Help at Home

Our termly overviews contain lots of information about the books we are reading, our rhyme of the week, our questions of the week and much more.  Please take a minute to look through this and use it as a talking point with your child.

It is very important for children at nursery age (and younger and older) to have a bedtime story, or to share an uninterrupted story time with a special adult, so please keep reading stories to your children. We will be posting tips and ideas on here as well. This is a good website to begin with:

https://literacytrust.org.uk/parents-and-families/

There is a lovely website called Tiny Happy People which contains some fantastic resources, videos, tips and advice on supporting your child at home.  My favourite videos are the ‘Boosting language development’ clips, which can be found using the following link.

BBC Tiny Happy People

Learning and singing Nursery rhymes is very beneficial for children.  Research has found that when a child knows 8 or more Nursery rhymes by heart at the age of 4, they are more likely to be better at reading and spelling by the age of 8!

Most importantly, have fun together!  Children learn best through play, so laugh, smile, talk and make memories together.