Life at Two & The Two year Old
Life at Two: Attachments, Key People & Development - DVD and user notes (72 mins)
The Two Year Old at Home and at Nursery - DVD and user notes (120 mins)
These two DVDs are new additions to a comprehensive series of child observation videos produced by Siren Films in Newcastle upon Tyne. The two films follow a little girl called Ava from her second to her third birthday and focus on the key experiences she encounters and the relationships she develops during this important phase in her development.
In Life at Two the voiceover emphasises the role of the key person in helping Ava to make a successful transition from her home to her early years setting, and is supported by an interview with Peter Elfer, which highlights the link between the practice seen in the film and the current theories on child development which support the Birth to Three Matters framework and the Early Years Foundation Stage.
The Two Year Old at Home and in the Nursery draws on the same footage of Ava but is arranged to provide a series of 18 observation sequences without commentary, illustrating all aspects of development. The accompanying notes provide the context for each of the observation sequences. Observations can be used individually to focus on particular aspects of learning or they can be viewed in sequence to follow the progress of particular aspects of development throughout the year.
As well as providing invaluable material to use with students on childcare training courses, the film sequences and notes in these two videos are a wonderful professional development resource for staff teams in all childcare and early education settings. Other titles, covering different age groups and aspects of young children’s development are also available.
