As nurseries across the country continue to close at an alarming rate, an independent initiative has been launched to help those remaining manage the logistics of putting together fun and engaging sessions with pre-school pupils in addition allowing those who sign up to the initiative the opportunity to apply for a grant of up to £20,000.
Designed to encourage pre-schoolers to use their imaginations, solve and develop their sense of physical adventure, the free pack contains six activity session plans including an ?at home? element, a practitioner?s guide and a number of other teaching aides.
Help Dora Help, developed by Nick Jr. and supported by The Princes Foundation for Children and Arts is an educational, pro-social and charitable programme which has already seen a phenomenal 4,000+ registrations from nurseries and pre-school learning centres throughout the UK. However that equates to just over 18% of those eligible signing up, leaving literally thousands as yet unsigned.
Pre-schools and nurseries in the UK work to a specific curriculum from the DoE, the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS), designed to expand communication and language, problem solving, reasoning and numeracy, knowledge and understanding of the world in addition to physical, personal and creative development. HDH supports and enforces all of these elements.
To find out how your nursery or pre-school can get involved we are joined by Jacqueline Harding, education expert alongside Helena Dowling, Nick Jr. presenter by listening to the podcast below.
