Sing and Sign baby signing classes in... Chichester & Emsworth
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Welcome to Sing and Sign baby signing classes in Chichester & Emsworth
*Latest News*
Provisional booking for Spring Term is now open!
Our Sing and Sign Spring Term is due to start in the week beginning 20th January 2025 and will run for 10 weeks, with a half term in w.b. 17th February 2025. Please click the yellow link above to see all the sessions available and to book your space!
Like us on Facebook and follow on Instagram to keep up to date with news, current classes and top tips for great signing!
A Bit About Me
Hi! I'm Lucy and I run Sing & Sign, Chichester & Emsworth.
Having had my first daughter not long before lockdown in 2020, we did the Sing & Sign online programme, and it was a total lifeline during those long lockdown days! My daughter's first sign was 'more,' after just 7 weeks of classes, and she went on to be able to express her wants and needs, through signing long before she could talk. She used to grin, gleefully, when she heard the Sing & Sign theme tune, and her favourite sign quickly became 'cake'! She is now a lovely little 5 year-old chatterbox, with an amazing vocabulary, and I firmly believe baby signing had a big part to play in this.
I have continued to sign with my baby (and her big sister joins in), who has very quickly learned the benefits of signing 'milk'!
I can't wait to meet you and your precious little ones, and to share the amazing benefits of baby signing with you!
Sing and Sign classes are the FUN way to learn baby signing!
Our award-winning classes are created with speech and language experts to help your baby to communicate before speech. The original, and longest running baby signing programme makes signing easy and fun to learn!
Classes are available in 3 Stages. Age ranges are very much an approximation. If you would like further advice on which class to choose, then please get in touch.
*Babes* 0-6 Months
*Stage 1* 6-14 Months
*Stage 2* 14-24+ Months
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About Our Classes
*Latest News*
Provisional booking for Spring Term is now open!
Our Sing and Sign Spring Term is due to start in the week beginning 20th January 2025 and will run for 10 weeks, with a half term in w.b. 17th February 2025. Please click the yellow link above to see all the sessions available and to book your space!
Like us on Facebook and follow on Instagram to keep up to date with news, current classes and top tips for great signing!
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Our classes are open to babies from birth, as soon as you feel you would like to get out with your baby and enjoy some music together, while learning how to really make the most of early communication.
There are three types of age-appropriate classes:
- Sing and Sign
Babes 0-6 months non crawling babies
- Stage One 6-14
months
- Stage Two 14-
approx 24 months
The classes provide a great opportunity for parents/carers to learn to sign in a relaxed and fun atmosphere.
This lovely video shows what goes on in a Sing and Sign class:
and this one shows Sing & Sing babies signing away out of the class setting:
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Our classes are carefully designed to build babies communication through our three developmentally age appropriate groups from 0-24 months, all taught through music and fun:
BABES for pre-crawlers up to 6 months can be started as soon as you feel ready to be out and about and taking part in activities. A lovely gentle sensory and music class to introduce signing, with the main focus on building the framework for good communication rather than signs. We encourage lots of eye contact and face to face time between baby and you using songs and games appropriate for our tiniest group of babies!
From 5-6 months is a good time to start focusing on signs and STAGE 1 teaches all the core signs to enable the two way conversation between baby and you before speech. We don't just teach lots of signs as knowing signs alone is not enough to reap the benefits of baby signing. You receive guidance on how to use the signs effectively to ensure your baby signing journey with your precious little one is successful. The signs used are completely appropriate for baby's developmental age and they are built on gradually each week to make it manageable for you.
Our more active STAGE 2 class from 13-14 months reinforces Stage 1 basics whilst introducing advanced signs and concepts to attempt to keep up with toddlers' growing curiosity.
Classes are for 1 hour and we Sing and Sign for approximately 45 minutes (30 minutes in BABES) followed by social and play time with refreshments and toys.
BABES courses are 5 weeks and STAGE 1 & 2 courses are 10 weeks. If there is space you can join part way through the term and the fee is adjusted automatically on the booking system.
You commit to the full term to promote consistency of learning and ensure success with baby signing, with weekly handouts to support you. We keep class sizes small (8 in babes and 12 for Stage 1&2) for quality of learning so spaces are limited and pre-booked. Visit the online booking system to reserve your baby's space now:
ONLINE BOOKING SYSTEM
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Any questions?
Please click the "Make An Enquiry" button on the right hand side of this page.
- Sing and Sign
Babes 0-6 months non crawling babies
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Nurseries
Join our Nursery Affiliation Programme
If you run a nursery, and are interested in using signs with the babies in your care, then please click here for more information, or get in touch to find out how to become a Sing and Sign affiliated signing nursery. I cover the following postcodes which includes Chichester and surrounding areas from Hayling Island through to Arundel:
PO9, PO10, PO11, PO18, PO19, PO20, PO21, PO22 & BN18
If you are a Sing and Sign parent and would like your baby's nursery to become a signing nursery then please pass on my details to them and/or send me your nursery's details and I will be happy to get in touch with them.
I look forward to hearing from you!
Lucy
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