Play

18 February
Why continue the focus on play in Year 2 & 3?

•Ellen Galinsky, author of Mind in the Making: The Seven Essential Life Skills Every Child Needs (2010), proposes that children need more than good test scores to be successful.

These skills include those also known as Executive Functioning Skills:

1. Focus and self-control

2. Perspective taking

3. Communication

4. Making connections

5. Critical thinking

6. Taking on challenges

7. Self-directed, engaged learning

15 February

On this link you will discover what Play-based learning is all about.

Discovery Time - Play Based learning 

Longworth Education  are our primary source of support as we venture into this learning concept.

2017 begins a new approach to learning.  Play-based learning will be introduced and will be incorporated into the formal daily programme where the 3 Rs (Reading, wRiting and aRithmetic) will be explicitly taught.

To ensure an exciting array of equipment can be provided for the children I will be looking out for some of the following items (and others from your imagination):

• Flower Pots                        Material and tape
  Wool                                   Wooden cars
  Stones, shells                     Small beads and flat beads
  Skewers                             Chestnuts, seedpods and natural resources
  Branches                            Plastic Netting                    
• Pieces of fabric                   Wooden planks
  Baskets                              Cups and saucers                      Ice Block sticks

For more information about the value of play based learning click here:http://www.learningstationmusic.com/blog/2014/12/28/value-play-poem/