Alistair Bryce-Clegg joins our panel of global experts as they discuss the potential impacts of lockdown on early years children.
Alistair Bryce-Clegg is an award-winning Early Years author, blogger, product designer and advocate of play. His work has been published in several books and magazines, and he has worked as an Early Years advisor for various…
Dr. Michael Ungar shares why building resilience in children is vital for their well-being and ability to learn and develop.
Dr. Michael Ungar is both a family therapist and internationally-renowned researcher in the field of social and psychological resilience. As Director of the Resilience Research Centre at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada, he has published 17…
Erika Christakis discusses long-standing concerns in early years learning, and how human connection is key to unlocking healthy cognition.
Erika Christakis is an early childhood educator and New York Times bestselling author of
The Importance of Being Little: What Young Children Really Need From Grownups.
A former preschool director and faculty member of the Yale Child Study Center,…
Dr. Suzanne Zeedyk explores how environments can impact babies – even before birth – and what implications this could have for pandemic babies.
Dr. Suzanne Zeedyk is an infant development specialist speaker, trainer and researcher fascinated by the innate capacity of babies to connect. Dr. Zeedyk believes that everyone deserves to share in scientists' discoveries about…
Professor David Daley will be exploring the impact of the pandemic on school readiness.
A developmental psychologist by training, David Daley is a Professor of Psychological
Intervention and Behaviour Change. His primary area of research lies in the psychological development of pre-school children, with a particular focus on how to enhance school readiness in those with neurodiversity.
David’s…
As the world continues to recover from the pandemic, educators are trying to understand how they need to adapt.
Will some ‘Little Lockdowners’ reap the benefits of additional quality time while others face
the impacts of social isolation and unusually high-stress environments?
While it’s impossible to determine how infants born during the pandemic could be affected in the…
How has the pandemic affected child development?
For babies born into the pandemic, they have experienced a world like no other. Faced with limited social interaction, and reduced opportunities to leave the home, many also experienced associated anxiety from worried parents and caregivers who were dealing with financial and emotional stress.
What we do know is…
As part of the national curriculum, primary children are expected to understand the inner workings of a computer. In this video, Simon Hunt (aka Mr Hunt from the Front!) shows how easy it is to bring learning to life through tinkering with computers in the classroom.
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I first started running a STEM club at my local primary school twelve years ago when my children were young. In the UK, as in many other countries, there is a shortage of young people going into careers in science and engineering. I come from a family of engineers, so when I was little most…
It was a few years ago now, and my STEM club were galloping through my existing projects at an alarming rate. I had to come up with some new ideas fast to keep them engaged and interested. I thought, in this digital age, we really ought to be discovering how to interact digitally with our…