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Is Anxiety Hiding in your Classroom?

1st November 2017

Wellbeing - Emotions, Wellbeing - Learning

Children deal with many different types and causes of anxiety. The one thing every form of anxiety has in common is the tendency to lock up the brain, making it difficult for children to learn. So as educators it’s important to be able to recognise and address anxiety. Sometimes anxiety is obvious, like when a…

The value of role play with children

16th September 2017

Claire Orange

Early Childhood, Parenting, Wellbeing - Emotions

Have you ever driven along – on the way to a big meeting or event and practised your lines out loud? You’ve trimmed here, edited there, smugly congratulated yourself on that pearl that you’ve planned to drop in. As adults, we do it all the time. We say out loud or to ourselves what we’re…

Guide to Making Mistakes – tips and tricks for teachers

30th August 2017

Claire Orange

Wellbeing - Emotions, Wellbeing - Learning

Helping children to embrace their learning opportunities There’s a lot of talk about mistakes, the ‘positivity’ of failure’ and the learning opportunities they bring. Mistakes are a regular visitor in the life of a child – but bringing for many a sense of shame, or perhaps denial that they even occur with the common refrains “It wasn’t me.” “I didn’t do it on purpose.” “It’s not my fault.” “You told me to do it that way!” Why is making mistakes so hard to do – and…

The value of letting children make, and learn from, MISTAKES

5th April 2017

Claire Orange

Early Childhood, Parenting, Wellbeing - Learning

Failure – it’s a difficult word for most parents to slide in to any positive thinking about parenting children. In fact – it’s an ugly and negative word that we should be reframing into – Growing through mistakes Taking appropriate risks Learning from less than perfect outcomes These are far more palatable ways of describing…

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Friendships and Learning: You Can’t Have One Without The Other

9th February 2017

Claire Orange

Friendships, Wellbeing - Learning, Wellbeing - Social

Friendships are a critical part of a child’s learning process. Through friends children learn about themselves and others, and model new skills and social behaviours. The very act of making friends is one of the major developmental tasks of early childhood, helping children to feel good about themselves, adapt more easily to new environments and…

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Is Anxiety Hiding in your Classroom?

The value of role play with children

Guide to Making Mistakes – tips and tricks for teachers

The value of letting children make, and learn from, MISTAKES

Friendships and Learning: You Can’t Have One Without The Other