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From 11th Sep 2023
Grow + Play is a new baby and toddler playgroup inspired by the Montessori method for early education, with carefully planned activities to create a calm, engaging and child-centred environment.
Sessions are fun and engaging, encouraging children to investigate, experiment and learn through play, with educational activities, songs and stories to promote natural development. Sessions have a relaxed start, so it’s no problem to arrive after the start time. Children are given the freedom to decide which activities they want to try, and the adults take a hands-off observer/supporter role as they explore – and can enjoy unlimited free tea and coffee!
There are two stages in Grow + Play, with a group for Babies and for Toddlers. Younger siblings are also very welcome in the toddler group.
👉 £5-£6 per session, book here (50% discount for siblings)
Babies: birth to confidently walking | Toddlers: confidently walking to 5 years old.
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From 11th Sep 2023
Oodles of singing, dancing, sensory and arty activities to ignite your little ones imagination and introduce them to art!
From £7.50 per session, booked termly (sibling discounts available).
For more info, visit @ARTventurersNewcastle
Baby: from 6 months | Little: from 18 months | Family: mixed ages
📅 Wednesdays, 12pm (Baby Yoga) & 1pm (Toddler Yoga)
📌 Chowdene Family Hub
From 11th Sep 2023
Baby & Toddler yoga stretches for developing little one’s all round strength, focusing on core, legs and arms imperative for reaching those all important milestones. Baby Developmental Massage to bond, connect, soothe and relax, teaching techniques to aid in the relief of common ailments such as sleeplessness, colic, constipation and digestion.
👉 £7 per session, booked termly.
For more info, visit @KalmaLifeGateshead
Massage: 6 weeks-6 months. Yoga: 6 weeks-sitting | crawling-3 years
📅 Mondays, 9.45 – 11.45am
📌 Raven Valley Gym Club, Metrocentre
📅 Tuesdays, 9.45 – 11.45am
📌 Ryton Community Centre
📅 Wednesdays, 9.45 – 11.45am
📌 Raven Valley Gym Club
📅 Thursdays, 9.45am – 12.30pm
📌 Raven Valley Gym Club
📅 Fridays, 9.45 – 11.45am
📌 Ryton Community Centre
From 4th Sep 2023
A movement, music and sensory play class focusing on learning through play – with sing-a-long songs, props, activities and music. There will be bubbles, ribbons, sensory materials, mirrors, musical instruments, play parachutes and much more! Babies welcome with older siblings in the MINI age classes.
👉 From £6.50 per 45 min session, booked termly (sibling discounts available).
For more info, visit @thebabyhubgateshead
Baby M+Ms: 6 weeks – 1 year/walking | Mini M+Ms: 1 year/walking – preschool
From 11th Sep 2023
Multi-award winning classes with you and your baby’s needs and development in mind, packed with a variety of sounds, sights, music, dance, singing and more. Meet new parents and share ideas, experiences and memories together.
👉 1h sessions, booked termly.
For more info, visit @babysensorygateshead
Birth – 13 months
📆 Wednesdays, 9.40 – 11.30am
📌 Valley Farm (Farmhouse Inns), Team Valley, NE11 0NU
From 4th Sep 2023
Baby Yoga helps to attune to your baby’s needs and to calm or stimulate them as appropriate with a sense of security and wellbeing. Toddler Yoga involves themed or adventure based classes to promote strength, flexibility, balance, confidence and independence
👉 From £6 per 45 min session, booked termly.
