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Looking for Learning: Loose Parts
Laura England
Looking for Learning: Loose Parts is a full-colour, practical guide linked to current policy and the EYFS framework. Laura England, creator of Little Miss Early Years, uses theory, real-life images and accessible ideas to inspire childled learning using loose parts. Ideas include giving children basic tinker trays filled with nuts and bolts or giving them pompoms and play dough to combine, construct and explore with.
PB • 244 x 189mm • 64pp • 9781472963017 • £12.99
Looking for Learning: Provocations
Laura England
Looking for Learning: Provocations is a full-colour, ready-to-use guide closely aligned to the EYFS framework. Laura England, creator of Little Miss Early Years, uses theory, real-life images and accessible ideas to inspire child-led learning using provocations. Ideas include using mirrors to explore symmetry, cardboard boxes to understand shapes and natural materials to play with construction.
PB • 244 x 189mm • 64pp • 9781472963130 • £12.99
Boys will be Brilliant!
Linda Tallent and Gary Wilson
The underachievement of boys continues to be continues to be a cause for concern. In this practical and informative guide, Linda Tallent and Gary Wilson look at the root causes of this issue and present practical strategies for practitioners to tackle the problem head on, enabling all their boys to be brilliant!
PB • 210 x 297mm • 96pp • 9781472924032 • £19.99
Guide to SEND in the Early Years
Kerry Payne
NEW FOR 2021
Guide to SEND in the Early Years will up-skill every Early Years practitioner to become the very best teacher of SEND. With an emphasis on empowering all members of the team, and advice on how to translate theory into practice, experienced Early Years consultant Kerry Payne offers practical ways to implement a sustainable approach to SEND in any Early Years setting.
This book includes tried-and-tested tips and guidance for using inclusive language, involving parents, caring for mental wellbeing and more. Kerry proves that with commitment from practitioners, key persons and SENCOs, we can create truly inclusive Early Years settings. Publishes 2nd September 2021 PB • 244 x 169mm • 128pp • 9781472981011 • £19.99
Kerry Payne
Kerry Payne is an Early Years consultant, specialising in wellbeing, behaviour and special educational needs. She lectures for the University of West London and works with a number of educational organisations to plan and deliver early years training and projects. Kerry’s passion has always been inclusion and breaking down deficit attitudes about special educational needs and disability with practical and sustainable approaches.
Susan O'Connor
100 Ideas for Early Years Practitioners: Supporting Children with SEND is a must-have resource filled with fun, creative and engaging multi-sensory activities and strategies to best support the learning and development of children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND).
With ideas focusing on fine and gross motor skills, working memory, social skills, early speech and language skills, and self-esteem and wellbeing, these fun and engaging strategies will help Early Years practitioners meet the individual learning needs of children with SEND, including those with attention and behaviour difficulties, speech and language difficulties, early signs of dyslexia, autism and dyspraxia, and social and emotional difficulties.
PB • 198 x 129mm • 136pp • 9781472972354 • £14.99
