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Falling Out This film encourages practitioners to reflect on what social skills children need to have to be able to deal with conflicts effectively

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Falling Out – Introduction

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Falling out – Toy fight

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Falling Out – Unresolved dispute

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Falling Out – Adult intervention

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Falling Out – It will end in tears

Learning through play Follow three year old Seb, as he learns through playful activities, alone and with friends, supported by his close adults

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Learning through Play – Personal, social & emotional development

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Learning through play – Communication & language

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Learning through Play – Physical Development

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Learning through Play – mathematical development

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Learning through play – Creative development

SEND Celebrating what children can do, rather than what they can’t, is a great place to start in supporting children with additional and complex needs.

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Introducing Oliver

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Oliver looks at books

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Oliver plays with blocks

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Oliver explores outside

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Introducing Khloe

COEL – Creating and thinking critically A collection of clips looking at children developing the skills to think flexibly

Jamie plays with objects thumbnail

Jamie plays with objects

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Yasmine grouping toys

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Rose hammers

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Mystery of the broken headstone

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Playing with bricks

COEL - Active learning Active learning is about the motivation behind children’s learning and how to keep going when the going gets tough

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I want to climb a tree

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Rose hammers

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The three bears

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The wheel barrow

COEL - Playing & exploring Play enables a can do attitude where children are willing to have a go and are continual explorers

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Baby plays with basket of objects

Yasmine explores slopes and edges thumbnail

Yasmine explores slopes and edges

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I want to climb a tree

Rosa and the magnifying glass thumbnail

Rosa and the magnifying glass

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The three bears

Steiner Kindergarten Approach Steiner is currently celebrating 100 years in education. Find out more about this approach

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Steiner approach to play

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Steiner approach – environment and materials

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Making bread

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Building a dragon’s cave

Emile builds a den thumbnail

Emile builds a den

Cassie Holland's favourites Nursery manager, Cassie, has chosen her favourite clips from the library

How does experience shape the brain? thumbnail

How does experience shape the brain?

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The treasure map

Sam does woodwork thumbnail

Sam does woodwork

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Chatting at meal time

What shall we do with the cauldron? thumbnail

What shall we do with the cauldron?

Personal, Social and Emotional development The key to children’s learning rests on their well-being and their social understandings.

Understanding attachment – What is attachment? thumbnail

Understanding attachment – What is attachment?

Understanding attachment – Emotional regulation thumbnail

Understanding attachment – Emotional regulation

Learning through Play – Personal, social & emotional development thumbnail

Learning through Play – Personal, social & emotional development

Could baby ride with Alice? thumbnail

Could baby ride with Alice?

Seth and Davide blocks and technology thumbnail

Seth and Davide blocks and technology

Early Brain Development Following baby Orson and his family we take an in depth look at how the babies brain develops during the first year

The wonder year – introduction thumbnail

The wonder year – introduction

How does experience shape the brain? thumbnail

How does experience shape the brain?

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Care routines

Communicating, smiling, babbling & copying thumbnail

Communicating, smiling, babbling & copying

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Strength, co-ordination, space and movement

Life at Two Meet Ava, a typical two year old, see all of her highs and lows as she deals with the emotional aspects of change involved in being two

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Life at Two – Introducing Ava and her family

Life at two – Developing independence at home thumbnail

Life at two – Developing independence at home

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Life at Two – Ava starts nursery

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Life at two – Ava’s first full day at nursery

Life at two – Learning & exploring with mum thumbnail

Life at two – Learning & exploring with mum

Pretend Play Find out more about the most fascinating of all of the play forms

Alison Gopnik – Why is pretend play so important? thumbnail

Alison Gopnik – Why is pretend play so important?

Angus feeds dolly thumbnail

Angus feeds dolly

Orson puts fireman to bed thumbnail

Orson puts fireman to bed

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Joanne’s tea party

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Heidi goes shopping