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Havering School Improvement Services Early Years Annual Conference 2017
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OUTDOOR LEARNING – DEVELOPING MATHEMATICAL THINKING Havering Learning and Development Centre, CEME Conference Centre, Marsh Way, Rainham RM13 8EU Wednesday 29th November 2017, 9.30am to 4.00pm Registration and refreshments from 9.00am. Lunch will be provided. “The best classroom and the richest cupboard is roofed only by the sky.” (Margaret McMillan, 1860-1931) Learning outside the classroom supports the development of healthy and active lifestyles by offering children opportunities for physical activity, freedom of movement, and promoting a sense of well-being. Often the value of outdoor learning is underestimated. This exciting conference will explore: • The enormous benefits to young children of being outdoors • How you can incorporate mathematical development into daily routines across all areas of learning • Consider how children’s mathematical development can be supported through utilising the outdoor space
Free to Havering School Improvement Package 1 and 3 subscriber schools and academies. Havering Early Years PVI Settings – 1 free place, additional place £65 + VAT. Non-Havering Early Years Settings, £65 +VAT. Book your place via the Havering Education Services Online Portal. www.haveringeducationservices.co.uk Course Code: Hsis-1117-T018 For more details contact Courtney Silver: Tel: 01708 431790 Email: courtney.silver@havering.gov.uk Supporting excellent learning outcomes for children, young people and adults
Supporting excellent learning outcomes for children, young people and adults
Programme 9.00am - 9.30am
Registration and Refreshments.
9.45am - 10.00am
Welcome and Introductions – Celia Freeth, Early Years Inspector, Havering Education Services.
10.00am - 11.00am
Morning Keynote - “Maths is more than just Counting!!!” – June O’Sullivan.
11.00am - 11.30am
Refreshments and Networking.
11.15am - 12.30pm
“Figuring it all out” – Jasmine Pasch.
12.30pm – 1.30pm
Lunch and Networking.
1.30pm – 2.30pm
Afternoon Keynote - “Taking the Ceiling off Maths” – Judith Twani.
2.30pm – 3.30pm
“Making the Most of Maths Outdoors” – Kathryn Solly.
3.30pm – 3.45pm
Closing Remarks – Celia Freeth, Early Years Inspector, Havering Education Services.
Sessions Session title
Presenter
Outline
1. Maths is more than just counting!!!
June O’Sullivan
Good quality nurseries require highly competent teachers who understand how to create great mathematical environments. This means moving out of the counting comfort zone and embracing maths in the widest and most creative sense of the word. The importance of providing children with great mathematical education is not to be underestimated.
Chief Executive of the London Early Years Foundation
We cannot tolerate statistics which shows some groups of children failing their mathematical journey aged 4 years. It’s unacceptable! As leaders, how do we support staff to become maths champions and build their confidence to engage parents on a mathematical journey?
Sessions Session title
Presenter
Outline
2. Figuring it all out
Jasmine Pasch
Children learn all about the world by interacting physically with it right from the start of life.Their learning is dependent on the internal processes of maturation in the body and the brain simultaneously.
Freelance Movement Specialist Early Education
As they seek to “figure things out” themselves, our role is to listen deeply and to accompany them on the playful path of discovery, exploration, experimentation, and trial and error woven through each and every day. Mathematical thinking is not a topic, but a way of seeing connections and working things out.
3. Taking the Ceiling off Maths
Judith Twani
Has the teaching of maths been reduced to flashcards, table tops and endless counting? Is maths purely a subject we teach or is it a way of understanding and viewing the world? In this session we will consider the unique mathematical opportunities offered by the outdoors and how the choice and presentation of resources can reinforce key mathematical concepts. We will outline the importance of physical challenge in developing a deeper understanding of mathematical concepts and discuss how we ‘tune in’ to children’s exploration of mathematical concepts outdoors so that we can plan for, and organise, an outdoor environment rich in mathematical experiences.
4. Making the Most of Maths Outdoors
Kathryn Solly
Regional Development Manager at Early Excellence
Author and Early Years Consultant Early Education
Providing great mathematical learning and teaching outdoors has its foundations within the rich play-based pedagogies of the Early Years pioneers. They provide today’s confident practitioners and teachers with a firm foundation which can be used to extend and enhance their role with outdoor mathematical teaching and learning. Critically important is a confident and competent approach by practitioners who maximise the use and the uniqueness of outdoors to provide an imaginative range of learning opportunities. Such positive learning which starts from children’s interests is further developed through positive relationships and enabling environments that in turn nurture and build strong understanding and skills in a developmentally appropriate, yet rigorous manner.
Speakers: June O’Sullivan An inspiring speaker, author and regular media commentator on Early Years, Social Business and Child Poverty, June has been instrumental in achieving a major strategic, pedagogical and cultural shift for the award winning London Early Years Foundation, resulting in increased profile, new childcare model and stronger social impact over the past ten years. June is a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, Director of Early Years Nutrition Partnership, Trustee of London Hostels Association. Director of Social Enterprise UK, Member of Sustain Children’s Food Fund and Founding Member of International Early Years. She has recently joined the Mayor’s Advisory Skills Board. June was awarded an MBE in the Queen’s Birthday honours in 2013, for her services to London’s children. She won the Social Enterprise UK Women’s Champion Award in November 2014 and in February 2015 she was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Middlesex. In 2017 she was delighted to be named the Most Influential Person In Early Years Award. Jasmine Pasch Jasmine Pasch trained as a professional dancer, teacher and counsellor. She has worked across the arts, health and education sectors for over thirty years, and has written several pieces for publication. Jasmine Pasch currently works in the London Boroughs of Tower Hamlets and Brent with babies, toddlers, young children and their families, and supports early years educators to develop their understanding of the particular developmental, learning and play needs of this age group in both indoor and outdoor environments. Judith Twani Jude is a talented and passionate consultant and trainer with a background in teaching both Primary and Early Years. She has also held a range of roles within the Local Authority as a Children’s Centre Teacher and Consultant. She developed her portfolio training as an Ofsted inspector and an NVQ assessor. Jude regularly delivered training with BEAM on early years maths and is co-author of “Let’s Talk about Maths.” Kathryn Solly Kathryn Solly started life as a secondary school teacher on Voluntary Service Overseas in Papua New Guinea for two years. Since then she has taught across all the phases of education including a short time in an Albanian kindergarten. She was awarded the Unilever Fellowship in 2006 researching aspects of Early Years Leadership and Management. Her first book ‘Adventure, Risk and Challenge in the Early Years’ was published in December 2014. Now Kathryn concentrates on specialist early years consulting, training and authorship across the whole sector. She is a Leading Thinker for the National Education Trust, Vice Chair of the Early Childhood Forum and an administrative member of Keeping Early Years Unique. 5274
Supporting excellent learning outcomes for children, young people and adults
Supporting excellent learning outcomes for children, young people and adults