Practical Toolkits
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 Access Art Access Art is a valuable resource bank for teachers, gallery educators and artists as well as a fun, creative and dynamic learning tool for pupils across all the key stages, and for home-users of all ages. |
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Active Learning - Effective Practice Babies and young children learn to make sense of their world by actively investigating what it contains and through social activity with significant people. |
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A Little Birdsong This set of books from Emma Hutchinson has been created especially for teachers and parents of under fives. 'A Little Birdsong' is Emma’s first book and CD, and introduces children to music, with 36 nursery rhymes and songs. |
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Art in the Early Years Printmaking, Painting, Drawing, Exploring, a series of articles in Nursery World about art in early years. |
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Art in the Early Years Guide and DVD This resource will help practitioners to extend children's learning through enhanced sensory development, exploration, experimentation and discovery through creation. |
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Artists in Creative Education The core purpose of Artists in Creative Education is to create a transnational guide for artists to work in primary schools, with a particular emphasis upon developing the skills and understanding necessary to work creatively in schools in disadvantaged areas. |
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Baby Sign Language Baby sign language is a great way to help you communicate with your pre-verbal baby. |
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BBC - Parents' Music Room - 3 - 5 years Motivate your child with music. |
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Bongo Club Early years music making. |
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Barefoot Books Award winning books, gifts and art for the child in all of us. |
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Box of Light - Early Learning Clips created during Rand Whipple's residency at the York Day Nursery. |
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Building Better Relationships with Schools: A Guide for Arts Organisations Book written by Catherine Rose, Sarah Beddell and Anne Roberts and published by Eastern Touring Agency. ISBN: 0953432807 |
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Children's Music Web A non-profit resource for kids, families, and children's performers worldwide. |
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Confident, Capable and Creative: Supporting Boys’ Achievements Guidance for practitioners in the Early Years Foundation Stage |
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Collaborative Video Making This video provides a Departmental view on why classrooms should be establishing blogs. It includes audio with examples of the technologies discussed, including examples of teacher blogs. |
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Creativity and Critical Thinking Creativity and Critical Thinking are processes that are child led but which benefit greatly from the sensitive contributions of others. The processes involve making connections between things, people or places in ways that are new and personally meaningful. They occur in all areas of Learning and Development. |
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Creative Arts Booklet Papermaking, Storyboards and Bookmaking - This new e-booklet aims to summarise a FACE seminar presented by inspirational artist and FACE member Ciara Healy |
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Creative Development Support for the Early Years Foundation Stage The development of one aspect of creativity, painting and mark making. It explores the development of children's creative skills across the Birth to six age range. |
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Creativity: Find It, Promote It This new pack features examples of creative learning and teaching from five schools around the country. It is accompanied by a teachers guide and has been produced to help you understand and spot different types of creative thinking and behaviour, explore ways of promoting creativity in the classroom, and consider whole-school approaches to nurturing childrens creativity. |
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Drama Resource Drama Resource provides training and resources including drama games, lesson plans and a newsletter for drama teachers |
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Early Learning from Three to Five What your child will learn |
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Early Learning and Technology Children are naturally curious and they will explore not only how technology works but also how it fits into the world they live in. |
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Early Years in Scotland Curriculum for Excellence will bring together, for the first time, the curriculum for the pre-school sector and the early years of primary as one level. Pre-school approaches (such as learning through play) will be extended into the early years of primary school. The examples in this section show how pre-school establishments and schools are already putting in practice active learning approaches. |
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Early Years Handbook Early Years Handbook provides a complete guide to establishing and running high quality, sustainable early years provision which provides good outcomes for children and meets the needs of parents and carers |
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Early Years - Creativity Toolkit Working with artists to develop practice in Early Years along the Sussex Coast. |
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Enquiring Minds The Enquiring Minds guide provides detailed information about the Enquiring Minds philosophy, a description of the project, and practical advice and tips about how to use the Enquiring Minds approach in the classroom. |
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Engage - Making Connections Early years and families toolkit. |
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Engage in the Foundation Stage A research programme has been taking place in Wales exploring the contribution that galleries and artists can make to the new Foundation Phase curriculum in Wales. |
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Equal Voices Equal Voice is an innovative resource that empowers teachers and pupils of all ages to maintain a harmonious environment, safe for learning and for self expression. |
