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EYFS Guide for parents & early years professionals
Personal, Social, Emotional Development – Encourage your child to say please and thank you. – Encourage your child to take his/her own coat on and off. –...
Wallace & Gromit’s Big Breakfast
You may have noticed some adverts that we’ve been running on the site recently for the Wallace and Gromit Children’s foundation. We added them to the site to show our...
A story for St David’s Day
Tomorrow is not only St David’s Day. It’s World Book Day too. A few years ago in a workshop on Local Legends, a Top Junior boy told me a wonderful little tale which s...
Cooking through the generations
I have been lucky enough to have been involved in an inter-generational community project with my local school. The school, St Williams Primary School in Norwich, has for...
Maths activity: two-colour counters
This is one of my favourite pieces of mathematics equipment. A very simple idea: basically a counter which is red on one side and yellow on the other. ...
How to Help your Dyslexic & Dyspraxic Child
Jack seems to be in a world of his own. While other children run and play, he hangs back and when it is time to put things away and sit on the carpet for story time he se...
EYFS Lesson Plans
Just a quick note to draw everyone’s attention to our new lesson plan section which can be accessed on the menu bar. It features loads of interesting ideas for use in e...
Cooking together as a family
I am delighted to be working with the Reepham Learning Community and extended schools programme which is very active in providing a wide range of activities for their loc...
A visual approach to pupil data
The trouble with data is that there is just too much of it and sometimes you cannot see the wood for the trees. Successive governments have encouraged us to gather inform...
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