Keep calm and carry on teaching

Reconnect with your children, re-establish classroom culture, learning behaviours and reactivate and assess prior learning to enable and secure...

Returning to school, March 2021

Practical advice for all Early Year practitioners to support with the transition back to school in March 2021 with a focus on wellbeing.

World Book Day 2021: find the maths hiding on your bookshelf!

Celebrating World Book Day? Here, we share some maths that may be hiding on your bookshelf within some well-known children’s books…

Remote teaching in the Early Years

Practical advice for all Early Years practitioners and the launch of the second set of remote learning cards to support and enhance their remote...

Reflecting on transition procedures in the EYFS

2021 school start admissions have closed! Time to review procedures and ways to adapt them in light of Covid-19 to support smooth transitions.

Getting metacognition into remote learning

Strong metacognitive skills support pupils as independent learners. Sophie MacNeill suggests how these could be developed in remote learning contexts.

Remote Learning: lightening the load

Find out here about the new resources for remote learning from the HfL Early Years team.

Formative assessment while remote teaching

Revisiting a formative assessment video resource from the Digital Classroom Toolkit for this new period of remote teaching

Fluency: the bridge from phonics to comprehension

A summary of the session with Professor Tim Rasinski, hosted by Herts for Learning - 17th November 2020.

Celebrating the unique child – the HfL Early Years conference 2021

Make some time to take a step back and to focus on what really matters in early years.