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Ben Kingston-Hughes at the Day of Play in Birmingham 2024
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Why do children skip?
You won’t find it in the statutory framework of the EYFS, but joy affects how well children learn, and we’re constantly looking for it in our settings. If they aren’t detecting fun, they’ll do whatever it takes to find it. So where does…
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Navigating relationships in SEND education
How do we navigate the difficulties of SEND education and make sure children and families get what they need and deserve?
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The power of a smile
It is not enough for children to be cared for, they must fundamentally know that they are cared for. They can only do this through the evidence of their five senses...
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Creating a “Yes” Environment
A classroom must provide an environment where the children are able to feel successful through opportunities to explore materials in their own way. They need to be allowed to make messes and make mistakes.
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Reflections
Are their qualities that we, as more experienced learners, display when we engage with little children in their learning?
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From stickers to self-regulation
We would love our children to become self-regulated, happy individuals, but do some of the strategies we use in our early years settings actually backfire in this regard?
two small children playing in a mud kitchen
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Mud, marvellous mud!
Scientists have now confirmed something that children have always instinctively known; playing in mud is a joyful experience. It stimulates the immune system and increases the levels of serotonin in our brains, an endorphin that soothes,…
several children looking at a bunch of dry leaves
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The child‘s love of mystery
Solving the problem or answering the question is not nearly as important to children as asking the question and continuing to pursue the mystery. It is the process and the mystery that matters.
An early years teacher is reading to children
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A teacher's commission
A teacher's job is super-human...to practice the draining act of forgiveness a hundred times a day.
Girl stirring mud in a small bucket
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The mud centre
Mud is an art medium, one that we can mold, dry, and decorate. Unlike many other media, mud permits us to make mistakes.
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Children and conflict in the classroom
Among the many tasks of early childhood, two stand out: to communicate needs in a respectful way to other children and to listen with respect to the ideas of others.
A girl is getting art materials from an art storage shelf
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Encouraging creativity and independence
If preschool children are given ample opportunities for innovative experimentation, they may extend their interests as they grow. In later years they may branch into constructive hobbies – weaving, pottery, metal or woodwork, sewing,…