Excellent morning spent with Connected Communities launching our public engagement projects ✨ If you’re interested in smiles, laughter & thinking in two-year-old children, then watch this space, I have something brewing 🫖 👏 #EYtagteam #EarlyChildhood #ShapingUs #EarlyYears

🎪 🤡 Shocking scenes this morning as I had to break the news to the household of a serious leak which had sprung in the kitchen 👀 😏 #AprilFools #SeriousLeek

Happy Easter everyone ❤️ He has risen ✝️ #Easter #HeHasRisen A lot of inspiration has come from how my eldest has observed lent this year & today I’m really feeling it 🥹 Vigil mass return & enjoying him finishing his abstinence last night was more joyful then ending my own 🥰

🥂 Oh my goodness me, thank you so much The National Teaching Repository this is such excellent news, I’m delighted (& shocked) 🥹 Thank you 🙏 SCOLPP Staffordshire Uni Staffordshire UniIOE #HigherEducation #AcademicChatter

☔️⛅️🍃 Excellent to be supporting the Staffs Uni Offer Holder Today 🥾 Always a treat to be leading sessions in our woodlands forest school, giving students a flavour of life in the Institute of Education StaffsUniIOE

🎉 Happy dance time 💃🏻 Began the week with a BERA research paper acceptance & ended the week being notified of a successful research grant application 👏 Don’t mind me if I tuck into a celebratory gin later 😜 #AcademicChatter #PhDLife

This is particularly timely for my research on smiles & laughter in two-year-old children 👏 It is excellent to see holistic elements being recognised in the importance of interpreting healthy behaviour beyond clinical tests/measures for infants 👶🏻 #EarlyChildhood #EYtagteam

I have the privilege of supporting some Esport lecturers & I hopped over there today 🤩 So amazing the hear about what individual staff are up to, how this will benefit students & see how boujee Esports is getting 👑 😜 Wow Esports could be another lifetimes career ya know 😆

🧮 Maths is everywhere 🌎 Look around you, what mathematical aspects are you surrounded by? Have maths averse or anxious learners? Take the maths outside, Mother Nature solves everything 😉 #EarlyChildhoodStudies #EYtagteam

🙈🎂 A unique total physical response short story created by excellent StaffsUniIOE students to brighten up your Wednesday 💕 #EarlyChildhood #EYtagteam It took 15 minutes for them to produce this, imagine what unique story you could create ✨🧠

We’ve been exploring early language development today ☺️ Students performed rhymes using the total physical response approach, created unique action stories & produced the cutest natural characters #EarlyYears #EarlyChildhood #EYtagteam

I hope everyone has had a beautiful #MothersDay

Right then… I know us normal folks have tight belts, giving to charities where possible & supporting each other with service. However… who has lots of money they can gift me because Christian Dior have dropped a crazy gorgeous spring summer collection of shoes 🛍️ 😂

On #InternationalWomansDay I’ve placed a gift received from a fellow strong woman in its proud home & looked at World Book Day Art with my favourite little woman. I hope you’ve had some equally important glimmers ✨ #WomenSupportingWomen 💕

🍿🔫 😳 Adaptation & Differentiation discussion #EducationStudies & #EarlyChildhoodStudies students appreciate this can be a provocative topic. Within a safe space explored the principles of each, touched on debate & applied constructivist theories to our own activity ideas 🎲

Den making in #EarlyChildhood is pure joy 🤩 Great for physicality, engineering & creativity 🧠 Once built, you can use them for almost any purpose ⛺️ Whilst we did this indoors, the outdoors present even more opportunities 🔗pentagonplay.co.uk/news-and-info/… #EYtagteam #EarlyYears

Introducing the concept of Social Awareness in Education 🏫 This game is suitable for many ages & phases. In a circle, people follow & copy the actions of the leader… but who is the leader? Someone enters & tries to work this out 🤔 #EducationStudies #HigherEducation

EYFS based approach & playful pedagogy until at least 8 years old with playful opportunities threaded throughout the remainder of the compulsory education years (yes that means secondary too) ✨ #EYtagteam The EY Tagteam do you agree? 😊

🕹️ 🏎️✈️Eldests birthday weekend has been EPIC… retro gaming party, family Karting, winning footy, summer holiday flights booked, homemade cheesecake setting, gin in hand 🙏 #SundayVibes Hope the weekend has treated you kindly ❤️

💬 🖍️ When was the last time you simply sat, had a doodle & a chat? 🖍️ 💬 Benefits for this simple activity in #EarlyYears quickly became apparent for us all… strip it back, keep it simple #EarlyChildhood #EarlyChildhood Studies #EYtagteam