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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First ELHQ original children’s story & youtube video

Some of you may have noticed that we put a link to our youtube channel on the site a few weeks ago. Until last night it has been completely empty but we’ve now uploaded...

Visual timetable update

Just a quick note to say that following a suggestion from one of our visitors we’ve updated our visual timetable to include ‘golden time’ and ‘carpet time’....

The Big Light Project

  Yesterday I spent the evening uploading several lesson plans designed by Recolight as part of their Big Light Project. Recolight is a not–for-profit organisation tha...

Phonics testing for 5 & 6 year olds

I wrote last night about plans to introduce reading tests for children in Wales. It has since been pointed out to me that there are also plans to introduce a phonics test...

New reading tests to be introduced for Welsh children

As I’m sure you all know, ELHQ is based in the city of Swansea (the home of Wales’ only premiership football team). As such we take a keen interest in matters affecti...

Government rejects recommendations to restructure Ofsted

I was interested to read this week that the Government has rejected the Education Select Committee’s recommendation to divide OFSTED in two....

Public sector strikes

As I’m sure you all know, members of the National Union of Teachers and the Association of Teachers and Lecturers will be on strike tomorrow resulting in the closure of...

Learning through risky play

  I thought I’d supplement my recent posts about the value of play and the need to promote emotional intelligence with a few words about risky play. This is a some...

Castle Resources

  Eagle eyed visitors will have noticed that we’ve added several new castle themed resources to our themes / topics section. If you haven’t seen them then please...