Please vote!

My Dad told me, at quite a young age, that the more staff you have, the more hassles you get. So I'm really lucky with the ladies I have on my team.  There are many reasons why I love working with each of them: Georgina, Helen, the 2 Deborahs, Franky, Kirsty, Alison, Dee, Tasha, Nikki and Nicky. I am grateful to each for helping me do what I do. 

Nicky and I have worked together for some years now and is everything I look for: consistently reliable, conscientious, great with children, professional with families and always makes sure the paperwork is in on time. She makes my job easy. I observed one of her sessions last week as she was concerned about a child. The group was well planned, well run and she showed a great rapport with the children.

I was delighted, therefore, this morning to see that her group at the Willows Children's Centre in Lichfield has been nominated as best local group for under 5s in the 'whats on 4 little ones' national competition.

Can I be cheeky and ask you to vote for Smart Talkers Pre-School Groups in Staffordshire please as I'd really like her efforts to be more widely appreciated 

http://www.whatson4littleones.co.uk/award-nominations-2013.asp

Nicky's contact email is info@smalltalk-ltd.co.uk and phone 0844 704 5888

I haven't told her yet so you know before her!

Thank you so much!

www.smarttalkers.org.uk

Smart Talkers are awarded by Netmums

We are delighted to have been recognised by the parents who come along to our classes in the recent Netmums awards. Thank you to everyone who voted for us. It makes it even more special that its a parent vote.


The particular class hi-lighted was the Teeny Talker group at Silkmore Children's Centre. This is for two year olds who are not talking as much or as well as expected. There are many reasons for this but we try to narrow  the gap as the recent Roulestone 2011 study (basis for the think 2 project) showed that children need to be identified at two so that early intervention can begin. Roulestone et al showed that if a child is delayed at 2 years, without intervention, he will still be delayed upon school entry and may never catch up.


We work on attention, listening, auditory memory, vocabulary plus other receptive and expressive language skills in a very simple format. We use puppets, stories, songs, bubbles and games.


We do other Teeny Talker groups across the area and also do Teeny Talker demonstration training for staff of 2 year olds where we run a group for 6 weeks in the nursery (no cover costs incurred then!). However, if you  want to get away from the children, we also do training courses for parents and staff with a variety of accredited courses at levels 1, 2 and 3.


www.smarttalkers.org.uk