What is PEEP?
| The charity PEEP – Parents Early Education Partnership – was set up in 1995 to work with parents and carers to enhance their children’s learning and development from birth, improving their life chances. | ||
| The evidence-based Learning Together programme supports all parents to create the best start for their children by making the most of everyday learning opportunities – listening, talking, playing, singing and sharing stories and books. Spending time with their parents and carers in these ways helps children become confident communicators and active learners.PEEP is about valuing and building on what parents already do: – sharing ideas from parents, practitioners, the PEEP programme and wider research; – understanding why particular activities help children’s later development. For instance, one of the main predictors of how well children will get on at school is the number of words they hear in their first two years of life – so talking and sharing books, stories and songs from birth help enormously. And playing with sand or playdough is fun but it also helps develop children’s finger control, which makes it easier to write with a pencil later on. Understanding why something is beneficial makes it likely that people will fit it in more often. The PEEPS group in Law Nursery is running for 4 weeks, week are now on week 4. The parents have a chat with Linda, while the nursery children have snack. Next parents and children take part in a planned activity together e.g making a placemat, puppet, etc. Then each child has a diary to record their time at the PEEPS group. This is done through dissussions and photographs. We finish off the session with stories and songs. At the end of each session parents and children are given a follow up activity to do at home together.
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Here is a link to examples of activities covered in a PEEPS group. Cut and paste the link into your internet browser.
http://www.peep.org.uk/standard.asp?id=576&cachefixer=cf82422750519435 |
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