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Guest Post: Documenting Children's Learning

Apr 30, 2019

We are very lucky to have a fabulous guest post this week from inspirational Reception teacher Elizabeth Jobson. This week we will explore child led learning in her Reception class... her truly favourite place to be in education.

I am a big fan of child initiated and interest led learning; applying this to my practice daily. I make this evident in my classroom in a range of ways; one of them being my displays. I feel the reading area is one of the most important areas in the classroom and it must be cosy, calm and filled with books relevant to the current topic so children can further their learning and understanding in their independent learning time. This year, I decided on a simple display. All it took was some yarn and mini pegs. At the end of each week, I print out the covers of the books we have read. It is such an easy display to keep up with but look how effective it looks. I leave the books in the reading area until the end of the topic/half term and the...

How to teach children to respect resources

Apr 29, 2019

“When a flower doesn’t bloom, you fix the environment in which it grows, not the flower.”

― Alexander Den Heijer

For those of you that have been following me for a while now you’ll know that I spent a long period of time working in a challenging Bradford school Nursery. Many children were vulnerable to learning, they started with us typically well below average and they needing a high level of support and nurture to thrive.

At the time in our setting we had a mixture of plastic and natural resources. When I worked in the setting I would find that the resources would be mixed up, transported around the room or children would often walk away from an area without setting it back up for the next person. I often found that the plastic resources were the ones that were dropped on the floor because there was no real consequence of the resource breaking.

This would frustrate me greatly… especially when I looked on Instagram and...

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