Sure Start Dungannon and Coalisland

Antenatal Workshop
2025-04-14 18:00 - 19:00 UTC | Main Office, Dungannon
Antenatal Workshops: In our Antenatal Workshops we are here to help you prepare for your baby. You will be able to chat to other pregnant women over a coffee while we cover a variety of topics of interest to you and your growing bump. These will include meeting our midwife, infant feeding choices and preparing for hospital.

Stories Before Bedtime
2025-04-14 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.

Baby Massage
2025-04-15 10:00 - 11:00, 2025-04-29 10:00 - 11:00, 2025-05-06 10:00 - 11:00 | Main Office, Dungannon
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.

Coffee, Chill & Chat
2025-04-15 10:30 - 11:30, 2025-04-29 10:30 - 11:30, 2025-05-06 10:30 - 11:30 | Main Office, Dungannon
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.

Tempo Ho Kangaroo
2025-04-15 11:30 - 12:30, 2025-04-29 11:30 - 12:30, 2025-05-06 11:30 - 12:30 | Main Office, Dungannon
Tempu Ho Kangaroo – ‘’ Time with Kangaroo’’: Run by our East Timorese Family Support Worker this group allows precious time with your baby. In this group we cover baby massage, brain development, the importance of talking to your baby and post-natal exercise. The group is offered to East Timorese mums and babies between 0 – 18 months.

Healthy Meals On a Shoestring & Creche
2025-04-16 10:00 - 11:00 | Main Office, Dungannon
Healthy Meals on a Shoestring with Creche

Breastfeeding Support Group
2025-04-16 10:30 - 12:00, 2025-04-23 10:30 - 12:00, 2025-04-30 10:30 - 12:00, 2025-05-07 10:30 - 12:00 | 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.

Nurturing Programme
2025-04-17 10:00 - 12:00, 2025-05-01 10:00 - 12:00, 2025-05-08 10:00 - 12:00 | Main Office, Dungannon
Nurturing Programme- gives parents the support needed to help manage the big and small issues of family life. The programme covers a range of topics from behaviour management, social skills and self-esteem. An important element of the programme is for parents to understand the importance of caring for yourself, so you can look after those around you. Crèche is available with this programme

Story and Rhyme Coalisland
2025-04-17 10:30 - 11:00, 2025-05-01 10:30 - 11:00 | Coalisland 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.

Chatter Matters
2025-04-17 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.

Toddler Yoga
2025-04-28 10:30 - 11:30 | Main Office, Dungannon
Toddler Yoga aims to help both parent and toddler relax in their shared enjoyment of the movements. It is suitable for children 2 – 3 years.

Rhymes Before Teatime
2025-04-28 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.

Brincaderia
2025-04-30 10:00 - 11:00, 2025-05-07 10:00 - 11:00
This group is designed for our East Timorese families. This group ensures that your child will have the very best play experience, improving their language and communication, fine and gross motor skills and social and emotional development. It also gives you quality time to spend engaging with your child, or children. This group is suitable for children 6 months to 3 years.

Playtime 18mths - 3 years
2025-04-30 11:30 - 12:30 | 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.

Forest Adventures
2025-05-01 10:30 - 11:30, 2025-05-08 10:30 - 11:30 | Dungannon Park
This is an outdoor group which encourages children and families to connect with their natural environment using the Forest School Approach. Children learn, explore and discover aswell as enjoying the social, emotional, physical and sensory benefits of outdoor play.

Toddle and Talk 2-3 years
2025-05-02 10:30 - 11:30 | Main Office, Dungannon
This 4 week group is designed for parents/carers and their children aged 24-36 months to attend together. The programme will be led by the Speech and Language Therapist. Each week, children and their parents/carers will get the opportunity to take part in fun play based activities linked to a topic which can help develop skills in a number of areas including; play, communication, listening, taking turns and social interaction. These activities, along with information and advice can easily be continued and reinforced at home to help develop each child’s skills.
