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The importance of Children’s Book Week (part 2)
Boundaries are put in place to protect children because they are loved. Children feel safer when they are restricted and disciplined and so without boundaries these child...
The importance of Children’s Book Week (part 1)
It didn’t take the years of working towards a degree in psychology to help me understand why it’s important. Nor did it take 2 decades of working at the highest level...
Place value & mental calculation activities
I’m often asked about key primary mathematics resources. At this time of year, all year groups are revisiting and developing their knowledge of place value and...
Numbers and the Number System
All Foundation Stage practitioners are familiar with teaching children to recognise and start to understand numbers, but something struck me during a training session I l...
Original musicals for schools & theatre groups
So Andrew Lloyd-Webber has released amateur rights for schools to perform ‘Cats’ and ‘Phantom of the Opera’. How are we supposed to feel about this? Undoubted...
Colour recognition: Sometimes a beige wall is a better wall
The world is full of colour so it is little wonder that we are all keen to get children recognising and naming their colours as soon as possible. Like everything e...
Storytelling Starters for Children’s Book Week
Next week is Children’s Book Week. But how do you get children to listen to stories? How do you keep their attention? As a professional storyteller, I have been asked t...
Interactive games
I’ve put a bit of info together about one of our sponsors – busythings.co.uk to draw your attention to their great website. Busythings is an online subscription servi...
Sleep & Sleep Problems in the Early Years (part 2)
On the Sleep Solutions workshop for parents and professionals (run by Scope), it was interesting to share recurring and common themes in sleep related problems....
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