This month’s content has landed on the Early Excellence Inspiration Hub! 🌟 Let’s Talk Dough – discover how thoughtful setup, intentional adult interaction, and fresh thinking can transform dough play into a powerful driver of creativity, confidence, and fine motor development. 👀 Coming next month: Outdoors: Seize Every Moment - Discover how outdoor experiences, in any weather, can spark investigation, creativity, and learning that indoor spaces alone can’t offer. 📚 Still available: Home Corne
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This month’s content has landed on the Early Excellence Inspiration Hub! 🌟 Let’s Talk Dough – discover how thoughtful setup, intentional adult interaction, and fresh thinking can transform dough play into a powerful driver of creativity, confidence, and fine motor development. 👀 Coming next month: Outdoors: Seize Every Moment - Discover how outdoor experiences, in any weather, can spark investigation, creativity, and learning that indoor spaces alone can’t offer. 📚 Still available: Home Corne
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Early on, a little knowledge can feel like mastery. Plans sound clean. The future feels obvious. Then reality shows up. Pressure. Mistakes. Hard decisions that books never warned you about. That struggle isn’t failure. It’s the classroom. Real confidence isn’t loud. It’s earned through effort, correction, and staying in the work long enough to see what you didn’t know yet. That’s where growth actually happens. #ServiceExcellence #ToddLiles #HVAC #Plumbing #Electrical #ContractorLife #Leadership
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Early on, a little knowledge can feel like mastery. Plans sound clean. The future feels obvious. Then reality shows up. Pressure. Mistakes. Hard decisions that books never warned you about. That struggle isn’t failure. It’s the classroom. Real confidence isn’t loud. It’s earned through effort, correction, and staying in the work long enough to see what you didn’t know yet. That’s where growth actually happens. #ServiceExcellence #ToddLiles #HVAC #Plumbing #Electrical #ContractorLife #Leadership
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Celebrate World Book Day with Early Excellence's Favorite Books!
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At Early Excellence, we understand the critical importance of physical development in the early years. To help educators enhance their practice, we're excited to introduce new resources from the EEF that focus on physical development. Explore these new resources and enhance your physical development approaches including: 1. Promoting Physical Activity 2. Teaching the Skills Needed for Movement and Handling 3. Teaching the Skills Needed for Mark-Making and Letter Formation 📚 Discover More >> htt
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At Early Excellence, we understand the critical importance of physical development in the early years. To help educators enhance their practice, we're excited to introduce new resources from the EEF that focus on physical development. Explore these new resources and enhance your physical development approaches including: 1. Promoting Physical Activity 2. Teaching the Skills Needed for Movement and Handling 3. Teaching the Skills Needed for Mark-Making and Letter Formation 📚 Discover More >> htt
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As adults, we always have little pairs of eyes on us, watching our every move. What a fantastic opportunity to model those key critical thinking skills to children so that they can replicate this in their own play. The role of a skilful adult, coupled with a considered and carefully resourced learning environment provides children with the opportunity to explore and master newly acquired skills in real-life contexts. Never underestimate the importance of nurturing children’s natural desires to l
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As adults, we always have little pairs of eyes on us, watching our every move. What a fantastic opportunity to model those key critical thinking skills to children so that they can replicate this in their own play. The role of a skilful adult, coupled with a considered and carefully resourced learning environment provides children with the opportunity to explore and master newly acquired skills in real-life contexts. Never underestimate the importance of nurturing children’s natural desires to l
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This month’s content has landed on the Early Excellence Inspiration Hub! 🌟 Home Corner In Focus – dive into how this familiar area can become a rich space for imagination, communication, and learning. 👀 Coming next month: Let’s Talk Dough – discover how thoughtful setup, intentional adult interaction, and fresh thinking can transform dough play into a powerful driver of creativity, confidence, and fine motor development. 📚 Still available: From Starting Points to Stronger Provision: Reflectin
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This month’s content has landed on the Early Excellence Inspiration Hub! 🌟 Home Corner In Focus – dive into how this familiar area can become a rich space for imagination, communication, and learning. 👀 Coming next month: Let’s Talk Dough – discover how thoughtful setup, intentional adult interaction, and fresh thinking can transform dough play into a powerful driver of creativity, confidence, and fine motor development. 📚 Still available: From Starting Points to Stronger Provision: Reflectin
