LEARN, LAUGH, AND GROW TOGETHER
I started Teddy-cation because I wanted a class that provided fun educational, interactive learning opportunities that covered different subject areas and worked different areas of the brain firing the imagination of young minds. I wanted a class that also provided a rich combination of educational experiences and fun innovative ways of learning, which would give parents practical ideas that they could use at home with their children and help prepare them for school life. A class that didn’t already exist out there for my toddler twins.
I have 17 years of primary school teaching experience including being Deputy Head for a number of years. This experience as well as being school ambassader for BLP, (Building Learning Power) and Assessment Lead, has helped to create the Teddy-cation curriculum for children aged 2 ½ to preschool age.
Being a mum of 6 year old twins has made it clear to me how important it is to introduce children to new educational experiences in an informal fun format creating a foundation block to build upon for future learning. I use elements of the Early Years Curriculum to help structure my classes, with a clear learning intention and fun activities working alongside parents with time to reflect on what we have achieved.
I also offer educational consultancy services and I am currently working with the Children’s Play Village in Warwick.
Educational benefits
Teddy-cation is a unique pre-school group in Warwickshire that provides Budding Brains (Buddies) with an opportunity to take part in a range of practical and rewarding activities based on: Communication, Language & Literacy, Physical Development, Mathematics, Understanding of the World, Expressive Arts & Design, Personal Social & Emotional Development in line with the Early Years Foundation Stage. Using physical brain warm up technique principles helps to fire up neurons in the brain.
Many educators believe that using brain exercises helps improve childrens’ concentration, memory, physical co-ordination and self-responsibility in learning new skills and concepts. Learning takes places through explorative and imaginative play and through listening, talking and discussing.
These are short fun movements/exercises that take place at the start of the class designed to engage the brain for example:
This is an important developmental skill needed for everyday tasks such as putting on your shoes or hitting a ball. Crossing the midline with the dominant hand provides practise to develop good fine motor skills. It is suggested that not practising crossing the midline may make it difficult to track moving objects from one side to another or even tracking reading from left to right.
About our Classes
Teddy- cation is a new toddler class that combines education, with fun interactive activities covering different skills in the subjects areas; Art, English, Maths, Science, D&T, P.E. Geography and Music linked with Early Years Foudation Stage. By covering different subject areas and skills, each lesson is a new and exciting learning experience pitched at an age appropriate level .
Teddy- cation is tailored specifically to the pre school (2 ½ – 4yrs) developmental phase and develops language and communication skills, listening skills, social and emotional skills, confidence, co-ordination, imagination, enquiring minds, creativity and exploration of different subject area skills.
The classes follow a set structure with Teddy Neuron greeting each child, a brain warm up exercise, a mission set by Teddy Neuron, a fun practical activity based on a subject area, a circle time sharing and communication of the learning experience and sticker in their Super Hero Card, a self assessment activity to reflect on their learning and a good bye high five from Teddy Neuron. Each class teaches parents/carers simple skills and activities in different subject areas that can be used at home with the children.
Each class runs for 45 minutes over the course of a Warwickshire school term and has a maximum of 14 children attending each session. In the last week of each term Teddy Neuron’s Budding Brains (Buddies) get a certificate, and in the last week of the summer term they graduate into becoming Super Heroes themselves.
The Buddies are given the opportunity to speak and listen in a range of situations that will help to build their confidence and skills in expressing themselves. Through the class activities the children will respond to what they hear with relevant comments, questions and actions. The children will be given simple instructions involving several ideas and actions. The Buddies will be given opportunities to express themselves talking about events that have happened in the class and what might happen next, and to make connections between ideas and events e.g. at the end of the session reflecting on their experiences throughout the session.
The Buddies will be given opportunities to practise skills in counting numbers, identifying shapes and exploring measures (talking about sizes and comparing them).
