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A Lot to Learn The existence of the EYFS statutory framework stresses how important the curriculum is in the nursery and pre-school stages and sets the standards for the learning, development and care of babies and children up to school age which is vital to your child’s ongoing development. It’s during their time in nursery… Continue Reading 🢂
Many adults have an aversion to mud. It sticks to your shoes, inevitably finds its way onto your living room carpet or gets spot welded to the floor of the car and can be guaranteed to make a mess of the lawn you’ve spent all summer cultivating. So why is it that children absolutely love… Continue Reading 🢂
Finishing Up Over the past few days, we’ve published a short series of blogs centred around the theme of social development and play. Starting with the home, we examined how role playing items can help children to understand and replicate household roles, teaching them about things like cooperation and teamwork along the way. We then… Continue Reading 🢂
Spreading their Wings In the second of our series of blogs focussing on social development and play, we looked at how you can make use of our outdoor role playing items to help children learn about complex notions like teamwork and cooperation in the home environment. This week, we’re focusing on children’s development as they… Continue Reading 🢂
Building Blocks Long before your children grapple with gravity, before they collide with chemistry or battle with biology, they’ll need to learn core social skills that will go on to benefit them throughout their adult life. Seeing as this is such an integral part of their development, not just academically but as a person,… Continue Reading 🢂
The Art of Learning Often neglected but none-the-less important aspects of the curriculum, creative subjects such as art, design and crafts all have an integral impact upon your students’ development, particularly in the infant school stages. These creative lessons don’t only help students to hone their preliminary motor skills development; they encourage imagination, develop creativity… Continue Reading 🢂
Strong Foundations As popular belief and numerous clinical studies support, children’s education doesn’t begin in the classroom, it doesn’t even begin when they start to walk and talk; in fact it starts from the moment they’re born. Throughout the pre-linguistic stages, babies and small children are exposed to an infinite number of stimuli – shapes,… Continue Reading 🢂
As any teaching professional, carer or indeed parent will surely know, each child is highly unique, as are their individual needs and requirements. The ways in which they learn, process and absorb information is no different; regardless of what stage they’re at in their education, be it pre-school, infancy or even junior school, how they… Continue Reading 🢂
Building a Secure Space As a practical, requirement driven business, we at Edusentials understand that the safety of your children and students is of paramount importance; after all, a secure classroom environment affords you more time to focus on what’s important – education and development. We appreciate that when you’re looking after a large group… Continue Reading 🢂
The revised EYFS 2012 identifies three key prime areas of children’s early development – physical; personal, social and emotional; communication and language. Block Play is an intrinsic part of early years development, covering a multitude of the key prime areas, but a child’s ability to have fun and express themselves through play should be considered… Continue Reading 🢂