Articles by Sam Sach

About Sam Sach
Sam is an Early Years teacher, writer and consultant from the UK, holding both Qualified Teacher Status and Early Years Professional Status. She is especially passionate about play based pedagogy, playing outdoors more and raising standards in Early Years. Sam has 3 children of her own, periodically loves to run and was raised an Arsenal fan but, under duress, now supports Tranmere Rovers!

Does gender equality start in the Early Years?

  What is gender equality? When we talk about gender equality, this encompasses a range of concepts; fundamentally, gender equality is about having equal opportunities, expectations and rewards regardless of gender. The stereotypes we have […]

Books for children in the EYFS

Reading for pleasure is one of the biggest predictors of academic success, and laying early foundations for this is incredibly important. Reading with children sets them up for a positive relationship and association with books […]

What the EYFS can do for Gender Equality

Children in the Early Years Foundation Stage come from a range of backgrounds, with their parents and carers at home providing their primary form of socialisation. In the home we often find varying ideas about […]

More books for children in the EYFS

Enjoying books and reading is an excellent indicator of future academic success and helps children to meet several of the Early Learning Goals set out in the EYFS. Here we look at some more of the […]

Promoting physical development at home

  In the years spanned by the Early Years Foundation Stage children’s physical development is extremely rapid, compare a newborn and a 5-year-old and you will see HUGE differences. However, ‘physical development’ as understood by […]

Promoting social skills at home

When we think about children in the EYFS developing ‘social skills’ we rightly think about them forming friendships with other children, learning to play together and to co-operate and share, but ‘social skills’ extend much […]

Promoting literacy skills at home

Literacy is one of the key skills that parents call to mind when they think about Education. Perhaps, this is a hangover from the “3Rs” era of education; Reading, Writing and Arithmetic or from the […]

STEM skills in the EYFS

If you’ve had much to do with education or parenting in the last few years then it’s likely that you will have heard the terms STEM or STEAM and noticed an emphasis on these kinds […]

STEM learning at home

Having considered the importance of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) as part of the EYFS it is important to realise too that at this age, the home learning environment also has a massive impact […]

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