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Can I Go and Play Now?: Rethinking the Early Years

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Um, it’s a process it’s it’s, as I say, if you’re going to go on an adventure, which I believe play is, then we have to accept that some people are not as far on in the adventure as you are, that doesn’t make them less of a person. It doesn’t make them that doesn’t make them a weak practitioner. It doesn’t, it just means that those who are further on in the journey, feel it and are, uh, have, have learned more if you like, and it’s their job to enable the people. Pooky Knightsmith:Do all children come with the kind of the skills and the understanding and the confidence to play well? Or are there things that you need to teach and establish?

She, she, you probably, if you, if people watch it, that will say she’s very reluctant. Whereas epi just is all over me. It takes one look and she, she finds it. I dunno, she just walks off. So I have to talk to Bonnie off-camera quite a bit. Um, but he just loves it. She just You can play with words, but you can’t do that. If it’s just, you teach phonics. So it passes a test. That’s just. It’s dead. You’re just teaching dead language to children because all they’re doing is doing it. So to be compliant, to pass the test, and that’s not a criticism of teachers at all, it’s a criticism of the adult world that demands this from children. And they have to reflect on who they are, because this is, this is about, I believe it’s about becoming a really authentic educator because you teaching right out of here. And where are you? Where are my shortcomings? I’ve got, probably ask my friends. Um, well, um, what am I shortcomings? Probably in that often I have been in certain areas and I’ve not valued them. Pooky Knightsmith:come they were up for play. If they haven’t done it for all that time. What, what changed it? I mean, what I’ve done it in schools, I’ve done one in a school. They haven’t the children in play for two years and I did it. Yeah. They haven’t had any play two years. And I said, what? We’ll do play projects. We set it up. And the teachers were like, this isn’t going to work. And did it work. Yeah, it absolutely did because the children took ownership of it and the teachers were just like, and they could see, because what happened was the children had shown them and they did it brilliantly just allows children to show them what they were capable of.So the traditional model of teaching is you plan for the children. Yeah. But this model is you plan for yourself because if we accept that plate is choice, I don’t know what children are going to do. And that’s the biggest thing that stops play. It’s the biggest inhibitor for teachers who won’t play, because they’ve got to let go of control and we’re raised in control. By coming to the Zoom, you will be joining other interested educators, giving The Message Centre momentum and energy, plus you'll get the FREE walkthrough with Greg to inspire you to get started and bring your own energy to the concept!

Isn’t about losing learning, and it’s not, it’s just about saying to children, right. Have some space and you’re still there as the code player. That’s the thing. So when you do play projects, you’re just going in and you’re sprinkling skills over the top of what children do. Um, and it’s a really, really beautiful, really beautiful way to work. Cause cause playtime is there as the break for children to run around. But if you have a play culture, as I call it your play culture, Enables children to choose to go outside because outside has equal value to inside the learning will follow them, maths and writing, reading, all those things will follow them because he’s in them in here. The Curious Quests wants to build on the liberation of Drawing Club that shows children that writing is for them and that the pen is a magic wand. They write for their own joy, not to meet the demands of the adults. Drawing Club can be truly transformative both within your Reception practice and as a bridge into KS1 - its magic is extraordinary because Drawing Club is an adventure into the world of story itself. So I’ve had this kind of like, Oh, but it is. And so, and I didn’t, and so I’ve got something else called drawing club, which is equally as impactful with children. But I’ve not really done anything with them yet, because I want to, for September to come around, right. Let’s go because they CA they’re both really, um, yeah.Um, I see it as something really frustrating that I’ve got to break up and recycle. It becomes something impractical. Whereas a child will see the infinite opportunity and potential within that box. So it’s something I call the seventh sense. All children have it to a degree they see through the objective reality that we think the world is, and they see the potential, the infinite potential in everything. That’s not teaching from the soul teaching from the soul comes right from here, because it’s almost like if you didn’t do it, then the world of, I talk about the world of good things. We want the world of good things for children. Don’t wait up. I think we do. I think children deserve it. They deserve adventure. So the two work together. So like Coldplay is, is like you go into play and then at moments, children come to you as well, but you only come to you because at that moment, you’ve got something magic to show them whether it be a story, whether it be something to do with phonics, whether it’s, you know, something amazing about number, um, and all the time in the play. And that’s what it is. They call it a baseline assessment, but it’s no, it’s a test. And what it’s doing is it’s telling children that they’re going to get pushed to the side of their own lives. You’re not important in it. That’s what it is. We don’t value. Your play is not valued. You do what I tell you to do when you’re in here. Walk because if we walk, children have got the opportunity to learn in the same way as tidy up time. Yeah. It’s about saying to the children, if we don’t tidy up after we finished playing. The next children that come, they can’t learn because we’ve just left it as a mess. And what we do is we do it together.

Cause it just reconfirmed this idea that learning only happens at a desk, but it doesn’t children. Aren’t programmed to be sat behind a desk. Um, this, you know, the, the, the children need to be active. They need to be outside. They need to be able to explore, but it needs, I mean, I talk about teaching from the soul and that’s what we need. Um, that, that really makes me happy when I get to work with key stage one, because it means that schools are really trying to explore the joy of learning. Um, but yeah, so I do conferences as well. Um, but I also work with some local authorities along the way, um, just to kind of support them in their work. The playtime is the reward, but play is the reward in itself. So things like I used to do things like I used to pinky promise with my children. So we’d get them all together and we’d make a pinky promise about how we were going to use principles of it became like a negotiation as to we all agree. This is what we’re all agreeing on. And also, you know, the richness of their plays far better. But then I do a bit of not play a bit like coming to a base camp. And saying on the adventure, right? This, this next bit, we’re going to need these skills. And I talk about tight teat. So that’s like a tight teach of not play and then into open play.

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Discover how to create a culture in which children want to write, where maths is embraced and reading is a natural part of daily life. The Message Centre has huge potential and its magic is waiting for you...

You will have abundant opportunities to show children the joy of SPAG and apply their phonic understanding too, though The Curious Quests does not tell you what to teach and when - that is down to you and your knowledge of your children and the curriculum. The Curious Quests, just like Drawing Club is more like an open-ended landscape to adventure in. Pooky Knightsmith:I was going to say it’s appealing to me, but then I’m an autistic adult who didn’t really ever learn to play. So, uh, yeah, give me a script and, uh, okay. If so, then Drawing Club is definitely for you. The progress children can make through Drawing Club across all areas of child development is exceptional with the added bonus of confidence and joy, and it comes with a tonne of resources to get your adventure started.That’s what the POGIL does. Or, you know, this is where grandpa lives. So there’s an episode, a couple of episodes where we go into grew up in Paul’s house. He’s like a really grumpy character. And, um, I couldn’t take the dogs in with me because it’s, uh, uh, it’s a, an abandoned building and the guy that owns it didn’t want the dogs in.

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