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Encouraging Critical Thinking
Critical thinking is when children use their imagination and creativity to take on challenges and explore how problems could be solved and how their ideas can be implemented.
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Loving Relationship
The Importance of Celebrating Woman’s Day and Teaching Equality in Early Years
If we truly want to achieve equality and harmony among human beings, we must not neglect the time of life when the social, idealistic, and linguistic differences…
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Holi at Colliers Wood making Coconut Barfi
Holi is a Hindu festival that celebrates spring, love, and new life. To celebrate we are going to make Coconut Barfi. It’s so simple why not give it a go yourself.
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Why Fine Motor is so Important
Fine motor skills involve small muscles working with the brain and nervous system to control movements in areas in the body such as the hands, fingers, lips,…
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The importance of block play
Children have played with blocks for many years and we all definitely have some memories from our childhood when we built and created with wooden blocks.
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The WillowsWay® through the lens of neuroplasticity.
The brain is a remarkable organ. It receives information from the body through sensing organs like our eyes, ears, skin, and lungs. I would also add the microbiome…
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Incorporating Exercise into Everyday Learning
At Willows we try to Incorporate Physical Activity (Exercise) as much as possible, both with planned physical activities and free play. The children are encouraged…
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Dealing with ’Picky Eaters’
It’s normal for children to be fussy eaters – that is, to not like the taste, shape, colour, or texture of particular foods.
In fact, this all happens because fussy eating is part of children’s development. Up to a third of children around the age of two could be described as fussy eaters.
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The concept of Embedded learning at Willows
Embedded learning most simply describes learning while doing. The concept of Embedded Learning is consistency and recapping; creating ways for learners to improve their literacy, language, and numeracy skills as part of another learning activity
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Awe and Wonder
Awe and Wonder in Willows Pre-school Awe can be described as a powerful feeling that leaves a mark. It moves, inspires, and motivates us.