Can I Go and Play Now?: Rethinking the Early Years

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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. It really, it really is lovely. And what was lovely today, someone messaged me and just said, this is the recovery curriculum that children need. It’s just with joy and creativity. It is beautiful. Cause you know, um, did you know the story bulk baby? Yes, it does. Yeah. So, um, you use, and there’s a min pins as well that have rolled dial.

Okay. If you haven’t, it’s an amazing book and an amazing film, but it’s basically a make-believe world that you visit with the children and characters come and characters go challenges, come. Yeah, and it’s beautiful. And because it’s a collective thing, what happens is when I’m in the group, that that people can join, there’s a way of then of sharing. So the traditional model of teaching is you plan for the children. Yeah. But this model is you plan for yourself because if we accept that plate is choice, I don’t know what children are going to do. And that’s the biggest thing that stops play. It’s the biggest inhibitor for teachers who won’t play, because they’ve got to let go of control and we’re raised in control. Greg Bottrill:in or is invited in the head, the head teacher wanted to explore how to enable more play in the school, but that’s not, that’s not an easy thing to do in terms of the training that we have as teachers.If you’re, if you’re sat at a table doing a worksheet, who are you doing it for? You’re doing it for the teacher children. Aren’t stupid. They know they’re doing it for the teacher. Yeah. Whereas if you’re on adventure Island or in play, who are you doing it for yourself? And instantly you’re connected to what you’re doing. The Next Steps Planning tool for Reading, Writing and Mathematics as well as for holistic skills so that when you are co-playing as well as Not-Playing, you are working at the cusp of confidence and beyond. This can have a significant impact on progress, as not a moment is wasted with children when you are with them. You confidently co-play because you know the children as learners as well as people. Yeah. Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely. And you know, and hopefully this, this coming year, as, you know, touch wood, the world begins to open up in whatever way it does. I can begin to kind of get out and you know, it’s not about trying to show people they’re doing something wrong. It’s not that I’m doing this.

The Curious Quests is an immersive adventure into story, poetry, make-believe and giving children a childhood that brims with endless possibilities to invent, imagine and story dream. Greg Bottrill:engage? Absolutely. Because that is that they’ve got it. It’s like an energy children are dying. They’re desperate to play. Yeah.Greg Bottrill:That’s that’s that’s my greatest wish. Yeah. It’s not, it’s not that my message. Isn’t that you’ve got to play all day every day. You know, or that would be, that would be foolish to say that because there’s no way you could do that. Not if, you know, if you’re in year five and year six, you know, it, it just wouldn’t, it wouldn’t work.

Who are less so to follow, but what it takes is, is great. Honesty. Great. You have to be in this way of working. You absolutely have to be honest with your shortcomings to share them as a team. Well, because if you don’t like playing outside, for example, you will put in as an adult, you will put in a million different reasons why you don’t like, like why you don’t like outdoor play, but ultimately the reason might be you just, you feel it. 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. To go on the Curious Quests with your children you must have a full understanding of Drawing Club. If you don't know how to use it then you need to do an online session on that first. The Curious Quests session and resources will not make sense without the context of Drawing Club and the online session will assume that you are familiar with its 4 Mini Moments.

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In this book, Greg Bottrill explores how he ensures that, in his Early Years setting, continuous provision enables children. He shares his Early Years pedagogy through the ′3Ms′ and explains how to apply these in the classroom. Greg also explores the definition of play – what it is and what it isn’t – and the challenging role of the Early Years teacher. Pooky Knightsmith:play projects that if people wanted to find out about those, they’re all in your second book,

If you are looking to show children the magic world of story, if you want to discover a way of sharing skills including fine motor, maths, early writing and vocabulary and if you believe that young children deserve a book-snuggle within their day, then Drawing Club is for you! Greg Bottrill:Um, yeah, there’s certainly you have to have what I call play parameters. You have to have rules. Um, you, you know, it’s not a free for all. If so, then Drawing Club is definitely for you. The progress children can make through Drawing Club across all areas of child development is exceptional with the added bonus of confidence and joy, and it comes with a tonne of resources to get your adventure started. Story Dough! can be explored with 2+ year olds and there is scope to use it with any age children who you feel need to grow confidence in finger strength, imagination, mark making and chat. First thing, it might be some story telling or something, and then you have a big chunk of play. And then the other bit of bread is a session of phonics at the end or some maths or whatever it might be. So you’ve given that really big chunk of time in the middle. Um, cause it’s that bit in the middle.I suppose, in a, my, my, my son can do the most absolutely amazing kind of fractions and algebra. That just leaves me just like, wow, what is that? The age of 42? Um, and, um, you know, um, I’m really proud of him because actually he’s got an amazing sense of justice. Um, you know, he, he’s an amazing boy, but does he really need to know about all these fractions and, you know, et cetera at the age of 14, if he didn’t have a really good sense of self, which comes first, is it the sense of self, or was it a fronted verbiage at the age of seven? Greg Bottrill:Tell me about adventure. Well, adventure, adventure is, um, a way of creating, um, a whole new realm. It’s a new dimension to explore, so it’s make believe. Okay. Um, and I created it last year and it was just taking off. The adult and the child play together. So the adult kind of steps down and allows the child space and time to wonder and to question and the adult questions and one does together. So it was rather than the, that the child has to get up to the adult world. That it’s almost, it’s more of a collaborative cooperative approach because ultimately what play does because it’s in your DNA and it’s in my DNA and everyone’s in our bloodstream play. They’re trying to show you something. It’s trying to show you how to live. Um, the trons remind you of your own childhood. Um, I’m a great believer that our, our identity is born within our childhoods. Um, and unfortunately, uh, education systems in the Western world, much of the Western world, um, that they know us, who we really are. 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.