{"id":529,"date":"2025-09-08T08:14:38","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T08:14:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/vanel\/?p=529"},"modified":"2025-09-04T08:20:18","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T08:20:18","slug":"summer-story-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/vanel\/2025\/09\/summer-story-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer Story time"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Over the summer holidays VANEL supported the delivery of \u2018story time\u2019 sessions each week for six weeks in two Family Hubs &#8211; Reynolds in Cleethorpes and West Marsh in Grimsby.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our colleague Fumiko Czarnecki delivered all of the sessions. In each session the children listen to a story; do a craft or activity related to the book; sing a song (often with percussion instruments) and play a game. Whichever book is read, copies were then funded to be handed to the children when they attend the next session.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Overall 12 sessions with 12 different books reached 64 small children aged 2-4 (accompanied by their adults).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A simple programme which arose from our Little Green Influencers connection with each of the Family Hubs and was well received by all the attending children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"234\" src=\"https:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/vanel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Screenshot-2025-09-04-at-09.18.18-1024x234.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-530\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/vanel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Screenshot-2025-09-04-at-09.18.18-1024x234.png 1024w, https:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/vanel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Screenshot-2025-09-04-at-09.18.18-300x68.png 300w, https:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/vanel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Screenshot-2025-09-04-at-09.18.18-768x175.png 768w, https:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/vanel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Screenshot-2025-09-04-at-09.18.18-1536x350.png 1536w, https:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/vanel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Screenshot-2025-09-04-at-09.18.18-2048x467.png 2048w, https:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/vanel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Screenshot-2025-09-04-at-09.18.18-1200x274.png 1200w, https:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/vanel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Screenshot-2025-09-04-at-09.18.18-1980x452.png 1980w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns alignwide is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"270\" height=\"440\" src=\"https:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/vanel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Picture-x.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-531\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/vanel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Picture-x.png 270w, https:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/vanel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Picture-x-184x300.png 184w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 270px) 100vw, 270px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"270\" height=\"445\" src=\"https:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/vanel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Picture-Y.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-532\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/vanel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Picture-Y.png 270w, https:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/vanel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Picture-Y-182x300.png 182w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 270px) 100vw, 270px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looking back on our summer of story time sessions delivered in two Family Hubs<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-our-events","category-vanelnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/vanel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/vanel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/vanel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/vanel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/vanel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=529"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/vanel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":533,"href":"https:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/vanel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529\/revisions\/533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/vanel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/vanel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/vanel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}