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Welcome to Holland!
This is such an emotional yet powerful read. I love working in partnerships with parents to support the child to fulfil their developmental goals. Reading this point of view has honestly opened my eyes widely in the ways we communicate with and to parents especially when raising a concern. When raising concerns, its also considering how parents may feel or react to this as they may not know how to handle this information which then means its our role to support them as this may be a new experience for them.
Towards the end of reading this, it did remind me of how rewarding it is to work with children. There are day which are tough but within those days, you will observe something/one which makes you smile and then say to yourself ‘that’s why I am in this profession. Being a part of the the process, the journey of children’s development is so purposeful.
Tomorrow at work, I will be sharing this article to staff for them to reflect on their practice when communicating with parents.

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This article was an interesting read!
Listening to children is just as important as communicating with them. My home base room caters for children between the ages of 18 to 26 months which means communication is limited but developing. With this, staff members ensure time when listening to children before asking or answering the question.
Within my setting, I do believe we listen to children in various ways. For example, we have created choices boards to provide non-verbal children to communicate their wants or needs, adults are then able to use this as inspiration to create an activity.
During children’s free play, adults will observe and listen covertly to soak up wow moments when children are communicating with peers or adults. Adults will often react upon children’s request. For example, a child may came into nursery and said ‘crazy foam’ to which practitioners will create a learning opportunity circled around crazy foam.
I have shared this article to nursery class practitioners and asked how they promote listening to children. They responded by saying, children are asked on how their opinions of an activity, describing what they enjoyed and what they did not. Circle time activities provides children the opportunity to voice their views.
Adults will ask the children “What would you like to do today?” or “What shall we do on this table?” to which children will select baskets or toys.

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This is amazing thank you so much

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Summer I am also looking into the Pikler approach but am struggling with how to start writing this assignment, if there is any guidance that would be great.

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Thank you Nicky, I have included a table to highlight the different behaviour strategies as it is more clearer.
if that is okay x

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Good morning, I just had a question about the layout of this assignment. Am I able to use bullet points and a table within this assignment or should I do a standard essay layout?

Despina

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Hi,
For my change project, I will be conducting heuristic play sessions. My aims are to see if having weekly heuristic play sessions has an impact on their play, learning and development.
In our book bag we were given a great book surrounding heuristic play and I was wondering if there was any other place I could find literature based around heuristic play, or even great websites to gain resources from to support my sessions.
Despina.

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Reflective Log and Audit Attached 🙂

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Great, thank you.

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Am I correct in saying that the behavioural categories of attachment theory is securely attached, anxious ambivalent , anxious avoidant and anxious disorganized?

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Good morning,

I was wondering if anybody knew a good place to get articles from, as I am finding lots of blogs.

Despina

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This day with Gill was very interesting. I was able to reflect on my practice and how I should adapt my approaches in teaching early mathematics effectively – in order to create positive experiences for children. With this, I created a lesson plan (of a ladybird hunt) aiming to promote counting – using the cardinality and counting progression guidance. Currently I am in the baby room and was not able to conduct this activity. However, I spoke to a few colleagues about the training day and shared some strategies and techniques to use within there practice. On my behalf, I asked a colleague if it was possible to carry out my activity with children aged 2-3. My colleague managed to carry out my activity and noticed how children were able to understand the concept of counting the dots rather than looking at the number. Although I did not carry out the activity it was great to hear the feedback on how the children reacted to the activity. I have asked a colleague if they could do this activity within our nursery class (which will be carried out this week hopefully)

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Thank you for today Nicky.

To make this evidence more stronger within our portfolio, would it be a good idea to write what we would do in order to promote the subheading?
I do not know if that sounded right. Sorry.
Despina

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Vygotsky and Bandura’s Theory

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