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Ruth is a keen champion for playing creatively with young children, and tries to do this in partnership with as many other champions as possible! She believes that all children gain huge benefits from creative and cultural opportunities within their learning, playing and being. How we go about building the capacity of the arts, cultural and educational sectors in order to enable children to have these opportunities, find their 'fit' in the bigger picture and still manage to cope with the challenges of a rapidly changing society, is the big question. One thing's for sure though, our kids are great people to be with!
Recently I have rediscovered the (rather addictive) fun of doing a jigsaw with my 10 year old son. Rather like me, he puts on his rose coloured glasse
Tags: creativity, cultural education, henley review
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I’ve been struck in recent weeks by people’s incredible willingness to engage and offer support for something they believe in. Colleagues sendin
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There's something very beautiful in watching a parent take their baby seriously, understanding that their expressions are full of genuine communicatio
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For me, a walk through Nottingham city centre is like stepping back in time as I experience some of the funny (and cringe worthy) memories of my c
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One of my favourite pieces of research is Young Brains commissioned by DFES in 2007, and has helped me form ideas around how we can facilitate more me
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Very exciting to see Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester Museum and Manchester Art Gallery bringing a focus to the key issue of how we support babies an
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On Saturday, the wonderful Barbara O'Meara (Head of Early Childhood training and creative early years action research programme at Cork Coll
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Tuesday saw me meeting with some incredible social entrepreneurs from 7.30am at the Clearly So conference. Far from yawning, we had an action-packed d
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In submitting our response to the revised Early Years Foundation Stage which you can see here, there were a number of key concerns that we decided to
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I was amazed to discover recently that I could remember some of the words and most of the tunes to the songs in my very first school play in 1975 atBr
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Fantastic intiative to help children think more broadly about philosphical issues reported on today. I just pity the poor educationalists who are
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Well, I could be falling foul of a little twitter account which basically helps me and a few chosen friends keep up to speed with the latest deve
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I was in France recently having a fab time with the kids over half term, and one night we decided to take them out to a beautiful little pizza place w
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Don't get me wrong, there's lot of good things coming out of the debate around the primary reviews, not least the increased focus on play, curiosity a
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Just found a lovely video in fact of the said drawing of dinosaur which shows a little more understanding of how characters and stories are built thro
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It might look like I have inserted this back to front, but no! This was a picture I found recently of a dinosaur drawn by my daughter Chia when she wa
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