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For over ten years the FSF has been a platform for a passionate and vibrant community of EYFS professionals, including nursery practitioners, childminders, reception teachers, advisers and consultants, and educators and writers.
We're proud of the quality of our conversation and support here, and our ethos (exemplified by the Lessons from Geese video) of courtesy and mutual respect, even while arguing from very different points of view.
Our recent survey of more than 200 early years practitioners and reception teachers showed that as we continue to teach and learn in the pandemic, parental engagement, communication, and the use of technology to support these, will be key.
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Working with children can provide you with great challenges and joy every day. I have met many teachers who are confident to speak in front of a hall full of children but ask them to speak in front of their peers – other teachers or their SLT, an…
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For this coffee break I wanted to talk about a topic I saw online which I found very interesting: Desks.
I know what you’re thinking. Desks? How can desks be interesting. Well, it’s all a matter of perspective. And, interestingly, it’s the ap
Stephen Kilgour reflects on getting 'back to basics' in the way we approach observations and assessment.
Although you might not believe it, and 5 minutes on social media would certainly encourage you to think otherwise, there have been some p<…