Happy World Book Day!

Posted: 28th February 2023

It’s that time of year again! Time to dust off the ‘Harry Potter’ glasses or even don a ‘Highway Rat’ hat or perhaps even slip into your ‘Where’s Wally?’ pullover. Yes, it’s World Book Day on Thursday 2nd March!

Changing Lives

World Book Day has become one of the signature events of the year for young children and their families. And with its major emphasis on child development and learning, it also holds a special place in the hearts of the Gymboree Play & Music family. As well as the fun of dressing up as their favourite fictional characters, each child can take advantage of a £1 book token. The tokens are available from all book sellers and retailers.

World Book Day is about changing lives through a love of books and shared reading. Organisers behind World Book Day say that reading for pleasure is one of the most important ways to improve a child’s life chances. Yet, reading for pleasure is in decline and nearly 400,000 little ones in the UK don’t have books at home. Have a look at World Book Day’s Share a Story Corner for some tips on reading together. And how many of these books have you and your little ones read?

School readiness

Books and fictional storytelling are part of the Gymboree Play & Music classes experience. In our Pre-schooler (22 months to 5 years) classes, storytime is a key part of our Family Play, Explorers Plus, and Pre-School Steps classes for little ones. There, our expert teachers will help to nurture them to school readiness by reading books.

Having fun

And of course, we can’t wait to see what fantastic costumes babies, toddlers and pre-schoolers wear to our classes on 3rd March. Dressing up is not compulsory, but anyone who wishes to dress up as a character from their favourite book is very welcome. We can enjoy the fun and creativity of World Book Day together. Then, we can all live happily ever after!

Find out more about World Book Day by visiting https://www.worldbookday.com/

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Reviews

Both of my children (3.5 years and 11 months) go to Gymboree Play & Music and love it. My toddler goes to their drop-off Lego class which she raves about. It's very creative, working not only on Lego skills but also painting, drawing etc. My infant son loves his Gymboree Play & Music Crawlers class - particularly loves crawling all over their props, through the tunnels, etc. Great way to get the infant crawling over obstacles! Gymboree Play & Music is part of our weekly schedule for both kids and we look forward to participating every week. Invaluable!

Natalia, Hampstead

Gymboree Play & Music was a lovely and positive experience for my son Leo. We started when he was 9 months and he is now 3 years old, I wish we had started sooner.
He loves the songs (which is part of our daily singing at home), the freedom to explore and he was happy there. He looks forward to class every week and once class is over he will tell everyone about Gymbo and what he did.
For me, I liked that it taught him how to get down safely from a height, how to learn to use his body, and touching on different topics every 2 weeks. It gave me confidence in other environments to trust that he has the ability that he learned from Gymboree Play & Music and to trust him.

Sheena, Sevenoaks

I’ve been taking both my newborn and toddler to Gymboree Play & Music for a couple of months now and both boys are really loving the classes and open gym sessions. It’s a great way to meet other mums, entertain toddlers at witching hour(!) and get ideas for sensory play with babies. Sophie and Cat are fantastic and have so much energy and loads of different ideas for the classes, plus make sure the activities it’s help children meet their development milestones as well. Highly recommend this if you’re thinking about joining!! Thanks so much Sophie, Cat and the wider team :-)

Pippa, Tunbridge Wells