Ore Church Mice Pre-School PHOTOS Terri Pengilley

Physical Development: Strategies to develop co-ordination and balance

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Using a potter’s wheel at Little Barn Owls

All about… clay

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Co-regulation experiences have an impact on a child’s developing mind PHOTO Adobe Stock

How co-regulation helps to build trust

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The children take part in beach-based activities, outdoors as well as indoors ALL PHOTOS Naturally Learning

Essential resources: Nursery World visits… Naturally Learning Falmouth

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Encourage children's use of a telescope.

Outdoors: Stem – discover the Sky at Night

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Toddlers and babies were given large Velcro spots to transport and stick on themselves or boards.

We’ve explored… artists

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Communication with parents is also important, to discuss concerns around a child’s anxiety and talk about strategies that can be used to support them both in the setting and at home.

Health & Wellbeing: Dealing with children's anxieties

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What Research Tells Us: ‘Children’s voices: Inclusive early childhood placemaking with children’

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Children demonstrated their abilities to ‘create and think critically’ as they come up with their own ideas.

An A to Z of enhancements: R is for Ramps

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Taking time to explore materials is linked to having the support of adults.

Alison Clark's slow pedagogy: Being slow with materials

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‘Afternoons were extended times painting at the beach, learning about the birds’

Book extract: Alison Clark's Slow Knowledge and the Unhurried Child

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Supporting the development of fundamental movement skills requires a mixture of play and structured activities

Fundamental movement skills: What are they and how can they be supported?

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