Author: Ali

Webinar: Musical Creativity In The Baby Room With Dr Mona Sakr

In this online workshop, we’ll focus on practical ways to bring more musical creativity into the baby room daily. Dr Mona Sakr will offer starting points for bringing more musical creativity into the baby room. Then, there will be the chance to work together to develop practical ideas and tips that you can take back to your place of work to make a difference immediately. We know that musical creativity is something that binds babies, children and adults together – it’s part of what makes us who we are. So, finding ways to be more musically creative with babies is part of developing a happier and healthier baby room.

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Panel Webinar: Eight to Relate

Join our free Live Panel Webinar on October 14th and discover Eight to Relate, a pioneering auditing tool designed to enhance personal, social, and emotional aspects of Early Years settings. This holistic approach places connection and relationships at the core of practice.

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Vodcast: A Walk Through the EEF Early Years Evidence Store

A Professional Conversation About Evidence-Informed Practice

The Education Endowment Foundation (EEF) has created an Evidence Store, which includes six key themes with evidence-informed approaches for supporting young children’s learning and development in the early years.

We have created a Vodcast which provides a “Walk through the Evidence Store”, with suggestions and guidance about how to make best use of this resource.

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Webinar: Thinking About Staff Meetings with Cassie Holland

This quick-watch webinar (only 22 minutes) gets us thinking about how to make the most of the precious time we spend together as teams at staff meetings in early years settings. Throughout the webinar, we use the Education Endowment Foundation’s guide to effective professional development in the early years to deepen our thinking about staff meetings.

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Making a Difference to Children Disadvantaged Through Poverty by Simone Barnes

The term disadvantage is one that is well known amongst early years professionals. The children’s commissioner describes it as “a term used to describe children facing barriers to success” but also acknowledges that the definition comes with complexities due to the many ways it can manifest itself. Despite the complexity of the definition, there is no doubt that we have a vital role in tackling disadvantage in the early years. Here, our focus will be on those disadvantaged through poverty.

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Webinar: Brilliant Bilingualism with Dr Rose Drury

The webinar will explore young bilingual children’s use of first language(s) and learning of a new language in the Early Years. The advantages of growing up learning more than one language will be discussed, and strategies will be developed for fostering children’s bilingualism and supporting and assessing the learning of English. It will help make links with current policy guidance and discuss how to put this into practice with bilingual children and their families to develop strategies for supporting bilingual children’s learning.

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NEW BLOG POST: The Joy of Reading: How to Help Children Read for Pleasure Through Identity and Belonging by Esther Molyneux
📢 New Blog Post: The Magic of Emerging Literacy in the Early Years by Ali Carrington