Resources for parents & carers
Health and wellbeing
- Guidance to exclusion periods at nursery settings
- Making the most of family life: Parenting tips, guidance for navigating tricky moments and behaviours
- Immunisations up to 13 months of age
- Immunisations 2 to 5 years of age
- We’re going on a germ hunt! A game to play with pre-schoolers at home
- Help your child to stay healthy with good hand washing
- Southampton Directory | Family Support and Parenting
Starting school
Applications for school places: Broadly speaking, the Online Portals for applications open in September the year before entry, close in January and school places are announced in April the same year of school entry. Please see the Admission Team’s pages listed below for the most up to date and detailed information.
Learning and development
- Playing to learn: A document covering the importance of play based learning in the Early Years and far beyond
- Support for children learning English as an additional language: British Council
- Crickweb, free online educational resources
- Early Learning HQ, free online educational resources
- Fine motor activities (it is much more than holding a pencil!)
- Food a fact of life: Recipes for pre-schoolers to follow
- PhonicsPlay, for children showing an interest in letter sounds
- How to articulate the phonemes, for parents of children showing an interest in letter sounds
- Oxford Owl, guidance about the teaching of phonics and reading and free Oxford Reading Tree e-books for families
- CBeebies: Much more than TV programmes
- Playdough recipes
