Interaction Imagination

How does it look where you eat? If you work at a setting do you eat lunch in the classroom/department rooms or in a dining room? What are...

Taking the time to reflect... it should be one of the simplest things to do, and yet often it feels impossible... as where do we get that...

Over the weekend I held two presentations for educators in Turkey (the marvels of digital connections) and as I talked something struck...

The surprise when we paused and looked at our shadows… Child: woah! You are taller than me…!!! I am not sure who was the most surprised...

Here are some ideas for math activities I have created to mix learning into children's play. These ARE an activities and technically not...

Water is many things... for a start it comes in many forms... liquid, gas and solid... A flexibility to meet the needs of the...

Risk is one of the essential threads of Original Learning. During the last few weeks I have been immensely fortunate to listen and...

The Emergent Curriculum is about being responsive to the children. That the curriculum, the teaching emerges from the child's needs and...

To be honest, this is something I have struggled with my entire life... As a child and as an adult we are being constantly reminded about...

Many years ago now I started a project called "Together on the Square". The aim was to "teach" empathy by exposing the children to...

Rough and tumble play. It really is an arena of great learning - but as the responsible adult it is also a period of 100% focus. The...

"Intimate attachments to other human beings are the hub around which a person's life revolves, not only as an infant or a toddler or a...

I first wrote a blog sharing my thinking about Original Learning in October 2017... And I have just returned to that post to reflect on...

I often find articles and comments about how playgrounds and play-spaces limit children, often in connection with the promotion of...

Over the years I have used a lot of circles as ways to explain my thinking. And while I like circles I still find them a little too neat...

This is the last in the series connecting to the talk for Play First Summit 2020 arranged by Teacher Tom and Sally Haughey of Fairy Dust...

Dialogue is essential Equally listening. What I have found over the years is that working philosophically with children has enabled me...

For me, the atelier, or art studio, is so much more than just a place to make arty things... it is a place of discovery, recovery and...

(på svenska efter foto-bilder) In the AnjiPlay kindergartens in China, the words Love, Risk, Joy, Engagement and Reflection are their...

Over on my Instagram I have started to share photographs that I randomly choose from my photos and add reflections - what memories does...