FAST | St Nicholas Primary School

Preparations are well under way for our first FAST session of this term on Thursday 26th October at 3.30pm in the P5 classrooms.

If you have a child who attends pre-school year at Nursery, Primary 1 or Primary 2 then we would be delighted to see you along with the rest of your family at FAST. We welcome older and younger siblings, parents and grandparents to participate in our sessions.

Here are some quotes from the families who participated in January:

· I’ve realised since starting FAST that my daughter is more independent than I thought.

· My two children and I have really enjoyed FAST. It has also helped me by meeting other parents.

· It has become the highlight of my daughter’s week, when we pick her up from Nursery, “Fast Families” is the first thing she says.

· Our son has spoken a lot about FAST and enjoyed it very much. It has given him confidence.

· FAST has given me the chance to see how my son is in school. I now know he is confident and finds FAST very enjoyable.

· I now understand the importance of play at home. It has developed the quality of the interactions between my daughter and I.

· Through FAST we have developed our play, learned new words in English and made contact with new friends.

· My son loves the diversity of the activities. Drawing, singing and talking about emotions. He always asks, “Is it FAST today?” He can’t wait for the next FAST session.

· Our boys enjoy the kids time the most and my wife and I enjoy the parents time. We talk about everyday problems that we all encounter and learning how to cope with them has been very useful.

· The best thing about FAST has been developing new relationships. Having the opportunity to meet other parents and develop friendships. My son has met new friends who are not in his Nursery class and this will help when he starts P1. It has been great getting to know the FAST team too.

A lovely ‘family fun’ hamper worth £25 will be going home with two families on Thursday evening and we will be enjoying a delicious Italian meal from Gianninos ….all FREE OF CHARGE.

Please join us on Thursday for fun, food and FAST families. To book a place please contact Miss Morgan through the school office.

St Nicholas Primary have been given a wonderful opportunity to host FAST sessions at our school. The programme was developed by Middlesex University and is funded by Save the Children.

The FAST programme runs after school for 8 weeks. The weekly sessions are 2.5 hours long where a series of structured family activities take place including; communication, listening, turn taking, community building, meal sharing and relationship building. These are key techniques to help build stronger families.

Our programme will run every Tuesday from 3.30pm until 6pm, starting on Tuesday 17th January 2017 and our final session will be on Tuesday 14th March.

On this occasion we are offering the programme to children who are in their pre-school year at Nursery or in Primary 1. We have places for 20 families to participate.

The video link above will give you a flavour of how the programme works. Our FAST team members are also delivering a short presentation at the Nativity performances this week.

An information leaflet and invitation will be sent home soon to the pre-schoolers and Primary 1 pupils. We hope you can join us in the New Year.

An Invitation to you…

FAST Launch at St Nicholas Primary