Sarah, a Nursery Teacher from an inner-city school in Manchester talks to Glenn (AKA The Male Practitioner) about her journey into early years and her amazing approach to understanding maths by using techniques for children with EAL.
You can find Sarah on Instagram by clicking HERE
In the second podcast in this series Glenn (AKA The Male Practitioner) talks the the founder and manager of Beatle Woods Outdoor Nursery Rachel MacBeth-Webb about her values, principals and ethos for outdoor learning and how partnerships between staff, parents and (above all) the children is key.
I the first episode of this Podcast series Glenn (AKA The Male Practitioner) speaks to Becie Doughty, a Deputy Manager in a York Nursery, about her thoughts on Enabling Environments as she talks through her 5 top tips.
So, after a lovely chat with the brilliant James Tunnell from Nursery Nook today about my first Podcast with Greg Bottrill it got my brain ticking over with ideas. So, welcome to the podcast family “Real Life Practice” (ta-dah!)
However that’s where you, the lovely followers of my blog and social media pages come in. If anybody who currently works in a nursery or playgroup or is a childminder would be willing to chat with me and share their own ideas and practice for different subjects such as:
Maths and Numbers
Communications
Enabling Environments
Sustained Shared Thinking
Physical Play
Outdoor Play and Learning.
It would be great to keep them bite-sized as they are more accessible and “listenable” if that’s even a word! I record them using zoom but only use the audio of it but it’s nicer to talk to somebody when we can see each other and, luckily, a zoom recording also gives you the audio soundtrack separately which is what I use to produce the podcast, so we can happily record it in our pyjamas! (That is optional of course)
If anybody is interested then they can email me to go through it and arrange a convenient time to zoom call them to record. My email address is hello@themalepractitioner.com
In the sixth video in the series, Glenn (AKA The Male Practitioner) had the awesome opportunity to chat with author, trainer and consultant Greg Bottrill about his own journey into Early Years and what’s influenced his own Personal Pedagogy.
You can find out more about Greg and Adventure Island by visiting his website at www.canigandplaynow.com
He’s also on facebook, visit by clicking HERE
Don’t forget the other videos in the series:
Lyndsey Slessor – Nursery Manager
Alice Sharp – Experiential Play and Adventures with Alice
Greg’s original book “Can I go and Play now?” is available by clicking our affiliates link:
His latest book, “school and the magic of children” is available from our affiliate link:
In the fifth video in the series Glenn (AKA The Male Practitioner) talks to experienced Nursery Manager Lyndsey Slessor about her career and what shapes her own Personal Pedagogy.
Next week on Exploring Personal Pedagogy will be Greg Bottrill.
Why not visit our previous interviews:
Now, how exciting was this discovery whilst browsing round Next?
A solid wood dice, ok it’s meant to be a doorstop by that just means it should last!
I saw this on a shelf and instantly thought if maths games, counting activities and talking about numbers.
Wish I’d bought it now!
#regretsinlife
I was having a wander round Home Sense today and saw this pasta on the shelf. I think this would be amazing for threading, working on fine motor control and hand/eye co-ordination.
A bargain at £2.49 as well!
We’ve been busy this week in my setting. On Monday the children came in to find lots of beans, lentils and other dried pulses on the tuff tray.
Using a picture of Van Gogh’s Sunflowers, as well as some real ones, we left it up to the children’s imaginations to create the rest!
This isn’t the first time I’ve used Transient Art. Here’s some pictures of a training sessions about it I attended in 2018.
The Care Inspectorate in Scotland have produced a very useful toolkit called “Our Creative Journey” which gives some hints towards using Transient Art as a child led experience. You can find that here:
So now I’m based in York we decided to have a wander around the City centre. While we were walking through Deans Park, which is beside the Minster, I saw these beautiful raised beds.
I firmly believe that learning really happens when the senses are stimulated and what better than an oasis of herbs and scented plants.
I can see this sitting beautifully in our mud area.
