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Early language and development
The first EYCRC CPD event took place on June 22nd , 5 – 6:30pm. The focus was on approaches that support young children’s language and thinking as this focus forms the bedrock for children’s learning and development across all areas of learning.
The first part of the event was led by Dulcie Norton-Smith who is an early years teacher from Cumbria. In this fascinating talk, Dulcie shared the the strategies she uses to develop young children thinking based on her book : ‘Beautiful Thinking: A Philosophical Approach to Parenting and Teaching From Birth to Five – Metacognition in the Early Years’
In the second part of the session Suzi Flinders, an early years practitioner from Grace Owen nursery school in Sheffield shared their experiences of taking part in the TWiTCH (Thinking with Tales for Children) project and the impact this approach has had on the children’s language development.
Overall the session was very positively received, with comments such as the following:
“Thought provoking, really want to think how this could refresh of our family support/children’s centres”
“it really has been a challenging my mind thinking session”
“That was really interesting and inspiring, thank you! Will be feeding back to our team and look at implementing some of these ideas into our practice.”
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