Discover just what it is that children need from education and why it’s so important for Early Years practice to echo upwards throughout their school journey. And they have to reflect on who they are, because this is, this is about, I believe it’s about becoming a really authentic educator because you teaching right out of here. And where are you? Where are my shortcomings? I’ve got, probably ask my friends. Um, well, um, what am I shortcomings? Probably in that often I have been in certain areas and I’ve not valued them.

I would argue it’s a sense of self because we’re going to need children to be the adults who are creative and the problem solvers and not just be the robots. We don’t need robots, but we really don’t. No. And that’s what it is. They call it a baseline assessment, but it’s no, it’s a test. And what it’s doing is it’s telling children that they’re going to get pushed to the side of their own lives. You’re not important in it. That’s what it is. We don’t value. Your play is not valued. You do what I tell you to do when you’re in here. Um, certainly, um, leads for example, are really, really excited about the potential adventure Island. Um, and I’m hoping to go there next year to go and do some work with them. But of course we kind of need to come out of all the. Yeah, no, it’s not an easy landscape the minute for, for, particularly for nurseries, you know, they’ve been decimated by this and, you know, they need to focus on the future, the minute sensitive. The Curious Quests combines short carpet sessions, group work and children exploring open-ended resources such as junk modelling, construction, playdough, role play and if possible, being outside. If you don't have 'continuous provision' like this then you can't go on the The Curious Quests.The link in the Word document you're purchasing is like a key. Use it on the date and time specified and Greg will be waiting for you on Zoom with a free 45 minutes long walkthrough and your copy of the e-book at the end. So the idea is, is that you have these, you have, uh, uh, in terms of behavior management, my way of doing it was to have an agreed set of rules with the children that they recognized. And that if children went outside of those parameters, that children would say, that’s not fair because we agreed this. So they’re, self-managing they self manage it because ultimately they want to play and learn. You will have abundant opportunities to show children the joy of SPAG and apply their phonic understanding too, though The Curious Quests does not tell you what to teach and when - that is down to you and your knowledge of your children and the curriculum. The Curious Quests, just like Drawing Club is more like an open-ended landscape to adventure in. Because there’s problems along the way to solve a numbers and the characters leave various things for the children. And it’s just super exciting. Maybe we had to learn it for ourselves over time. You know, not everybody has a great childhood. I accept that. But children. Are trying to remind us of what life can actually be. And I often talk about that looking for life in the small corners of the world, children, they, they, they, they, they see, they just see things differently to us and, and it all comes down to this idea of the cardboard box, how children see a cardboard box, me as an adult.

They will leave messages for me and stuff from the, from, from, from adventure, which is quite sweet. Yeah, they, they love it. So, yeah. It’s good. And again, part of the difficulty you play because it’s freedom, the difficult the adult, the adult world has with play is that they haven’t set it up and they haven’t controlled it. So they worry about what’s going to happen. Um, and that’s perfectly natural. Um, and sometimes it can feel, it can seem like you don’t know what’s going on, but the children do because it’s their play. Um, you know, I’ve done it when year to where, um, with the, my approach, the message center, which is all about is secret messages, et cetera. But part of it is the magic of words and words make things happen like magic spells and the moment you sprinkle spellings over the top of children’s creations to make things happen, they’re spelling just because they want to do it rather than having a spelling test. Do you love books and stories? Do you want to open up the magic world of tales and story to children whilst at the same time enriching their language skills, developing their fine motor and sharing really special time with them? Are you looking for an approach to Literacy that doesn’t involve laboriously learning stories for weeks on end, but instead immerses children into a world full of imagination where anything can happen and often does? The scope for Adventure Island is as unlimited as your imagination. It has huge potential for curriculum delivery with all the emotional engagement of play and discovery, and it can be discovered in the city or in the countryside – it’s everywhere!We meet all the characters along the way on adventure Island. And what I’m doing is I’m modeling. It’s like one, hopefully, and then lots of children watch it. But the idea is it brings joy. It brings learning. It shows that learning can go anywhere. So for example, there’s apps to my mind, there’s nothing wrong with showing three year olds, how to count in one hundreds, you do it. So the two work together. So like Coldplay is, is like you go into play and then at moments, children come to you as well, but you only come to you because at that moment, you’ve got something magic to show them whether it be a story, whether it be something to do with phonics, whether it’s, you know, something amazing about number, um, and all the time in the play. A FREE Discord link to the online Scribble Club community enabling you to explore the joy of scribbling even further

Scribble Club is aimed at 2,3 and 4 year olds and is an exploration of scribbling, a way of delighting in its process. In some ways it is a forerunner to the Drawing Club concept although it is entirely based within the hum and buzz of co-play. Scribble Club explores how to add an extra layer of joy to the day through scribbling's powerful link to invention, magic and story. Greg Bottrill:Yeah, absolutely. No, absolutely. And it’s kind of like what we genuinely value within our education system. These are the big, you know, these are eternal questions that will ever, you know, That’s gone on for years. And the fact that have gone on for years is ultimately to the shame of our, our education system. He was, you know, it was, yeah, it was, it was amazing. Some alarm bells should have been going off in my brain. And then at that time we didn’t know it a bit more. Um, but ultimately my son taught me how to parent. That’s what he did. He showed me that I needed to change in what way? Well, because I kept having all these demands of him as a parent. Play Projects are an amazing way to unearth the magic of children. Created by Greg, Play Projects have creativity, collaboration and curiosity right at their heart and they are a brilliant way to create a culture of play within your classroom or setting. Play Projects even have the potential to take childhood upwards all the way to Year 6 as well as being perfect for online learning too :)

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They wanted because they knew they were going to get, like, when I CA when I was in there, when I was around them, something good was going to happen. Yeah. They knew it. They knew because I was the co player. I was going to show them something really cool, or I was going to listen to them and value them. Give your children age-appropriate practice that is highly engaging and grounds children in the joy of book snuggling. Greg Bottrill:It’s kind of, it’s like that. It’s, it’s a bit like, um, it’s, it’s, it’s like what it does is it dissects play? So we talk about play and this is the problem with the adult world.