Learning & Development

'Claire and I wrote lesson plans, found resources and started to get lessons filmed'.
Opinion

Claire Whittaker: ‘We are now seeing a generation of children who are arriving at preschool unable to form basic sentences or share toys’

Children's Speech & Language
Walls are a useful physical development resource both indoors and outside
Features

EYFS Activities: Physical development on a budget – up the wall!

Activities
Children and an adult scribe their stories
Features

Essential Resources: Equip to reflect the pedagogy of Vivian Gussin Paley

Practice
Floors, both inside and outside, are a free resource with many physical and emotional benefits for children
Features

EYFS Activities: physical development on a budget - Totally floored

Activities
Report findings include that less than half of disadvantaged pupils reach expected levels of attainment at the end of primary school.
News

No change to the attainment gap in the last 20 years, according to latest research

Policy & Politics
‘Discussion points’ in the guidance help practitioners to understand what children are doing at home
Features

EYFS Best Practice: progress check - Turning two

Practice
Interactive Music-Making supports young children's development PHOTO Music as Therapy International
News

Funded places available for early years music-making course

Funding
Features

EYFS Activities - Supporting SEND… Maintaining continuity

Activities
Amanda Spielman said she hopes the downturn in take-up of two-year-old places will 'reverse' as normal life returns.
News

Children’s self-care and social skills delayed by the pandemic, says Ofsted

Inspection
One of the aims of the school’s approach is for children to ‘feel the buzz’ of learning
Features

Best practice: shaping a curriculum – Just imagine

Practice
Behaviour charts are still commonly used, but the evidence is that they are ineffective
Features

Best practice: Behaviour charts – good or bad?

Practice
Features

EYFS Best Practice in Schools - Go for it!

Practice
As well as an opportunity to express themselves, painting can be relaxing for children
Features

Expressive Arts and Design - Brush strokes

Practice
Painting with mops helps to develop children’s shoulder and elbow muscles
Features

Curriculum - In focus… ready to write

Practice
Practitioners must know the value of digital play, and learning that combines both physical and digital resources
Features

Curriculum - In focus… Technology

Practice
The trajectory scheme relates to how objects move through the air, fall and land
Features

Essential Resources: Trajectory Scheme - On the move

Practice

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