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...
Samantha Gordon What is the significance of assessing progress at this stage, why not wait until between three and four years when they’re ready for school?As an early years SEND manager in a nursery supporting children with physical disabilities and neurodiversity, I...
Sue Newman, Boogie Mites There’s a football chant: “Sing when you’re winning, you only sing when you’re winning”. But we think they have it round the wrong way. At Boogie Mites we would chant “ Win when your singing, you’re gonna win when you’re singing! What We All...
