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Weekly Forest School Ideas - 3
Each week I will give you an idea for an activity that I have used in my Forest School sessions. I will try to link it to the EYFS (2014)...
Louise
Jul 14, 20192 min read
Weekly Forest School Ideas - 3.
Each week I will give you an idea for an activity that I have used in my Forest School sessions. I will try to link it to the EYFS (2014)...
Louise
Jul 14, 20192 min read
Weekly Forest School Ideas - 2
Each week I will give you an idea for an activity that I have used in my Forest School sessions. I will try to link it to the EYFS (2014)...
Louise
Jul 8, 20192 min read
Weekly Forest School Ideas - 2.
Each week I will give you an idea for an activity that I have used in my Forest School sessions. I will try to link it to the EYFS (2014)...
Louise
Jul 8, 20192 min read
Weekly Forest School Ideas - 1.
Each week I will give you an idea for an activity that I have used in my Forest School sessions. I will try to link it to the EYFS (2014)...
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Jun 30, 20192 min read
Weekly Forest School Ideas - 1.
Each week I will give you an idea for an activity that I have used in my Forest School sessions. I will try to link it to the EYFS (2014)...
Louise
Jun 30, 20192 min read
Childcare Expo Review
I set out with such grand ideas, telling the Secretary of State for Children and Families Nadhim Zahawi (who was opening the show and...
Louise
Mar 14, 20192 min read
Childcare Expo review
I set out with such grand ideas, telling the Secretary of State for Children and Families Nadhim Zahawi (who was opening the show and...
Louise
Mar 14, 20192 min read
A review of Nursery World Show 2019
I attended the second day of the Nursery World Show 2019 quite late in the day. I was greeted by some half-interested staff who sort of...
Louise
Feb 3, 20192 min read
Schematic Outdoor Learning
Picture the scene, a child is constantly filling a pram/wheelbarrow/buggy/bag with your lovely loose parts and dumping them all over the...
Louise
Jan 20, 20192 min read
Proposed Early Years Inspection Handbook
Good news everybody! Ofsted have released the proposed Early Years Inspection Handbook set to come into effect in September 2019. Yet...
Louise
Jan 19, 20193 min read
Ofsted Questions.
Some lovely people on Facebook have asked for some of the questions me and my staff were asked during our recent Ofsted inspection. I...
Louise
Jan 14, 20192 min read
You know who.
Friday lunchtime, a phone call, it’s 12.10. Who else could it be but Ofsted? A Sunday afternoon staff meeting, reminders of Safeguarding...
Louise
Jan 12, 20192 min read
Capturing a child’s response.
Every Father’s Day, Mother’s Day, Christmas etc. there used to be a huge push for the children to churn out a production line led gift...
Louise
Jul 16, 20172 min read
The third teacher?
We’ve recently had our 2-4 year old room repainted and I fell in love with how wonderful and clean it looked without the furniture and...
Louise
May 30, 20173 min read
Childcare Expo experiences.
As I stepped off the packed Saturday train at Olympia I didn’t know what to expect and was vaguely aware that I was growing increasingly...
Louise
May 30, 20173 min read
Forest School beginnings.
‘Bred in captivity’. A phrase I couldn’t get out of my head after I read it and I couldn’t unread it. It went round and round in my brain...
Louise
May 30, 20172 min read
First Steps.
I have always needed the sort of job where it matters if I turn up or not, a sort of vanity. I’ve had office jobs were i’ve spent hours...
Louise
May 30, 20173 min read
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