Story Exploration for Early Years - St Johns Centre - Family Learning

• Date: 25 February - 1 April 2025
• Sessions: Tuesdays: 1:30pm - 2:30pm
• No. sessions: 6
• Venue: St John's Centre, Mansfield
• For ages: 19+
• Group size: 5 - 16
• Cost: FREE - £21

This course is for parents/carers and their children who are in the Early Years (aged 3-5 years). We’ll explore well-known stories such as: The Very Hungry Caterpillar, The Tiger Who Came to Tea and We’re Going on a Bear Hunt.

This course sessions are mapped to the Early Learning Goals.

Course Summary:

• How to take a story and use it for a wider learning experience.
• Simple to use ideas that can be done easily at home.
• How to incorporate Maths and English in fun and creative ways.
• Plenty of art ideas and the theory behind them.
• Build your confidence in supporting your child’s learning – and have fun together too!

By the end of the course, you will:

• Have an insight into how to take a story as a basis for a wide learning experience.
• Be able to apply what you have learnt to other stories too.

Resources required:

• A blanket to sit on.
• Water and snack.

Suggested Reading for the course:

• The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle
• We’re Going on a Bear Hunt by Michael Rosen
• The Tiger Who Came to Tea by Judith Kerr

If you are in receipt of certain benefits you will be offered the course for free, however if you have a financial barrier which may prevent you from enrolling on the course, please visit our webpage for further information https://www.inspireculture.org.uk/skills-learning/funding-your-courses/

To secure your place on the course BOTH the following must be done:

• Complete the EVENTBRITE BOOKING, AND
• Complete our INSPIRE ONLINE ENROLMENT FORM for each person attending the course.

You should be redirected to the Inspire Online Enrolment Form after completing the Eventbrite booking. If you are not redirected, please use the link supplied in the Eventbrite booking confirmation email.

To book and enrol on one of our courses, you must have been living in England and have been resident in the UK for the past 3 years.

Some exceptions may apply if you are living in England with evidence of the right to remain and are from an EEU/EEAU country (completion of a questionnaire will be required). As we no longer receive funding for our ESFA-funded courses for learners living in the devolved areas listed below, full cost fees would apply to these courses if you live in these areas:

• Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham and Sheffield
• Cambridgeshire and Peterborough
• Greater London
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• Liverpool City Region
• Newcastle Upon Tyne, North Tyneside and Northumberland
• Tees Valley
• West of England
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• West Yorkshire

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