Useful Links
Buckinghamshire Family Information Service has a wealth of information to support families ranging from advice about Childcare and Early Years, SEND support, School Admissions and a great Things To Do section with information about activities for babies and toddlers, holiday activities and clubs and groups:
https://familyinfo.buckinghamshire.gov.uk/
ERIC is an awesome site for supporting your child with toilet training. ERIC is the national charity dedicated to improving children’s bowel and bladder health. Their mission is to reduce the impact of continence problems on children and their families with sections on Potty Training, Toilet Anxiety and School Toilets amongst others:
https://eric.org.uk/
NHS Potty Training has guidance and advice to support children who are potty training
https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/baby/babys-development/potty-training-and-bedwetting/how-to-potty-train/
Tiny Happy People has simple ideas and activities to help you develop your child’s communication skills.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/tiny-happy-people
Muddy Faces has a range of health and wellbeing activities and resources that can be completed outdoors.
https://muddyfaces.co.uk/outdoor-hub
Cosmic Yoga for fun interactive stories told through the means of yoga.
https://cosmickids.com/
Bucks SEND Local Offer
https://familyinfo.buckinghamshire.gov.uk/send/
Bucks Speech and Language Therapy Services
https://www.buckshealthcare.nhs.uk/cyp/speech-and-language-therapy/
Bucks Library Service
https://www.buckinghamshire.gov.uk/libraries/
Bucks Health Visitors Team from pregnancy to school readiness
https://www.buckshealthcare.nhs.uk/cyp/pre-school-assessment-and-development__trashed/health-visiting/
Words for Life - Supports Chat, Play, Read with ideas, tips and activities from birth to 5
https://wordsforlife.org.uk/
Top Tips for Early Language Development Webinar Links
This webinar is for parents/carers and early years practitioners who want to learn more about the best ways to support early language skills in young children. The child/children you support will be communicating using a combination of sounds and gestures.
The webinar goes through how to support children’s early language development using ten simple strategies you can practise at home or where care is provided.
It has been broken down into five parts of 10-15 minutes each to make it easier to watch. We recommend you watch all five parts in order if watching for the first time, but you could dip in to relevant parts if you wanted a refresher.
Here are the links:
Part 1 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeaGDRnLLYU
Part 2 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcTgunNYrrM
Part 3 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vqvz-wObh_w
Part 4 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nk1aaMj0DCI
Part 5 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgfm4ssodQQ