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Metacognitive Strategies in the EYFS

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  What are metacognitive strategies in the EYFS and how do you incorporate into every day practice? In the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS), metacognitive strategies are approaches that help […]

Display’s In The Early Years

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Creating engaging and educational displays in early years settings is a powerful way to enhance learning and inspire young minds. Thoughtful displays can stimulate curiosity, reinforce learning concepts, and provide […]

Creating Your Own Curriculum In The Early Years

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The early years are crucial for a child’s development, and a well-crafted curriculum can lay a strong foundation for lifelong learning. Creating your own curriculum enables early years settings to […]

Mindfulness In The Early Years

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“In today’s rush, we all think too much – seek too much – want too much – and forget about the joy of just being” (Eckhart Tolle) What is mindfulness?  […]

Progression Planning In The EYFS

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Progression Planning Finding a starting point for your planning can sometimes be hard, especially right at the beginning of the year. As practitioners and teachers we want to ensure all […]

How to plan effectively in the EYFS?

Early Years Staffroom Blog Post

Whether you are a fan of planning in your head, planning in the moment, handwritten plans or typing them up we know that planning is vital to ensure that teaching […]

Why do we have a Two-Year Progress Check?

Early Years Staffroom Blog

“What happens early – matters for a lifetime” The 2022 Dfe guidance on the Two-Year Progress Check has been updated and reflects the revised EYFS and Development matters (2021).  The […]

Why is Tinkering important in the EYFS?

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Tinkering is about having the opportunity to explore, make mistakes and discover how things work. It may mean testing, fixing, breaking and fixing again!  Children are curious by nature and […]

Are home visits a good idea?

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Are home visits a good idea? By Sarah Detheridge at the Early Years Staffroom The statutory framework for the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) does not refer to home visits […]

The Voice of a Child

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What does it mean? It means to express how we go about creating meaningful engagement with our early years children. It means to understand a child and give them the […]

Do you need to prepare for Ofsted?

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“Before anything else, preparation is the key to success”  (Alexander Graham Bell)   “Please, don’t overload your teams with preparatory work ‘for Ofsted’. Just don’t do it. And don’t run […]

Language and Communication

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Language and Communication “The early years are the crucial years for making a difference” (Development Matters 2021)   By Sarah Detheridge   Why do we have a communication and language […]

Sensory Integration Disorder – Blog Post

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Sensory Integration Disorder  By Sarah Detheridge   “We should celebrate neurodiversity – the world would be poorer and life duller if we were all the same” (Neil Milliken).   Our […]

How Do You Plan An Enabling Environment?

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Enabling Environments By Sarah Detheridge   What is an enabling environment and why is it important in early years? From birth, children actively seek out information about how the world […]

Looking into Development Matters Changes

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I have seen some myths and confusion around development matters so I conducted my own research to find out the facts and share them with everyone working in Early Years. […]

Do you teach Phonics in Nursery?

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Should phonics be taught in Nursery? It is an interesting question. Some may say, children of this age are far too young to learn phonics, let them play! children have […]

Home-schooling in Early Years EYFS

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Home-schooling can be amazing but it can also be the most stressful thing in the world, we want to help eliminate any stress that home-schooling can give you, so that […]

What is so special about Forest School?

During my childhood I was very much outdoors for most of the time. I was happiest when I was outside with my friends making dens and feeling free. I remember […]

Wellbeing in the Early Years

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Children’s emotional health, well-being and involvement in the EYFS Wellbeing, according to the Oxford Dictionary is the state of being comfortable, healthy and happy. For children they need their basic […]

Characteristics of Effective Learning

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The Characteristics of Effective Learning and why are they important? Children need motivation to learn. Motivation is more important than intelligence and is the key to success for children and […]

Outdoor Learning in the Early Years

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As Early Years Practitioners, we know children need to be outside. But do we really know why? I hear many people saying that they are not getting the right support […]

What is Cultural Capital?

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There is a new framework for inspections. This framework sets out Ofsted’s inspection principles and the main judgements that inspectors make. There are no changes to development matters as of […]

Using A Curiosity Cube – by Miss Grey and Play

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Last term we added ‘The Curiosity Cube‘ to our provision after being inspired online. My poor other half sacrificed his Nespresso coffee displaying cube for the children (who needs their […]

In The Moment Planning

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‘In the moment planning’ by Katherine Houghton at Early Years Staffroom and Louise Smith at All Play Matters. How often are staff bogged down by endless paperwork, spending more time […]

What is Wellbeing? by Guest Blogger Katey Moxley 

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What is Wellbeing?  There are many different definitions of wellbeing but perhaps the most agreeable is “the state of being comfortable, healthy and happy”. Our lifestyle and health related habits […]

Why do children need independence?

Why do children need independence? As a teacher my question is ‘why would you not want your child to be independent?’ Parents are children’s first educators and as a parent […]

Why let children take risks?

Early Childhood Education Blogs

Is society in the UK becoming ‘Health and Safety obsessed’ and why is it so detrimental to child development? More and more children are arriving at school without properly developed […]