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Like many schools, if you are planning to rethink provision and practice in KS1 in response to the needs of children moving from EYFS, or in anticipation of a teacher moving into KS1 for the first time, you’ll find much support from the team here at Early Excellence. Look out for the KS1 Summer Roadshow in your area. Launched last week in Leicestershire, we welcomed over 80 delegates visiting throughout the day! As Nova Robinson explains in this short video, the roadshow is a fully immersive CPD
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Like many schools, if you are planning to rethink provision and practice in KS1 in response to the needs of children moving from EYFS, or in anticipation of a teacher moving into KS1 for the first time, you’ll find much support from the team here at Early Excellence. Look out for the KS1 Summer Roadshow in your area. Launched last week in Leicestershire, we welcomed over 80 delegates visiting throughout the day! As Nova Robinson explains in this short video, the roadshow is a fully immersive CPD
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This month’s content has landed on the Early Excellence Inspiration Hub! 🌟 From Starting Points to Stronger Provision: Reflecting and RespondingExplore practical ways to build on children’s starting points, strengthen your provision, and reflect on the impact of your practice. 👀 Coming next month:Home Corner In Focus – dive into how this familiar area can become a rich space for imagination, communication, and learning. 📚 Still available:Getting Started: Routines, Environments & Early Expecta
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At Early Excellence, we believe that the environment is a crucial part of enabling outstanding teaching and learning. That's why we are committed to helping schools create spaces that perfectly complement their curriculums and offers a wide range of successful learning outcomes through continous provision. We offer a complimentary planning service to collaboratively review your current provisions, rethink the use of your space, and ensure that your environment is engaging childrens interests and
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Some areas of provision and collections of resources are most effective when used in relation to others and can effectively support the teaching and learning of the prime areas particularly communication and language. One good example of this is the small world and block area. Carefully selected resources will enable effective learning and development, particularly in the development of language and vocabulary, storytelling and understanding the world. Explore our Continuous Provision Inside Out
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Do you offer a maths area in your EYFS/KS1 classrooms? Join our online learning programme and hear Andy talk in detail about how to develop Maths Continuous Provision and strengthen opportunities for mathematical thinking throughout your whole classroom https://earlyexcellence.com/national-events/mathsonline/ | Early Excellence
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Are you an Early Years or KS1 Leader or teacher eager to enhance your understanding of the EYFS and KS1 environments? We're excited to invite you to explore high-quality Continuous Provision through our guided online tour of an Interactive EYFS & KS1 Environment. This virtual experience is designed allow you to see real examples of exceptional Continuous Provision in action and our experienced consultants will provide valuable advice and support, helping you develop and refine your own EYFS/KS1
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With EExAT you gain a complete solution for practitioners, teachers, parents and leaders at all levels and have at your fingertips an integrated solution for assessing, tracking, documenting, moderating and reporting children’s learning Birth – 5yrs. EExAT gives you a highly-principled and extremely practical solution to all of your assessment needs and ensures that you are working with an expert team who offer all of the support, advice and training you need to secure all aspects of your assess
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New Podcast Release: Navigating Speech and Language Challenges 🎙️ This week we’re joined by Georgina Durrant, who shares her journey from teacher to SEN advocate, stressing the need for better training, play in learning, and strong parent-teacher collaboration. She discusses supporting speech and language needs, highlighting communication, sensory experiences, and understanding behaviour as communication. Listen now 🎧 > https://eu1.hubs.ly/H0jzcLB0 | Early Excellence
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Gain inspiration to refresh your continuous provision with a 3D virtual tour of the Early Excellence EYFS and KS1 Classrooms. You will see many examples of high-quality continuous provision as you look around each area and gain practical ideas to help you review, refresh and re-organise your classrooms. You might choose to explore the virtual classrooms on your own or with your colleagues. Whichever way, it’s time well spent as you think and reflect on your practice. Find out more: https://bit.l
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Does your EYFS / KS1 Maths curriculum offer sufficient cognitive, contextual and collaborative challenge? Ofsted’s current inspection framework requires staff to be “knowledgeable about the teaching of early Mathematics”, meaning it is more important than ever that teachers have a keen understanding of how children develop mathematical concepts. Early Excellence will be delivering an essential new course focused on the fundamentals of teaching Mathematics in the Early Years throughout Spring 202
