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• https://www.arkstart.org.uk/
• Check out Parentkind’s online advice hub and magazine for parents ‘Be School Ready’
• Enjoy Family Corner’s 5 tips to help your child get ready for Reception
• Guidance for parents and practitioners - PACEY
• Download the free EasyPeasy mobile app for tips and activities to support everyday parenting moments
• How can you make separating easier? - Family Corner
• Getting dressed and ready for the day - backward chaining information sheet - NHS
• Getting ready for the day - BBC
• The Institute of Health Visiting has advice and tips on toilet training
• Simple and supportive toilet training advice - ERIC
• Potty training and bedwetting - NHS
• Pants4School - Down Syndrome UK
• 5 steps for brain building through serve and return - Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University
• How to follow a child’s interest in play - National Literacy Trust
• How to role play with your child - Pretend role play - BBC
• How to role play with your child - Playing pretend animals - BBC
• Fire up their imagination with drawing - BBC
• What is mark-making and why is it important for learning? - PACEY
• Sharing story books on World Book Day - BBC
• Nature activities for children - BBC
• Learning and having fun on the bus - BBC
• Play a game of 'What's that sound?' - BBC
• The Royal Foundation Centre for Early Childhood’s Shaping Us Framework outlines how these skills develop in early childhood
• https://www.booktrust.org.uk/how-we-help/parents-families/getting-ready-to-start-school/
• Learn how to support your child to make friends - Family Corner
• Understand your child's social development - Words for Life
• Practice sharing with toys - BBC
• You are your child’s first teacher – help them learn how to write their name - Words for Life
• Explore a range of approaches to language learning and development from NHS Start for Life
• Build your child’s imagination and language by making up stories together - BBC
• Child's Progress checker - Speech & Language UK
• Follow the walk and talk trail with the National Literacy Trust
• Practice language and listening skills at home with these games - Playing with a cardboard telescope - BBC
• Practice language and listening skills at home with these games - Red Light, Green Light - BBC
• Getting moving for 3 hours a day - NHS
• Support your child to be a Healthy Mover - Youth Sport Trust
• What is core strength and why is it important for children? - Department for Education
• Fun games to get them moving - BBC
• World Health Organization guidance
• Health Professionals for Safer Screens poster
• Help for early years providers: Internet safety
• Screen time for babies and toddlers - NCT
• Nutrition guidance - Department for Education
• Healthier families - NHS
• Five tips for helping your kids to eat healthily all year round - BBC
• Eating Well - First Steps Nutrition Trust
• Factsheet for healthy children's diets - Association of UK Dieticians
• https://www.bbc.co.uk/tiny-happy-people/articles/z6jbydm
• Sleep and young children - NHS
• Struggling to get children to sleep: How to establish a bedtime routine - BBC
• Family Lives
• Speech and Language UK
• Dingley’s Promise
• KIDS

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