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Lots of regular classes and playgroups will be starting back up again for a new term but we wanted to highlight some NEW things that are going in September too for your children, from newborn to teenagers. Listed below are the groups, businesses and activities that have something NEW to offer and wanted to let you know.
Have a look below and contact the providers directly if you want to book in with them or try them out…
Usually oversubscribed, we now have a few new spaces at our hugely popular Parent and Child groups, which run every week day. These are beautiful sessions where parents (or grandparents) and carers with children up to 3 1/2 enjoy crafts, shared snacks, songs and lots of fun in a gentle and supportive environment at our lovely school.
First session free – but please book soon!
🖥 WEBSITE
📧 jo@yorksteinerschool.org
Why not try something new with your Toddler this September? Come and join our activity classes with lots of fun and adventure. Perfect way to try something new, meet new friends and have lots of new adventures. With a different theme and equipment each week, we aim to be the highlight of your week!
Suitable for Toddlers from 13 months – 5 years. Create special memories with your toddlers with a combination of soft play, bouncy castles, tunnels for the first half of the session, followed by music, dance, imaginative play, balloons and bubbles.
Toddler Sense introduces a whole new world of adventure for toddlers and children. Great music, great equipment and great new ideas! Imagine climbing a snow mountain, going on safari, digging for fossils, swimming with dolphins and hunting for dinosaurs? Every week introduces a whole new adventure. The main emphasis is on mobility, excitement and adventure in this fast-moving, action-packed programme.
A number of classes running on Mondays, Thursdays and Fridays in York.
Please visit to book on.
Mondays: Melodie Park, Clifton Moor
Thursdays: Haxby Memorial Hall, Haxby
Fridays: St James the Deacon Church Hall, Woodthorpe
New term at The Little Gym York starts September 2023 – enjoy 50% off your first month when you join by the end of September!
Classes for children aged 4 months – 12 years:
Help your children learn that they don’t have to be the best, they just have to try their best! Little Gym’s non-competitive gymnastics programmes provide children with a safe, inspiring space to burn energy, build confidence, and develop key skills. Help your children stay on the right path to physical and mental development by helping build their confidence, and of course, developing those vital motor and social skills.
Check out the School Holiday Camps for ages 3 – 12 and the Awesome Birthday Parties for 1-12 year olds
Little Gym looks forward to having some serious fun with you soon!
🖥 WEBSITE
📧 york@thelittlegym.co.uk
📞 01904 307404
Baby Sensory offers a world full of exciting experiences which gives everyone a wonderful sense of well-being. Activities and experiences vary weekly, there is always something new. Offering a complete approach to learning and sensory development, our programme is designed to stimulate, educate and provide precious memories during the all-important first year of life.
NEW in September 2023: We are extremely excited to be launching our brand new programme: Hello Baby! for babies from birth to three months old. Hello Baby provides an extraordinary opportunity for you to observe how your baby responds to the world, identify their sensitivities, abilities and needs, learn massage techniques, baby yoga, baby reflexology and sensory integration and much more. These classes are designed to help support parents through the early weeks and months of their baby’s life.
Baby Sensory and Hello Baby Classes are held at:
* Clements Hall, Nunthorpe Road, York YO23 1BW – Mondays
* Haxby Memorial Hall, 16 The Village, Haxby YO32 3HT – Tuesdays and Wednesdays
Please see website for course dates and availability for our current classes!
I look forward to welcoming you and your baby to the world of Baby Sensory and Hello Baby to get your journey started!
For your local class leader’s contact details and to book a class please visit our website.
🖥 WEBSITE
📧 york@babysensory.co.uk
📞 07790759333
ARTventurers York runs award-winning art and creative play classes for babies, toddlers and children! As well as colourful, creative (often messy!) weekly art classes, ARTventurers also runs holiday workshops, creative birthday parties and events for children of all ages! Art is a fantastic aid in the development of young children and engagement in our activities promotes confidence, develops motor skills and encourages exploration, all whilst having lots and lots of fun! Our classes provide a safe, secure and social environment in which your little artist can create, explore and learn whilst making friends and leaving the mess for someone else to clean up!
Each week is based around a different theme and features a range of art, craft and free-play activities that encourages children to embrace their individual creativity and uniqueness!
Wednesdays: Oaken Grove Community Centre, 10.30-11.30am (Family ARTventurers, 6 months – 4yrs)
For further details or to book please contact us
🖥 WEBSITE
📧 megan@artventurers.co.uk
📞 07494 290321
My name is Lizzie and I am Mum to Olivia (9) and Harriet (6). I Have been a primary school teacher for over 14 years and absolutely love yoga! I have practiced yoga regularly since 2010. During ‘lockdown’ my daughters and I really enjoyed practicing yoga together. We found that yoga helped to build our physical strength and flexibility, and also calmed our minds during a very stressful and unpredictable time. As both a parent and teacher I have witnessed the positive impact that yoga has on children. Yoga can help to reduce stress and anxiety, it can enhance focus and attention span, and also improve sleep. My yoga classes are fun and inspiring. I have completed the Cosmic Kids training course and I teach through stories which incorporate yoga poses, and explore feelings and emotions. Mats are provided, all your child needs is comfortable clothes and a water bottle.
