Early Years

How Roblox might help children’s learning in the EYFS

The issues with too much screen time have long been documented and discussed, and many teachers, particularly those in the EYFS, take issue with children’s “obsession” with computer games. Of course, children permanently glued […]

What breastfeeding mums want childcare providers to know

The World Health Organisation and UNICEF recommend that children initiate breastfeeding within the first hour of birth and be exclusively breastfed for the first 6 months of life – meaning no other foods or liquids are […]

To the EYFS teachers delivering remote learning

Here in the UK, we’re back in lockdown, and schools are only open to vulnerable children or those whose parents are critical workers and so we find ourselves with Early Years teachers having to deliver […]

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 […]

Teaching Maths in the Early Years Foundation Stage

It may seem to some outside the sector that there is little more to early maths than helping children learn to count effectively and have some emerging number knowledge. Whilst learning to count can […]

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 […]