Early Years Curriculum

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EYFS activities - Education for Sustainability: Hot topic

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Painting with mops helps to develop children’s shoulder and elbow muscles
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Curriculum - In focus… ready to write

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Exploring 3D objects feeds into many areas of the early years curriculum
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Expressive Arts and Design: 3D Structures: Shaping up

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Children have been engaged in activities including investigating spiders and harvesting food from the allotment
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EYFS Activities - An A to Z of learning: U is for understanding the world around them

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Essential Resources: Containing Scheme - Going all in

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Your outdoor calendar: December

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The children enjoyed observing the building site, taking photos and using it to inspire their play
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EYFS Activities - We’ve explored… a building site

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Millie’s Garden involves the children in composting and even has a compost toilet
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EYFS Activities - Education for Sustainability: Nothing wasted

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Practitioners must know the value of digital play, and learning that combines both physical and digital resources
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Curriculum - In focus… Technology

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Listening to and making music helps children to express their emotions and self-regulate
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Music in The Early Years - Strike a chord

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Lorna Wigley
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Nursery Management: Embedding the revised EYFS - What matters

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Creating the museum enabled the children to use a variety of tools and skills
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EYFS Activities - We’ve explored… fairies

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Practitioners should note the places where talk happens between children
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EYFS Activities - An A to Z of learning: T is for talk

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One concern raised is that the framework’s approach to reading is too simplistic and phonics-based
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Best Practice - War of words

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Small-world play offers the opportunity to reflect both familiar environments and those beyond personal experience
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Revised EYFS - In focus… A sense of place

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Early mark making is the beginning of children’s journey to becoming confident writers when they are older
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EYFS Best Practice - All about… mark making

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