Eduuplay

Eduuplay Christmas Party 2025! 🎄🥂
Big thank you to everyone that could make it and assist in preparing. What an amazing community of parents! ❣️

From having a parent sponsor for the Adult Hamper, parent organiser booking the venue, and parents helping with set up and pack up. Everyone got together, had many smiles and laughs.
We had a generous feast, special thanks to Oh La La La Petite for the amazing cupcakes! 🧁
Congratulations to our door prize winners!:
🎁🍾 Adult Hamper - Jack
🎁🐨 Kid's Hamper - Ricco
🎁 Parent's Mystery Prize - Jenny
🤩 Best Xmas Dressed Award - Rachel

Was lovely to see some old scholars join in the fun! We played some party games, both getting kids and parents involved! 😆

Wishing you all a wonderful festive season and New Year's! 🥂🥳
Keep your eyes peeled on our next public activity!

Eduuplay 🐨

The Building Blocks of Reading: Our Science-Backed Progression at Eduuplay Sessions! 🔤

Ever wonder how children learn to crack the code of reading? It's not magic—it's a systematic, research-backed progression! In our Eduuplay Sessions, we follow a clear, evidence-based path to build confident, capable readers from the ground up.

Here’s a peek at our beginning literacy roadmap for our youngest learners:

1️⃣ Letter & Sound Foundation: We start with single letter names and sounds, prioritizing lowercase letters (as they make up 95% of written text!) before uppercase. This establishes the core alphabetic principle.

2️⃣ Vowel Power: We immediately highlight the 5 short vowels (a, e, i, o, u). These are the anchors of early words! Mastering their sounds is a game-changer.

3️⃣ The Blending Leap: Next, we introduce VC (Vowel-Consonant) blends within vowel families (like -an, -ap, -am). The "lightbulb moment" happens when kids see that some blends are already words (an, am, at)! This builds crucial phonemic awareness—the ability to hear and manipulate sounds.

4️⃣ Systematic Skill-Building: We then cover all VC blends across the five short vowels to ensure a solid, flexible foundation.

5️⃣ From Blends to Words: Finally, we add an initial sound to the VC blend (p + an = pan, t + ap = tap). This is the exciting jump to reading full CVC (Consonant-Vowel-Consonant) words!

✨ Our Hands-On Tool: This whole progression is brought to life with resources like the CVC Blending Mat pictured in our sessions! It provides a tactile, visual structure that guides children through this exact sequence, making abstract concepts concrete.

Why this order? Literacy research is clear: explicit, systematic phonics instruction that moves from simple to complex is the most effective way to prevent reading difficulties and build automatic word recognition (thanks to orthographic mapping!).

At Eduuplay Sessions, we turn the science of reading into the joy of learning. 🎉

Love the resource you see here? The CVC Blending Mat we use is available for at-home practice! You can order your own set here.

Questions about your child’s reading journey? Ask us in the comments! 👇

EduuPlay Christmas Party 🎉 is coming soon! Mr. Jamie and team are busy preparing for it! We look forward to seeing you all in this special day💖🌟🎄😉

🌟 Repurposing existing games with an additional literacy element.
We are combining various skill elements with specific focus.
1. We are building finger strength pinching each peg open, which will aid a child's future writing development.
2. Hand and Eye coordination and balanced use of both hands.
3. Listening Skills to sound/grapheme knowledge.
4. If I wanted to add another layer of difficulty for the child, they can follow a distinct pattern from a set of pattern cards.

"I want my child to excel." 🐨
Then the conversation must move from the classroom to your living room. What we accept at home becomes your child's benchmark..

As an educator and a parent, I'm convinced that excellence is forged in the daily disciplines of home. It’s built on a foundation of self-reliance, physical vitality, and focused work. And it requires a hard line on the things that undermine them—like unmanaged screen time or complaining their way out of effort.

In our home, screens are off-limits from Monday to Friday. Period. This isn't a punishment; it's a conscious choice to make space for what truly builds a capable child.

Here is our non-negotiable after-school blueprint:

1. The After-School Reset (Takes 5 Minutes)
The moment we walk in,the routine is set in stone. By age 4, a child can master this:

· Empty your school bag (lunchbox goes to the kitchen, forms go to mom/dad).
· Put shoes away.
· Wash hands.
· Get a simple snack themselves (from a pre-approved low shelf in the fridge/pantry).
This isn't just tidiness;it's teaching them to take ownership of their space and their needs.

2. The Energy Burn (Minimum 30 Minutes)
Especially for our kids in HK who sit for long hours,their bodies need to move. We go directly outside.

· Scooter around the block.
· Run at the local park.
· Just play.
This isn't optional.It clears the mental cache, burns off restless energy, and makes focused work later possible.

3. The Focus Zone (Homework, Built Over Time)
After their energy is spent,we move to a dedicated homework space, away from the noise of daily life.

· Use a timer. We start small—just 10 minutes of concentrated effort.
· We break tasks down. One worksheet at a time.
· We build perseverance. The goal is to finish the task at hand, teaching them to push through the initial resistance.
This slowly builds the self-discipline that will take them further in life than any single piece of knowledge.We gradually extend this to 20, then 30 minutes as they grow.

This routine creates children who are responsible, physically active, and mentally disciplined. It’s a hard line, but it’s the line that builds excellence.

Are you implementing a similar routine? What's your biggest challenge? Share below. 👇

Been working on an English Through Play (ETP) Beginning Literacy Pack this afternoon.
Two Posters:
Upper Case Alphabet
Lower Case Alphabet
CVC Blending Mat - Can provide Phonemic Awareness Practice also.
Set of Double sided Alphabet cards, lower case and upper case. The font uses directional arrows, perfect for finger tracing!
I have a few more ideas to complete the pack, more on the play side!

If you want your own set head to my Etsy shop and use the code EDUU20 for a generous discount on all our digital downloads.

https://eduuplayprintables.etsy.com/listing/4386061913