UCET – the Universities’ Council for the Education of Teachers, has published an analysis of DfE support for the continuing professional development of teachers. The report was developed over a ten-month period building on extensive consultation with over 50 professionals directly involved with CPD provision for teachers in England. It seeks to highlight the strengths, weaknesses…
Robin Duckett, Sightlines Initiative. “We just realised how absolutely brilliant mud is!” The educators at Walkergate Early Years Centre in Newcastle had been venturing into a woodland preschool one recent spring and mud had been a big feature. The ‘mud-ludder’ children jump and squelch in it, getting stuck, feeling it, moulding it, churning it, finding…
Esther Sayers, Head of MA Arts & Learning Programme and Senior Lecturer in Education, Goldsmiths University. How we share and invest in our public spaces says a lot about the society in which we live. A community coming together to invest time in making common land better for everyone is a powerful narrative. This is…
Henricus Peters reviews Funny bums, freaky beaks and other incredible creature features by Alex Morss & Sean Taylor, illustrated by Sarah Edmunds. Have you ever looked at an animal and wondered if someone had played some practical joke with it – it looks so strange! Certainly, the first ever account of the duck-billed platypus suggested that someone…
Sue Shanks reviews Winter Sleep: a hibernation story by Sean Taylor & Alex Morss This book is comprised of two sections focussing on the topic of hibernation. The first section is a narrative story about a boy visiting his grandmother in winter, following an earlier visit he had made in the summer. He recollects that in summer he…