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Hi Came across this and I wanted to share this with you: The Woodland Trust provides a wealth of free resources to help teachers deliver engaging and memorable outdoor learning. Tree Tools for Schools Some lovely ideas for outdoor learning 🌳🍁🥾
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Road Safety Week 2023 is coming soon! Road Safety Week is Brake's biggest road safety campaign. Every year, thousands of schools, organisations and communities get involved to share important road safety messages, remember people affected by road death and injury, and raise funds to help Brake care for more road victims and campaign for safe roads for everyone. The theme of this year’s Road Safety Week is Let’s Talk About SPEED. Sign up now to take part in Road Safety Week 2023 and get access to a free downloadable Road Safety Week action pack, complete with Early Years lesson plans, classroom ideas and activities. Introduce the topic of Road Safety an…
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It’s generally considered a fairly miserable event when the clocks go back at the end of October. It’s the start of a period that can often mean leaving for work in the dark and returning home to the same. This tends to coincide with a further deterioration in the weather which seems to steal any warmth that remained from the sun. Growing up, I also associated it with the end of football matches after school, until at least the end of February, which was a bitter pill to swallow (there weren’t floodlit all weather pitches in schools in those days)! The last couple of weeks, however, I have been reminded to look at things a different way. How about we flip t…
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I am a list maker. Anyone who lives or works with me knows that I write them obsessively. On post-it notes, in my diary, in little books, on scraps of paper. I think they might drive the people around me a bit crazy… I have lists of things to do: for today, in half term, to tell my work colleagues. Then there are the lists of things I want to remember: books I have read as an adult, books I read as a child and want to pass onto my children, films I love, places we have been on holiday, words I like, and in the more recent past a list of all the new words and phrases related to the pandemic (I thought this would jog my memory one day when someone much younge…
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Have a listen to this podcast conversation, when Ben and Jules chatted with Hannah Clifford, founder of Seren Kids, which provides children and adults with digital skills and e-safety knowledge. Hannah shared lots of ideas about how to talk with children about e-safety, and to promote a healthy and positive relationship with technology. This is Hannah’s website: https://serenkids.com/educators And on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theserenkids/ Hannah says she regularly adds resources on her socials. She has just recently created a reel on what is AI and is happy to send the file to teachers if they get in touch. Bitesize…
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We know that the capacity to reflect and take on board feedback both positive and negative in order to engage in a process of continuous learning is one of the defining characteristics of professional practice. I would love to hear from members how this practice has improved their practice and outcomes for children. Has there been discussion on this topic before as this area of exploration is part of the CACHE early years level 3 diploma? Thanks in anticipation Kind Regards Vandna
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The 9th October marks the beginning of the 6th Early Years Wellbeing Week. Founded by Kate Moxley, the purpose is to raise mental health awareness and increase mental health literacy, to improve and maintain the health and wellbeing of educators everywhere. Kate says: Collectively we must champion wellbeing and stand up for ourselves and each other. We recorded a special edition of the FSF and Tapestry podcast for Early Years Wellbeing Week, with Warda Farah, Professor Eunice Lumsden and Kate Moxley. Their discussion centred on an intersectional approach to cultivating wellbeing. You can listen here. Early Years Wellbeing Week is in October, wh…
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Hi everyone, I would love some support around an issue we have. We have a very liberal settling in policy, we do home visits, at least 3 settling in sessions, more if needed, and we generally have an open door policy during our settling in period. However... we have a 4 year old child who started with us back in April and the mother is still staying for up to an hour after dropping them off. We have had various meetings with her, but she is following a 'child-led' approach, meaning she asks her child every day: "can I go now or do you want me to stay longer?" Well, guess what the child replies. When she does leave, he is absolutely fine, he has built strong relations…
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Admittedly, the slightly sensationalist title suggests that children don't climb trees anymore. This is not actually the case. There is a brilliant tree in my local park and children form an orderly queue to get their turn on it. It's the perfect 'beginner's' tree. Lots of low branches, multiple routes up, and when you get to the top, your head emerges from a cloud of leaves where you can shout to your parent - sat on the conveniently placed bench below - "look how high I am!". Here’s the tree in question with my 4-year-old making his way up: So, what’s the point of this piece if tree climbing is still happening? The fact is, it’s not ha…
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Food. One of the most important parts of growing and surviving as a human. Our relationship with food begins from a very young age, watching those around us carefully as they move this mysterious substance towards their mouths and then open and close their mouths – before it disappears! As we get older, we then get to try our own foods, some with more success than others. Apart from taste though, there is so much more to our enjoyment of food that we need to develop – the texture, the smell, the look and in some cases, the sound! In October 2022, baby food brand, Ella’s Kitchen, launched a campaign calling on the government to introduce sensory food play in all early…
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