The best photo of the week will win 30 worth of children'sbooks.
PEOPLE AND PLACES
Bonnety babes
Nursery children from Hunni-Bee Children's Centre at Hunningley PrimarySchool in Barnsley, Yorkshire, went parading in their homemade Easterbonnets. Centre manager Kate Brentley said, 'We went and showed all thechildren in the school our wonderful creations that we had made athome.'
Reading record
Children from Coxheath Primary School and Rising Fives Group inMaidstone, Kent, took part in a Guinness world record-breaking attemptfor the most people reading a piece of poetry aloud at one time, toraise money for Great Ormond Street children's hospital. Parents, staffand friends joined in to raise 90 by reading a two-minute extractfrom Peter Pan in Scarlet by Geraldine McCaughrean. The event was partof Peter Pan Week and the Big Time Rhyme, 3-7 March, organised by thehospital and Oxford University Press.
IN STOCK
Hands off in Wales
The Welsh section of the Children Are Unbeatable! campaign has launchedan online resource to try to change attitudes towards smacking.Information in the Help at Hand Toolkit will be regularly updated withchanges to the law, and the resource includes materials and ideas forworking with practitioners, professionals, parents, children andpolicymakers. Visit www.helpathandtoolkit.info andwww.pecyncymorthhelpwrthlaw.info.
PHOTO OF THE WEEK
Children from Tadpoles Nursery in Clapham, south London, enjoyed Easterchicks knitted by volunteers to raise funds for local charity TrinityHospice. The egg cosies are filled with chocolate eggs donated byCadbury Schweppes and sold by nurseries and schools for 1each.
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