Early Years Communication Week
Engage with Chat: Explore with Play: Read Together
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Annual Communication Week campaign looks to start conversations about interaction with young children
For the sixth year Buckinghamshire Council’s Early Years Service will be launching a weeklong campaign to highlight the importance of speech, language and communication on the development of children in their youngest years.
Communication Week, will take place from Monday 3rd March to Friday 7th March 2025, and will host various events across the county to promote the values of ‘Engage with Chat: Explore with Play: Read together’ with young children and babies.
3rd March 10.30am
The Bear and the Piano – David Litchfield 10th Anniversary of this award winning book.
Join David and a pianist for a live streamed reading
One day, a young bear stumbles upon something he has never seen before in the forest. As time passes, he teaches himself how to play the strange instrument, and eventually the beautiful sounds are heard by a father and son who are picnicking in the woods. The bear goes with them on an incredible journey to New York, where his piano playing makes him a huge star. He has fame, fortune and all the music in the world, but he misses the friends and family he has left behind. A moving tale of exploration and belonging from best-selling and critically acclaimed author David Litchfield.
4th March 2024 19.00-20.30pm
Fully funded training event
Early Years and Childcare Training | Early Years
10 Strategies for Success Training to be held on Tuesday 4 March 2025 at 19.00 – 20:30 via MS Teams. This course is now available to book from The Training Hub until the closing date 25 February 2025.
As part of our promotion of Communication week the Early Years team is pleased to offer this fully funded session. As Early Years practitioners we know the importance of developing early communication skills and the necessity to intervene early if children’s early communication skills are delayed. This session reminds practitioners of 10 successful strategies to support early communication and gives them ideas to share with parents to encourage collaborative working to develop children’s communication.
The course will:
- highlight the importance of early communication skills
- give 10 practical strategies to support children’s early communication
- encourage practitioners to share these strategies with other practitioners and parents to foster a collaborative approach.
Strategies will include creating a communication friendly environment/using the child’s interests/creating opportunities for communication
6th March 10.30am
Are You a Hungry Monster? Gui Karsten.
Is a hilarious interactive picture book that will have readers giggling and laughing along, as monster creates his legendary snack recipe!
Are you feeling hungry? Do you like eating raggedy old socks and lots of earwax? No? So you’re not a hungry monster! Wait... you ARE hungry? But you like pasta, cookies, AND fruit? GROSS! Can you resist the ‘delicious’ feast monster has made for you?
Children will love playing along with the book as this lovable monster invites them to share his favourite snacks.
From talented Guilherme Karsten, the creator of the popular Are You a Monster? (winner of the BookTrust Storytime Prize 2024)
Join in with this stupendously silly story and play their monstrous part, and by the end all little monsters will be giggling at the explosive end!
Early Years Communication Week - Live author readings streamed via Zoom flyer
To access the live Zoom events please follow the following guidance
Here is a round up of the Early Years Communication week 2024 campaign.
