Tiny Chair Podcast
Early years chats to brighten your day. Get ready for daily dilemmas, pedagogy puzzles, and heaps of interactive games. It’s the only EY podcast that’ll really make you giggle. Brought to you by Famly.
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Purposeful continuous provision in the Early Years | Tiny Chair Podcast (opens the original)
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► James Tunnel is the Director of NurseryNook, a specialist Early Years coaching and consultancy company. He is a coach, consultant and trainer, as well as a former teacher, and has over a decade of experience in education. His expertise is in curriculum, loose parts, schema play and purposeful provision.► 00:00 Welcome and introduction: Meet James Tunnell of Nursery Nook 02:02 – Early Years Ick & Pick: Fancy displays and ditching the chairs 06:22 – The funniest thing a child's ever said to you
31. Behaviour that challenges in the Early Years (opens the original)
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Richard Knight is a Children's Services Manager for the Early Years Alliance with a variety of experience working in Early Years education over the last 18 years. Richard manages Early Years settings, writes and delivers training, and he has supported many providers to meet the requirements of the EYFS so that they are compliant and inspection-ready. Through his work he has the opportunity to be hands-on and collaborate with educators, children, and families, so he understands the challenges tha
30. Why laughter matters to learning (opens the original)
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Dr. Jacqueline Harding is an international child development education expert and the author of The Brain That Loves to Play. She's been a headteacher and consultant as well as a government advisor and a BBC education editor working on programs like Peter Rabbit, Teletubbies, Clangers, Bing, Baby Vibes, and is a contributor to CBeebies Parenting. She is an honorary visiting research fellow at Middlesex University and the chair of the Bright Start Foundation. Rachel Barnett-Jones is a writer, pro
29. Birth to 5 Matters is back. Here's what's new! (opens the original)
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Nancy Stewart joins Matt and Julia to talk about the newly revised Birth to Five Matters guidance. As Project Lead on both the original 2020 edition and this year's revision, Nancy has spent decades shaping how the sector thinks about child development, from co-authoring the 2012 Development Matters to advising the Tickell review of the EYFS. She is a former Chair of TACTYC and now Vice President of Early Education. We cover why the guidance exists in the first place, the new sections on sustain
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