We are holding a coffee morning on Monday 11^th December at 9.30am in the Schoolhouse. Do come along to find out more about the programme, including running days and dates.

Following the successful 'Family Links Nurturing Programme' parenting course in the Autumn term, we are pleased to be able to offer this free parenting course again for the Spring term. The 'Family Links Nurturing Programme' focuses on supporting parents across a wide range of parenting challenges.

The aims of the Nurturing Programme are to:

• Give children and parents an emotionally healthy springboard for their lives and their learning.
• Promote emotional literacy and emotional health.
• Enhance self-esteem, self-awareness, and empathy.
• Provide effective strategies to encourage co-operation, responsible behaviour and manage challenging behaviour in children.
• Did you know?
• ‘Children flourish when what they can do matches our expectations of what they ‘should’ be able to do’ (appropriate expectations)
• ‘Understanding how our own childhood experience can affect us as adults’ (Self-awareness)
• ‘Helping children to manage their behaviour with clear boundaries, praise, rewards, fair penalties etc’. makes life more enjoyable for parents and children. (Positive Discipline)
• ‘Children who are treated with empathy and respect will learn to be empathic and respectful towards other people’ (Empathy)

The programme will start on Monday 15^th January 2024 and will run for ten weeks on the ground floor of the schoolhouse. The sessions will run on Mondays at 9.30am to 12pm except for session 'nine' which will run on Friday 22nd March.

The programme will be run by Marsha Coppin-Payne and Tracy Cherry

For more information on the Nurturing Programme please visit https://www.familylinks.org.uk/parent-zone