What’s Good To Do Newsletter WELCOME TO OUR MARCH NEWSLETTER Issue 10: March 2013 www.whatsgoodtodo.com [email protected]0161 787 8550 Find us on Facebook: facebook.com/whatsgoodtodo Follow us on Twitter: twitter.com/whatsgoodtodo1 For all advertising enquiries on our website or magazines please call or email us for further details 0161 787 8550 / [email protected]March has lots to celebrate with Mother’s Day on 10 March, Easter Sunday on 31 March and also our new edition of our FREE magazine will be available in Manchester and Beds/Herts/North London so if you live in these areas look out for it in schools, doctor’s surgeries, tourist offices, libraries and many more places. But don’t worry if you can’t manage to pick up a copy you can order one from our website, just pay £1.50 for postage (the magazine itself is FREE) or you can always view the magazines online from: www.whatsgoodtodo.com/pages/view/read_our_magazines Want to say thank you to YOUR mum this Mother's Day? Why not treat your mum to a day of indulgence, relaxation, luxurious beauty treatments and more at our special Mother's Day Event at The Nutri Centre, Park Crescent. On March 8th, The Nutri Centre will play host to a day of pure pampering, complete with the best in beauty treatments, hair, nail and skincare advice. The Nutri Centre, Park Crescent is the wellbeing oasis for in-the-know local Londoners and savvy health conscious celebs far and wide. A-listers from Kate Moss and Jade Jagger, to Ann Hathaway and Elle Macpherson all come to this healthy hideaway to get the best in nutritional advice from the expert team of nutritionists. They also stock up on the latest super supplements, herbs, free -from foods and luxury make-up ranges. Treat your mum to an A-list worthy pampering this Mother’s Day! Try one of our pre-bookable FREE beauty treatments to revive, relax and re-vitalise. Top beauty facials from the experts at Suti and Heaven Skincare will be available throughout the day. Heaven Skincare will be offering bespoke Bee Sting Facials, magnificent manicures and stunning Shellac creations. Fans of Heaven include Danni Minogue, Victoria Beckham, Gwyneth Paltrow and the future Queen herself, Kate Middleton! When you and your mum have been polished, primed and pampered collect your FREE goody bag, full of gorgeous hair and beauty treats, including Suti's sumptuous Rose Water Facial Toner. Does your unruly, flat or flyaway hair get you into a follicle flap? Fear not, hair guru to the stars, Charles Booth, founder of LaCoupe Salon will be on hand to offer his expertise with personalised hair consultations and advice. Having trained with Vidal Sassoon himself, styled for Vogue, worked with top supermodels and founded the ORGNX haircare range, Charles is truly the master of manes! Come along to our special Mother's Day event on 8th March and your mum will leave glowing, gorgeous and feeling like the best mum in the world! Where: The Nutri Centre, 7 Park Crescent, London, W1B 1PF When: 8th March 2013 Time: all day! To book one of our FREE luxury beauty treatments or personalised hair consultations please call us on 0207 436 5122 or go to www.nutricentre.com Our March newsletter is sponsored by: www.magicfairywings.com Educational toys, wooden toys, musical instruments, designer clothing
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Want to say thank you to YOUR mum this Mother's Day?
Why not treat your mum to a day of indulgence, relaxation, luxurious beauty treatments and more at our special Mother's Day Event at The Nutri Centre, Park Crescent. On March 8th, The Nutri Centre will play host to a day of pure pampering, complete with the best in beauty treatments, hair, nail and skincare advice.
The Nutri Centre, Park Crescent is the wellbeing oasis for in-the-know local Londoners and savvy health conscious celebs far and wide. A-listers from Kate Moss and Jade Jagger, to Ann Hathaway and Elle Macpherson all come to this healthy hideaway to get the best in nutritional advice from the expert team of nutritionists. They also stock up on the latest super supplements, herbs, free-from foods and luxury make-up ranges.
