Cumnor Pre-school

15/09/2026

Tuesday

Today’s Top Tip is to encourage children to listen to the sounds around them. Go for a listening walk and chat together about the sounds that you can hear. Use your voice to copy the sounds. Find pictures in books, magazines and on the internet of things making the noises you hear. Tuning into the sounds they can hear around them, such as dogs barking, car engines, birds singing, will help young children start to hear the difference between these sounds – an essential early language skill which also supports early phonics.

Each Tuesday, we will be posting top tips, helpful hints and playful activities to promote early language development. Pop along and join in the chat! Tuesday

12/09/2026

Chatty Tuesday!

Today’s top tip is to celebrate children’s home languages!

Will hearing me speak more than one language confuse my child? Is the speech of bilingual children delayed? What language should I use at home? The BBC page Tiny Happy People has many short videos to support parents / carers and professionals working with bilingual children.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/tiny-happy-people/bilingual

Each Tuesday, we will be posting top tips, helpful hints and playful activities to promote early language development. Pop along and join in the chat! Have you started to share these ideas with families every Tuesday?

12/09/2026

Time to get creative with junk!

Your child’s imagination can be fired by using large and smaller boxes to create a car, a fire engine, a house or a ship! A box large enough for your child to climb into might need nothing more than imagination to be anything in the world! The best bit of this activity is letting your child lead and make whatever they like. You might be surprised about what they come up with!

https://oxfordshire.50thingstodo.org/

09/06/2026