For more info, visit @YogaPupzGateshead
Baby Yoga: from 6 weeks old | Toddler Yoga: from 14 months (or walking)
📆 Tuesdays, 10-10:45am (🐝Busy Bees) & 11:15am-12pm (🐛Caterpillar Club)
📌 Dunston Activity Centre, NE11 9SS
📅 Wednesdays, 10-10:45am (🐝Busy Bees) & 11:15am-12pm (🐛Caterpillar Club)
📌 Chowdene Family Hub, NE9 7TU
📆 Fridays, 10-10:45am (🐝Busy Bees) & 11:15am-12pm (🐛Caterpillar Club)
📌 Fellside Methodist Church, Whickham, NE16 5BJ
From 4th Sep 2023
Multi-sensory and multi-award winning classes! Welcoming and friendly sessions perfect for bonding with baby, with lots of sensory lights, music and dancing and explorative and messy play. A new theme each week with EYFS planned activities. Caterpillar Club includes a gentle multi sensory baby development activities and a relaxing massage. Busy Bees is highly interactive with a range of songs, activities and bright props.
👉 From £7 per 45 min session, booked termly.
For more info, visit @bloomgatesheadcentralandsouth
Caterpillars: 6 weeks-6 months | Busy Bees: 6-14 months
📅 Wednesdays, 9.45 – 11.45am
📌 Dauntless Gymnastics, Blaydon, NE21 5NJ
From 11th Sep 2023
Classes for little ones 6 weeks-walking! Lots of sensory lights, music🎶 and dancing, parachutes with real life rainbows🌈 Perfect for bonding with baby 💚💜 and a new theme each week for cute photos📸
The Caterpillar Classes include gentle multi sensory, baby development and massage. Busy Bees is a highly interactive, musical class with a range of songs and activities, bright props and treasure baskets.
👉 £7 per 45 min session, booked termly.
For more info visit @bloombabyclassesnewcastle
Caterpillars: 6 weeks-6 months | Busy Bees: 6-14 months
From 4th Sep 2023
Fun and funky dance classes for boys and girls, covering 16 dance styles from Hip Hop to Bollywood, Rave to Charleston and many more! Above all it’s about having lots of fun!
👉 From £5 per 45 min session, booked termly (selected trial/PAYG sessions available).
For more info, visit @diddidancesunderland
Approx 18 months (when steady on feet) – 5 years
📆 Mondays, 10am: Jitterbugs
📆 Wednesdays, 10am: Jitterbugs
📆 Fridays, 4.30 – 5pm: Diddi Dancers
📌 Rowlands Gill Scout Hut, NE39 2PD
📆 Wednesdays, 5.15 – 5.45pm: Diddi Dancers
📌 Blaydon Winlaton Family Hub, Gateshead
Parent & child dance sessions – Diddi Dancers: introduction to ballet, and Jitterbugs: songs and sensory props, including singing, dancing, hoops, pom poms, bean bags, instruments and more. Finishing with a fruit snack before playing with beams, tunnels, trampets and bubbles!
👉 From £4.50 per class. Contact 07534 667 913 to book.
Jitterbugs: toddlers. Diddi Dancers: 3-5 years
📅 Wednesdays, 4.30-5pm: Infant Gymnastics (age 4-8)
📅 Thursdays, 5.30-6.30pm: Infant Tutus / Infant Tappers
📌 Cromer Avenue Church, Low Fell, NE9 6UL
Infant sessions for younger pupils, moving on to a range of junior and senior classes in ballet, lyrical, tap, commercial, freestyle, acro, modern and musical theatre. With the chance to take part in musical theatre shows and exams.
👉 From £3 per 30 min session. For more info, visit @LBPAA
Ages 2+
📅 Wednesdays
📌 Felling Community Centre, NE10 0NF
Dance classes for children from 3 years, including beginner freestyle, flexibility and fitness classes, with the chance to take part in competitions. Get fit, make new friends and gain confidence!
👉 Free taster session! For more info, visit @Studio2000KLX
Age 3+
📆 Wednesdays, 4 – 4.30pm: Mini Stars Ballroom & Latin
📌 Springwell Village Community Venue, NE9 7RP
Teaching the basics of Classical Sequence, Ballroom and Latin in a fun and relaxed environment, with a mixture of song, dance and movement activities. Children have the opportunity to participate in nursery awards, shows and competitions.
