Guest Blog: Love-Based Management Approach
Having your staff team all following the same ethos can be challenging but is essential for the learning outcomes of the children to be delivered. I follow the ‘love-based’ management approach….
Block Play and Mathematical Development in the Early Years
A classic early year’s example, often children explore building towers often setting the challenge to see who can build a tower taller than themselves. This instantly lends itself to some discussions about size…
Guest Blog: Persona Dolls and Their Impact
One child ran to get a tissue to kindly wipe Ollie's tears and nose, other children gently rubbed his back and gave him a hug, another went to get him a drink so poor Ollie had his first bath that evening too!
Enhancing Children’s Literacy Development Through Block Play
Welcome to the next blog post in our block play series that is exploring the potential of block play in early years settings. Enabling environments are a core principle of the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS)…
Physical Development and Block Play
Construction play is a firm staple of many early year’s settings, whether that be through Duplo, wooden blocks, Lego, large blocks, or community play blocks and everything else in between. We use a wide array of items to support children’s learning and development…
Guest blog - Five tips for marketing your nursery or pre-school
n this guest blog, Natasha Milsted, Chartered Marketer shares five tips for marketing your nursery or pre-school. Find out more today.
World Ocean Day
A blog post focusing on world ocean day. With ideas for early years practitioners.
Part Two: Teaching Colours in the Early Years
Part two of our blog series that explores teaching colours in the early years. Find out more here.
Part One: Teaching Colours in the Early Years
I recently saw a very interesting post online, where someone was asking for support for how do we teach children colours in the early years? Which spiralled into a very lengthy discussions…
Global Recycling Day
Will you as a setting be celebrating global recycling day with your children? This is a great opportunity to take stock and think about talking about recycling with young children…
Focus on Dough Disco
As part of our finger gym blog series, I wanted to talk about the wonderful benefits of dough disco to children’s learning and development. In particular development of those all-important physical skills…
Implementation of Finger Gym in Early Years Settings
Lasts weeks blog spoke about the intent and reasons behind why settings may choose to implement finger gym as part of their early years curriculum. This week we intend to unpack some of the ways that you may choose to implement finger gym within your setting.
The Intent Behind Finger Gym
Currently in the early years we are thinking a lot about the 3I’s, Intent, Implementation, and Impact. As we saw the introduction of these three terms in the (2019) Early Years Inspection Framework…
15 Things To Do With Playdough Before You Are Four
Playdough is a stable part of most of our continuous provision, as part of an area on its own or perhaps within a malleable area. Not only is it a versatile resource it is an inexpensive learning resource…
New Year, New Focus
Often this time of the year we find ourselves reflecting on the previous year and vowing to new years resolutions, change and a better year this year…
Beyond Phonics: There is More to Learning to Read then Just Phonics
Often when we think of supporting or helping children to learn to read, our minds automatically go to thinking about phonics. In particular, synthetic phonics, this is where words are broken up into the smallest units…
Why I don’t Like Using Emoticons
A blog post that explores why I do not like using emoticons while working with children. Find out more here.