Adventure Playground, City Farm and Eco Centre
Our annual report for 2014-15 is now available to view online as a low res PDF document – please click the link below.
New Ark Guide and annual report 2014-2015
If you wish to receive a printed copy, please contact us on 01733 340605 or info@newarkplay.co.uk
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We have lots of fun summer 2015 activities planned during our playground sessions (weekdays 10am-noon and 2-5pm) including:
Keep your eye on our Facebook page and look for notices in our lobby to see further announcements, such as the end of summer party, water slide days, further planned activities, etc.
If you are thinking of visiting our adventure playground/city farm for the first time, as a one-off, or with under 5s please take a look at www.newarkplay.co.uk/visits.
If you are planning to register for our holiday sessions, you can save time by downloading the forms from www.newarkplay.co.uk/holidays. Remember that we also offer additional childcare outside of normal session times for registered children.
This year we are delighted to be running our Eco Sessions again, 9.30am-12noon every Tuesday and Thursday throughout the summer holidays (not 4/6/11 August). During these sessions the children are invited to take part in forest school type activities such as shelter building, mud play, charcoal making and bug hunts. Booking is essential as places are limited – the sessions cost £3 per child. Priority is normally given to registered children aged 5-8.
On Tuesday 18 August Froglife will be running our Eco Session – it will be open to children aged 12 and under
Don’t forget that our Toddler Group meets 2pm-4pm during the summer holidays. Older siblings can play next door in our adventure playground. More details at www.newarkplay.co.uk/toddler-group.
The final day of our summer holiday programme is Friday 4th September – we will no doubt be having a party/celebration on that day watch our Facebook page for an announcement
On Monday 7th September our preschool playgroup resumes. There will be no playground afterschool sessions that week due to our repairs and maintenance week – afterschool sessions resume on Monday 14 September. It is essential that parents requiring afterschool walkover from Newark Hill School book in advance.
We are delighted to have been chosen as Sainsbury’s charity of the year by our neighbours at the Oxney Road store!
Thank you to all the families, volunteers and friends who voted for us, as well as Sainsbury’s customers of course! We know that lots of the families who come to New Ark shop at the store, and we are really looking forward to working with them over the next year to raise awareness of New Ark and help to raise vital funds for our service.
Our partnership is being launched in-store at Sainsbury’s Oxney Road between Friday 31st July and Sunday 2nd August. There is also a bag packing fundraiser planned in-store on Saturday 1 August.
If you are able to volunteer to help with the bag packing please contact Charlotte Griggs at New Ark on 01733 340605 or charlottenewark@gmail.com. We are looking for people who can spare a couple of hours between 11am and 3pm..
More information available from www.sainsburyslocalcharity.co.uk
The New Ark Trustee Board would like to invite you to attend New Ark Play Association’s Annual General Meeting on Thursday 9th July 5pm – 7pm.
New Ark Resource Centre
Hill Close
Off Reeves Way
Eastfield
Peterborough PE1 5LZ
Tea, coffee and a light buffet will be served. Please ring to reserve a place.
We are offering childcare for your children if you wish to attend our AGM. To book a place for your children please contact David Musson on 01733 340605 or dave@newarkgmail.com
Download an agenda and nomination form, and please do feel free to contact us in advance if you have any questions.
Avoid the queues on the first few days of the summer holidays by registering for the new playground holiday year before Friday 17th July.
You will need to complete a new registration form 2015-16.
Remember that we offer additional childcare to fully registered children during school holidays from 8.30am to 6pm Monday-Friday.
Full details of our holiday playground sessions including pricing details are here
Our annual summer fete has a festival feel with entertainment, hot food and more. Our city farm, adventure playground and eco garden will all be open. There will be lots of fundraising games, crafts, our summer raffle and lots more. Entry by silver donation.
If you can volunteer to help, donate prizes/food, or do anything else to help us fundraise, please contact Charlotte on 01733 340605
Thank you to everyone who has helped to support them so far – we are glad we tried them and we raised a decent amount for our charity, but unfortunately it appears that we don’t have the audience to run the sales regularly.
• Free parking. Open between 11am-1pm
• Buy preloved good quality clothes and equipment at bargain prices for your family.
• Refreshments available, sold in aid of New Ark
• Cash only sale
BOOK A STALL…
• To book a stall telephone 01733 340605 or email fundraising.newark@gmail.c
• A minimum donation of £5 is payable to New Ark to secure your stall.
• All stalls to be pre-booked and paid for in advance
• Set up time is 10-11am only
• You will be given a table to display items on. You may also bring a clothes rails or blanket/sheet to display extra items on the floor
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DONATE YOUR ITEMS
• At these events New Ark will be holding their own stall selling donated items.
• All money raised will be spent on buying new equipment and toys for New Ark.
Attention holiday playground members! Over Christmas/New Year we are running playground holiday sessions on three days only: Monday 22 December, Tuesday 23 December and Monday 5 January. Session times are 10am-12noon and 2-5pm. As usual, fully registered members may book additional childcare between 8.30-10am, 12-2pm and 5-6pm (NB on 23rd December we close at 5pm).
On Tuesday 23 December we will be celebrating Christmas with hot chocolate and cakes around a fire in our adventure playground. We would be grateful if parents could donate food for this event. Also please note that we close at 5pm on this day – there is no additional childcare available between 5-6pm on Tuesday 23 December.
We have decided to stay closed to the public on Monday 2 January 2015 while we clear out our long-neglected workshop area. If anyone is able to volunteer to help us from 11am onwards we would be very grateful – we regret that children are unable to come on site on this day, and our office will be closed.
Afterschool and playgroup term ends on Friday 19 December. The new term starts on Tuesday 6 January. Afterschool parents please read our separate post about registering for spring term.
If you want your child to come to our spring term afterschool sessions please do register them asap. This is especially important if you wish them to join the walkover from Newark Hill school on the first day of spring term. During the Christmas holidays our office is only open to accept bookings/payments on 22-23 December and 5 January. If you wish your child to be on the walkover on Tuesday 6 January, you must book them in with us by Monday 5 January 2015 so that we can ensure that we are adequately staffed for the following day.
There is no need to fill out another registration form if you are already registered for this year’s holiday or afterschool sessions – just see a staff member in the office. If you do need a registration form, please download one from www.newarkplay.co.uk/afterschool, along with copies of the walkover form for January if required.