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Every Object Tells a Story Family learning through objects in the home and in museums |
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Excellence and Enjoyment: Creating a learning culture – Conditions for learning Excellence and Enjoyment:learning and teaching in the primary years. Creating a learning culture - Professional development materials. |
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Excellence and Enjoyment: Learning and teaching in the primary years The learning environment and its impact on learning. |
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Film Street The place where you can learn all about film making. |
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Gamesley EEC - ICT at Gamesley EEC ICT at Gamesley Early Excellence Centre. |
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Galt Experts in early years. |
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Good To Be Me - Foundation Stage This theme is the first of two focusing specifically on feelings. It explores feelings in the context of the child as an individual, developing self-awareness and helping the child to realise that it really is 'Good to be me'. |
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Hear By Right Hear by Right is a tried and tested standards framework for organisations across the statutory and voluntary sectors to assess and improve practice and policy on the active involvement of children and young people |
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Grumpy High quality play and educational resources for children. |
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Hope Education Hope Education supplies Early Years, Primary and Secondary curricular resources for Maths, English, Science, Art and Design through to Furniture. |
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How Do They Do it in Sweden? Part 3 Early years education in Sweden. |
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How Do They Do It In Sweden? Teachers' TV This programme explores the Swedish approach to nursery education. What is the secret to their success? What factors combine to help Swedish children perform so well in European literacy tables? |
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How Do They Do it in Sweden? Part 2 Early years education: Sweden versus the UK. |
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ICT in the Early Years Foundation Stage Using digital images, cameras, scanners and more. |
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Involving Children in Recruitment - Toolkit How the Yorkshire and Humber region involves children and young people in workforce development. |
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I Made a Unicorn Open ended play with blocks and simple materials. |
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Jolt, Catalyst, Spark! Encounters with Artworks at Tate Modern Since the inception of Tate Modern's School Programme in May 2000, a range of new education initiatives has recognised the role of the cultural sector in supporting and extending pupils' experience of the arts in formal education. |
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Learning Outside the Classroom The Manifesto for Learning Outside the Classroom partnership has created this resource with the help of many experts and practitioners in learning outside the classroom. The resource is designed to help professionals working with young people aged 0-19 to provide high-quality experiences. |
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Learning Resource Kits Learning Resource Kits from Baltic Mill |
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Learner Voice Listening to the voice of learners: a time for change. Downloadable handbook produced by Futurelab |
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Little Cellist If you are a young cellist, this website is especially for you! |
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Making Connections Toolkit Making exciting spaces for children's learning and development. |
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MAPE: Foundation Stage and ICT This presentation looks at the way in which many of the Early Learning Goals can be addressed using Information and Communications Technology (ICT). |
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Melody Monkey's Marvellous Music Box A fun box of musical activities that helps children to develop a wide range of skills by singing and playing instruments with Melody Monkey and her friends. |
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My_E (My Education) Aims to help young learners develop meaningful conversations that are suppported in both the home and school. |
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Messy Play by Bernadette Duffy Despite appearances, messy play can make an enormous contribution to babies' and young children's cognitive and creative development. |
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National Curriculum - Creativity and Critical Thinking Creativity involves the use of imagination and intellect to generate ideas, insights and solutions to problems and challenges. Coupled with critical thinking, which involves evaluative reasoning, creative activity can produce outcomes that can be original, expressive and have value. |
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OOKL Hello Mobile learning service. |
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NSEAD - START An exciting and stimulating magazine for teachers of pre-school and primary art, craft and design. |
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Our Class Blogging This is a video that includes interviews with teachers and kids on the use of blogging in the classroom. |
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PEAL Activities Activities for practitioners in early years settings to undertake before PEAL training. |
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Play and Exploration - Effective Practice Play and Exploration in early years settings means children are able to choose activities where they can engage with other children or adults or sometimes play alone, and during those activities they learn by first-hand experience by actively doing. |
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Playing for Keeps Playing for Keeps brings a rich research base and resources to the Association of Children's Museums and its members. Over the next several months of transition, ACM will launch a Playing For Keeps microsite with information on why play matters, how to get involved with local organizations that support play and resources for parents, educators, toy companies and the media about play. |
