Time is ticking. Do you have your ticket yet? In the current drive towards all children sitting down for far too long, and following an adult agenda, have you considered thought about how your environment affects the children? #EY Tagteam #EY #curriculum #pedagogy #brain #EY FS

'We feel that children learn about life through their play and each child approaches play out of their own individuality' Janni Nicol (Early Childhood Executive - Steiner Waldorf Schools Fellowship
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#Steiner #play #earlyyears

What is self regulation? Let the master that is David Whitebread explain: sirenfilms.co.uk/library/david-…… #earlyyears #eymatters #selfregulation #Vygotsky #eytagteam

This film from Siren Films Ltd, 'Two Year Olds Outdoors' gives an interesting insight into why spending time outdoors is essential for children's physical development, as well as improving their language, imagination and social skills.

#OutdoorLearning 🌳

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Snowdrops are everywhere and spring has truly sprung 🌿🌱🪻...watch this clip about two children discussing if they should touch them or not! sirenfilms.co.uk/library/snow-d… #COEL #SST #communication #nature #spring #earlyyears

It seems that learning resources are seen as a luxury in the EY sector- which is wrong 🫤 Here are some reasons how our clip library can save you money, time and will help with quality delivery: sirenfilms.co.uk/8-reasons-why-…

Friday quote #Piaget

How does vision develop in babies? sirenfilms.co.uk/how-does-visio…

#earlyyears #babies #Gopnik #development

We re-watched this over the w'end- have you seen it? Its the brilliant Michael Rosen 💙💙🎓🎓 taking about pretend play. In the clip Michael uses footage from the British Library along with some of our footage. Give it a watch and share with your colleagues: sirenfilms.co.uk/an-introductio…

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Today at Siren Film’s we celebrate David Attenborough Day. On this day a few years ago we received a letter from the legend himself telling us how he watched our films with ‘unalloyed delight’ - what an endorsement 🩵
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#filmmaking #endorsement

Lovely to have Dr Sue Allingham #Birthto5Matters at Siren Films. Lots of work going on!! 😂😂 #earlyyears

Caroline Vollans explores why early years employers should be more supportive of staff with severe menstrual symptoms. nurseryworld.co.uk/features/artic…

The ECSDN will be publishing their Early Childhood Manifesto 2024. Watch this space for a launch date virtually in June and launch event in September. We are pleased to showcase the need for Early Childhood to be at the top of policies for the future. #ECSDNManifesto

Children living near Sure Start centres did better at GCSEs, study suggests Further evidence that investing at the start of life can change the whole story ECSDN ⁦TACTYC⁩ ⁦Nursery World⁩ bbc.co.uk/news/education…

The first thing I was taught when I began working with children. I never forgotten it ‘Let children play’: the educational message from across Europe
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Take a look at this clip about shared care. Its a section from one of our short courses that come as part of the EY video library subscription. sirenfilms.co.uk/library/introd… #earlyyears #secondaryattachment #keyperson #sharedcare #eymatters #eytagteam

Have you booked your tickets to this one off event yet? Dr Kathryn Murray and I will be looking at how the environment affects learning and how we must use neuroscience to plan. This is based on Kathy’s theory of Brain-SET

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Off to Newcastle today to spend a couple of days working with the lovely Siren Films Ltd - we’re going to put together more exemplification to support accurate assessment

We are really excited to welcome Philippa Thompson to the early childhood team. She will be joining us at the beginning of May to course lead our EYITE, and module lead on Early Childhood & Primary outdoor learning. Welcome Philippa we can’t wait to have you join our team.