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Christmas Party Saturday 11th December 2010, 11:30pm - 2:30pm, Shaw Ridge Primary School, Ridge Green, Shaw, SN5 5PU. 

Father Christmas will be visiting to hand out presents and Music Bugs will be entertaining us with songs and dance. There will be Christmas food for the children, Rudolph luck dip, raffle, name the reindeer competition and refreshments including delicious home made cakes. This year we have invited Jo MacKnight, a Swindon based photographer, to attend to take formal photographs - you can choose to have just the children or the whole family. The photographs will be available in time for Christmas making a lovely Christmas presents.

If you want Father Christmas to hand out a present to your child, please provide a present, maximum £5 spend, ensuring the present is wrapped and clearly marked with your child's name.

.  Entrance is £1 per child for Members and £2per child for non members.

  RSVP with name and ages of children to suzanne.howard@which.net

Completed Events

Pottery Painting - Monday 16th August 2010

Q Ceramics will be holding a pottery painting session on Monday 16th August 10:00 – 12:00 at Shaw Church*(see calendar for address).  Unglazed mugs, plates, tiles, cookie jars etc are decorated using paint brushes or sponges.  Babies and young children can still join in by using painted hands or feet prints instead.  Alternatively, why not try a clay impression of a hand and foot.  All items are then glazed and fired in a furnace to make items useable.  Prices start from £6.50 and 10% of sales go towards STORM funds. These make excellent mementos or unique presents.  Collection is one week later from Q Ceramics at Blooms Garden Centre, J16 of M4

As it is the school holidays, please invite family friends and their children to come along and join in the fun

Swindon Twins OR More Summer Teddy Bears’ Picnic

Saturday 24^th July 2010, 11:30am – 2:30pm

Wanborough Village Hall & Garden (3 miles from Great Western Hospital.   Free car parking at The Harrow pub opposite)

   Special Guest - Children’s Entertainer Marc Dominic

 Marc's shows include lots of audience participation, magic, puppets (Dekkland the Baby Dinosaur is a must-see!) and balloon modelling - no boring balloon model dogs, what about a 3 foot high pink panther or a large motorbike? Not to mention juggling, plate spinning, magic tricks and other fun stuff! Children will get the chance to help Marc with his tricks.  Marc will be presenting 2 hours of entertainment including a 40 minute show.  Marc Dominic is a member of the Magic Circle

Free Bouncy Castle, Raffle ~~ name the Teddy competition, Children’s games, Delicious homemade cakes & refreshments for sale

  Don’t forget to bring your Teddy and your picnic

 Entrance is £1.00 per child for STORM members, £2.00 per child for non members, all children welcome ( you don't have to be a twin!) Adults and babies under 6 months are free

Completed Events

 Easter Eggstravaganza  Saturday 27^th March 2010    2 - 4pm

FREE Indoor bouncy castle ~~ Easter Egg treasure hunt ~~ games, crafts with Mummy ~~ make an Easter basket with yummy chocolate egg, face painting ~~ tattoos ~~ raffle ~~ Name the Bunny, Easter bonnet/hat competition (bring your decorated bonnet with you), story-time ~~ songs, delicious homemade cakes & refreshments, Entrance is £1 per child for STORM members & £2 per child for non members

Pottery Painting Workshop - Monday 15th February 2010

Q Ceramics will be holding a pottery painting workshop on Monday 15^th February 10:00 – 12:00 at Shaw Church*(see calendar for address).  Unglazed mugs, plates, tiles, cookie jars etc are decorated using paint brushes or sponges.  Babies and young children can still join in by using painted hands or feet prints instead.  Alternatively, why not try a clay impression of a hand and foot.  All items are then glazed and fired in a furnace to make items useable.  Prices start from £9.50 and 10% of sales go towards STORM funds. These make excellent mementos or unique presents.  Collection is one week later from Q Ceramics at Blooms Garden Centre, J16 of M4

Christmas Party Saturday 12th December 2009, 12:00pm - 2:00pm, Haydon Centre.  Father Christmas will be visiting to hand out presents and Baby Boppers will be entertaining us with songs and dance. Please provide a present for your child - maximum £5 spend ensuring the present is clearly marked with your child's name.  Entrance is free for Members' twins, with siblings £1 each child.  Non members' twins £2 per child.  RSVP with name and ages of children to karen.walker66@tiscali.co.uk

Toybox Creche Christmas Party  Monday 14th December 2009 10:00 - 12:00.  The Toybox Creche is holding their annual Christmas Party for STORM. Entrance is £4 per family (instead of £2.50) and includes a Christmas present from Santa for each child, party food and drinks and face painting.  Tickets to be purchased in advance to allow presents and party food to be bought.

