Can I Go and Play Now?: Rethinking the Early Years

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So the two work together. So like Coldplay is, is like you go into play and then at moments, children come to you as well, but you only come to you because at that moment, you’ve got something magic to show them whether it be a story, whether it be something to do with phonics, whether it’s, you know, something amazing about number, um, and all the time in the play.

They wanted because they knew they were going to get, like, when I CA when I was in there, when I was around them, something good was going to happen. Yeah. They knew it. They knew because I was the co player. I was going to show them something really cool, or I was going to listen to them and value them. Wow, but it’s true. It is. It’s like a it’s it’s like a, uh, it’s like a rebirth. It is like a rebirth. Pooky Knightsmith:And do you have kind of particular sort of activities or kind of go to modes of play that tends to kind of work better? Or is it very fruitful?Of course, I’ve got a big gray beard and a bone pet they don’t have. Um, but the idea is that we’re working as a team. We’re a community and it can be really, really powerful. Pooky Knightsmith:Isn’t that just kind of hiding, learning in play if there’s numbers along the way. And it’s

Do you love books and stories? Do you want to open up the magic world of tales and story to children whilst at the same time enriching their language skills, developing their fine motor and spending Time Together with them? Are you looking for an approach that immerses children into a world full of imagination where anything can happen and often does? Greg Bottrill:It’s kind of, it’s like that. It’s, it’s a bit like, um, it’s, it’s, it’s like what it does is it dissects play? So we talk about play and this is the problem with the adult world. Um, and I didn’t value it as much. But honestly, what it took was, was the honesty to talk with my team and say, look, do you know what guys, I’m struggling with this, what do you do? How can we, how can I overcome this? And so we put in things and I was the leader and, you know, so I allowed my team to kind of reflect with me and go, okay, let’s put these things in place. Pooky Knightsmith:an adult. Who’s not very good at play. I’d like to be better. So what do I do I need to copy children or, I mean, how does that, School And The Magic of Children’ is an exploration of the very soul of childhood, leading us on an adventure into the world of Story via Drawing Club and then into a new lens to look through at play itself with the concept of Play Projects.

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Welcome to the massive joy of Story Dough!, the wonderfully simple yet powerful way to immerse children in the worlds of story dreaming, chat, mark making and finger strength. So again, this whole idea of just rewards for children creates the culture where children are doing it so that you are pleased with them, but that’s a false morality to my mind. It has to be, I don’t do this because I believe I shouldn’t do it. Not so not because the teacher is going to reward me with star of the week or whatever it might be. A framework over play, Play Projects create the conditions for the Adult World to value children’s imaginations and curiosity. They also have the ability to take play and continuous provision further up if you are in a school and enable children to truly live a school’s values – they can act as an Echo of Play right the way through.. And again, part of the difficulty you play because it’s freedom, the difficult the adult, the adult world has with play is that they haven’t set it up and they haven’t controlled it. So they worry about what’s going to happen. Um, and that’s perfectly natural. Um, and sometimes it can feel, it can seem like you don’t know what’s going on, but the children do because it’s their play.

The world of education is an amazing and rewarding world to be in, but there is a sense among many that work within it that there is something not quite right, that all is not well. By joining Greg online, you will also be joining other interested educators, giving Story Dough! momentum and energy, plus you'll get the free walkthrough with Greg to inspire you to get started and bring your own energy to the concept!It just wouldn’t work. But what it’s about is trying to say about how can you make the, how can you find the echoes of play? How can you at least give children some choice and creativity and real collaboration? How can we do that bit and do it genuinely and not be, you know, not everything’s got to be an intervention and you know, you can’t, you know, you, the greatest thing with Coldplay, you can really work on the mind, UCI of learning with children in those moments. He is also the creator of the Message Centre, Drawing Club, and Play Projects, as well as the delightful Play School TV, an exploration of the power of make-believe based on his approach to outdoor play, Adventure Island– a wonderful way to open up a world of creativity, language, story and joy: education done with children, not to them. Greg Bottrill:Tell me about adventure. Well, adventure, adventure is, um, a way of creating, um, a whole new realm. It’s a new dimension to explore, so it’s make believe. Okay. Um, and I created it last year and it was just taking off. Um, it’s a process it’s it’s, as I say, if you’re going to go on an adventure, which I believe play is, then we have to accept that some people are not as far on in the adventure as you are, that doesn’t make them less of a person. It doesn’t make them that doesn’t make them a weak practitioner. It doesn’t, it just means that those who are further on in the journey, feel it and are, uh, have, have learned more if you like, and it’s their job to enable the people. Like I called it like a learning landscape that they’re going to go in. They’re going to have an adventure. Do you know what I’m coming with you? And we’re going to go and explore this together and it can be, it can be really, um, it can be really difficult for teachers to do. The main thing is, is it’s about childhood.

If you are a school that believes children should be writing recounts and instructions and diary entries at the age of 5 and 6 then the Curious Quests is not for you. So I’ve had this kind of like, Oh, but it is. And so, and I didn’t, and so I’ve got something else called drawing club, which is equally as impactful with children. But I’ve not really done anything with them yet, because I want to, for September to come around, right. Let’s go because they CA they’re both really, um, yeah.They’re trying to show you something. It’s trying to show you how to live. Um, the trons remind you of your own childhood. Um, I’m a great believer that our, our identity is born within our childhoods. Um, and unfortunately, uh, education systems in the Western world, much of the Western world, um, that they know us, who we really are. And then they’ve tried in the afternoon to have been play projects either once or twice a week. What happens is children come in and demand of them, and then you got to do them and that’s, what’s loving you, right? The Maybe we had to learn it for ourselves over time. You know, not everybody has a great childhood. I accept that. But children. Are trying to remind us of what life can actually be. And I often talk about that looking for life in the small corners of the world, children, they, they, they, they, they see, they just see things differently to us and, and it all comes down to this idea of the cardboard box, how children see a cardboard box, me as an adult. That’s kind of their ethos. And it’s not about justmachine gun teaching. They just. They give you time and space to follow your interests and use those as best as they can. So I greatly believe it is about this idea of the echoes of play, which is why play is so important in nursery. Yeah. That should be like, like we humming with plague and then it kind of goes up and as you go through, cause the curriculum gets, you know, this idea that the adult world says, you’ve got to have all this knowledge.