Parenting Presentation

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Personal Development and Mutual Understanding in
the Foundation Stage
Building Together in the Foundation Stage
Information for Parents/Carers
CASS Early Years Team
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Aims for the Session

• To provide information about Personal Development
  and Mutual Understanding within the Foundation
  Stage Curriculum.
• To share ideas for how parents/carers might
  support their childs development in this area.

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• Reflect Discuss
• What are your aspirations for your child by the
  time they are leaving
• Primary school?
• Post-primary school?

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What is the secret of happy children?

• Vitamin

M
Music
Vitamin
P
Poetry
Vitamin
N
Nature
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Added Vitamin

• Fun

Available anywhere. Rubs off from children onto
adults and back again. Most common vitamin in
the universe. Not naturally present in the
workplace, but can be smuggled in. Steve Biddulph
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Personal Development- CCEA
encouraging each child to become personally,
emotionally, socially and physically effective,
to lead healthy, safe and fulfilled lives to
become confident, independent and responsible
citizens, making informed and responsible choices
and decisions throughout their lives.
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The Importance of Personal Development and Mutual
Understandingas a Learning Area
Unless children believe that they are likable,
are proud of themselves they will find it
difficult to commit to learning. Elizabeth
Hartley - Brewer
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Strand 1 PERSONAL UNDERSTANDING AND HEALTH
Strand 2 MUTUAL UNDERSTANDING IN THE LOCAL
GLOBAL COMMUNITY

• Children should be enabled to explore
• themselves and their personal attributes
• their own and others feelings and emotions
• their dispositions and attitudes to learning
• the importance of keeping healthy and safe.

• Children should be enabled to explore
• relationships with family and friends
• responsibilities for self and others
• how to respond appropriately in conflict
  situations
• similarities and differences between groups of
  people
• learning to live as a member of a community.

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PDMU making it happen!

• Daily routines, e.g.
• Self-registration
• Meeting and greeting
• Dressing for PE
• Snack/lunch time
• Playground games
• Developing classroom rules
• Jobs and responsibilities

• Learning Contexts throughout all areas of the
  curriculum e.g.
• Play
• Story time
• Circle time
• Listening games
• Task Time
• Assembly

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Insert photos on a series of slides to illustrate
examples of how PDMU permeates throughout your
day.
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Workshop
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Parents/carers are a childs first teacher and
have the most important role to play in helping
their child to succeed.
Home Learning
Did you know that your attitude to learning is
the strongest influence on how successful a
learner you child becomes ?