Happiness is Free
What truly makes children happy? Plastic toys, iPads, consumables and gifts will break, they will be lost, damaged or become outdated, but most of the things that bring true joy to our children’s lives are free. The only currency we will need is time. Here’s a
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We Have a Lot to Learn from our Youngest Citizens
A child can teach us all three very important lessons : To be happy for absolutely no reason at all. To always be busy with something. To demand with all of our might something that we desire and to relentlessly and tirelessly go after it until
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The Importance of Preschool.
Why are preschools so important? I’ve heard people say that preschools are just a time filler before the ‘real’ learning takes place in school, but this statement couldn’t be further from the truth. In fact the time between 2 and 7 years of age is probably
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The Three Forms of Assessment.
What are the three levels of assessment that every school needs to adopt? When we look at good pedagogy, we start to understand that ‘voice’ is crucial. It’s important that the teachers have a voice, the parents and also the students (no matter how young Assessment
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Model the Behaviour you Wish to View in Your Child.
If we want to cultivate a community of love, a group of children and families who respect and protect each other, we must model this behaviour ourselves. It’s takes a village to raise a child and our actions and behaviours are watched closely by the ever
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What We Forget About Teaching!
The word ‘Teacher’ is not to be taken literally. As teachers we are more than a vessel to transmit information into the minds of our children, we are a lot more! Our presence alone will define what it means to be alive. Our example to the
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The Role of Essential Skills in Education.
Our current educational outcomes are designed not for the future, but for an Industrial Age that’s over 150 years old. Designed for a lifestyle and workforce long gone. Teaching for the sake of learning and remembering facts’ We must ask ourselves, “Why am I teaching this?”
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10 Lessons Every Child Needs to Learn!
School is crucial for the obvious reasons! Learning mathematics, understanding how to construct a sentence and understanding the processes in science, history and geography, but there are some lessons that you won’t find In any mainstream curriculum and they are absolutely crucial lessons for any students
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The Communication Between the Hand and Mind!
The cognitive development of our children is heavily dependent of the communication between the hand and mind! If we allow our children to feel their way through the curriculum, to hear the learning objectives, to listen to the sounds of the educational goals and expectations and
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Construction – July: Week 1
Good morning Happy Hoppers, Moms and Dads. We hope you are all healthy and keeping fit! 💪 Let us start our days with our morning ring time. 🎼🧮 Our theme this week is Construction, Buildings and Factories! 👷♀👷🏗️🚧🚩🌆🏭👨🏭👩🏭 1. What is construction? The action of building
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