Peep - Learning Together Programme
Peep sessions
In Midlothian, our free Peep sessions run during school term time.
To book
Bookings are via Eventbrite. There are links for each session on the Peep timetable.
What to expect at Peep
Free one hour weekly groups for parents and carers and their children, from pre-birth to five years old.
Parents and carers are children’s first and most important role models. Children learn most at home during the early years. At Peep we help parents and carers to give their children a flying start in life.
Fact - 80% of the brain is developed by the age of 3.
What Peep offers
- Time to enjoy playing with your child
- A place to meet other families
- Ideas for parents and carers to help their children’s early learning
- Free, fun, easy ways to make the most of everyday activities
- Builds on what parents and carers already do
- Some groups offer parents/carers the chance to gain a qualification for their role in helping their children’s learning, by completing the Peep Progression Pathway.
- Peep to be – antenatal programme
What happens at Peep
- A warm welcome for everyone with our ‘Hello Song’
- Singing and rhymes
- Story time
- Time to play together
- A chance to talk with other parents and share ideas about children’s learning and development
- Ideas for things to do at home
- Wind down before finishing with our ‘Goodbye Song’.
Watch our short videos to meet our team of Peep leaders, and hear more about what to expect at Peep.
Meet the Peep leaders
What to expect at a session
Hello song
Goodbye song
The importance of music at home
Singing, dancing, playing, making and listening to music, songs and nursery rhymes gives all types of learners the chance to:
- Improve health and wellbeing
- Regulate emotions and form positive relationships
- Build powerful bonds between parents and children
- Develop listening skills, memory skills, sensory awareness and spatial awareness
- Express their thoughts and feelings freely even before they can speak
- Develop literacy and numeracy skills
- Understand the world around them
Phonological awareness
Research has shown that children who recognise sounds in language such as rhyme and alliteration are more likely to be successful in learning to spell and read.
Feedback from families
‘The classes gave us something to look forward to!’
‘Although it’s not the same as attending a class with the opportunity to watch children interacting it has provided some great ideas to try at home.’