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