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We asked member vicki30 to review and then try out Assessing Quality in Early Childhood Education and Care: Sustained Shared Thinking and Emotional Well-being (SSTEW) Scale for 2-5-year-olds provision in the large nursery where she is a manager. You can read what she thought and see what she is planning to do next with her new knowledge in her article: SSTEW Scale (Sustained Shared Thinking and Emotional Well-being) - in practice
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WChurchill's article has now been posted in full An early years practitioner in the Millennium: Challenges of technology, austerity, accountability, and globalisation. One practitioner’s perspective You can discuss it here. Maybe you could use her thoughts and ideas as provocations in staff meetings?
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Kate Cahill, an experienced early years teacher, advisor and inspector has written for us explaining the seminar given recently by Dr Rose Drury at the Nursery World show. You can discuss the article on this thread and access the article from here: Working with multilingual children in the Early Years
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We have today published an article by Robert Heath, an FSF member who has described for us how he has developed his own professional knowledge and found an interest in the effects of music on babies and young children. Read his article and share your thoughts with us! The Musical Lives of Infants – a route to academic study If you are on an exciting journey of your own then tell us all about it!
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Back in November we went to meet June O'Sullivan MBE at the London offices of LEYF to talk about the current Early Years landscape. Following lengthy discussion regarding the 30 hours roll out and the long-awaited workforce review we agreed that there were some amazing people working in early years and that many of them lacked the confidence to realise just how amazing they are. One outcome of our meeting was the article: Have I got the power to make a difference? Once you have read the article post your comments below and tell us about amazing Early Years people who should be lauded for the work they do for children. If you like what you read, you can follow Jun…
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John Blaney who runs the Forest School project at Bridgewater College has written this fantastic article for us about 'Street Play'. For those of us that saw John speak at the NDNA conference last July this is a very welcome article which oozes with John's infectious enthusiasm! Once you've read it - what do you think? Knock, knock can you come out to play? - John Blaney article
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Have you read Natalie Day's article on the FSF? You can read it here
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Natalie Day, a researcher from Cambridge University, has written an article for us about her current project. You can access the article here. Once you have read the article it would be interesting to hear your thoughts and experiences about giving children the freedom to develop their knowledge and understanding through play based experiences.
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Rebecca has been busy with writing two new articles on safeguarding ! Safe staff Day to day safeguarding And a very useful list of all the documents around safeguarding you need to be aware of. While I'm here, I'd like to introduce you all to Rebecca; our new website content editor on the FSF. She'll be contributing articles, commissioning others, keeping us all up to date with the latest EYFS news, reorganising and adding to the resource library (does anyone remember where that is?!), writing book reviews, and generally keeping us all in order. If you would like to offer any suggestions regarding web content, I'm sure she'd be delighted to receive a PM fro…
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In terms of your Ofsted report this is the phrase you need to have. Without it, however good your learning and development is, your setting will be judged at best ‘Requires Improvement’ Read Rebecca's article and make sure your safeguarding arrangements are effective. :1b And do discuss here any issues regarding the article's content!
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