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When thinking about the maths and literacy opportunities this area provides, keep it real. Furniture isn’t labelled in the home, so it needn’t be here. Think about the reading, writing and maths that does form part of home life: scales on jugs or kitchen scales, pans and bowls of different sizes; calendars, books and brochures, shopping lists and birthday cards to write; tape measures and a working clock, a kitchen timer, recipe books and a purse with money. Read our blog in full: https://earlye
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How is tidy up time viewed at your school or setting? Is it seen as a race, rushing to finish tidying so that the learning can continue, or do you have a different approach? Read our blog on Top Tips for Effective Tidy-Up Times in the EYFS https://earlyexcellence.com/latest-news/press-articles/top-tips-for-effective-tidy-up-times-in-the-eyfs/ | Early Excellence
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Does your KS1 practice build on the experiences that your children will have had within the early years? It has always been important that KS1 practice offers continuity from the EYFS, providing an approach to teaching and learning which both reflects the developmental stage of the children and offers increasing challenge. Our KS1 Roadshows provide inspiration, insights, and practical advice for you take back into your classroom. Find your local roadshow and learn more > https://eu1.hubs.ly/H0mZ
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Are you a Key Stage 1 educator or school leader looking to enhance your understanding of effective practice in early years and Key Stage 1 education? Early Excellence Studio invites you to take part in an insightful KS1 Learning Walk, where you’ll explore our innovative learning environment and discover practical strategies to support children’s learning journeys. Wednesday 1st November with spaces available from 9:30am - 5pm. | Early Excellence
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Meet your Exeter Workshop Hosts 🎤 This is your chance to learn and connect with inspiring Early Years Leaders to gain valuable insights and ideas to take back with you into your school setting. ✍️ Social Cognition and Self-Regulation Through Physical Development, hosted by Sarah Butler 📚 Exploring Powerful Learning Through Home Corner Role Play, hosted by Amanda Belbin 🧒 Effective Knowledge and Skills Curriculum Mapping, hosted by Lyndsey Porter • Exeter, Exeter Racecourse, EX6 7XS • Tuesday
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Explore how your water, sand, dough and science areas can be structured effectively to encourage investigative thinking and stimulate language development and questioning. Investigation areas support children’s personal, social and emotional development, providing environments where they can interact with others create stories and learn through play. Find out more about the benefits of of Continuous Provision with Inside Out >>> https://eu1.hubs.ly/H0fhJ8S0 | Early Excellence
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Despite the current situation, the revised EYFS will still become statutory in September. So whether you are a Head, Senior Leader or classroom practitioner, our webinar programme offers the perfect solution to support your understanding of the upcoming changes. Find out more: www.earlyexcellence.com/briefing | Early Excellence
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🌟 Introducing the Inspiration Hub App! Your new go-to for fresh, practical support for early years practice — delivered every month. 📱 Ready-to-use resources 💡 Expert guidance ✨ Brand-new content released on the 1st of every month From classroom ideas to practical tools, the Hub grows with you — keeping your provision inspiring, current, and confidence-boosting all year long. Step inside the Inspiration Hub and connect with a community dedicated to supporting and inspiring early years practic
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When it comes to setting up our learning environments, we often dedicate a lot of energy to organising resources indoors. But why not apply the same principles to our outdoor spaces?Just like we label and categorise materials inside, let’s extend that approach outside. Creating labelled storage areas for nature exploration, building, creative arts, and more can help children navigate and engage with the outdoor environment effectively.Visit our website and download our outdoor environment audit
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It may have been chilly outside, but inside the room? Pure excellence. Today’s Detroit Public Schools Community District Spelling Bee was a powerful reminder of what happens when preparation meets opportunity. Our students showed focus, confidence, and vocabulary mastery under pressure — and they delivered. Dr. Vitti delivered remarks and cheered on the students, he coached a few kindergartners as they went on for 10 rounds. Huge appreciation to Ms. Leenet, Ms. Cassie, Ms. Emily, our Literacy Te
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New to teaching in KS1? Here’s a top tip! Spend time observing how your class learns, ask questions, discover what their levels of independence are and talk to their previous teachers to find out their starting points. Successfully start your journey in KS1, and listen to more of our tips by watching The Roundtable: https://bit.ly/EEx-Roundtable | Early Excellence
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