What is the Responsible Behaviour Curriculum?
The Responsible Behaviour Curriculum: Unlocking Engagement for Ages 3 to 16 The Responsible Behaviour Curriculum offers a comprehensive and structured approach to teaching children, from the age of 3 to 16, essential life skills and executive functions. This curriculum is meticulously designed to support children in their development journey by focusing on four key areas: Functions, Fences, Framework, and Features. Each area is crucial in fostering an environment conducive [...]
Behaviour – Are we at crisis point?
For a number of years I have seen a number of issues in the primary schools I visit around engagement in learning. School leaders are telling me that behaviour is declining and teachers are struggling to engage the children in learning. Teachers are trying and trying and getting very frustrated with the behaviour in their classroom and sometimes, with the lack of support from parents. Some teachers struggle to [...]
ADHD – Things I wish my teachers had known…
The last year has been interesting. The Department for Education has developed the early years foundation stage even further to include a goal around self-regulation. This caused me to pull out lots of saved research from a while back looking at executive function in primary education and in particular, early years education. Children’s heads tend to be full of information and as teachers we spend a lot of time [...]
Reduce, Reuse, Repair, Recycle, Remake – Teach your children about the circular economy
Black Friday - Should we be teaching children that over consumption and shopping deals are the norm? Read on for ways to teach our little ones how to take care of the environment and cut down on waste. It’s been a relatively short period of time that it has been normal to buy much more than we need. Here at QED, we are in our 40’s and still remember our [...]
Why is the outdoors so important in the early years?
Being outside brings an enormous sense of calm and wellbeing. Teaching children from an early age to embrace the outdoors in all its glory will help their long-term wellbeing and give them some effective and easy tools to use if they are feeling stressed or emotional. Whilst it is true that some people are simply not ‘outdoors people’ they can still learn to appreciate nature and understand how a connection [...]
Early Years Teachers – We Believe in You!!
We knew early years teachers were heroes, but your superpowers are really there for all to see right now! We have been back in schools (and over zoom!) since the summer break and have been truly bowled over by the efforts being made by each and every early years teacher, head teacher, teaching assistant, nursery team and everyone who helps keep our schools ticking over whilst providing the best education [...]
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