Rosedene at Hemlington Initiative Centre are pleased to offer childcare places to children with disabilities during school holidays. Places are funded by Middlesbrough Aiming High Short Breaks Fund (a nominal charge of £5 per session will be made) and sessions will run from Monday 7th August until Friday 1st September and again in October half term break (subject to availability). To qualify children must be residents of Middlesbrough and not be already receiving funded care.

To finish a fortnight's worth of visits to the Hemlington Children's Centre setting of the Rosedene Nurseries group, the local Lollypop lady made an appearance. She talked to the children about road safety. The visit it the third recently following the Cleveland Fire Brigade and local PSCO's including Bobby the Police Bear. #hemlingtonchidlren #HemlingtonChildrensCentre #NurseryinHemlington #rosedenehemlington #nurseriesinhemlington #hemlingtonchildrenscentre #RosedeneatHeml

Children at the Hemlington Children's Centre setting of Rosedene Nurseries had a police visit yesterday from a very special Police Bear! The children met Bobby the Police Bear as well as the local PCSO. Children tried on the hats, handcuffs and stab vest before exploring the Police Van which was sounding the sirens. Afterwards children made police cars for the display board. The visit forms part of a number of additional activities arranged by Rosedene Nurseries staff who ha

Last Wednesday (14th June) Cleveland Fire Brigade visited Rosedene’s Nursery at the Hemlington Children’s Centre as part of the children's ‘People Who Help Us’ topic. The crew, based at the Coulby Newham Fire Station brought along one of their fire engines and gave a talk about fire safety. The children learnt about all the safety equipment the fire fighters use, the truck and even how to use the water hose! The Coulby Newham Fire Station is located on Bickley Way and serves

Ofsted report that the Hemlington Initiative Centre setting of the Rosedene Nurseries group is achieving at well above the expected level, it is the third within the group to receive the remarkable Outstanding accolade in recent months. In their glowing report Ofsted commended the Middlesbrough based ‘highly-qualified staff’ for providing an ‘outstanding quality of teaching’ and the ‘exciting and creative activities for children to explore and investigate’. Moreover, they sa

It was the second day of our Peppa Pig Muddy Puddle Walk's today, Peppa has certainly had a busy two days. Today Peppa joined the children and staff from the Hemlington Children's Centre on two walks around Hemlington lake. With such good weather we struggled to find any muddy puddles, but that didn't stop us having lots of fun. The children also carried little Peppa Pig 'Save the Children' sticks to help raise awareness, our total for fundraising will be announced at the en

This spring, Entertainment One’s (eOne) Peppa Pig has teamed up with the world’s leading children’s charity, Save the Children, to launch a fundraiser like no other. This week children from both Rosedene’s Hemlington Nurseries at the Children’s Centre and Initiative Centre as well as Rosedene’s Guisborough, Sunrise and Northallerton settings, will be taking part in a Peppa Pig Muddy Puddle Walk for Save the Children. The children will be walking and finding puddles to jump in

Last Thursday the children at Rosedene Hemlington Children's Centre prepared and cooked homemade vegetable soup for their lunch. The staff asked the children what vegetables they wanted to put into the soup and they chose broccoli, carrots, mushrooms, potatoes and peppers. The children chopped and prepared all the vegetables themselves, with a little help. After a busy morning making the soup they all sat down to eat, it went down well! #soup #vegetable #vegetables #vegetable

Collectively Rosedene Nurseries settings raised over £820 for charity on Friday last week. Staff and children took part in an array of activities from cake sales, fancy dress and various sport and educational activities. Not only did Friday raise funds for well needed causes that Comic Relief supports, staff and children were able to learn about people in less fortunate positions than themselves. Congratulations to all our staff, parents and children for raising the following