The Early Years Alliance has launched two new free digital home-learning support services for families with young children.
They say:
"Family Time Tips is a free digital service which provides daily fun, practical tips, advice and activity ideas to promote children’s learning and development directly to parents’ mobiles via WhatsApp.
Daily topics include language and learning through play activities, health and wellbeing tips plus nutritional advice for the whole family, with all resources carefully chosen to positively support children’s development.
Parents receive one message a day via a WhatsApp broadcast message and can opt-out of the service at any point. There is no advertising and parents’ phone numbers won’t be shared with anyone else signed up to the project.
More information is available at: www.eyalliance.org.uk/familytimetips
Let’s Learn Together @ Home is a free six-week online programme delivered via the Zoom platform, which aims to bring families together through fun learning and play activities, seamlessly extending children’s learning into the home.
There are two versions of the programme available: one for children aged two and under, and another for children aged three to five.
Each of the six weekly one-hour session is led and delivered by an Alliance professional and aims to support parents and carers to better understand how their child likes to learn and the opportunities for learning at home.
The sessions include 'Music theme with the kitchen band’, looking at how to encourage home-based musical learning through everyday activities; ‘Creating awe and wonder through science’, exploring how day-to-day activities can help encourage scientific learning the development of problem-solving skills; and ‘No garden gardening’, focusing on how families can use everyday gardening activities to create learning opportunities, including advice and tips for parents and carers without access to an outdoor space.
More information is available at www.eyalliance.org.uk/lets-learn-together-home."