Last Chance to Book for Reflections Professional Development Day - 8th October

Making Learning Visible

A Professional Development Day focussing on the use of documentation to support children’s and adult’s learning

Date: Saturday 8^th October 2011, from 10.00am until 3.30pm

Venue:  St Paul’s Exhibition Centre, and Reflections Nursery, Worthing, West Sussex

Cost:  £45 including refreshments and a light lunch

Exhibition: The day includes a tour of the exhibition entitled, ‘Making Learning Visible - 5 years of children’s project work at Reflections Nursery’  

How can we best learn how children learn?  What is the value of documenting children’s learning for early years educators? What can children learn from documentation of their own work? What value should we place on the learning journey itself, rather than the outcomes?

Martin Pace, Director of Reflections, along with Angela Chick, Senior Atelierista and Yvonne Barr, Nursery Manager will be supported by other Reflections educators to give presentations and workshops covering five years of children’s learning at Reflections. The use of documentation as a reflective tool will be investigated.

Participants:

We welcome registrations from all those working in the area of early childhood education and on creative arts/education projects with young children.  

Programme

- A tour of the exhibition: ‘Making Learning Visible – five years of children’s project work at Reflections Nursery’

- Presentation & Discussion: Drawing on the Reggio Approach and the value of documentation at Reflections

- Lunch and a tour of Reflections Nursery with Reflections educators

- Workshop 1: Documenting long-term project work in Reflections Pre-school Atelier

- Workshop 2: Project work with Reflections Toddler Section

- A further tour of the nursery with a Reflections educator

Please contact susan@reflectionsnurseries.co.uk for further details.

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT DAY - 8th October 2011

Making Learning Visible

A Professional Development Day focussing on the use of documentation to support children’s and adult’s learning

Date: Saturday 8^th October 2011, from 10.00am until 3.30pm

Venue:  St Paul’s Exhibition Centre & Reflections Nursery, Worthing 

Cost:  £45 including refreshments and a light lunch

Exhibition: The day includes a tour of the exhibition entitled, Making Learning Visible - 5 years of children’s project work at Reflections Nursery 

How can we best learn how children learn?  What is the value of documenting children’s learning for early years educators? What can children learn from documentation of their own work? What value should we place on the learning journey itself, rather than the outcomes?

Martin Pace, Director of Reflections, along with Angela Chick, Senior Atelierista and Yvonne Barr, Nursery Manager will be supported by other Reflections educators to give presentations and workshops covering five years of children’s learning at Reflections. The use of documentation as a reflective tool will be investigated.

Participants:

We welcome registrations from all those working in the area of early childhood education and on creative arts/education projects with young children.  

Programme

A tour of the exhibition: ‘Making Learning Visible – five years of children’s project work at Reflections Nursery’

Presentation & Discussion: Drawing on the Reggio Approach and the value of documentation at Reflections

Lunch and a tour of Reflections Nursery with Reflections educators

Workshop 1: Documenting long-term project work in Reflections Pre-school Atelier. An artist's persective.

Workshop 2: A tour of the exhibition in discussion groups led by a Reflections Educator 

A further tour of the nursery with a Reflections educator

Please contact susan@reflectionsnurseries.co.uk for further details.

Light Everywhere! A new project workbook from On Reflection Publishing

“Once children are helped to perceive themselves as authors and inventors, once they are helped to discover the pleasures of inquiry, their motivation and interest explode.”

Loris Malaguzzi, Reggio Emilia 

We are thrilled with our latest publication - Light Everywhere! This is Reflections' second project workbook published by On Reflection Publishing and to be released in late September. 

Between Autumn 2010 and March 2011 children investigated the properties of light in the pre-school Atelier at Reflections Nursery. Their work involved creating sculptures in the dark with glowsticks; drawing with torches; mapping light as it travelled and investigating the colours of light. They discovered that light is everywhere. 

To pre-order the book at £10.99 plus p+p please e-mail susan@reflectionsnurseries.co.uk

MAKING LEARNING VISIBLE - An Exhibition of Children's Work

Reflections Nursery & Forest School will be exhibiting work by children since 2006 to celebrate first 5 years of Reflections. 

Entitled 'Making Learning Visible' (a direct reference to pedagogical documentation in the pre-schools of Reggio Emilia), children's project work will be displayed at Lime Cafe, St Paul's on Richmond Road, Worthing, UK from 2nd to 8th October 2011. 

The installation/ exhibition will be interactive for children and adults and will feature documented projects ranging from the very first project called, "We get milk from goats, too" through to more recent projects such as "Crocodile!" and "Light Everywhere". 

Lots more information will follow...       

Reflections Forest School - short film

We have added a short film to Vimeo as a taster of Reflections Forest School to give you a flavour of what the children get up to:

http://vimeo.com/25553467

Or go to our Forest School Page:

http://www.reflectionsnurseries.co.uk/default.aspx?pageid=39

Reflections Forest School Documentary 2011 Parts 1 and 2

Have a look on You Tube to see our Forest School documentary. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-cuLtYOzBM and here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yb8P674XiIw&feature=related

It's a useful introduction to Forest School if you are wondering what they are all about.  Reflections takes groups of 3 and 4 year olds into the woodland twice a week, for 30 weeks a year.  Following our approach in the nursery, the children tend to take the lead. Experiences include physical activities; storytelling; theorising & problem-solving; developing an understanding of nature, flora & fauna; creative expression; and development of skills. We give time to relationships and teamwork and children develop independence, self-regulation and confidence in the outdoors.  

For more information go to: 

http://www.reflectionsnurseries.co.uk/default.aspx?pageid=39

    

How do you work with pre-school children?

How do you approach your work with pre-school children? At Reflections we tend to approach our work in the way illustrated below, beginning with a provocation based on the child's or children's interests.  Does anyone/ everyone else? Please let us have your comments on our approach and any comparisons with the way in which you might work.  Thanks in advance :)