👉 For more info, visit @romeroschoolofdance
Mini Stars: age 3-5 | Little Stars: age 6-9 | Dancing Stars: 9+ years
📌 JLJSTUDIOS, Main Road, Ryton, NE40 3RS
We have classes for all, starting from around age 4. From youth dance classes for kids and teens, to fitness and dance classes for adults and parents and a competition parents team!
👉 Monthly Kids Pass for unlimited classes available 💜FREE first class tasters available for all under 18s!
For more info, visit @JLJSTUDIOS
Beginner Lyrical/Ballet: under 5 years
📆 Tuesdays
📌 9.30 – 11.05am @Springwell Village Hall, NE9 7RP
📌 5 – 5.45pm @Dunston Activity Centre, NE11 9SS
📆 Wednesdays
📌 9.30 – 10.15am @Blaydon Youth & Community Centre, NE21 5LU
📌 4.45 – 6.30pm @Whickham School, NE16 5AR
📆 Fridays
📌 4 – 5.35pm @Barley Mow Community Centre, Birtley, DH3 2AJ
📆 Saturdays
📌 9am – 12.15pm @Blaydon Youth and Community Centre, NE21 5LU
📌 9am – 12.20pm @Emmanuel College, Lobley Hill, NE11 0AN
📆 Sundays
📌 9am – 12.30pm @Cardinal Hume School, NE9 6RZ
📌 9am – 12.30pm @Whickham School, NE16 5AR
Teaching football in a fun, pressure-free environment, to give children a positive introduction to sport as a whole so they’re more likely to stay healthy and active throughout life.
👉 £27.99 per month, 45 min sessions (plus £24 registration fee, inc shirt & shorts).
For more info, visit @LittleKickersNorthEast
Little Kicks: 1½ to 2½ years | Junior: 2½ to 3½ | Mighty: 3½ years to 5th birthday | Mega: 5 years to 8th birthday
📅 Tues-Thurs & Sat-Sun
📌 Dauntless Fitness Blaydon, NE21 5NJ
A range of gymnastics classes and fitness classes from 18 months-18 years, including Toddlers Parent & Child gymnastics class with themes, songs, apparatus and bubbles. Moving on to Pre-School classes for children ready to attend without an adult, with a similar structure to the Toddlers class.
👉 From £7, booked monthly (trial session available).
For more info, visit @dauntlessgymnastics
Toddlers: 18 mths – 4yrs | Pre-School: 3 – 4yrs
*More info on casual unstructured Dauntless pre-school sessions can be found under Playgroups here
📆 Wednesdays, 2 – 2.45pm
📆 Fridays, 10 – 10.45am & 2 – 2.45pm
📆 Sundays, 12.15 – 1pm
📌 Station Lane, Birtley, DH3 1QT
Structured sessions starting with a warm up then onto the apparatus learning basic skills such as forward rolls, backward rolls, etc, followed by free play exploring larger equipment. Finishing with parachute play and bubbles.
👉 £5 per session, booked termly.
For more info, visit @Northern Hope Gymnastics Centre
Under 5 years
*More info on unstructured pre-school Stay & Play sessions can be found under Playgroups here
📌 Raven Valley Gym Club, Metro Riverside Park, NE11 9DJ
Gymnastics classes for children of all ages, including Mini Ravens parent & child sessions and Independent Minis structured coach-led pre-school gymnastics classes. Themed sessions incorporating music and play and introducing children to gymnastics equipment, with the chance to achieve badges.
👉 £24.17 per month.
For more info, visit @RavenValleyGymclub
Mini Ravens: 18 months – 4 years | Independent Minis: 3 – 4 years
*More info on casual unstructured sessions Raven Rascals/Soft Play can be found under Playgroups here
From 4th Sep 2023
Three stages of classes available from newborn to pre-school. Baby classes focus on bonding and confidence, with friendly puppet characters, props and parachutes and elements of yoga, massage and calming techniques. The fun-filled, highly interactive toddler class involves creative play, dance and movement all set to a soundtrack of remixed nursery rhymes, funky, original kids songs and familiar lullabies.
