Thank you to all the parents who came along to our ‘Families Connect’ coffee morning launch and for those of you who signed up for this programme. We look forward to seeing you all on Thursday 28th September for our first workshop. Raffle ticket winner to be announced tomorrow!
We still have spaces available on our eight-week programme which is designed to support children and their families to learn together and have fun through:
- Exploring stories
- Playing with numbers
- Understanding feelings
Through a series of creative activities, techniques and games that parents and children can participate in together, the workshops will focus on three key area; language development, numeracy & maths and social & emotional development.
Activities will include:
- Snack & Starter
- Talk Topic
- Reflection Time
- The Science Bit (helping parents to understand how a particular topic will support a child’s learning)
- Doing it Together (gives parents simple take away activities to try with their children at home.
We know that the home learning environment can have a huge impact on a child’s learning. As well as being the place that provides for the basic needs of a child, an effective home learning environment will encourage strong parent and child relationships that help build self-esteem and security and help every child to reach their full potential.
Building a home learning environment – and crucially, increasing parents’ skills and confidence to support their child’s learning, can have a huge impact on a child’s future.
These informal workshops will run for P2 parents on Thursday afternoons for 8 weeks from 2.00pm – 4.00pm and will focus on getting parents to reflect on what they already do to support their children’s learning, and inviting them to explore new activities, games and approaches that might enhance this.
We are really excited about starting our Families Connect workshops and can’t wait to see it rolled out in Murrayfield over the next year. We look forward to working with as many of you as possible.
Remember there is still time to contact the school to sign up for this exciting opportunity!
A little clip should you wish to hear a little more about this initiative:
Families Connect Film: https://player.vimeo.com/video/224672230