This involves providing opportunities for the Buddies to be active and interactive and develop their co-ordination, control and movement. The Buddies will be given the experience to explore large and small movements to work towards becoming more confident in a range of ways, for example: safely negotiating space and controlling equipment to include throwing and catching balls; handling different tools to develop fine motor skills including using a pen, pencil and paint brushes.
The Buddies will be guided to make sense of the physical world through opportunities to explore and observe what is around them, looking at objects, materials and living things.
The Buddies will be supported to explore and play with a wide range of media and materials. We will provide opportunities for sharing their thoughts, ideas and feelings for a variety of activities in art, music, dance, design and technology.
Buddies will be helped to:
We aim to encourage Buddies to become confident in trying new activities, to be able to speak in a familiar group about their ideas and work as part of a group following the rules of the class.
Andrea Docherty reviewed Teddy-cation – 5 star
3 December 2016
I have been taking my 3 year old twin sons to the class for a term now and we love it and have already signed up for the Spring term. It’s an extremely well run class, full of fun and activity. Every week is a different theme with extremely well thought through activities held in a really friendly environment. It’s the best pre school class we do and I’d highly recommend it.
Lisa Dennis reviewed Teddy-cation – 5 star
27 June 2016
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Hi Becky
I just wanted to share my praise for the class you run on a Tuesday at Hatton Park Village Hall. Lexie really enjoys the class and loves the activities yourself and Teddy Neuron set. I like the way you use elements of the Early Years Curriculum to help structure your classes, which are fun and keep Lexie entertained while she is learning at the same time. I think it’s great that there are different themes each week and I love the fact that I can also take part and interact with Lexie on the activities which gives us great mum and daughter time especially when I want to make more use of our time together now that I have a newborn baby daughter. Keep up the great work and thank you.
Sarah Tsang reviewed Teddy-cation – 5 star
1 December 2016
Fabulous class, well structured, educational and lots of fun. Lots of seasonal themes with plenty of variety in the activities each week. My son loves to tell everyone about what he has been doing with Teddy-neuron each week, and is always eagre to go to class. Highly recommended smile emoticon
Angela Lewis reviewed Teddy-cation – 5 star
13 October 2016
This is definitely the best class I do with my daughter (2y9m). She talks about it all the time, knows the day it’s on and is always enthusiastic to go even on grumpy days. It took her a few sessions to get used to Teddy Neuron but now she high-fives him with all her might grin emoticon:D
Each themed session has 3 main activities (a mix of crafty or active, all with an educational objective) aimed & timed well to suit all ages in the group, and we often have something to bring home to show Daddy.
Learning IS fun!
Helen Watkins reviewed Teddy-cation – 5 star
3 May at 00:07 ·
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Ella and I had a fantastic time last she hasn’t stopped talking about teddy neuron and the things we did. Great mix of fun but learning and allows parent child interaction as well, we’re coming back
Sarah Abercrombie reviewed Teddy-cation – 5 star
21 April at 13:18 ·
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We had a great time at Teddy-Cation, the girls loved all the different activities and were constantly stimulated (no mean feat). Becky’s experience lends itself perfectly to this class and preparing the little pre-schoolers for the big day! Thank you
Sarah Abercrombie
Ayshea Tovey reviewed Teddy-cation – 5 star
19 April at 22:41 ·
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Great session this week Becky thank you. D is loving the sessions and she counted the 11 studs on my jumper last night, touching one stud for each number she counted. Amazing since she wasn’t doing that 2 weeks ago when we did the giant dice activity. X
Donnamarie Davenport reviewed Teddy-cation – 5 star
29 April at 05:47 ·
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What a fantastic class my little girl loved the variety of things to do. This week there were things to find and match relating to the seasons, things to create a lovely flower picture and things to plant our runner bean so a real opportunity to engage all the senses – there was a bit of avid listening too!
My little girl also enjoyed the class a few weeks ago and has really mastered using scissors since coming along. Great entertainment for me and my pre-schooler
James Dex reviewed Teddy-cation – 5 star
24 April at 14:08 ·
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My son Isaac loved the session, just the right mix of brain teasers, dexterity and physicality for him. He was singing the teddy neuron song all day afterwards!
