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Numbers and the Number System
All Foundation Stage practitioners are familiar with teaching children to recognise and start to understand numbers, but something struck me during a training session I l...
Original musicals for schools & theatre groups
So Andrew Lloyd-Webber has released amateur rights for schools to perform ‘Cats’ and ‘Phantom of the Opera’. How are we supposed to feel about this? Undoubted...
Colour recognition: Sometimes a beige wall is a better wall
The world is full of colour so it is little wonder that we are all keen to get children recognising and naming their colours as soon as possible. Like everything e...
Storytelling Starters for Children’s Book Week
Next week is Children’s Book Week. But how do you get children to listen to stories? How do you keep their attention? As a professional storyteller, I have been asked t...
Interactive games
I’ve put a bit of info together about one of our sponsors – busythings.co.uk to draw your attention to their great website. Busythings is an online subscription servi...
Sleep & Sleep Problems in the Early Years (part 2)
On the Sleep Solutions workshop for parents and professionals (run by Scope), it was interesting to share recurring and common themes in sleep related problems....
Sleep & Sleep Problems in the Early Years (part 1)
Sleep and sleep related problems are foremost in my mind at the moment, not least because I have just attended a training workshop run by Scope, on Sleep Solutions in Dav...
Rosh Hashana teaching resources
Rosh Hashanah will soon be upon us and to mark this occasion we have designed a poster which you can download and display at home, in the Synagogue or educational...
Early Years Foundation Stage Consultation (part 2)
Not only would statutory assessment at 24-36 months fail to reach all children you have to ask whether it is too early to be effective. How easy is it to identify delay o...
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