Sure Start Dungannon and Coalisland

Baby Massage - Coalisland
2023-11-13 10:30 - 11:30, 2023-11-20 10:30 - 11:30, 2023-11-27 10:30 - 11:30 UTC | 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 Teatime
2023-11-13 15:45 - 16:15, 2023-11-27 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.

Antenatal Workshop
2023-11-13 18:00 - 19:00 | 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.

Playtime - Dungannon
2023-11-14 10:00 - 11:00, 2023-11-21 10:00 - 11:00, 2023-11-28 10:00 - 11:00 | 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.

Slow Cooker Session
2023-11-14 18:00 - 20:00 | Main Office, Dungannon
Join us for an evening meal, find out about healthy eating and how you can save money and time making meals using you slow cooker. All those attending will receive food freebies.

Baby Sensory - Group 1
2023-11-15 10:00 - 11:00, 2023-11-22 10:00 - 11:00 | 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.

Breastfeeding Support Group
2023-11-15 10:30 - 12:00, 2023-11-22 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.

Baby Sensory - Group 2
2023-11-15 11:30 - 12:30 | Main Office, Dungannon

Peaceful Play
2023-11-15 13:00 - 14:00 | Main Office, Dungannon
If you have a child between 18months – 3years, who prefers to play in a calmer and quieter environment then this may be the group for your child. This group may be of interest to children who have sensory needs, autism or a learning disability or perhaps even a child who dislikes larger groups and will thrive in a calmer more relaxed space. Numbers will be restricted because of the nature of the group.

Story and Rhyme
2023-11-16 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.

Baby Massage - Dungannon
2023-11-16 13:00 - 14:00, 2023-11-23 13:00 - 14:00 | Main Office, Dungannon

Brincadeira
2023-11-17 11:00 - 12:00 | Main Office, Dungannon
Brincadeira: 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.

Hypno-birthing
2023-11-17 13:00 - 15:00, 2023-11-24 13:00 - 15:00 | Main Office, Dungannon
Hypno-birthing: 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.

Incredible Babies: 0-12months
2023-11-20 10:00 - 12:00 | Main Office, Dungannon

Story and Rhyme
2023-11-20 10:30 - 11:00 | Dungannon Library

Blissful Arts and Crafts
2023-11-20 10:30 - 11:30, 2023-11-27 10:30 - 11:30 | Main Office, Dungannon
Blissful Arts and Crafts is a fun creative workshop welcoming all parents/carers to explore and focus on themselves through creative arts. This is a 4 week feel good workshop where you can create your own treasures and meet new people. Crèche is provided although places are limited.

Papa and PJs
2023-11-22 18:30 - 19:30 | Main Office, Dungannon
Papa and PJs is a programme providing the chance for the dads/male carers to get involved in the bedtime routine. It provides a calming and relaxing environment with sensory play activities to help the children settle before bedtime. It offers a wonderful opportunity for dads to spend quality memorable times with their children 0 – 3 years

Parents Forum
2023-11-23 10:30 - 11:30 | 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.

Health Visiting Workshop - Toilet Training
2023-11-24 10:00 - 11:00 | Main Office, Dungannon
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.

Dads Group
2023-11-25 10:30 - 11:30 | Main Office, Dungannon
Dads Group: is a programme especially for our dads/male carers and their children 0 – 3 years giving them that one to one uninterrupted quality playtime that they may not always get time for. It is filled with lots of fun, interactive activities, games, songs and ideas that you can take away and try at home.