Treat your mum to an A-list worthy pampering this Mother’s Day! Try one of our pre-bookable FREE beauty treatments to revive, relax and re-vitalise. Top beauty facials from the experts at Suti and Heaven Skincare will be available throughout the day.
Heaven Skincare will be offering bespoke Bee Sting Facials, magnificent manicures and stunning Shellac creations. Fans of Heaven include Danni Minogue, Victoria Beckham, Gwyneth Paltrow and the future Queen herself, Kate Middleton!
When you and your mum have been polished, primed and pampered collect your FREE goody bag, full of gorgeous hair and beauty treats, including Suti's sumptuous Rose Water Facial Toner.
Does your unruly, flat or flyaway hair get you into a follicle flap? Fear not, hair guru to the stars, Charles Booth, founder of LaCoupe Salon will be on hand to offer his expertise with personalised hair consultations and advice. Having trained with Vidal Sassoon himself, styled for Vogue, worked with top supermodels and founded the ORGNX haircare range, Charles is truly the master of manes!
Come along to our special Mother's Day event on 8th March and your mum will leave glowing, gorgeous and feeling like the best mum in the world!
Where: The Nutri Centre, 7 Park Crescent, London, W1B 1PF When: 8th March 2013 Time: all day!
To book one of our FREE luxury beauty treatments or personalised hair consultations please call us on 0207 436 5122 or go to www.nutricentre.com
For all advertising enquiries on our website or magazines please call or email us for further details 0161 787 8550 / [email protected]
We all know that there are not enough hours in the day. It’s a fact, once you reach parenthood, time just disappears, mostly absorbed by your children! And as parents we constantly feel guilty; guilty that we are not giving our children enough time and attention; guilty that we aren’t giving them the right foods or enough exercise; guilty that we aren’t doing enough to help them with their education; in a nutshell, that we are not doing ‘the best’ by our children. Yet finding extra time to do anything but the necessary with our kids is almost impossible! We all know we need to manage our time more effectively, but decid-ing what tasks are vital and which are less important is a mam-moth task in itself.
However, there is one thing parents can do to relieve at least some of the guilt; something that will enable them to spend quality time with their children, give them the focused atten-tion they need and enhance their education. So what is it? …..Reading to them.
That’s it. It’s that simple. From the moment your child is born, through their toddler years and all through primary school, read to them. It has been proven, time and time again, that children who are read to at home, WILL do better at school.
We aren’t talking about classical English literature or entire en-cyclopaedias, but simple short stories, picture books, poems and rhymes, and later, maybe a few pages a night from a chap-ter book. This simple activity will help your child in so many ways; youngest children will learn how to hold books correctly, how to turn a page, how to follow words with a finger from left to right. Toddlers will learn words repetition, alliteration, lan-guage patterns and rhyme. Older children will begin to build up a bank of stories, characters and settings in their minds which they will later draw on when it’s their turn to write at school. You will nurture a love of books and reading in your child, which will stand them in good stead for the future.
More often that not, once your child starts school, reading be-comes a chore, a daily battle, an activity you do just so you can ‘write in their reading diary and not look like a bad parent’. The pleasure of reading goes, it becomes hard work and children get turned off the idea of reading altogether. By YOU reading to your child they will still get all the pleasure from reading and
hearing stories, but if they enjoy it, they will want to do it for themselves too.
Research shows that reading to children works better than any other reading activity, expensive nursery education or reading tuition, in helping a child learn to read. It’s cheap to do, espe-cially if you join your local library, and its fun for both parent and child. It takes away some of the guilt you feel as a parent as your child is getting that 1-1 attention from you, you are giving them your time and helping with their education, all at the same time, all in one 10 minute chunk!
It doesn’t have to stop with bedtime reading either. Look at newspapers and letters together - talk about the address, and ask your child to identify who the letter is for. Write a letter to your child and send it through the post. They will love receiving mail addressed to them! Look at road signs, labels in the super-market, makes and models on the back of cars and registrations plates. Play I Spy, put magnetic letters on the fridge or sponge letters in the bath. Follow a recipe together; use icing to write letters or names. One of my favourite activities to do with my son is to write treasure hunt clues leading to a ‘treat’ – its amazing how quickly they will want to read then! The list is end-less.
