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Promoting language through dramatic play
After reading the post about planning the learning environment to promote language, literacy and communication someone sent me a very useful list of ideas for role-play r...
Communication, Language and literacy: Planning your learning environment
It is important that you keep in mind the language, literacy and communication goals when planning your learning environment. Always ensure that there is sufficient writi...
Emergent Writing
Learning to write is about more than just letter formation. It is a cognitive development and emergent or pretend writing is an important factor which should be encourage...
CAF process results in long term savings
The Local Authority Research Consortium (LARC) produced a very interesting report this week highlighting the relative financial value of the Common Assessment Framework....
People Who Help us Resources
Just a quick note to say that as a result of many requests we haveput together several new ‘people who help us’ resources. So far we have some flash cards, a large ba...
Association of Teachers and Lecturers Survey
Following on from the publication of the government’s child poverty and social mobility strategies last week I thought I’d draw your attention to an interesting surve...
OFSTED Could Be Divided in Two
A report by the Education Select Committee has recommended that OFSTED should be divided in to 2 distinct inspectorates in order to provide a more specialised and focused...
School Funding Consultation
Early years settings have until the 25th of May to respond to a government consultation regarding reforms to the school funding system for pupils aged 3 to 16. The consul...
Teachers Threaten to Strike Over Pension Reforms
Schools across England and Wales could close for a day during the summer term as a result of proposed strike action by the Association of Teachers and Lecturers. At the h...
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