John Parry, Senior Lecturer in Early Childhood I’ve been a researcher and practitioner for more years than I can actually remember but the privilege and pleasure of working within the world of Early Childhood Education endures. Sharing, supporting, celebrating the...
Shanti Flynn, PACEY Trustee and Head of Education at Storal Many of the children in settings today have spent much of their life under unique circumstances, where their movements where restricted and it is likely that they had less social interactions; not just with...
Junaid Mubeen, Mathematician, Educator and Author Rishi Sunak has come out in favour of making children continue to study maths until they are 18. But he is focused on the wrong objective: helping children to grasp numbers from an early age is far more important....
Penny Tassoni, PACEY President Imagine the scene; a potter has been invited into an early years setting. Two children at a time are invited to come and explore the clay. The first pair to come to try out the activity were born within a day of each other. One child...
Zara Smith, PACEY Advisor In England and Wales there is a clear focus on the importance of following children’s interests through play. In England, one of the four overarching, guiding principles of the EYFS is that ‘children learn and develop well in enabling...
Click to Read in English Cliciwch i ddarllen yn Gymraeg Elizabeth Jarman, Learning environments expert and author Tactile sensory experiences explored the importance of these experiences for children’s development along with planning the environment and activities to...
