Phonics Stars Bishops Stortford, Ware and The Hadhams

When you first enter a Phonics Stars™️ session, it appears to be a well-structured fun and active playgroup – with children and parents enjoying numerous group and individual activities; often with huge grins all round.

Some of the activities are quiet, measured and engaging, others are noisy, energetic and joyful.
However, all of them have one common denominator; they involve interactive and enjoyable play, which also teaching valuable life skills and preparing the children’s minds and bodies for preschool and school life.

We believe in promoting learning through play. For it really is the best way!

We all know how important it is for babies to be exposed to communication. Talking to babies helps to develop social skills and form attachment, this helps the brain to grow and understand language, facial expressions, codes of behaviour, tone and body language.

When children experience a wealth of different speaking and listening opportunities through everyday life, through play and through activities, this has a positive impact throughout a child’s life and especially during their early years and before they start school.

At Phonics Stars™️ we play a variety of different games that require the children to develop and refine these school ready for school.

We model speaking and listening skills, using a range of tone, segmenting words into sounds, breaking down last words in sentences and use sound discrimination in talk to help children hear the differences in words.

At the end of our classes, the children take turns in ‘Show and Tell’

This is a chance for the children to practice speaking and listening, for they take turns listening to each other whilst developing their confidence. Each child talks about the object they have bought to class relating to our focus sound each week.

We all know that the last year or so has been super tough on everyone, amongst all the craziness of covid, babies and birthdays I have embarked on a personal journey.. I’ve decided to run my first every half marathon! I’m not a runner but wanted to do something for me 😁

So far, it’s been an amazing journey. I’m running for a cause that is close to my heart and something I truly believe in.

Learn to Love to Read is a great little charity supporting young children and families from disadvantaged backgrounds with reading.

Your donations (big or small) will make a huge difference to the charity and families that they work with. Not only that, you will also be supporting me on this crazy journey and I can’t thank you enough.

Please do click on the link below.. there is obviously no obligation to donate.. your words of encouragement and support will also go a long way.

Jo xx

Joyti's page Help Joyti Patel raise money to support Learn to Love to Read

🏆 Phonics Stars™️ are proud sponsors of the LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD 2020 & 2021 for 🏆

🎉 Wow! What a day. 🎉

Phonics Stars™️ HQ are delighted and beaming with pride for the lovely Louise was a finalist for an award!

🏆 We are so proud for she presented the LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD to winner Sarah Cressall 🏆👏

Team Phonics Stars™️ were absolutely amazed and inspired by the guest speakers

🗣Speaker – Andy Georgiou👏
Andy was speaking about ‘Success, Foundations & 10 truths for activity providers’
Andy is a Children’s Activity Specialist and Founder of the Institute of Children’s Activity Providers (ICAP); a professional membership body for children’s activity providers. He also supports activity providers looking to enter the franchising industry through his consultancy.

🗣Speaker – Junior Ogunyemi 👏
Junior Ogunyemi is a multi award winning entrepreneur, author and speaker.
He has worked on government initiatives and advises some of the leading educational institutions on how to nurture entrepreneurs.

Our Founder Sam Baldwin was sad to not be in attendance this year for she had to settle her daughter into University life.

We send love, positivity and gratitude to Tessa and Team for organising another fantastic awards event!

🎈There’s more to Phonics Stars™️ than just Phonics.

Our classes are planned around the Early Years Foundation Stage. Some of our activities support Mathematics and Numbers. Children will find a range of opportunities for children to develop their number skills…

🧮 Learning to count to 10

🧮 Recognising number symbols

🧮 Ordering numbers

🧮 Repeated patterns

🧮 Learning about the total number of objects in a set

🧮 Understanding and learning mathematical language of size and position – big, small, little, short, round, wide and so on

🧮 As well as the language of shape, size, measure and distance
through many different activities

Find out more about our sessions, email [email protected]

www.phonicsstars.co.uk

⭐️ Did you know that our Phonics Stars™️ classes also help to support Expressive Arts?

💃🏼✨🕺🏼Children are introduced and exposed to aspects of ‘Expressive Arts and Design’ for it is integrated in our classes.

🎵✨🎶Children are encouraged to join in with songs, movement and dancing. They experiment and explore different ways to move and respond to music.

🖍✨🖍Exploring rhythm through dance and even mark making. Especially once those mark making items have been put under a magic spell, the pens, crayons or even paint brushes can actually dance to all kinds of music! It’s a wonderfully magical way to express emotions through a range of movements.

⭐️✂️⭐️Children are offered opportunities to participate in circle games, different activities and learn how to use tools safely and effectively, especially when they join in with craft activities - this also encourages those amazing imaginations!

📖Reading books and telling stories is so important to us at Phonics Stars™️.

🤲We love to recommend our favourite story or information books.

❤️It would be great if you could share with us your children’s favourite books too, whether they’re fact or fiction, we love to discover new books to read.

🥰So, what is yours or your children’s most popular book to read together?

Our Phonics Stars Classes help to build children’s knowledge and confidence in order to give them a great start in life which prepares them for their transition into school? 🏫

Did you know that our classes focus on:

⭐️ Learning through play.

⭐️ Muscle building, movement and dance.

⭐️ Developing listening skills, communication and confidence.

⭐️ Working on collaboration skills.

⭐️ Inspiring and helping parents, carers and other early years settings to learn how to create a variety of fun and playful phonics games in a friendly, safe space and positive environment so that they can support their children's learning and independence.
Our safe and stimulating sessions focus on a sound of the week but cover nearly all sounds through play and our different activities are designed to engage and excite children.
Over the next few weeks we are going to be sharing more about the things we do in class......

There is even more to Phonics Stars™️ than Phonics!

We love what we do and we hope our passion and positivity shines through and makes a difference to others.

Interested in attending our classes? Just send us a direct message. 💖

Phonics Stars – Phonics and Fun for Everyone!

Phonics Stars™ is an organisation that supports children to learn letters and their phonetic sounds through fun, play, movement, creativity and dance. We encourage physical development, speech and language, listening skills, visual tracking and muscle building.

Our educational and interactive club offers engaging face to face sessions; providing children with the foundations for learning, thus supporting school ‘readiness’ and much more! Phonics Stars sessions are attended by children and families within our communities, schools, nurseries, preschools and children’s centres.

The range of activities provided offers children from around the age of two and a half years a variety of playful learning opportunities, which link to the Early Years Foundation Stage. We offer ideas and support to extend or simplify activities. Our class leaders engage children and adults to learn phonics in a range of ways.

Discover more:

www.phonicsstars.co.U.K.

[email protected]

We’re thinking of all children, parents, carers and teachers as we head back to school life.

We send our love and luck to all as they venture off to school. Wishing everyone good health and happiness.

With love from all of us at Phonics Stars 💕✨