Jo Cooper, Author at Lewisham Children & Family Centre

Family Time Tips – a round up of free children’s activities to try

The Early Years Alliance Family Time Tips offer fun, practical tips and advice to promote children’s learning and development. Activities have been chosen to ensure they positively support your child as they learn through play. The categories include: Healthy Recipes Getting Creative with Nature Painting and Drawing Wellbeing Simply browse the categories on their website and […]

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Praise helps children to feel good

Latest News / Jo Cooper

Hello, I’m Melissa from the Early Years Alliance Parenting Team. The team run parenting groups in many of the children’s centres and schools across Lewisham borough. One of the programmes we offer is the Incredible Years Programme. The Incredible Years is a well-researched evidence-based programme that is used worldwide. It supports parents in using positive

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Routines

Latest News / Jo Cooper

Routines Week This week we are looking at routines. As Covid 19 restrictions change again our current routines will need to adapt, however, it is still important for us all to keep to some sort of daily and family routine. Managing the morning rush For many parents the morning routine and getting children ready for school can be

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The Impact of our Domestic Abuse Recovery Support

Domestic Abuse, Latest News / Jo Cooper

We would like to share a short video with you that illustrates the impact that our domestic abuse recovery support – the Children Overcoming Domestic Abuse (CODA) Programme – has had on children throughout this challenging year. Using the voices of the children, this powerful video encapsulates the child’s lived experience and what they have gained as a

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male teacher reading to class of children

Back to School – Again

Latest News / Jo Cooper

Hello all our families and friends, I’m Donna an Early Years Practitioner and Henry Facilitator. I run Stay & Play sessions and other parent and child sessions at our Children and Family Centres. The closure of schools has been difficult for many children and their families. Parents have found themselves wearing the hat of parent

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Parenting through COVID

Latest News / Jo Cooper

Parenting during COVID-19 has brought so many challenges for us all over the last year, whether we are first time parents or have several children. There is certainly no ‘typical’ family or right way to do it, we’re all struggling through and trying to make things work in the best way we can. One thing

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Parents Connect Events

Latest News / Jo Cooper

The Early Years Alliance is pleased to announce the next dates for our popular Parent Connect events. They are an opportunity to connect with other parents and carers, learn about topics relevant to families, and share ideas in how to support each other. Places are limited. Book now to avoid disappointment! Please note that by

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All about Animals

Latest News / Jo Cooper

Children learn all the time and using a theme they enjoy is a useful way to engage and inspire them, so what will my child learn when learning about animals? We have put together information using ‘Tiny Tim’ as an example – Activity Sheets, videos and words to the song referred to in this post

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What is Tummy Time?

Latest News / Jo Cooper

Hello, my name is Anne Coppendale I am Early Year’s Practitioner and I thought it would be nice to keep in touch with you all sharing with you what Tummy Time is, why its important for your baby and show some activities you can do with your baby. Why does my baby need to do Tummy

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Emotional Regulation & The Brain

Latest News / Jo Cooper

Emotional Regulation & The Brain As a parent I know only too well how hard and stressful it is when your child is having a tantrum or meltdown. As parents we try to reason with our child or continue to say no to their demands when they are showing unwanted behaviour. We expect them to

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“My child and I have really enjoyed coming to Little Explorers. It has helped my child to get used to see other babies and have interaction with them, which has been really important for him after the pandemic.”

“It's absolutely fab to be able to have access to all of the Domestic Abuse services in one place and to just click on a link to get to the website.”

“The Children Centre is our favourite place to come, we have been coming here since my child was 6 months old, he is now 4 years old and is still enjoying! Well done staff”

“I have just found the ‘taking care of ourselves’ section, which is massively important for us all, especially compassion fatigue.”

“The help and support that my family support worker gave me was above and beyond, she was always there to listen to me and make me feel like I was good enough and I was being heard.”

“The Outreach Team have such outgoing, friendly and fun personalities and made each Outdoor Learning session a great experience.”

“The Explorers session has helped my child a lot with his communication and his development. It’s really been impactful for him; we are really grateful to have this opportunity to attend the session and meet other parents as well.”

“The sessions help my daughter with speaking English, as well as helping her to listen and follow directions. I am very happy, my baby is very happy, and I feel relief when I come.”

“The Children Centre is very beneficial for my child, she has developed lots of skills e.g., sharing toys and naming colours. Also, the staff are very friendly and helpful.”

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