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Thank you Father Christmas & Godstone Farm

… For all our presents.  Fifty Four Panda children and their parents all visited Godstone Farm on the 15 December for a great day out. We looked at the animals around the farm, played in the soft play, had a picnic lunch together and of course, visited Father Christmas.  In fact it wasn’t just Father…

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Great Rhymers – Make Great Readers

We are supporting the BookTrust’s Rhyming Challenge to encourage children to learn nursery rhymes.  We know great rhymers make great readers. Before children learn to read and write they learn to talk and listen, and it’s so important to give them lots of opportunity to practise these skills. Learning rhymes helps to lay the foundation…

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Thanks to iCAN for a great course

Jenny Nicholls our Panda Supervisor recently attended Early Talk – Enhancing Communication and Language Training run by iCAN.  The course gave her the tools to support parents and carers with children’s language, communication and speech difficulties. We plan to run a coffee morning for parents in the new year around this subject and hope to work…

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Why choose childcare for your 2 year old?

Why choose childcare for a two year old? Because by learning through play they can grow in confidence and improve their social, communication and language skills as well as their physical development. “He’s developed a lot more words”. “Her speech has improved vastly”. “She’s become more confident and happy”. “It’s improved her sharing”. These are a…

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Meeting the Grandparents

In line with the sound g we invited all children to bring in pictures of their Grandparents and to tell us and their friends all about them. It was great to see so many children, very proud to stand up and tell us about their Nanny, Grandad’s, Grumps, Grandmas……

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