Terry Ferris Photography - Monday 17th August 2009

Terry will be available to take portrait photographs Monday 17th August 2009 10:00 – 12:00 at Shaw Church*.  This is an excellent opportunity to include older siblings or even grandparents in a group family portrait. The portrait pack is fantastic value at £23 and contains 10 photographs: 2@10”x8”, 2@8”x6”, 2@5”x4”, 2@3.75”x3” and 2@2”x2.5”.  Extra prints, key rings and fridge magnets are also available.  Proofs will be available to view before ordering and payment is on collection.  10% of sales will go towards STORM funds.

Pottery Painting Workshop - Monday 10th August 2009

Q Ceramics will be holding a pottery painting workshop on Monday 10^th August 10:00 – 12:00 at Shaw Church*.  Unglazed mugs, plates, tiles, cookie jars etc are decorated using paint brushes or sponges.  Babies and young children can still join in by using painted hands or feet prints instead.  Alternatively, why not try a clay impression of a hand and foot.  All items are then glazed and fired in a furnace to make items useable.  Prices start from £9.50 and 10% of sales go towards STORM funds. These make excellent mementos or unique presents.  Collection is one week later from STORM or Q Ceramics at Blooms Garden Centre, J16 of M4

Summer Teddy Bears' Picnic - Saturday 1st August 2009 - Indoors at Lydiard House

The theme of this year’s summer picnic is all about Bears – teddy bears, polar bears, koala bears, Rupert, Pooh, Paddington and others.  The picnic will take place on Saturday 1st August 11.00 - 2:00 at Lydiard Park in front of Lydiard House OR

If it is raining we will still have the picnic and all of the events but we will move indoors at Lydiard House.  'We have booked the "Education Room" located in the stable block opposite the Lydiard House Conference Centre.  The stable block is only 100 yards from the cafe/play area.  The Conference Centre is attached to left hand side of Lydiard House and has its own car park.  This is signposted Lydiard Park Conference Centre and St Mary’s Church and is reached via the Lydiard Park driveway off Hay Lane / Tregoze Wayoor 

This family event has been a great success in previous years giving an opportunity for family and friends to join in the fun and at the same time for STORM to raise some much needed funds.  Bring along a picnic.

There will be a very special (furry!) guest, teddy bear goodies and pocket-money games for children and parents alike.  Entrance is free for members’ twins and triplets.  A nominal fee of £1 per sibling or additional child will be charged to help towards covering our costs.  

                               If you are free why not come along to join in the fun?

Terry Ferris photography - 3rd November 2008

Once again Terry Ferris has been booked to take yet more brilliant photos of our children. He'll be at Shaw Church on 3rd November 2008. As usual prints will be available within a couple of weeks, so easily in time to make great Christmas presents for Granny's & Aunties

CHRISTMAS PARTY

After the amazing success of last years party, STORM have booked this years event on Saturday 13th December from 12-2pm @ Haydon Centre. Invites to STORM members will follow nearer the time, so get it in your diary early as the kids will love it.

PS Father Christmas has already said yes to his invite!!

Mum's Night Out

The next Mum's night held on Friday 4th April by Virgin Vie raised a fantastic £28 for STORM funds.

CHRISTMAS PARTY

WOW, what a fantastic party!! This years Christmas party was a huge success with 50 children attending. We also had a visit from Father Christmas and were entertained by 'Creative Kids' who not only kept all the children amused for an hour giving Mum's & Dad's a few minutes peace, but did a brilliant job of facing painting those kids brave enough to join in. A great big thank you goes out to our new committee member Leanne (& her Mum) who organised all the food and even managed to cater for 3 children with special dietary needs as well. Follow this link for photos

SHOPPING NIGHT

A huge thank you to Jo for all the hard work she put into organising the shopping night which was yet again a fantastic success which funds in excess of £100 being raised by commission from the stall holders. We also raised £60 in raffle tickets alone on the night.

The raffle was drawn on 19 November, results to be announced at the Christmas party and will posted on the web site afterwards

Terry Ferris photography

As Terry was so popular last year, we've already booked him for later on this year. Initially we've booked him for June and October in time for Christmas.

