursday, July 9, at the
Dingley Family and Specialist
Early Years Centre, which meets
in a building in the picnic area
at Newbury Racecourse.
The centre offers children from
birth to aged five with developmental
needs an opportunity to
meet and socialise.
For more information visit

www.dingleyplaytherapy.org.uk.

The workshop topic “Use of Puppets for Play and Communication”

Spring 2008

Parenting Matters AGM

The Parenting Matters’ Trustees cordially invite you to our
Annual General Meeting
to be held on
Thursday, May 15, 2008
at 7.30pm

Luke Room
The Bradbury Community Centre
Rose St Methodist Church
Wokingham  RG40 1XS

Food & drink will be served

Following our general meeting we are proud to announce guest speakers to help us celebrate the retirement of our Founder and Coordinator Jill Wheatley.

7.30pm Welcome
7.45pm  AGM
8.00pm  Keeping Children Safe on the Internet
by Susie Isaacson, co-founder of Digitalparents Ltd.
8.30pm Rapport: How to keep going when the going gets tough!
by Guest Speaker
Followed by a tribute to Jill Wheatley