Deputy Head of a maintained nursery school, Early Years MA, Early Years associate lecturer, teacher, mum to two brilliant human children and one cat.
Northamptonshire
Joined September 2019
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@FelicityNorton6 are pen green going to facilitate attachment awareness training again? Best training I ever did - I want to put more people on it!!
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My son wasn’t diagnosed with a “level” of autism (thank goodness) but out of curiosity I did some searching. I found this: Image shows “level 1” a child with a disgruntled expression, folding her arms.
#ActuallyAutistic people of Twitter - I need your advice. My son is very anxious about death, especially what it feels like to be dead. His sister is disabled and this all stems from when she first got sick 2 years ago. He also had a grandparent die when he was 3…
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Channelling @jo3grace this week with 2 plaits! The amount of “We’re matching! We’re Elsa!” cries this elicited was joyful! Matching hairstyles is something a colleague taught me and it has huge wellbeing impacts for some children💚 #earlyyears #edutwitter
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“I literally just had the best idea for my collection!” followed by a 15 minute info-dump about sycamore seeds. Since we displayed the collection he has been so excited about categorising. We have a task ahead of us now 😂 😍( blurry photo because he was excitedly stimming!)
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Book marking this for a time when I’ve had less vodka. Sounds awesome!
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Wow, this is so awesome! Printed to put in my son’s collection - folded and stored like a love letter.
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We have recently recruited a new staff member for our baby room team and I’m looking for a really high quality course for EY educators working with under 2s, that covers attachment and schema theory. Any suggestions welcomed @EYTagteam thank you
Who’s ready for some Special Interest Spam? Buckle up! My #actuallyautistic son has been collecting stuff for years. His collection has been stuffed into the drawers under his bed or getting dusty on the top of his wardrobe. Until today!
This was me! Art, English literature, psychology, sociology. No real aims. I’m now a teacher who employs all those subjects every day in my work with young children. And I LOVE learning because I was never forced to do it.
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Is there really any harm in being "a directionless young person who has chosen to explore sprawling and eclectic subjects with no clear outcomes"?
Is it really so unthinkable to enjoy learning for its own sake, with no definite aims in sight?
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I’ve been learning about SOS boxes at work and I thought it might be useful at home too. Omg game changer! We have been able to be part of family Easter celebrations today with no dysregulation. #SOS #autism #inclusion
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Spent the morning making these cute little Talking Time stickers for our planning board. The team will be able to see which children we need to focus on to ensure they are having equitable opportunities for conversation #edutwitter @juliangrenier
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My boy loves magnolia trees. We went for a walk today (tricky for us) and he stopped to photograph every magnolia tree we saw. I am thinking of printing his pictures and putting them through the doors of the magnolia-cultivators, to thank them for bringing him joy. Is that weird?
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I’ve just seen a post on FB where the mum of an autistic child was told BY THE EYFS TEACHER that he won’t get an EHCP because they don’t teach anything in the early years. I mean… where do you even start if even EY teachers don’t value EY education?
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I just managed to do the whole bedtime routine without using a single demand 💁🏻♀️ “do you want me to brush your teeth or you?” “How much longer shall we hug before we brush your teeth?” “You’ve chosen an interesting position to brush your teeth in!” “The time for eating has…
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…finished now. I wonder what you’ll choose for breakfast tomorrow!” “I’ve left your books out on your bed, I can’t wait to see what you draw tonight” “would you like 5 or 10 more minutes of drawing?” (I know questions are types of demands but these don’t trigger him!) #PDA
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The end of a really difficult term in early years. Staff shortages, underfunding, high levels of vulnerability… I have been feeling that the learning isn’t happening because we are firefighting all day long. So I went in today and sorted through the piles of paper.
And I found visible learning - representations of people, schematic drawings, experiments with letters and numbers, investigations into colour and material. These children are amazing! They are going to love seeing their work up on the wall. @EYTagteam #edutwitter
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Us educators have so many stories, some funny, some sad, some that stay with us for a long time and keep niggling at us. It’s important that we have the time and space to tell them. Thank you to @UniNorthants giving me the space!
Great blog by @KateEYT on Human and Non-Human Animal Relationships in Education: Power and Violence. Take a look: bit.ly/3ySV5Ys
#EarlyYears #Children #degree #education #relationships
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