PURPOSEFUL PLAY 2025 (April)

For Parents and Children Aged 0 to 6 Years

Parents are children’s first most enduring teachers. You play an important role in providing a home environment that promotes your children’s development, communication skills and school readiness.

What is Purposeful Play?

Developed jointly by the Ministry of Social and Family Development and the Parenting Research Centre from Australia, the Purposeful Play programme seeks to help parents develop their child through play and common home activities.

Key areas covered

Parents will be equipped with knowledge and skills to:

Think about ways to create a warm and stimulating home environment for your child
Use everyday activities to develop language and problem-solving skills to enhance your child’s school readiness, as well as to bond and strengthen your relationship with your child
Build supportive relationships with other parents.

Module	Topic	Date
1	Warm and Gentle and Play	Friday, 25 April 2025 5.00pm – 6.30pm
2	Tuning In and Routines	Friday, 09 May 2025 5.00pm – 6.30pm
3	Following Your Child’s Lead and Shared Reading	Friday, 16 May 2025 5.00pm – 6.30pm
4	Listening and Talking More and Watching Screens Together	Friday, 23 May 2025 5.00pm – 6.30pm
5	Teachable Moments and Community Resources	Friday, 30 May 2025 5.00pm – 6.30pm

Venue

Morning Star Bedok Reservoir Centre

Course Fee

FREE

Purposeful Play programme is free, fully subsidised by the Ministry of Social and Family Development

About the Trainer

Josephine Loh

Josephine is the Senior Training and Workshops Manager at Morning Star Community Services.

Josephine is the Senior Manager for Training and Workshops Department at Morning Star. She oversees a group of Associate Trainers accredited to conduct evidence-based as well as evidence-informed programmes to parents and caregivers of children and teenagers.

The core programmes offered are namely, The Incredible Years Parent Programme series, The Incredible Years Small Group Dinosaur programme for children, Positive Parenting Programmes or Triple P for short, Signposts for Building Better Behaviour, and Common Sense Parenting®.

Since 2017, Morning Star has also been organising the Group Leaders Training for The Incredible Years (IY) Parent programmes and the Small Group Dinosaur programme for social service professionals.