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.

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

Children at the Hemlington Initiative Centre have been learning all about butterflies recently. The butterflies started life as an egg but arrived at Rosedene Nurseries Hemlington Initiative Centre as caterpillars. The children were able to watch as the caterpillars grew and turned into chrysalis'. When in the chrysalis a caterpillars go through ‘metamorphosis,’ and become beautiful butterflies. The final stage for the children was to watch the release the butterflies into

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 week at Hemlington Initiative Centre the children learnt, first hand, about the life cycle of chickens. Children learnt about the eggs being put into the incubator and when the chickens hatched, the children were on hand to see them being born. The chickens have grown and the children are able to see their progress each day. #Chickens #rosedenenuruseries #rosedenedaynursery #rosedenehemlingtoninitiativecentre #hemlington #hemlingtoninitiativecentre #rosedenehemlington #

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