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There was something rather serendipitous about how I came to read Children, Our Future, Barbara and Terry Bell’s account of the struggle for early childhood care and education in…
We spend a great deal of time in Early Years thinking about what children eat, what they drink, how much they move and whether they spend enough time outdoors.
Continuing with the Christmas Advent tradition, on day thirteen of Christmas Advent 2019 let’s reflect on the new Education Inspection Framework (EIF)… https://leyf.org.uk/ready-steady-the-new-education-inspection-framework-has-arrived/ It was the longest and largest…
Continuing with the Christmas Advent tradition, on day twelve of Christmas Advent 2019 let’s reflect on whatever happened to life long learning?… https://leyf.org.uk/whatever-happened-to-lifelong-learning/ What do I mean by lifelong…
Continuing with the Christmas Advent tradition, on day eleven of Christmas Advent 2019 let’s reflect on what the pedagogy looks like in practice? Read my recent post reflecting on pedagogy…
Continuing with the Christmas Advent tradition, on day ten of Christmas Advent 2019 let’s reflect on what is cultural capital? Now that Ofsted has introduced the concept into the…
Last week I went on a Pedajolly to Birmingham to the Nursery World Conference with two colleagues. Ben who leads the LEYF Training Academy and Jean who manages a…
Continuing with the Christmas Advent tradition, on day eight of Christmas Advent 2019 let’s reflect on the power of books… https://leyf.org.uk/enjoy-books-on-world-book-day-dont-worry-too-much-about-dressing-up/ Which of the books that were on…
Continuing with the Christmas Advent tradition, on day seven of Christmas Advent 2019 let’s reflect on reclaiming the outdoors for children… https://leyf.org.uk/reclaim-the-outdoors-for-children/ In the education world, outdoors was hijacked…
Continuing with the Christmas Advent tradition, on day six of Christmas Advent 2019 let’s reflect on FABULOUS early years teachers… https://leyf.org.uk/dont-call-me-sweet-i-am-a-fast-furious-and-fabulous-early-years-teacher/ I am always so proud of…
Continuing with the Christmas Advent tradition, on day five of Christmas Advent 2019 let’s reflect on Social Enterprise… https://leyf.org.uk/time-out-to-reflect-on-social-enterprise/ Back in January I attended a social enterprise conference in…
Continuing with the Christmas Advent tradition, on day four of Christmas Advent 2019 let’s reflect on the the different types of play… https://leyf.org.uk/messy-play-not-messi-plays/ Do you know the different types…
Continuing with the Christmas Advent tradition, on day three of Christmas Advent 2019 let’s reflect on the importance of partnerships… https://leyf.org.uk/the-importance-of-partnership/ In this blog post from January, I discussed…
Continuing with the Christmas Advent tradition, on day two of Christmas Advent 2019 let’s reflect on funding for quality childcare provision… https://leyf.org.uk/quality-childcare-it-starts-with-meaningful-investment/ If nurseries are central to society, we…
