Stay and Plays
Stay and Plays are a fun and stimulating environment where children and their parents can come along, have fun, and engage in developmentally appropriate activities that promote children’s personal, social, and emotional skills. These sessions help children learn to play with others, build communication skills, become more confident and independent, share activities and experiences, enjoy singing rhymes, share books and make friendships.
We deliver targeted Stay and Plays according to the needs of the community we work with. Health promotion through these sessions includes topics such as healthy eating, oral health, home safety and weaning. Universal Stay and Plays are also available through Birmingham Forward Steps.
School Readiness
Supports families in recognising the importance of their role in ensuring children are life ready. Aimed at helping children build school readiness. (For families with children aged 18 months to 3½ years.)
Startwell
Helps families learn about key characters and messages from the Startwell campaign and how to integrate these into their daily routines.
Startwell programme in helping children to eat healthy and be physically active in their Early Years is very important for their health. These messages are NHS approved programmes based around 8 key characters and their messages.
Butterfly
Butterfly is a SEND stay and Play to support parents with children in the Early Years (from birth to 5 years old) with identified or emerging additional needs.
Sessions will welcome a maximum of 8/10 families per session to enable appropriate targeted support. The sessions will be play based, allowing the staff to support through observations and discussions with the parents/carers.
There will be strategies to support development through play opportunities for the staff to model sessions which will be structured as a ‘sensory stay and play’.
Speech and Language
First Words Together
A 5-week programme aimed at 0–2-year-olds that focuses on sharing songs, rhymes, stories, sensory play, and daily routines to promote language development.
Toddler Talk
An 8-week targeted intervention for children aged 18 months to 3 years with speech and language concerns. It offers fun activities and strategies for parents/carers to support their children’s communication development.
Home Learning
REAL (Raising Early Achievement in Literacy)
A home-learning-based programme designed to raise early achievements in literacy by supporting parents to create a rich home learning environment.
Early Education Entitlement for 9months to 4-year-olds
There is up to 30 hours for eligible working families in England with a child from 9 months old up to school age.
Families receiving some additional forms of support will receive up to 15 hours of free childcare for 2 years olds
For all families in England, children aged 3 to 4 years will receive up to 15 hours of free childcare.
Visit the website for more information:
https://www.childcarechoices.gov.uk
Check if your 2-year-old is entitled for early educational funding for a free nursery place. Up to 15 hours free childcare for two year olds in Birmingham.
