Sure Start Dungannon and Coalisland

Breastfeeding Support Group
2025-01-29 10:30 - 12:00, 2025-02-05 10:30 - 12:00, 2025-02-12 10:30 - 12:00, 2025-02-19 10:30 - 12:00, 2025-02-26 10:30 - 12:00 UTC | Main Office, Dungannon
The Breastfeeding group is a weekly drop-in group. The group is open to all members and non-members of SureStart, who are breastfeeding or expressing. Antenatal mums are always very welcome.

Baby Sensory 0-18m
2025-01-29 13:00 - 14:00 | Main Office, Dungannon
Baby Sensory – is a group designed especially for parents and their babies under 18 months old. The sessions will provide sensory play opportunities which support positive attachments and promote shared interactions between parents and their babies.

Story & Rhyme Coalisland 0-3yrs
2025-01-30 10:30 - 11:00, 2025-02-27 10:30 - 11:00 | Coalisland Library
Story and Rhyme: Promoting the use of your local library (Coalisland) and a love of books, this session helps parents and children bond and have fun whilst learning new stories and rhymes. It enhances speech and language and social skills in all the children who attend. The physical rhymes and songs enhance physical development and imagination for children 0 – 3 years.

Chatter Matters
2025-01-30 13:00 - 16:00 | Main Office, Dungannon
Chatter Matters – This is a monthly speech, language and communication advice clinic. It is for children aged 18 months to 3 years who are NOT already known to Core Speech Services. Time slots will be allocated so you need to book your appointment in advance, between 1pm and 4pm.

Baby Massage 0-1yrs
2025-02-03 10:30 - 11:30, 2025-02-10 10:30 - 11:30 | Coalisland Cornmill
Baby Massage: Baby Massage provides a wonderful experience for parents to connect and unwind with their babies whilst learning nurturing touch strokes. Baby massage benefits include secure attachment, supporting your baby’s physical and mental development, providing relief from wind and colic, improving circulation and promoting better sleep. Classes are suitable for babies from birth to 1 year old.

Rhyme Before Teamtime 0-3yrs
2025-02-03 15:45 - 16:15, 2025-02-17 15:45 - 16:15 | Main Office, Dungannon
(Suitable from Birth) Promoting a love of books and enhancing imagination through use of puppets, rhymes and songs.

Stories Before Bedtime 0-3yrs
2025-02-03 18:30 - 19:30 | Main Office, Dungannon
Stories before Bedtime: This early evening group will support your child’s language development through a stimulating range of stories and songs. It is suitable for children 0 – 3 years.

Coffee, Chill & Chat 0-3yrs
2025-02-04 10:30 - 11:30
Coffee Chill & Chat: this group gives you a chance to meet other parents, have a chat and relax with a cuppa. Children (0-12months) are welcome to attend too.

Playtime Dungannon 18m - 3yrs
2025-02-04 10:30 - 11:30 | Main Office, Dungannon
Playtime is a unique play programme adopting a Reggio Emilia inspired approach that provides an enriching learning experience for children and their parents. The group helps to build positive relationships through fun, active play opportunities and will support the all-round development of your child. This group is aimed at children 18 months – 3 years.

Parenting Tips With Creche 0-3yrs
2025-02-05 10:30 - 11:30 | Main Office, Dungannon

Art Ventures 18m-3yrs
2025-02-17 10:30 - 11:30, 2025-02-24 10:30 - 11:30 | Main Office, Dungannon
Art Ventures is a group for children 18months – 3 years (up to child’s 4th birthday) and is designed to enhance your child’s creative thought processes. Taking inspiration from the Reggio Emilia inspired approach this group celebrates children’s ideas and how they play.

Baby Yoga Coalisland 9m-walking
2025-02-17 10:30 - 11:30, 2025-02-24 10:30 - 11:30 | Coalisland Cornmill
Baby Yoga gives parents and children the opportunity through playful interaction and communication to experience the benefits of touch, stretching, movement and relaxation and songs. There are 2 separate baby yoga classes to cater for different ages. The first group caters for babies 3 – 9 months (pre-walking), and the second group is for babies crawling to walking to 18 months.

Healthy Meals on a Shoestring 0-3yrs
2025-02-18 10:30 - 11:30 | Main Office, Dungannon
Healthy Meals on a Shoestring with Creche

Speech Workshop with Creche
2025-02-19 10:30 - 11:30 | Main Office, Dungannon
If you have any concerns about your childs speech or are currently waiting to be seen by a Speech and Language Therapist, come along to our “Tips for Talking for Toddlers” workshop. You will get practical ideas for what you can do with your child to encourage their speech, language and communication.

Baby Massage Dungannon 0-1yr
2025-02-19 13:00 - 14:00, 2025-02-26 13:00 - 14:00 | Main Office, Dungannon

Toddle & Talk 2-3yrs
2025-02-21 10:30 - 11:30 | Main Office, Dungannon

Hypnobirthing
2025-02-21 13:00 - 15:00 | Main Office, Dungannon
Hypnobirthing is run by our midwife and is a unique method of relaxed natural childbirth education. Enhanced by self-hypnosis and guided imagery techniques that allow women to use their natural abilities to bring about safer, easier and more comfortable birth. These techniques aim to help reduce awareness of fear, anxiety and pain during childbirth.

Story & Rhyme 0-3yrs
2025-02-24 10:30 - 11:00 | Dungannon Library
Story and Rhyme: Promoting the use of your local library and a love of books, this session helps parents and children bond and have fun whilst learning new stories and rhymes. It enhances speech and language and social skills in all the children who attend. The physical rhymes and songs enhance physical development and imagination for children 0 – 3 years.

Health Visitor - Weaning
2025-02-25 10:30 - 11:30
Health Visiting Workshop: Health Visitor support and advice provided with a specific topic each month. Topics include Weaning and Toddler diets, Sleep, Toilet training, Positive parenting/Behaviour management, dental health – included in the weaning sessions.

Parents Forum with Creche
2025-02-26 10:00 - 11:00 | Main Office, Dungannon
Parents Forum: The Parents Forum is an opportunity for parents to share what they think about SureStart activities, highlighting what we are doing well and what we can improve on. Crèche is available with this programme.
