CHILD OF OUR TIME EARLY LEARNING Dr Tessa

CHILD OF OUR TIME EARLY LEARNING

Dr Tessa Livingstone Author of Child of Our Time: Early Learning Child of Our Time BBC Executive Producer Child of Our Time (1999 -2008) Email: livingstone. tessa@gmail. com

Wednesday 7 th May 8 pm Divide of the Sexes Producer/Director Ruth Whippman Wednesday 14 th May 8 pm The Age of Stress Producer/Director Amanda Richardson Louise Bourner Series Producer: Kate Shiers Wednesday 21 st May 8 pm 24 Hours Producer/Director Victoria Bell Executive Producer: Tessa Livingstone

Give me a child until he is seven and I will show you the man St Francis Xavier Child of Our Time: Early Learning

Agencies involved with James 0 – 8 years old • • • GP Midwives Health Visitor Benefit Agency Care workers Social Services Parenting classes 2001 and 2004 Nursery school teachers Primary school teachers Child of Our Time: Early Learning

BBC Sites www. bbc. co. uk/parenting Best free website for the lots of great stuff on kids including advice on many subjects, some illustrated with film clips from several sources including Child of Our Time. The site has information about practically everything from toilet training to health, literacy, behaviour, play and childcare. If you want more about the TV series, search for ‘Child of Our Time’. www. open 2. net/childofourtime Try the Open University website for fun interactive tests linked with Child of Our Time, and for questionnaires, ideas for games and courses on child development. www. bbc. co. uk/cbeebies Website for the BBC’s digital channel for kids under six, with programme information, games and competitions, print and colour, make and do, music and songs, watching and listening. Child of Our Time: Early Learning

UK Government sites www. standards. dfes. gov. uk Primarily aimed at practitioners, this site is just one of several that provide information on child development, effective practice, examples of play activities to promote play and learning, guidance on planning and resourcing and meeting diverse needs, including the document Birth to Three Matters: A framework to support children in their earliest years. Sure Start. Nottingham, UK: Department of Education and Skills; http: //www. ioe. ac. uk/cdl/eppe EPPE is a research project which finds out what is good and bad about preschool education and has followed the educational fortunes of children from three to eleven. Once you get to the site look for ‘findings’ and ‘eppe findings’. These give you a summary of research so far, including the document by Sylva, K. , Melhuish, E. , Sammons, P. , Siraj-Blatchford, I. , Taggart, B. and Elliot, K. (2003) The effective provision of pre-school education (EPPE) project: Findings from the pre-school period. Department of Education and Skills. Child of Our Time: Early Learning

Learning sites www. acceleratedlearning. com Paid site and online store with activity cards, guide book and scores of games for pre-reading, writing and numeracy. www. literacytrust. co. uk Free site about reading, writing and talking, including a wide range of research reports on subjects like the effects of television on language development. www. familiesonline. co. uk The website for Families magazines provides reviews by real mums, a choice of features, listing of events, forums plus pages of local information from local editors. www. allkindsofminds. org All Kinds of Minds is a non profit site that helps develop an alliance between parents, educators, and children offering learning challenges and activities that may help students minimize or overcome their differences in learning http: //www. familiesonline. co. uk/ Details of your local information service and factsheets on your childcare options are available from this website Child of Our Time: Early Learning

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. William Butler Yeats Child of Our Time: Early Learning

CHILD OF OUR TIME: EARLY LEARNING