Category: Early Years
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Back to My Roots
Recently I spent a day in a local nursery; they had generously invited me in and I jumped at the chance. Here’s what I did – stomped like dinosaurs, shared stories, tried to make the loudest roar, hand-clapping, jumped off of surfaces, slid down slides, built a motorbike, created towers with tyres, climbed in and…
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Waving My Arms Around: How Conducting Helped Me See the Value in Setting Challenges.
Conducting the windband last weekend brought to mind memories of when I first worked in early years; and didn’t really know what I was doing. I stood at the front, waving my arms in the air, trying to get the attention of the flautists, clarinetists and trumpeters while they looked the other way and played their own…
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When do you play?
As a practitioner in the Early Years sector you know a lot about play and spend your time at work observing children at play. You notice when they are absorbed in the action of digging in the flower beds or leading cars around the floor. You listen intently as they tell you about their adventures…
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Reflective Practice – What Next?
So, last time I wrote about reflective practice and told you about one of my favourite strategies, reflective lenses, to get the most out of this process but what do you do when you’ve done all of this reflection? The best kind of reflective practice leads to some development of your practice, of those around…