Laura Foster reviewed Teddy-cation – 5 star
4 December 2016
We’ve just finished our 2nd term at Teddy-Cation and I really can’t recommend this class enough. Every single session is beautifully creative, engaging and so well organised. I feel these classes are really helping prepare my August baby for starting school next year. Thank you Becky & Teddy Neuron! �
Sophie Bullivant reviewed Teddy-cation – 5 star
16th May 2015
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First and foremost Becky is literally the Mary Poppins of the Midlands ! She has this really unique way of teaching whilst making the lessons oodles of fun ! Simply put this is exactly how teaching should be ! All the red tape and pen pushing measures from the government have put a stop to fun learning . These classes are so refreshing ! My kids have so much fun they don’t even know they are learning and can’t wait to go back ! A fantastic concept which I know is going to be a huge success …. So much so that I’m going to book ahead for as many sessions as I can !
Bally Wadalia reviewed Teddy-cation – 5 star
6 October 2016
Highly recommended, it was our highlight of the week! My boys loved going to Teddy-cation. Becky is fantastic – she is so encouraging that the children can’t help but throw themselves into the activities. It also gave me ideas for new play and games at home.
Photos taken by Lynne Gougeon and David Fawbert
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So excited about next week where we will be studying light and dark (new session) and making these Christmas inspired night lights!! If you fancy joining us at one of these venues please get in touch:
Monday 1.30pm Whitnash Community Hall
Tuesday 10am Hatton Park Village Hall
Thursday 10am Whitnash Community Hall
Just ordered torches 🔦 too so the children can experiment with light! Eek I can’t wait 🐻 #earlyyearseducation #preschoolclass #warwickshire #scienceexperiments #exploring #investigating #handsonlearningfun #lightanddark #nightlight #christmas
TAKE ME TO YOUR LEADER! Aliens are taking over the world – well not quite the world but definitely Teddy-cation classes this week! The children had so much fun using 2D shapes to create their spaceship and alien. We also used our imaginations and story telling skills to make our own space stories up – great language development! #whatevernextbook #space #aliens👽 #spacerockets #imaginativeplaytime #creativity #languageskills #2dshapesplay #learningisfun✏📝 #preschoolclass #warwickshire #teddycation
Thank you @warwickshire_teacher_journeys for sharing these wonderful images on your page. In Teddy-cation classes over the last two weeks we have used the story ‘Whatever Next?’ to study space, work on story retelling and language skills. It is lovely to see the magic of the story continuing at home, using the props found in the story to bring it to life! Our classes are based on creativity and imagination and the love of learning!
Why not come along for free to one of our classes, to see what we are all about 🐻❤️
What a lovely way to start the week with my little Buddies making Alien Space Rockets and creating our own stories using play dough and space images!
If you fancy joining us next Thursday at our new venue Whitnash Community Centre 10am we would love to have you! We have so many fun things planned for the last few weeks of term 🐻
🐻Come and join Teddy-cation a fun and interactive award winning class, a class that covers new and exciting subjects and topics each week.
🐻Subjects range from maths, science, music, art, D&T, drama to P.E. All activities are designed for 2.5-5yr olds and aim to develop confidence, social skills and the love of learning.
🐻Teddy Neuron a friendly super hero bear sets the children missions to complete each week.
🐻We are opening a new class at Whitnash Community Hall 10am on Thursday 28th November.
🐻There are 3 weeks left of this term and a perfect time to see what we are all about – we have some great Christmas activities planned.
🐻Get in contact if you fancy coming along:
Becky@teddy-cation.co.uk
07720 446453
Visit our Facebook page to find out what we are all about.
