Education & Learning

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 […]

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 can the EYFS learn from Roald Dahl?

Every September, Roald Dahl’s Stories are celebrated in many UK primary schools. Children enjoy dressing up as characters from their favourite story, listening to some of Roald Dahl’s books and completing special work and activities […]

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 […]

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 […]

Children’s right to play and the EYFS

Article 31.1 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child sets out children’s right to play, it reads; “States Parties recognize the right of the child to rest and leisure, to engage […]