All classes start w/c Monday 11 Sept and run up to and including w/c 23 Oct (7 weeks)
Yearsley Grove Primary School (pupils at Yearsley Grove School only)
Mondays, 3:15 – 4:15 pm: Reception & KS1
Tuesdays, 3:15 – 4:15 pm: KS2
Orchard Park Community Centre, Badger Paddock, Huntington YO31 9EH
Wednesdays, 4:00 – 5:00 pm: 7 – 11 year olds.
Cost: £5 per class, payable in advance for a block of half termly classes (e.g. £35 for a block of 7 weeks).
📧 childrensyogayork@gmail.com
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Join us for a new term at Phonics with Robot Reg classes as we start afresh with all of our letter sounds.
Every week is based around a different letter sound using a variety of different engaging and upbeat activities, which include singing, dancing, playing games and using role play. We also have a disco to help strengthen our fine and gross motor skills. All of this whilst learning early language and social skills at the same time!
The Minis classes, for children aged 12-36 months, is perfect if you have a little one who would love to have some fun, whilst encouraging speech and communication, pronunciation and early social skills.
The Preschool class, for children aged 3-5 years old, gently introduces letter sounds through engaging, fun activities. Perfect as a confidence boost in the run up to starting school, as we focus on the key skills of listening for sounds and orally blending words with our mascot, Robot Reg!
The grown-ups can learn about phonics alongside their little ones too!
Limited spaces are still available!
Classes run on a Monday or Thursday in Wigginton, Tuesday in Clifton Moor and Friday in Copmanthorpe
Alternatively sign up to my waiting list to be notified of spaces in fully booked classes.
🖥 WEBSITE
📧 sam@robotreg.co.uk
📞 07905573467 (WhatsApp)
At Baby Swimmers we follow the Starfish Awards, so little ones can gain water confidence and build a foundation to swim unaided in the future. In our structured classes we play games, have fun and sing songs which are skill related and taught at your little ones own pace. We teach water safety skills so they can learn to swim back to the side, hold on and climb out when they are strong enough.
Babies use their natural reflexes when they are in water, so it is always a good idea to start as soon as you can. Swimming is a great workout and helps to strengthen their muscles and also increases alertness.
For toddlers we still sing songs and have fun with games whilst teaching the basic strokes, continuing with water safety skills and teaching your toddler to hold on, turn, then push off the side to swim to you independently. Classes will focus on floating, learning to tread water, rolling, push and glides, diving for sinkers and more.
Swimmers Academy is for our older swimmers where we focus on stroke technique and stamina, classes run for any age from Beginners to advanced also incorporating Lifesaving Awards.
All teachers are fully qualified with specialist training for your little ones. Our classes are child led to ensure each child is taught and developed at their own pace.
We Swim at :
Monday, Tuesday & Thursday: New Earswick
Wednesday, Thursday & Friday: Roko
Saturday: Robert Wilkinson, Strensall, Stamford Bridge & Pocklington
Please contact Baby Swimmers to book your place:
🖥 WEBSITE
📧 info@babyswimmers.co.uk
📞 0333 3355388
York Dance Works are looking forward to another successful year. We offer qualified tuition in Ballet, Tap, Ballroom, Street and Jazz.
Last year continued our 100% pass rate in exams with excellent marks and we raised around £2,000 for charity at our performances. We already have plans for exams and performing in the diary !
Come and join us !
We have spaces in our Tutu Tots class, an introduction to dance for our younger dancers.
We have a number of new classes starting in September 2023.
On Saturdays, a Junior Street class, fun, fitness, skills and style for primary school age children.
Also on Saturdays, a new Junior Ballet class for 6-9 year olds.
It’s never too late to feel the benefits of dance so we are excited to offer three new classes open to teens and adults.
Beginners Ballet and Beginners Tap on a Tuesday evening and Street on a Thursday evening.
ENROLLING NOW !!!
🖥 WEBSITE
📧 yorkdanceworks@live.co.uk
📞 07821 765422 (Text)
Feel-good, relaxed and supportive creative sessions for ALL mothers. Fins some time and space for YOU. A little ‘creative escape’ in your week for some simple, fun, mindful creative stuff. Along with lots of relaxed chat, a cuppa and chocolate too!
Open to all mothers (bring babies of any age, children along or come solo) and pregnant folk too.
