Choosing the right homeschool curriculum

Choosing the right homeschool curriculum

This article provides invaluable advice to all homeschoolers and stay-at-home mums/dads of 2.5- to 6-year-olds.   Whether you plan to homeschool longer term, or are homeschooling preschool, pre-kindergarten, kindergarten, pre-nursery, nursery or reception to get...
A revolutionary home education

A revolutionary home education

This is the story of the beautiful and gratifying reality of a home education dedicated to ensuring a deep love of learning, the development of outstanding learning abilities, and happiness.  In the last 2.5 years in our house, our 5-year-old has been:A builder, an...
Viva Vygotsky!

Viva Vygotsky!

By Galina Dolya and Sue Palmer   LEV VYGOTSKY – A THINKER WHO CHANGED TEACHING He lived for only 38 years, but in his last decade (1924–1934), the Russian thinker Lev Vygotsky transformed the study of developmental psychology. His cultural-historical theory...
How the learning revolution started

How the learning revolution started

Sue Palmer reports on a revolution in early years education. When a north London secondary head travelled to Russia in search of new ideas for his school he made a discovery that changed his career. Moscow, 1988. Perestroika. The work of Russian psychologist Lev...
High-quality, shared, story-telling activities

High-quality, shared, story-telling activities

How do we help young children develop a love of story, ownership of story language, a profound understanding of story structure and a repertoire of rich language? All young children like to listen to fairy tales and other traditional stories, but do they really...

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