Friday 15 February 2008
All practitioners who attended a PEAL training
event in the first year of delivery (06-07) have recently been
invited to apply for funding to develop a project to enhance
parental confidence and involvement in children’s development and
learning.
The response was very positive, with many
excellent applications. We had some difficult decisions to
make, but 25 children’s centres have now been selected and will
receive funding to support their practice. They have also been
offered some one-to-one contact time with a PEAL trainer, to bring
elements of PEAL directly to their setting.
Each centre will submit a short summary of
their project, to share with others and these will be posted on the
website in March, as additional practice examples. The
projects include developing gardens with families; encouraging
shared observations at home and in settings using digital cameras
and camcorders; extending home visits; developing play bags and
story sacks with parents for home use; art and music projects and
many more.