Ruth's Blog

Well it's been a whirligig of events recently, starting with dancing at the Nursery World Show back in February and ending in speaking at two Nursery Tags: leadership, estelle morris, nursery world, EYFS, OfSTED Read More

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 Read More

 I’ve been struck in recent weeks by people’s incredible willingness to engage and offer support for something they believe in. Colleagues sendin Tags: earlyarts, nursery world show Read More

There's something very beautiful in watching a parent take their baby seriously, understanding that their expressions are full of genuine communicatio Tags: culturebaby, childrens charter, national literacy trust, oogly boogly, EYFS, Foundation Years Read More

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 Tags: Theatre in Education, Nottingham Playhouse, theatre for families Read More

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 Tags: harvard, babies, brain development Read More

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 Tags: manchester art gallery, manchester museum, culturebaby, whitworth art gallery Read More

On Saturday, the wonderful Barbara O'Meara (Head of Early Childhood training and creative early years action research programme at Cork Coll Tags: starcatchers, earlyarts, early years, childrens creativity Read More

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 Tags: social enterprise, social investment Read More

We thought the focus would be on children, learning and development. We were somewhat taken aback when we wordled the revised EYFS document... Tags: children, earlyarts, development, learning, EYFS Read More

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 Tags: school readiness, EYFS, early years foundation stage, creativity Read More

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 Tags: primary curriculum review Read More

Fantastic intiative to help children think more broadly about philosphical issues reported on today. I just pity the poor educationalists who are Tags: childrens philosophy Read More

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 Tags: primary curriculum review Read More

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 Tags: good childhood Read More

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 Tags: primary curriculum review Read More

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 Tags: early years, creativity, childrens drawing Read More

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 Tags: early years, creativity, childrens drawing Read More