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Superhero Play Training
Superhero and war play tends to divide opinion within early years settings. Some practitioners discourage the use of any form of play that involves the use of weapons...
Eat Better, Start Better: Nutrition within Early Years Settings
The School Food Trust has drawn up voluntary guidelines for nutrition in early years settings. These guidelines are to be used across five local authority areas as...
Best practice in children’s centres
The children’s services think-tank and not for profit organisation Capacity has recently published two reports outlining what it perceives as best practice within s...
Changes to teaching standards
The government has accepted the recommendations of an independent review in to the skills that teachers should possess and the code of practice they should adhere to....
First ELHQ original children’s story & youtube video
Some of you may have noticed that we put a link to our youtube channel on the site a few weeks ago. Until last night it has been completely empty but we’ve now uploaded...
Visual timetable update
Just a quick note to say that following a suggestion from one of our visitors we’ve updated our visual timetable to include ‘golden time’ and ‘carpet time’....
The Big Light Project
Yesterday I spent the evening uploading several lesson plans designed by Recolight as part of their Big Light Project. Recolight is a not–for-profit organisation tha...
Phonics testing for 5 & 6 year olds
I wrote last night about plans to introduce reading tests for children in Wales. It has since been pointed out to me that there are also plans to introduce a phonics test...
New reading tests to be introduced for Welsh children
As I’m sure you all know, ELHQ is based in the city of Swansea (the home of Wales’ only premiership football team). As such we take a keen interest in matters affecti...
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