MUM'S NIGHT OUT

Nicola hosted a fantastic night for us Mum's on behalf of STORM. Body Shop came along and treated us all to a hand massage and gave us the opportunity to try out samples of their wonderful products. As a reward for spending over £250 we had the opportunity to get addiitonal gifts free which will be used later ni the year as raffle prizes to help us raise funds to pay for speacial meetings and of course the Christmas party

SUMMER PICNIC

The summer picnic's held at Lydiard House was as usual a resounding success. We picked a great day as the weather held out for us which was such a bonus considering how bad its been this summer!!

Jacob & Arabella's Dad took this photos above by climbing the big tree. Seemed a good idea at the time until 10 sets of twins tried to copy him!!

EASTER SPECIAL

At the meeting on 2nd April held at Toothill Church we held an Easter special meeting with activities, including an egg hunt, biscuit decorating and creating magnets. It was thoroughly enjoyed by all. As it was such a success, we hope to put some more events like this into the STORM diary!

CHRISTMAS PARTY

Saturday 9th December at Haydon Centre, Thames Avenue Near Morrisons supermarket, between 12 and 2pm for STORM members and siblings. Entertainment, a visit from a man in a red suit laden with presnts, and food will be provided by the club

CHRISTMAS SHOPPING NIGHT

The shopping night was held on Thursday 9 November at the Haydon Wick Working Men's Club. As with last year, there was a selection of stalls including Chocoholics, Virgin Vee, Mini IQ,and lots of lovely hand made cards and toys plus much more. The event raised over £170 for STORM. So a big thank you to everybody who attended.

AGM

We are required to hold an AGM, so this will take place on Monday 18th September, during the normal Monday morning session at ToyBox Junction. More information will be sent out to members nearer the time.

SUMMER PICNIC

Held on 16th July on the lawn outside Lydiard House. Photos to follow...!

SPONSORED TODDLE WADDLE

Following the success of last year's event, we decided to enter the Barnardos Sponsored Toddle Waddle again, with infants (in buggies) and toddlers doing two laps of the Outlet Village on Monday 5 June. 75% proceeds to Barnardos, and 25% to STORM. Some toddlers dressed up, good fun was had by all and hopefully we raised some much needed cash for a good cause.

Photo Gallery

TINY TALK BABY SIGN LANGUAGE

Sarah kindly arranged for Tiny Talk to visit to demonstrate some baby sign language at the Baby Corner session on Monday 12 June. They run courses which are available to help communicate with your pre-talking baby. See our Links page for their website details.

PAMPERED CHEF

There was an evening with the Pampered Chef, kindly hosted by Jill in Priory Vale, on Monday 24 April.

MUMS' NIGHT OUT!!!

A Mums' Night Out was held on 19 May at the Marriott Hotel. Run by Funky Mamas, this was a great night out for all those mums who are secret divas, who want to have a dance round their handbags!

USBORNE BOOKS

A viewing of Usborne Books was held at the meeting on Monday 15th May.

ETERNAL PRINTS

Sarah-Jane, a local twin mum, and her colleague Sheryl came to two Monday meetings to take fingerprints from the children, which will memorialised in gold or silver, and used to decorate beautiful jewellery or keepsakes.  For more information, visit her website at www.eternalprints.com

Presenters at the Creche sessions

We have been fortunate to have a demonstration of Baby Massage at the Baby Corner, plus Kidz Klub Adventure Videos, and Chocoholics come to visit us.

Babies' and Children's Christmas Parties

The Babies' Christmas Party were held at ToyBox Junction on Monday 12th December, and the Children's Christmas Party on Monday 19th December.

Photo Gallery

Teddy Bears' Picnic

Our annual Teddy Bears' picnic was held on Sunday 10th July at Lydiard Park from 11:30 am.
Click here for the photos

Mums' Night Out

The first Mums' Night Out was held on Friday 1st July at Jill's house in Priory Vale.

Kate from Daisy Chains kindly brought along a wide range of clothes from 3 months to 6 years, and many bargain clothes and some toys were snapped up by those present. An excellent start to our social meetings and a good time was had by all. Many thanks to Jill for hosting the event which raised £16 towards STORM funds.

Sponsored Toddle In Aid Of Barnardo's And Storm

The Re-Launch Party !