Early Excellence Podcast

In this week’s Podcast, Andy interviews Maeve Birdsall & Jasmine Priestley from Co-op Academy Oakwood in Leeds. Together with Claire Clithero, they have written and published a book that shows the positive impact on children when they value and nurture creativity.

• Order the Rainbow Birds Book Online
• Explore more about Oakwood Academy
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How is colour used within your classroom? In this week’s Podcast Episode, Andy explores the use of colour and poses some key questions to consider including whether it is really needed to keep children engaged or if it is distracting to the learning. There are also lots of top tips for alternatives to move forward.

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• Take a 3D Virtual Tour of our Centre
• Read the Blog

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It’s essential that your team understand how young children develop maths expertise, especially when choosing, using and evaluating set schemes or programmes. In this week’s Podcast Andy welcomes back Jude Twani who provides her insight and tips on approaching maths in the EYFS.

• Access the Exploring Subitising: Developing Children's Understanding of Number Recorded Webinar
• Join our Exploring Shape, Space and Measure: Developing Young Mathematicians Webinar
• Order Jude Twani & Michael Jones’ publication - Let’s Talk About Maths
• Read the Blog
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Exploring and experimenting with water is a key fascination for many children and if you have it available continuously, you may even find that some children go back to it a lot! This week’s Podcast explores how the Water Area can be packed with a wealth of opportunities for scientific and mathematical thinking as well as opportunities for storying and developing narrative.

Well organised and well planned provision areas, alongside effective adult interactions, enable children to develop sustained play, practise new skills and extend their ideas over time. Some areas of provision work particularly well together like Block Play and Small World, and this week Andy looks at these in more detail.

• Explore our Structures & Spaces: Inspiring Young Architects Through Block Play webinar recording
• Join our upcoming It’s a Small World: Inspiring Children’s Storytelling Through Small World Play webinar
• Order our Guides to Continuous Provision
• Read the Blog
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Have you ever wondered what it is like to work overseas? In this week’s fascinating Podcast, Andy interviews Rachael Stevens from Panyaden International School in Thailand about their unique approach. As well as taking a tour of their natural environment, they chat about all kinds of things including behaviour management, risk and challenge.

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Welcome back to the start of a new term and a new year! Join us this week as we explore the importance of the Characteristics of Effective Learning, and consider how they are used as part of our everyday practice.

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In this week's Podcast, hear Andy Burt and Jude Twani discuss the “Catch Up Agenda” following the months of disrupted education and Jude utilises her new love of dancing to help us reflect on how children can learn and adapt.

• Take a Virtual Tour of our Centre
• Join Jude’s most recent twilight training session: Exploring Subitising: The Power of Knowing How Many There Are!
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In this week’s Podcast we give tips and advice to make tidying the classroom run smoothly and become a meaningful way of teaching, learning and embedding a range of skills and concepts.

Get your big coat and wellies on, this week’s Podcast is about getting back outside whatever the weather! Explore the key things and ideas to ensure effective learning continues throughout this time of year

• Explore the Power of Outdoor Learning Programme
• Order our Guide to Outdoor Provision
• View our Outdoor Resources
• Read the Blog
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