👉 From £6.50 per 45 min session, booked termly (trial session also available).
For more info, visit @abbyhartbeeps
Newborn to Sitting | Sitting to Toddling | Walkers to Pre-School
📆 Mondays, 5-6pm
📌 St John’s Church, Low Fell, NE95RD
📆 Wednesdays & Fridays, 5-6pm
📌 Gateshead International Stadium, NE10 0EF
All ages welcome, children and adults. Goju-Kai Karate classes taught by Sensei Blane Stamps, 2nd Dan Black belt. Club affiliated to the IKGA, EKF and WKF.
👉 £5 per class (first lesson free, and free Gi on joining club!).
For more info, visit @tyneandweargojukai
4+ years
From 11th Sep 2023
Relaxed fun Yoga sessions for children and parents to practice yoga and mindfulness, with stretches to music, song and rhyme with sensory props, moving on to a mixture of yoga, dance and gymnastic elements. Baby Developmental Massage classes to bond, connect, soothe and relax, using easy massage sequences to aid in the relief of common ailments such as sleeplessness, colic, constipation and digestion.
👉 From £6.75 per session, booked termly (trial classes also available).
For more info, visit @kalmalifeGheadwest
Massage: 6 weeks-6 months. Yoga: 6 weeks-crawling | crawling-3 years | 3-8 years
From 11th Sep 2023
Award-winning, multi-sensory and fun music classes for babies and toddlers, to enhance the development of your little one through music. Rhythm Time is the longest established provider of multi-sensory, fun and educational music classes for babies and toddlers. We are passionate about music and the amazing developmental benefits it has on young children.
👉 From £19.10 per month.
For more info, visit @RhythmTimeNewcastleTyneandWear
Babies (0 – 12 months) | Toddlers (approx 12 months – 3.5 years) | Family Class (0-3.5 years)
📆 Mondays, 9.30am (Studio Mamma)
📆 Tuesdays, 7am / 10.15am / 11am (Mamma GT)
📆 Wednesdays, 9.30am (Buggy Mums)
📆 Thursdays, 7am / 10.15am / 11am (Mamma GT)
📌 Poise Performance Studio, Burnopfield
Autumn term from 19th Sep 2022
Exercise with your little ones, including walking, running and resistance exercises focussing on building strength and posture slowly after pregnancy. Also suitable during pregnancy from the 2nd trimester.
👉 £10 per session (discounts for block booking/membership).
For more info, visit @eljfitness
Suitable from approx 6 weeks postpartum when signed off by GP
Rhymetime
📆 Mondays, 10am @Pelaw Library
📆 Tuesdays, 10am & 11am @Birtley Library
📆 Tuesdays, 2pm @Blaydon Library
📆 Wednesdays, 9.30am @Wrekenton Hub
📆 Fridays, 9.30am & 11am @Central Library*
📆 Fridays, 10.30am @Leam Lane Library
Storytime
📆 Wednesdays, 9.30am @Blaydon Library
📆 Wednesdays, 10.30am @Leam Lane Library*
📆 Wednesdays, 10.30am @Central Library
📆 Fridays, 10am @Pelaw Library*
📆 Fridays, 10.30am @Birtley Library*
From Sep 2023
Rhymetime sessions with songs, rhymes, rhythm and movement, and Storytime sessions with stories and activities for little ones and their grown ups.
👉 Free 30 min sessions. Places are limited, telephone booking recommended for sessions with ‘*’.
For more info, visit @gatesheadlibraries (or pick up a Gateshead Live brochure from your local library)
Suitable for under 5s
📅 Wednesdays, 1-2pm
📌 Whinnies Community Garden, Sunniside, NE16 5LG
Autumn term from 4th Sep 2023
An outdoor pre-school nature and craft group, with nature inspired arts and crafts to inspire and encourage children to be creative. The perfect eco conscious setting for your little one to connect with nature. Older siblings are welcome to join in during the school holidays.
👉 £4.50 per session. For more info, visit @forgetmenotartx
