Childcare providers at six Pre-school Learning Alliance centres in the London Borough of Lewisham will begin using the Seeds of Empathy approach with three- to five-year-olds from September.
Developed in Canada, the programme is the younger sibling of Roots of Empathy – a method that aims to develop schoolchildren’s empathy and reduce bullying, aggression and violence by asking them to observe how a baby reacts with its parent and the class.
Seeds of Empathy uses the same approach, but takes place in early years settings and adds literacy sessions to help early learners develop positive attitudes to reading.
The system works on three-week cycles, during which a childcare provider trained as a “literacy coach” reads a story to groups of children on a lavender-coloured blanket.
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