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Q&D Multimedia Early years and SEN software. |
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Principles for Engaging with Families A framework for local authorities and national organisations to evaluate and improve engagement with families |
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Project Approach The Project Approach refers to a set of teaching strategies which enable teachers to guide children through in-depth studies of real world topics |
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Puppetry in Early Childhood Education Written by Tamara Hunt and Nancy Renfro |
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Puppet Mania Written by John Kennedy. There's no other puppet book on the market that offers as much instruction, with so many patterns, and performance secrets. |
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Ray and Joan DaSilva's Puppet Books Here you will find a wealth of used books on Puppetry or related subjects. At one time this site housed the largest catalogue of Puppet books on the internet but now New books are handled by our colleagues at the Scottish Mask and Puppet Centre while we specialise in the second-hand catalogue, with many out of print and hard to find volumes. |
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RAMPS - A Framework for Listening to Children In this paper Penny Lancaster discusses a framework for listening to young voices and ensuring children's active participation. Enabling all children to have a meaningful say requires time, effort and some innovative thinking. |
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Reading Zone Everything you need to know about children's books and authors. |
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Reflect and Review, The arts and creativity in early years Written by Belloli, J. and Woolf, F. (2005). Provides evaluation guidance for early years practitioners on creativity and the arts in early years settings. Designed particularly for the voluntary, independent and private sector, it focuses on building understanding of the arts and creativity, recognising achievement and reviewing current practice and provision. |
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Saatchi Gallery Artwork created by children. |
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Secret Seed Society Secret Seed Society believes getting kids active in the garden and the kitchen is the way to healthier happier living. |
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Searching for Meaning In Searching for Meaning, Canterbury Nursery School and Centre for Children and Families have tried to capture and document the process of a three year journey developing a creative curriculum. |
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Small Steps Big Moves, Giant Leaps, Early Years Resource Pack An early years resource pack giving early years practitioners, teachers, artists and parents the skills and confidence to deliver dance. |
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Storytelling for Early Years Foundation Stage children Storytelling for children in Early Years Foundation Stage: In communication, language, and literacy learning, your child will begin to learn storytelling skills and gain the confidence to share their own ideas with you. |
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Sharing Books with your Baby or Toddler Reading to your baby will help them feel safe and secure while developing their language and listening skills. Cuddle up with your baby and read! |
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Teaching Freedom - Education with Imagination Teaching Freedom is about having as much fun in the classroom as possible. We are proving that learning through adventure, excitement and discovery is a far more effective and memorable way to teach than the current results orientated system. |
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The Big Bus A world of fun interactive learning for children aged 3 to 11. |
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The Cultural Rucksack The Cultural Rucksack (Den kulturelle skolesekken) is a national scheme for professional art and culture in schools in Norway. The scheme helps school pupils aged 6 to 16 to become acquainted with all kinds of professional art and cultural expressions. |
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Tuning into Children A new training handbook which will offer a set of guiding principles for early years practitioners and music specialists who want to collaborate on devising new programmes of activity or enhance their existing music practice. |
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The Puppetry Handbook Written by Anita Sinclair, the world's most comprehensive resource on understanding, building and performing puppetry. From large scale theatre productions to children's shows. From busking to festivals. |
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Working with Artists - A Guide for Teachers Book by Deborah Rawson, published by Education Through Art ISBN: 0953423417 |
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Vocalise Pack A pack featuring ideas for singing activities aimed at a wide range of school-age children |
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Voiceworks Voiceworks is a magnificent resource of twelve inspirational handbooks for promoting good singing and healthy vocal development in all kinds of choirs and in the classroom. |
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Working with Schools - A Guide for Artists Book by Deborah Rawson published by Education Through Art ISBN: 0953423409 |
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West Yorkshire Playhouse - Whole New Worlds Whole New Worlds explores the reality that all babies and children need the opportunity to explore, make decisions, be imaginative, creative, curious and learn through their play experiences. Copies can be bought from The Creative Education Team, West Yorkshire Playhouse Tel: 0113 213 7800 |
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Youth Music - Music Start Initiative 100,000 under fives across the country are getting a free introduction to music as Youth Music launches Music Start. Funded by the DCMS and DCSF, the Music Start initiative has been developed to encourage families with 2-5 year olds to make music at home. |
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