This pack can be used to support parental involvement in nurturing approaches within the Early Level of Curriculum for Excellence. If you are not working within a nurture corner, nurture group or nurture base you may wish to select the activities using the Health and Wellbeing learning outcomes. During 2012, Glasgow successfully extended a development of school nurture groups, called, ‘nurture corners’ to 20 of our early years establishments across the city. An evaluation of the impact of this initiative has shown some very impressive outcomes for the young people involved.
Children were better able to cope on reintegration into the nursery as a whole, their behaviour and interaction skills improved and parents and carers noted positive changes in the home setting.
The full involvement of parents in nurture support, at all levels, contributes to its success. Nursery staff are very skilled at working with a range of different partners, including parents, to develop nurturing approaches for all children.
Nurture corners operating in early years establishments can form one strand of approaches to early intervention and can offer targeted opportunities for staff to support inclusion, especially for those few children for whom a busy playroom is a challenging and stressful environment.
This pack of parent support materials has been specifically developed by a group of early years practitioners to further support the work being carried out in our early years corners.
The pack provides simple, fun and exciting activities for parents, carers and children to engage with and allows them to continue a nurturing approach in the home setting.
Please click on the links below to access the resources from this pack;
User Guide
Resource list for activities
Activity 1
Activity 2
Activity 2.1
Activity 3
Activity 3.1
Activity 4
Activity 4.1
Activity 5
Activity 6
Activity 7
Activity 8
Activity 9
Activity 9.1
Activity 9.2
Activity 10
Activity 10.1
Activity 12
Activity 13
Activity 14
Activity 15
Activity 16
Activity 16.1
Activity 18
Activity 19
Activity 19.1
Activity 20
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