30/10/2026
📚 Home Learning Bags Are Back! 📚
As part of our ongoing partnership with parents and carers, we are delighted to reintroduce our Home Learning Bags.
Each bag contains a carefully chosen book along with props and resources designed to support your child's speech, language and communication development through shared reading and play.
What does the EYFS say?
The Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) highlights the importance of communication, language and literacy. By the age of 3 and 4, children are learning to:
📖 Enjoy listening to longer stories and remember much of what happens.
🗣️ Engage in extended conversations about stories and learn new vocabulary.
📚 Talk about familiar books and recall and retell familiar stories.
Language development is central to children's learning and wellbeing. It helps them to communicate their thoughts, understand and regulate their emotions, build relationships and develop confidence.
Borrowing a Home Learning Bag
Please feel free to explore our selection of Home Learning Bags and take one home to enjoy together.
Simply let a member of staff know which bag you would like to borrow. We will ask you to sign it out, and once you have enjoyed it at home, you can return it and choose another bag to take home.
Your Feedback Matters
We would love to hear about your child's experiences with the book and resources.
Inside each bag you will find a short feedback form. Please take a few moments to complete it before returning the bag. Your comments help us understand what children and families enjoy most and will help to inform future purchases and resources.
Looking After the Bags
We kindly ask that you take good care of the books and resources. However, please do not worry if an item goes missing or a book becomes damaged. Just let a member of staff know so that we can repair or replace it.
The Benefits of Reading Together
📖 Builds vocabulary and language skills
💬 Encourages conversation and storytelling
🧠 Supports memory, attention and concentration
❤️ Strengthens bonds between children and their families
✨ Develops imagination, creativity and a lifelong love of learning
"The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go."
- Dr. Seuss
"A child who reads will be an adult who thinks."
– Sasha Salmina
"Reading is dreaming with open eyes."
– Unknown
"Books are a uniquely portable magic."
– Stephen King
"There is no such thing as a child who hates to read. There are only children who have not found the right book."
– Frank Serafini
"A book is a gift you can open again and again."
– Garrison Keillor
Just 10 minutes of reading together each day can make a lifelong difference. Thank you for supporting your child's learning journey and helping us to foster a love of books and stories at Little Owls City & Holbeck. 📚🦉❤️
If a child reads a book every day that will be 365 books a year that they will have read…..WOW….how amazing is that?!!
