This week I took my grandchildren to a session on space at Goldthorpe Library. (Fantastic free workshop!) They learnt to make a rocket (using paper, a straw and pipette) and made their own colourful 'universe' in a glass jar with coloured water and cotton wool. Their...

Dearne Churches Together held their February family fun day this week, looking at the Parable of the Good Samaritan and the general theme of kindness and loving people regardless of who they are. It was fantastic to see 103 people in the building and to see the...

Piaget's theory of object permanence describes a child's ability to recognise that objects continue to exist even when they are not in sight. Babies do not initially understand that what they cannot see still exists: for them, seeing really is believing, and therefore...