Each week will be a guided simple, fun, creative exercise. This is all about being absorbed in something that’s for you (not your baby or child for once!) and finding a little pocket of calm within the stress and busyness of motherhood or pregnancy – all in a really welcoming space.
Absolutely no experience is needed – if you can hold a pencil you’ll have a fab time and benefit from this honestly! We focus on the process not the outcome
Everything provided for you – all of the creative materials, plus copious tea/coffee, biscuits & chocolate.
We want every child to love swimming, respect the water and swim beautifully. That’s why our standards are the highest and our approach is unique.
At Puddle Ducks, our highly trained and qualified teachers are experts at identifying children’s levels of ability and adapting activities to the individual, nurturing confidence and encouraging natural ability.
Our promise:
We also run Aquanatal classes, so you can start your journey with Puddle Ducks before your baby arrives!
We run classes at 14 pools across the region, 7 days a week!
🖥 WEBSITE
📧 york@puddleducks.com
📞 01904 934646 (Monday to Friday 9am – 1pm)
Brought to you by the experts at Puddle Ducks.
Swimming is a journey, not a destination and here at Swim Academy, we learn and have fun all the way!
We are continually evolving and improving our programmes in line with new research and guidance on swimming and child development as and when it becomes available but also in line with what we learn internally about our swimmers and the way they progress through our programmes. As experts in teaching babies, toddlers and pre-school children to swim, we have this unique insight into child development and have integrated our findings into Swim Academy, our programme for 4-10 year olds.
The programme has been running and developing for 10 years. Our lesson plans are accredited by the leading international swimming body, STA.
Technically, we focus on beautiful swimming and the right technique. Our programme deconstructs each stroke in a unique way.
🖥 WEBSITE
📧 york@puddleducks.com
📞 01904 934646 (Monday to Friday 9am – 1pm)
York Swimming Academy is one of York’s leading swimming lesson providers and is dedicated to delivering high quality swimming lessons for great value.
We are super excited to announce the reopening of Carr Junior School and the addition of BRAND NEW CLASSES! New customers can benefit from our AMAZING INTRODUCTORY OFFER – 4 x lessons for just £20!
Children can start in our ‘Discovery Ducklings’ classes from new-born before progressing to our Learn to Swim Program from 4yrs old. We implement Swim England’s Learn to Swim Framework, an all-inclusive programme designed to take the non-swimmer from his or her first splash to full competence in the pool. The framework has clear progressions between each stage and children are awarded a variety of certificates on their journey to becoming fully competent. We believe a fun learning environment is the most effective so your child/ren are guaranteed to have a good time whilst learning a lifelong skill!
Spaces are available now for an immediate start!
Carr Junior School:
Wednesday 16:00-19:00 (Stage 1-3)
Thursday 9:30am-11:00am (Preschool lessons 0m+)
Friday 9:30am-11:00am (Preschool lessons 0m+)
Sunday 8:30am-12:00pm (Pre School Lessons 18m +, LTS S1-3)
🖥 WEBSITE
📧 info@yorkswimmingacademy.com
📞 01904 891 845
Pregnancy Yoga, Postnatal Yoga, Restore Your Core + Pelvic Floor courses and workshops
@ The Stables Yoga Centre, York (and online)
Supportive, inspiring pre- and post-natal classes, for wherever you are on your parenting journey!
Our classes are:
– A dedicated space for your own well-being, and to connect with your baby;
– Time to breathe a little deeper, stretch out and unload;
– Movement that is safe, supportive + strengthening for your body and mind;
– Learn techniques to soothe your nervous system;
– A place to meet other amazing parents, forging friendships and finding your like-minded community;
– Zero judgment;
– Come as you (and your baby) are – no prerequisites!;
– Always kind, friendly and welcoming;
– Light hearted and super supportive;
…and you can try your first class for free with the code YORKMUMBLER when you book online!
Get in touch for more details!
I hope to welcome you to a class very soon.
🖥 WEBSITE
📧 lucycorbally@hotmail.com
📞 07725 795486
We’ll teach you to teach your little one to swim. In the first year with us, your little one will begin a brilliant foundation in swimming. Through holistic learning and purposeful play, we prioritise your child’s personal growth, providing opportunities for physical, social and mental development.
We are excited to have a range of new classes available this September for little ones from birth through to 5years across the city, our passionate, highly skilled and dedicated team of teachers are excited to be back in the pool this September and are looking forward to welcoming lots of new face into our classes.
So why not join us this September and start your little one on their journey to Water Confidence, Safety and Swimming!
Delta @ York Marriott – Monday, Tuesday & Friday mornings.
Principal Hotel – Tuesday and Friday afternoons
Energise, Acomb – Saturday and Sunday mornings
Get in touch to find out more…
🖥 WEBSITE
📧 littlefish@waterbabies.co.uk
📞 01423 457000
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