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Our October customer focus is on Footprints Child Care in Bamber Bridge, Preston, a family business managed by Nichola. Having started on a career in childcare in 1999 Nichola (a mum herself) developed her skills in good people management and team development, qualities she recognised as being key to running a nursery setting, and an… 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 🢂
As today is World Teachers Day, at Edusentials we have been thinking about famous teachers and how they have impacted and changed history. During our research we were surprised to discover that many well-known people, including Hugh Jackman, Brian May and Sting, were teachers before they became famous!! It was difficult to make a shortlist,… 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 🢂
Our September customer focus is on ‘The Nurture Barn’ in Essex. The owner/inventor Mel Sims was an existing customer and had previously ordered from us on behalf of children’s charities she was affiliated with. She had nurtured an idea for an upmarket play centre which incorporated indoor and outdoor play with quality wooden toys for… Continue Reading 🢂
For many of us, September is a month when we celebrate or are getting ready to celebrate Harvest Festival. The celebration of Harvest goes back to Pagan times when thanks was given for the food that had been grown from the land. Nowadays, people tend to take baskets of fruit and produce to their… 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 🢂