Hello I’m Donna one of the Early Years Practitioners at our Children and Family Centre’s and I would like to say to all our families and friends that we hope you are all staying safe, healthy and emotionally resilient during these uncertain and challenging times. Each week we have being looking at ways to stay […]
Our activity sheets are available for you to download below so you can access them again and again. Stay & Play Bubble Activity Bubble Recipe Bubble Song Sheet
Join GCDA on some Zoom sessions taking place each week so we can keep active and enjoy each other’s company whilst in lockdown. More information and Zoom links to join sessions are on http://beinspiredlewisham.org/ GCDA have Walk and Talk – enjoy our beautiful parks and some chat. A walk leader will be out in a park and
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Louise Michelle Bomber is a specialist therapist, teacher and published author working in the area of trauma recovery for children and adolescents. In this video she seeks to support those parenting as foster carers, adoptive parents or kinship carers during this extraordinary season. Louise will be posting videos every Wednesday at 10.30am on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OInJVfzvN9w
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Benefits Advice If you’ve been affected by coronavirus, you might be able to claim benefits or get more money on your current benefits. This might be because you: can’t work as you have coronavirus or you’re following guidance to stay home – this is called ‘self-isolating’ are earning less because you can’t go to work are
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With children at home over the coming weeks and the NHS overwhelmed, many families are likely to be worried about their child having a serious accident (rightly so when you think 90% of accidents to under 5’s happen at home!). There is so much on social media, it can be really hard to know where to focus.
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We’re in complicated and uncertain times and families face many challenges and uncertainty. With this in mind, we have put together some links to information from charities and organisations to support you with any parenting issues you might be experiencing or if your child’s display any behaviour you are finding challenging at this time. You can also contact Lewisham Children and Family Centres for support by filling out the online enquiry form on the website homepage. COVID-19
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Dr Dawn Bradley has put together this ACTIVITY MENU pdf document to help families structure their time while children are at home. The menu is an aid to help you think about how you could structure your time, there is no right or wrong and you can add your own ideas and have fun trying new
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ThinkUKnow have created a dedicated webpage and activities packs to support parents keep children safe online during COVID-19 and the closure of schools. Each fortnight, they will be releasing new home activity packs with simple 15 minute activities you can do with your child to support their online safety at a time when they will
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Message from Lewisham Maternity Services: “We have had to suspend our community breastfeeding antenatal classes until further notice. We are committed to ensuring that you still get the information that will help you make informed decisions and get the support you need to feed your babies. We have put together a written antenatal infant feeding
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