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CHILD OF OUR TIME
EARLY LEARNING
Author of
Child of Our Time: Early Learning Child of Our Time
BBC Executive Producer
Child of Our Time (1999-2008)
Email: [email protected]
Dr Tessa Livingstone
Wednesday 7th May 8pm
Divide of the Sexes
Producer/Director
Ruth Whippman
Wednesday 14th May 8pm
The Age of Stress
Producer/Director
Amanda Richardson
Louise Bourner
Wednesday 21st May 8pm
24 Hours
Producer/Director
Victoria Bell
Series Producer: Kate Shiers
Executive Producer: Tessa Livingstone
Give me a child until he is seven and I will show you the man St Francis Xavier
Child of Our Time: Early Learning
Agencies involved with James 0 – 8 years old• GP• Midwives • Health Visitor• Benefit Agency• Care workers• Social Services• Parenting classes 2001 and 2004• Nursery school teachers• Primary school teachers
Child of Our Time: Early Learning
Child of Our Time: Early Learning
BBC Sites
www.bbc.co.uk/parentingBest free website for the lots of great stuff on kids including advice on many subjects, some illustrated with film clips from several sources including Child of Our Time. The site has information about practically everything from toilet training to health, literacy, behaviour, play and childcare. If you want more about the TV series, search for ‘Child of Our Time’. www.open2.net/childofourtimeTry the Open University website for fun interactive tests linked with Child of Our Time, and for questionnaires, ideas for games and courses on child development.
www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebiesWebsite for the BBC’s digital channel for kids under six, with programme information, games and competitions, print and colour, make and do, music and songs, watching and listening.
Child of Our Time: Early Learning
UK Government sites
www.standards.dfes.gov.ukPrimarily aimed at practitioners, this site is just one of several that provide information on child development, effective practice, examples of play activities to promote play activities to promote play and learning, guidance on planning and resourcing and meeting diverse needs, including the document Birth to Three Matters: A framework to support children in their earliest years. Sure Start. Nottingham, UK: Department of Education and Skills;
http://www.ioe.ac.uk/cdl/eppeEPPE is a research project which finds out what is good and bad about pre-school education and has followed the educational fortunes of children from three to eleven. Once you get to the site look for ‘findings’ and ‘eppe findings’. These give you a summary of research so far, including the document by Sylva, K., Melhuish, E., Sammons, P., Siraj-Blatchford, I., Taggart, B. and Elliot, K. (2003) The effective provision of pre-school education (EPPE) project: Findings from the pre-school period. Department of Education and Skills.
Child of Our Time: Early Learning
www.acceleratedlearning.comPaid site and online store with activity cards, guide book and scores of games for pre-reading, writing and numeracy.www.literacytrust.co.ukFree site about reading, writing and talking, including a wide range of research reports on subjects like the effects of television on language development. www.familiesonline.co.ukThe website for Families magazines provides reviews by real mums, a choice of features, listing of events, forums plus pages of local information from local editors.www.allkindsofminds.orgAll Kinds of Minds is a non profit site that helps develop an alliance between parents, educators, and children offering learning challenges and activities that may help students minimize or overcome their differences in learning
Learning sites
www.familiesonline.co.ukhttp://www.childcarelink.gov.uk Details of your local information service and factsheets on your childcare options are available from this website
Education is not the filling of a pail, but
the lighting of a fire.
William Butler Yeats
Child of Our Time: Early Learning
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