So your little one has successfully completed their first year in school - and if you're anything like us, you can't believe where that year has gone! Your little cherub is now reading and writing and doing all sorts of amazing things but what will happen in year one? How will the curriculum differ from reception to year one, what on earth is the phonics sreening test and how can you, as parents, continue to support your childs development. All of this is an awful lot easier if you have an idea of what the year one curriculum actually entails hey. If you know what's expected at the end of the year you can help to keep your child on track and making good progress over the summer holidays. After all, we all know how quickly children forget what they've been taught.
Here's where Beautiful New Beginnings comes in... my names Carolyn and I'm a qualified Early Years Teacher with over 10 years experience and have recently completed the SENDCO qualification at Masters Level to be able to advise, help and support children who have additional needs and their parents. My friend Rachel is a current reception teacher and play therapist with attachment parenting qualifications and a string of other qualifications too! Our course is going to give you all of the information you'll need to help your child at home over the summer to prepare for returning to school and the challenges in the year one curriculum. We will go through the documents used in school so you will leave with a good understanding of the simple games you can play with your children whilst out and about over the summer to help keep them engaged and helping to prevent the 'summer dip.' We will also look at examples of past phonics screening tests so that you know what to expect and are better prepared to help your little one.
Our aim at Beautiful New Beginnings is to support parents at each stage of their child's development so there'll be plenty of time for questions and answers too. We believe learning should be fun. Many of our games and activities can be done whilst you're out and about, the best learning takes place when your child doesn't know its happening! You'll leave our course with a booklet of ideas, games and activities as well as a parents guide to the Year One Expectations so you know what you're aiming for as the year progresses.
So, if you'd like to know more about the ways your children will learn in school, what your children will learn in school and how best to help them get off to a flying start, this course is for you. This course is just for parents but we will be running a range of courses over the next few weeks which your children can attend too so keep an eye out for our timetable of summer events on our facebook page - Beautiful New Beginnings.
Cant wait to meet you all soon!
Carolyn