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The joy of puddles: nurturing curiosity and learning

Discover the endless learning opportunities puddles provide in early childhood. From sparking curiosity to fostering creativity, explore how water play can enhance development in young children…

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Nurturing a love of reading begins with babies

Sharing books initiates oodles of communication and enhanced language opportunities for babies and young children. Babies use their facial expressions and gestures, take turns in conversations, make sounds, and…

How outdoor learning supports all!

If you have ever spent any time in a Nursery playground you will see how reluctant mark-makers are happy to chalk on the floor, that those with little interest in number want to…

Save time and money with new multi year deals to the EY clip library

We are excited to offer all our customers both new and existing a great opportunity to access our award winning Early Years Clip Library via a multi-year subscription…

Beautiful Thinking and Thinking Moves: A Metacognition Approach to Teaching and Learning

Brain development between birth and age five is immense. There is no other period in life where our brains develop so much or so rapidly as they do in those first few years…

Why understanding the Characteristics of Effective Teaching & Learning is key to our Practice & Provision

It is important that all adults understand the Characteristics of Effective Teaching and Learning and how they must weave through and inform all our work throughout the whole Stage, from birth to five

Setting up members of your team

If you have ordered a Teams or Education product then setting up your team members can be done from your account area. Find full instruction here…

Case study: Gayle Blackburn, University of Sunderland

The clip library videos are so useful, because it allows us to bring to life a lot of the parts of our lectures and our seminars. It allows students to see practitioners at work, in practice…

Case Study: Fiona McKinnon, Seaspace Consultancy

I like identifying films that link with the training and put these into a playlist; and being able to sample the films and choose ones which most closely fit the training…

Laying firm foundations for literacy

Laying firm foundations for literacy starts from the very beginning with babies, because enthusiasm for communication starts within those early weeks and months…

Clip Library wins awards

It’s awards season and we’re very pleased to announce that the EY Clip Library has been a winner! We were awarded **** stars in the CPD section from the Teach Early Years Awards and a silver award from Nursery World.

An introduction to pretend play with Michael Rosen

Michael Rosen looks at the subject of pretend play, using archive footage from the British Library, including footage from Siren’s early archive of footage.