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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Encouraging cultural diversity in the early years

David Cameron’s speech last week regarding what he sees as the relative failings of multiculturalism in the UK put issues of cultural diversity back in the spotlight. T...

Speech and language difficulties

I went to see the King’s Speech the other day and it made me think about developing resources to help those with speech and language difficulties. Anyway, when I got ho...

Factors to consider when choosing books to promote positive images

1)    What roles do the male and females play, are males always dominant, leading characters? E.g. boys active and positive, girls passive and following. 2)    In w...

Government cut backs and policy changes affecting early childhood education

Here at ELHQ we strive to offer quality free teaching resources for parents, primary schools and nurseries across the world. We work with teachers on a day to day basis a...

The Importance of Free-Flow Play

There is a lot of debate at the moment about the importance of learning through play. Against this backdrop we thought we’d take a brief look at the traditional notion...

Developing Personal, Social and Emotional Learning with Treasure Boxes

Just a quick note to draw attention to an idea that was featured in Nursery World magazine back in September. Someone sent this article to me recently and I thought it wa...

An early years education blog is born

Howdy y’all. Just testing out our new blog. Please keep checking back, this post is obviously a bit pointless and frivolous but I promise that from now on the posts...