As a final thought, please don’t think that your job is done once your child can read alone. Please don’t undo all your good work by taking away something both of you enjoyed together. People will always enjoy hearing stories, so continue to read aloud to our child for as long as they want you to.
So ditch the guilt and get reading! There is nothing better you can do for your child.
The benefits of reading to your children
Written by Joanne Watson Mother of 3, Primary School Teacher and Literacy coordinator
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with Louisa Coffee Break Corner
Hello, welcome to the March edition of Coffee Break Corner with Louisa! I hope you are all enjoying my page each
month and finding it useful. I really enjoy putting it together each month and love finding new things to post about for you all to try. This month Easter will be upon us so I have been scouring the internet for some fun filled ways for you to spend it. Louisa x
Book of the Month The Easter Story by Brian Wildsmith - A great book which tells the story of Easter but in a more child friendly way meaning the children will know why we celebrate Easter and that it's not just about Easter Eggs - Worth a read! RRP: £5.99
Available from all good book stockists.
Money Saving Tips
Easter doesn’t have to be expensive, here are a few tips to save you all a few £'s 1. Buy your Easter Eggs early, most
shops now sell a regular sized egg for £1 but then increase the prices as Easter approaches. 2. Use the internet to print out some fun colouring sheets and let your little ones get creative. spoonful.com is an excellent site packed with ideas! 3. Eaten too much chocolate? Go to a local park and get walking, you will feel 100% better for it and spend some quality time together as a family. 4. Daffodils are everywhere this month but instead of picking them why not make some? They last longer and are fun and easy to make (see below).
Craft Idea I found this amazing website www.busybeekidscrafts.com which is jam packed with fun craft ideas and will be giving the Paper Daffodils a go this month.
Easter Activities
Easter Baskets - Recently I noticed on Facebook a photo was being shared by lots of people showing how to make a simple, cheap yet fun looking Easter basket which looked fantastic.
It is so easy to do and both Children and Adults will have fun making these.
Easter Egg Hunt - Every year we like to hide our eggs and get the children to find them using clues we make.
Last year we had planned to use the garden but the weather wasn't on our side but we still had loads of fun hiding them around the house and giving the girls a basket and letting them hunt. Seeing the smiles of enjoyment on their faces when they found the eggs was priceless and we will be doing the same again this year hopefully the sun will come out though!
Little Explorer Day, Glasgow Science Museum - 7 & 17 March
Mother’s Day
Pamper Event 8 March 2013
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Ideal Home Show
Earls Court, London 15 March - 1 April 2013
With seven dedicated show areas catering to every need and
taste, and boasting over 600 exhibitors, the Ideal Home Show
is the only place to visit when making your home ideal.
www.idealhomeshow.co.uk
Easter Bunny Bonanza
Mead Open Farm 29 March - 14 April 2013
Meet the Easter Bunny - he's very friendly! Earn a chocolate
treat in the NEW "Hoppy's Hamlet"! Meet Real Easter Chicks!
www.meadopenfarm.co.uk
Ware Operatic Present
Sweeney Todd 26 February - 2 March 2013
A hilarious musical thriller about a man and his
razor - the demon barber of Fleet Street.
Tickets cost £13-£20
www.wareoperatic.org.uk
Michael Jackson
The Immortal World Tour
by Cirque Du Soleil 29-30 March 2013, Manchester Arena
Tickets cost from £30 - £100
www.men-arena.com
Easter Fun Day
Camperdown, Dundee 31 March 2013
Play on Wheels Playbus, Cycle Stunt Show, Funfair, Easter
Walkabout, Children's Art Activities, Sport Taster Sessions &
Radio Roadshow. Free event.
www.camperdownpark.com
St Patrick’s Day Parade
Worldwide 17 March 2013
Celebrate St Patrick’s Day with a parade in Birmingham,
Leeds, London, Manchester, Newcastle, Nottingham and
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