How connection before correction might work for you:
Calm your own expectations or fears (remember your child is imperfect just like you). Enter into your child's world, think about the experience from their point of view. Listen to wh…
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Each setting, staff member, family and child will be experiencing extraordinary change, and all the emotions that come with it. Educators are on the front line, providing safe spaces for vulnerable children and the childre…
The tale of Christmas Past is one filled with children singing, angels crying and sheep wondering off around the stage as the annual joy of the Nativity, or whatever festive show you usually produce, takes place. This year however, it is u…
I have been thinking a lot about childhood recently. Children are finding ways to be children in a world that is evolving all the time. At the same time, the struggles that many children face remain the same throughout history: oppression, …
There has been a lot of discussion and data about the widening attainment gap for children which is only deepened by the current pandemic. Data aside, most children arriving in a classroom, or possibly in an early years setting in Septemb…
This year, we've all heard the question: 'Are you adopting Birth to Five Matters or Development Matters?' A more pointed query might be 'how exactly are you using the non-statutory guidance'
Both documents, written by the Early Years C…
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 thei…
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 b…
Transition from one year group to another, or from one setting to another, is a long journey rather than a short day trip. The transition suitcase inside each child needs to be packed with all the essentials – familiarity, confidence, or…
Over the last few days we have seen one report and one survey that shine a spotlight on early years children and their families.
Nuffield Health has published a new report called How are the lives of families with young children cha…
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 ope…
For all of us who have explored something new with a child for the first time and shared the awe and wonder with them.
The Rain Stick
for Beth and Rand
Upend the rain stick and what happens next
Is a music t…
As we wait and wonder whether settings and schools will be closed officially due to the Coronavirus, all education and childcare staff, children and families, will be trying to carry on in the face of uncertainty.
You will all no doub…
This Book Is Anti-Racist: 20 lessons on how to wake up, take action, and do the work by Tiffany Jewel
To understand the value of this book, an acknowledgement of your place on the road to anti-racism is important. In addition …
Reflective Teaching in Early Education
Jennifer Colwell and Amanda Ince et al.
This book on reflective practice is aimed at early education students and professionals. It covers all aspects of practice, from the indiv…
Emily Lees has created a resource to support educators to understand and reflect on ableism. Emily is an autistic Speech and Language Therapist (SLT) based in Manchester. She advocates and campaigns for Autism Acceptance through public s…
The government’s own news item on the recent Spring Budget opened with the words ‘A revolution in childcare’. Here we take the Chancellor’s announcements and suggest 5 revolutionary ideas.
1. Putting children at the …
I was chatting with a teacher friend of mine the other day (at a respectable social distance of course). We were discussing how the increase of children returning to the school was going.
She has about 12 in her Key Stage aged class b…
I can see why some of the press coverage makes it feel like an attack on the profession, but the stuff actually from government feels like their greater concern is that parents will choose not to send their children back. It's not attackin…
We are delighted to welcome back Darlington LA who have just renewed their LA scheme for the 6th year. If you already belong to the forum as a Darlington member you need do nothing, your account will automatically be renewed If you work i…
The switch over to our new look went really well and we are pretty much complete. There are a few niggly bits that we are working on now but on the whole we are done ... hurrah! If you find something that doesn't work as you would expect i…
We had our first Tapestry Education Conference (TEC) at our office here in Lewes last week. The theme of the day was Reflective Practice, and there were a mix of delegates from settings, academia and advisory roles to listen to speakers a…
On Wednesday 14th November FSF were at Westminster with other sector representatives to meet with MPs to discuss the financial sustainability of the PVI early years sector. Although all in agreement concerning what the problems are, it was …
