anna ephgrave

@Ofstednews. You state in your eys toolkit that you are expecting to see “Practitioners teach mathematics explicitly.” Please give examples of what this would look like in a baby room, in a toddler room and in a preschool room. Just to avoid new myths arising!!!

@Ofstednews in your new early years toolkit, in the ‘expected standard’, it states “Practitioners teach mathematics explicitly.” Please could you give examples of what this would look like in a baby room, a toddler room and a preschool room.

facebook.com/thegreenhousee… If you are in the Bath/Bristol area and interested in home-Ed &/or self-directed learning, then please look at this post and share.

@CreativeLSW Wow! Thank you for choosing this as your book of the month.

Check out our latest book of the month pick, by @annaephgrave and which is about the principles of child-initiated play: creativelifestorywork.com/latest/plannin…

St Andrew's University has fired Stella Maris as their Rector after she condemned the genocidal attacks by Israel on Gaza. Lets show our support for her, no-one should be punished for speaking the truth.

Interesting new piece on rise in number of children being home educated: bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

@warwickmansell For younger children, formality of school destroys a love of learning. Families with a choice opt out because school seems to stop their children from learning! Centres, like this one in Bristol are thriving - as are the children who attend. facebook.com/events/d41d8cd…

@juliangrenier And please reflect on Ofsted’s role over this time. And what it’’s done. It’s something any HMI cannot be proud of. And Bold Beginnings was a research disaster. Damage done, Julian. Damage done.

Early years summer celebration at Broomhall Nursery School on 15th June 10-2.30. AM - networking and resources and activities in action with families, PM practitioner sessions incl TWiTCH, Book Trust, Makey, story-telling @earlyed_uk @SHU_SIoE South Yorkshire EE Summer Event

What a fab day @annaephgrave PITM training! It is everything I had hoped it would be. 5 years I've been trying to get on this course. Nursery put me on it knowing I would love it & I did ❤️ So inspired & buzzing I went straight into reorganising the room.

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Can I tell you a little secret? AUTHENTIC AUTISTIC PLAY RESEARCH COMING SOON!!! 🥳 Ethics application approved, app is finished, just need to get it up on a platform for downloading and we are good to go! Like, share and follow if you're a teacher in Scotland interested in play!

@ThompsonClaireL Ah thank you Claire! New date now available too - 5th June. Email to book:- enquiries@creativecascade.co.uk

Absolutely loved this training! Spoke right to my heart & why I can’t wait to get back into Early Years! ❤️

Places still available on both dates. Please email to book:- enquiries@creativecascade.co.uk

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@ImSteveMitchell @annaephgrave @johnbC74 Yes, absolutely. One issue, though, is amount which can be spent centrally on senior salaries, within the trust. Spending on highly-paid central staff certainly tends to be higher on the MAT side - almost uniformly so within larger MATs - than within LAs. campaignforstateeducation.org.uk/casereport

@StuartLock @warwickmansell What about charity executives? Are their salaries publicised?

@annaephgrave @warwickmansell I can’t tell you about Aces. I don’t know. In most cases to pay for things LAs used to do at higher cost - education welfare, payroll, HR, finance functions, governance support, school improvement, etc

Wow-head resigns with public criticism of the MAT he worked for, over level of its top-slice: bbc.co.uk/news/uk-englan…