Lottie and Billy after a fabulous riding lesson at Radway Riding School. Lottie smiles the whole time and loves every minute of it. I couldn’t recommend this riding stables more highly, so friendly, amazing instructors and such gorgeous horses and ponies. 🐴
If you haven’t already visited Coffee On The Corner Kenilworth then you are missing out! A wonderful new local business in Kenilworth, that sells homemade cakes and delicious range of hot drinks! I know where I’ll be going on Saturday 😋
Lots of bargains to be had!We’re really excited to be trialing a Friday night sign in with some of our Nearly New Sale sellers.
We can’t wait to welcome you all to our sale tomorrow 12-2pm at Myton School.
Don’t forget to watch this page in the morning for our facebook live video where we show you what’s for sale.
We may even squeeze one in tonight so you can see some of the prep behind the scenes.
Did you know that we started prepping for this sale at the end of June. Here are some number for you
90 volunteers on the day
10 branch volunteers behind the scenes
Over 24 hours prep on week of the sale
2.5 hour on the Friday evening to set the rooms up
9 hours on the Saturday from start to finish
6 hours counting 145 sellers tickets
2 hours inputting information to pay sellers
over 15 hours spent from start to finish emailing sellers
over 15 hours spent emailing and coordinating volunteers
There is so much more that we do, the list could go on and on
Thank you for your support which enables us to support parents in the Warwickshire area.
Jane, Daniella and the NCT Warwickshire team
Doesn’t this photo give you a warm fuzzy feeling! Mini Teddy Neuron loves cuddles! If you would like a Mini Teddy Neuron for Christmas they are £20 and need to be ordered by the first week in December for pre Christmas delivery. Please get in touch if you would like a bear so I can get it ordered! The very talented Delirious Daisy Designs a local business hand make all our bears, check out her page for my lovely items. Please get in touch via:
www.facebook.com/Teddy-cation
07720446453
Becky@teddy-cation.co.uk
#christmaspressiesorted #miniteddyneuron #teddycation #warwickshire #deliriousdaisycrafts #getordering #handmade #preschoolclass #abearisforlifenotjustforchristmas
Our very own star 🌟 constellations 🌌 love the names the children have come up for them! We love to use our imaginations in Teddy-cation and we loved visiting space! Aliens next week! #spaceship #space #starconstellations #imaginativeplay #creativityeveryday #earlylanguagedevelopment #earlyyearseducation #preschoolclass #warwickshire #handsonlearning #learningisfun #teddycation
We used the story ‘Whatever next!’ as inspiration for going into space. We retold the story using picture cards and then through drama we zoomed into space to study Star constellations. Noah did a great job of making his own star patterns and then creates our own space rocket 🚀!!
Whizz! Pop! Bang! Our firework display masterpieces!! Remember, remember the 5th of November! #fireworks💥 #5thnov #artwork #glitter #bonfirenight #usingourimagination #creativity #preschoolclass #earlyyearsplay #warwickshire #teddycation
Wonderful first day back! We explored everything firework related from becoming a firework to making a play dough firework display and using paint and glitter to create a firework picture. You can still join us this term, Tuesday 10am Hatton Park and Monday 1.30pm at Whitnash Community Hall. Book a place via this link:
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#fireworks💥 #creativity #imaginations #exploring #learningnewthingsisfun #earlyyearsplay #earlyyearseducation #preschoolclass #warwickshire #teddycation #lovelearning
We’re back with a bang! Firework themed class this week, we have so many fun things planned including moving like a fire work, using finger lights as fireworks and making our own firework image! If you fancy coming along for a free trial please get in touch!
Classes:
Monday – Whitnash Community Centre 1.30pm
Tuesday – Hatton Park Village Hall 10am
Contact:
Message via my Facebook page www.facebook.com/teddycation
07720 446453
Becky@teddy-cation.co.uk
Happy Halloween 🎃 Have a spooktacular one ☝️ mmwwwaaahhh #halloween #trickortreat🎃 #croyde #northdevon #familytime💕 #sweetiehigh #spooktacular #preschoolclass #warwickshire #earlyyears @ Croyde Bay, North Devon
