REDDAM EARLY LEARNING SCHOOL ST LEONARDS NEWSLETTER Principal’s Message
26th August 2022
By Mrs Simone Cooke
Dear parents, Across the school this week the children were invited to join in Book Week Celebrations, with the theme for 2022 being “Dreaming with Open Eyes”. It is important in this technological world in which we live that we remember the importance of exposing children to the joy of a good book and it is never too early to nurture a love of reading. Dressing up as our favourite book character or sharing our favourite stories with others allows our children to be introduced to new authors and illustrators and inspires a love of reading in our children. We are most excited that we will shortly have a new council library right next door to us ,in the recently constructed building next to Reddam, which will allow us to take our children for regular visits and story time and will be a lovely resource for all of our families in supporting our children on their reading journey. If you are not already doing so, I would encourage you to establish a regular nightly routine for reading. Not only is this beneficial in boosting brain development and fostering children’s enjoyment for reading , it also creates a special time for you both to relax and bond together after a busy day. By reading to your baby, toddler or preschooler you are fostering a love of books and reading which they can take with them throughout their lives. Teaching children from a young age how to hold and care for a book is also important as it sends important messages on the value you place on reading and models expectations on how a book is to be treated. From a young age, children can be taught how to turn pages, view illustrations and read along to favourite stories. Discourage tearing or damaging books and provide babies with hard bound or cloth books which can endure hard play. Repetition is extremely important when it comes to reading to children you may tire of reading the same book, but this repetition is important for children as it helps them to predict what will happen in the story and make associations between words and text. REDDAM EARLY LEARNING SCHOOL | ST LEONARDS NEWSLETTER
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