Specialist Teacher for Early Years. Our purpose is PLAY. It’s how we got here and its the only way forward.
United Kingdom
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Early Years funding will always remain tight but this…
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📹 You can use the link below to access the video recording of this lecture:
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🔔 Join us today for our Lunch Hour Lecture ‘Beyond Ofsted’ – the future of school inspection' with Professors @alicejbradbury and @JaneEPerryman.
Find out more and book your place here:
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🎄Advent Calendars and SEMH
An actual and symbolic seasonal self-regulation tip…on LinkedIn
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Early Years SEND - a guide to all Key Stages:
As a nation slightly addicted to shopping, in an educational climate which tempts us with product-based solutions, it is essential that we remember…
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😶Secondary School Exclusion
Child receives 5 day exclusion the day before end of Term 6.
Guess what happens next?
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Before ‘Bucket Time’ gets written as a legal requirement into an EHCP…..oh.
Now that ‘Bucket Time’ is being written into EHCPs as a legal requirement…we REALLY need to talk about Attention Autism and Early Years.
And we’ll be doing this on Bluesky.
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The relationship between child poverty & educational outcomes is well established, with children from lower-income households less likely to achieve than children from more affluent families.
How can we reduce inequality in the early years?
@CPAGUK @EndChildPoverty
Research from 'The Balancing Act' by @charliehacking and @Dominic_Wyse @HHCP_UCL will be shared as part of this training, explaining the place phonics should have, not the one it currently has with SSP!
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This new report provides detailed evidence on the availability of early education and childcare. It confirms that families in disadvantaged areas face greater barriers to accessing EY provision locally and that there are significant regional variations 1/2
NEW: Today marks the release of a world-first study by @Mitch_Inst mapping childcare access for 10 million children across nine countries. The study finds England to be one of the worst countries with 30% of people living in a 'childcare desert' 1/2
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In terms of creditable research, the behaviourist approach has always been found wanting, rooted in a place of evidence-lite ideology. However, this important area is always explored, with international, peer-reviewed studies in the @SebdaOrg journal
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I have recorded a second series of free short videos with @naomicfisher for Autism Central about education. They include ways to work with school, but also some suggestions if school isn't working and you need to find another way.
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Rather than echoing this alarming news as ‘post-Covid figures’, I’ll rename it more accurately as ‘Post Inclusion figures’. This is with the best intention of preparing our education system for an urgent, honest, thorough redesign 🤞
📚 | NEW REPORT: School exclusions & suspensions are on the rise, and it is disproportionately affecting certain children. Our new report with @TheDifferenceEd looks at the scale & impact of the problem, including the huge cost to the state.
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Remember, for those gestalt language processing children we are welcoming to Year R next week:
'When we stop teaching and prompting language and start listening and modelling language naturally, the child may thrive!' (thanks to Meaningful Speech)
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… and they have made me a better, more effective professional. It may be possible that it can still be used, subversively, in this way until ultimately rescued and restored.
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