Designed to encourage baby and toddler development through sensory exploration, play and social interaction! My sessions offer a relaxed, friendly space for parents to connect while mini’s explore and learn.
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Sensory: 0-6 months
In this sensory class, the focus is to stimulate baby’s senses for overall development. Core skills include visual tracking, auditory discrimination, tactile exploration, motor coordination, and social interaction.
Sensory: 6-12 months
In this class, baby is older and likely to be more on the move. The focus is to encourage baby’s senses for overall development. Core skills include social interaction, cognitive stimulation, gross motor control, and curiosity building.
Babble and Bond:
1-2 years class
In this class, the focus is to build upon those early communication skills, which are key to our children’s development.
Communication and language at this age focuses on the child’s ability to:
- move their body to sounds they enjoy;
- maintain focus for short periods on an activity;
- understand other’s body language;
- understand simple questions;
- understanding single words in context;
- use single words;
- imitate words and sounds;
- and use gestures to help with their communication.
This class creates an inviting and sensory-based atmosphere, which supports your mini to participate in the class activities using their voice and bodies. There will be a range of teacher-led and independent activities, allowing you and your mini’s to explore and learn together.
This class will use Makaton signs and symbols to aid language and communication learning, supported by research showing their positive impact on speech and language skill development.
Babble and Build: Early Phonics
2-4 years class
In this class, the focus is on helping children to learn good listening and early speaking skills. This provides the perfect foundations for your mini’s phonics learning.
This class enables you to be part of your mini’s language development in a fun, engaging and safe environment!
Using the early learning goals, these sessions provide children with activities that encourage listening to and using those initial sounds. You and your mini can work with others building those social interactions whilst learning the foundations of phonics.
What is level 1 phonics?
Level 1 is a foundational stage of phonics, which is divided into 7 aspects: environmental sounds, instrumental sounds, body percussion, rhythm and rhyme, alliteration, voice sounds and oral blending and segmenting.
Babble & Build: Early Phonics aims to use these aspects to develop early communication skills, such as good listening and early speaking skills, and build up their awareness of the different sounds around them.
These skills will provide the foundation for your children’s phonics learning, because they’ll need to be able to recognise individual sounds and recite them in order to eventually learn to segment, blend and spell different words. So even though children won’t be learning sounds or the letters and groups of letters used to represent them, this stage is still a very important one!
This class will use Makaton signs and symbols to aid language and communication learning, supported by research showing their positive impact on speech and language skill development.
Paediatric First Aid for You
I am a fully qualified first aid trainer, enabling me to teach others the amazing skill of emergency first aid in adults, children and babies.
This 2-hour workshop focuses on paediatric first aid, aiming to arm new and expectant parents, as well as grandparents or carers, the ability and confidence to be able to deal with first aid emergencies should they ever arise.
This practical course teaches a range of first aid techniques suitable for newborns through to primary school aged children.
This course runs on the first weekend of every month.
What’s covered?
Learning the basics in life support for babies and children (and adults too), this workshop covers CPR, the use of AEDs, choking and more, including the awareness of meningitis and sepsis!
Sensory Classes & First Aid Leicestershire | Mini & Me 