The Early Years Curriculum

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Special Focus: Has the Education Recovery Plan boosted the sector?

Practice
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Speech and Language: Explore a new evidence-based programme, Talking Time

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Using tape measures outside at Marcham
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Essential Resources: Equip for Maths

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We’ve explored… crocodiles

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Meeting Flaxie (left) and sitting down for storytime (below)
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Let’s go to… Lisburn Museum, County Antrim

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An evaluation of NELI reveals the intervention improved children's language skills, PHOTO: Adobe Stock
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Covid catch-up programme 'boosted' children's language skills by at least four months

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The plants in my street: Oak trees

Outdoors
Being physically active is a recipe for happiness.
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Health & Wellbeing: Tuning in to what makes children happy

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Kids Planet Stretton
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Make the outdoors a place of 'irresistible temptations'

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Babies and toddlers who have not had their movement restricted are more confident and agile, with greater spatial awareness PHOTO Julia Manning-Morton
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The Pikler approach to free movement: Letting children lead their development

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Children use the ground outside as a large-scale canvas PHOTO Claire Martin
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Mark making part 2: Link projects to your curriculum

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Inspired by The Three Little Pigs, children ‘cemented’ bricks together with mud
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An A to Z of enhancements M is for Mud

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It's down to adults to make the experience of being read to an engaging one.
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Essential Resources: Maximise opportunities for literacy

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Being around animals can be very calming.
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We've explored… ponies

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Let's go to… The Museum of Liverpool

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'It's all about creating well-rounded citizens'.
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‘Take a thoughtful and personalised approach to building your curriculum’

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