The ELHQ Blog
Welcome to the ELHQ blog. We use this space to let you know about any new teaching resources we have put on to the site and to share any interesting thoughts or observations relating to the world of early years education. Please feel free to share your thoughts about any of the issues raised by leaving comments underneath the posts.
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Story Catching
I stumbled across the website of a charity called Creativity Culture and Education the other day and thought I’d spread the word. CCE is committed to encouraging ch...
World Book Night
As a footnote to my post earlier today about World Book Day I thought I’d draw readers’ attention to an alternative supplementary event taking place on March the 5th....
World Book Day
As I’m sure you’re all aware World Book Day is nearly upon us. Dates vary in other countries but in 2011 here in the UK it will be celebrated on March the 3rd....
Plans for EYFS league tables abolished
I’m sure that early years practitioners up and down the country are breathing a collective sigh of relief this week after the announcement that plans to publish the Ear...
Teaching Schools Network
According to The Times Education supplement some 810 teachers have expressed an interest in becoming one of the coalition government’s 500 new ‘teaching schools’. R...
A Foundation for Life: The New Landscape for the Early Years
It’s not too late to book your ticket for the Foundation for Life national conference held in London on the 2nd of March. Bringing together Ministers, early years exper...
Support ‘Teacher Support Cymru’
Early Learning HQ is based in the wonderful city of Swansea so we take a particular interest in all things relating to teaching in Wales. I thought I’d use the blog to...
Learning through play literacy slump
I recently wrote a blog post with a very brief overview of two competing attitudes towards free flow play. I thought I’d follow this up by mentioning an article I read...
The impact of the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) – Ofsted report
Last week a survey assessing the impact that the Early Years Foundation Stage has had on provision and developmental outcomes for young children was published. Based on v...
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