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Thanks Esme, we're going to start doing Nimble disco parties soon as we've been getting heaps of requests - email us at [email protected] if you'd like to have a chat about it! x

Wise family room people, I wondered if I could pick your brains again - I'm just programming our summer holiday Nimble Tots programme, as we'll still be running classes on a Wednesday at the Ivy House in Nunhead. We'll have our normal cello/story/music classes at 10am and 11am, plus more crafternoon tea workshops for parents/carers with pre-crawlers in the afternoon, *but* I'm wondering about putting another class in at 4pm, but is this a ridiculous time for a session being too close to tea? I can't quite work it out! It'd be either: * Proper storytelling aimed at 4-7 year olds (so longer tales than the morning session, some music more slightly more narrative led - but younger kids/older siblings welcome) * More drama type workshops for 3.5-5 year olds * A baby music class Or none of the above, if 4pm is a foolish time for such things! We'd do these as drop in workshops, with advance sign up available too, and places on the day available if there is room... Thanks! Becky x

Just a wee update - we're going to be offering an initially limited number of extended day spaces at our summer holiday clubs until 6pm! Thanks a lot for your feedback on this.

Thanks for this - we're definitely looking into trying to offer extended hours for the summer, and failing that, for October onwards, as we completely understand it's difficult to finish a working day in time for a 5pm pick up!

Thanks for the nice feedback about Nimble on here... A slightly cheeky hijack (admin - do delete if not appropriate in this thread), but we're looking into whether we can extend our hours to 6pm in the future, and wondered whether this would be useful? It's going to take a bit of convincing of our venues and staff, but if there's demand we're going to look into it properly!

Thanks Zedd - that's helpful! As a parent, I totally agree that drop in often is easier to manage, particularly if we've weekends away (which happens a lot in the summer) but it's a bit of a risk as a provider when booking staff and a venue (when I run weekday toddler/baby classes, which are drop in, I don't worry so much as they've built up gradually, but this is a bit of a step into the unknown!). But sign up classes do also give a consistent group who can grow in skills/confidence together over the term... Still working on it though! x

Hi all, I wondered on your thoughts for a new toddler class I'm thinking of running locally (with Nimble Arts), but I'm really not sure if it's something I'm just dreaming up for my own daughter that wouldn't work for other families! I'm really looking for more sociable weekend activities for my 2.5 year old, and so for us, a Sunday afternoon thing would be perfect. We've got some really brilliant EY drama specialists who work with us on the Nimble Arts holiday clubs we hold in East Dulwich, who I think could offer some fun, creative, movement based participatory drama sessions targeted to this age (maybe a 2.5 - under 4 session and a 4-5 year old class), with a bit of creative free play thrown in. Looking for this being fairly gentle, creative small classes for toddlers to probably attend with a parent/carer (but maybe not the 4-5 year olds). We'd be looking at this being a half term sign-up class rather than drop in, maybe something like 3 - 4 on a Sunday afternoon. Any interest or thoughts? Hoping to get this running after the May half term (obviously subject to venue etc). Thanks! x

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...to update, Nimble Arts is now accepting Childcare vouchers for all our courses! We're at www.nimblearts.co.uk

Should add, any suggestions for things a train or tube away are welcome! But we are still in our pyjamas, gah, taking our first day of holiday too seriously...

Any ideas of fun toddler friendly activities today (Thursday?) I should probably know given I run toddler classes myself most days, but been a bit disorganised and now have a slightly haywire toddler and we're both a bit cold ridden for our plan A of going swimming - it looks like lots of classes have finished already this week!

I run nimble arts holiday clubs (held at heber school in east Dulwich), we are in the verge of being able to accept vouchers, just dotting i's and crossing T's on the paperwork, but we hope to be open for childcare voucher bookings for our February course (and definitely for April onwards). We'll update on here and on our website www.nimblearts.co.uk as soon as voucher booking opens.

Hey, we've a Christmas toddler nimble tots session on Monday and Wednesday, finishing with a singalong of carols round the piano, a there's a few tickets left. There's a bit more detail on the website at http://goo.gl/Vcll2W, but it'll be a Christmas musical story (lots of cello, ukulele, djembe...) followed by carols and craft. X

Hey - we've still spaces at Nimble Arts creative holiday clubs - full details at www.nimblearts.co.uk x

Hi, thanks for the link Lorraine! We've actually got two weeks of Nimble Arts holiday club activities this year (28th July - 1st August and 18th August - 22nd August) plus two creative '3 day musical' courses for slightly older children (5-7th August and 26th - 28th August). Places still available, but would advise booking soon www.nimblearts.co.uk Look in the 'what's on' section for more details, Becky x