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Succumbing to a nightmare of classroom clutter? Check out the following steps for a safer, more productive learning environment! Tidy classroom – tidy mind! As well as creating health and safety hazards, undue clutter can bombard younger children with stimuli, affecting their concentration and ability to learn. If in doubt, keep it clutter-free. Organise bookcases… Continue Reading 🢂
A Problem Folded… The modern school is very much expected to be a dynamic learning environment; a dining hall might be a place to eat one minute, and a Physical Education space the next, a classroom might go from being a quiet reading area to an impromptu theatre from lesson to lesson – you probably… Continue Reading 🢂
Dressing the Part As we’ve been keen to stress before, interactive role play, particularly sessions lead and devised by the students themselves, is a highly important component of children’s early academic careers. We’ve explored the benefits of role play items such as classroom theatres and puppet shows at length, but would like to use this… Continue Reading 🢂
Make it Modular Here at Edusentials, we’re always keen to discuss new, emergent teaching methods, and pride ourselves on bringing forward-thinking classroom supplies to help teachers develop their personal style. We appreciate, however, that though they may have their benefits, popular ranges like our classroom role play items can often be a considerable investment. When… Continue Reading 🢂
Ups & Downs As an aspect of the national curriculum, the focus on personal, social, health and economic (often abbreviated to PSHE) education has risen dramatically in the past couple of decades, particularly in the early years education stages. As the EYFS framework stipulates, caregivers and teachers are not only responsible for managing the behaviour… Continue Reading 🢂
Learning the Easy Way As winter draws in, bringing with it gale force gusts and rising rainfall levels, soft play classroom furniture and activity sets become an increasingly attractive option for caregivers and teachers looking to stave off the restlessness of a wet break time. On the contrary, Edusentials are here today to explain just… Continue Reading 🢂
A Two Way Street Speaking and listening, or more fundamentally the turn-taking notion of statement and response, is perhaps the most important principle of human conversation, and naturally an area that early stage teachers and caregivers are going to want to focus on and encourage. As children learn to identify sounds, and later shape them… Continue Reading 🢂
A Novel Way to Learn As stipulated by the EYFS framework, reading and literacy skills should be considered an important part of a child’s development; in truth, however, the social, interpersonal and emotional benefits of an appetite for books stretches well beyond mere vocabulary. In our latest blog, Edusentials look at how to cultivate and… Continue Reading 🢂
December has arrived! It heralds the first month of winter and it is when we prepare ourselves for the onset of sleet, snow and driving wind and rain. We check our car boots contain the winter travel essentials of snow shovel and blanket and if we haven’t already we resignedly drag our winter coats out… Continue Reading 🢂
Playing a Part Last published in 2014, the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) framework identifies three core areas to be addressed in an infant’s development: communication and language; physical development; and personal, social and emotional growth. These broader topics are then subdivided into various areas including literacy, mathematics, understanding the world and expressive arts and… Continue Reading 🢂