Join the Early Excellence community and explore a wide range of news items, inspirational updates and practical guidance across the EYFS and into Key Stage 1. Take a look below and get ready to take your KS1 & EYFS Practice & Pedagogy forward. You will also find that some blogs are available as a Podcast too, offering you and your team an easy way to keep up to date and enhance your CPD.
Settings which focus on displaying key words have potentially missed the point. Acquiring new words and their context is linked to meaningful experience and talk.
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Transform tidy-up time into a valuable learning experience. Learn how to plan and execute tidying routines that promote skills and concepts.
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Discover the power of learning maths outdoors. Explore how outdoor environments can enhance mathematical learning experiences.
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Do your early years classroom spaces truly reflect your vision for learning? Have they come together by accident or been carefully planned?
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Explore why a setting up an effective Dough Area will enhance children’s creativity and imagination, foster collaboration and encourage talk.
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Discover how to incorporate Incidental Learning in KS1. Find out how to make the most of ‘befores and afters’ and in-between times.
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Some areas of resources are most effective when used in relation to others. Explore why small world and block area are perfect together.
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Ofsted state that curriculum begins when children first join the school. Are school leaders ready to examine EYFS curriculum strategically?
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Discover the impact of schematic play on children’s learning and development. Recognise the signs and explore the benefits.
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Looking to enhance your maths teaching practice? Here’s some practical examples to help embed those important number skills.
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Teaching children the principles of counting is crucial for their math development. Discover practical activities and strategies for EYFS.
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Explore the rich learning opportunities a Home Corner provides for language development and social-emotional growth in EYFS.
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