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Saturday April 27th 2024,  9.30am to 3pm, Trades Hall, Glasgow Alice invites you to join us in welcoming Dr Sandra Duncan, Dr June O'Sullivan,  and Sally Haughey of Wunderled (formerly Fairy Dust teaching) for the day as they share their insights in to how you can shape the future for the Alpha Generation. This is ideal for teams to come together, share the experience and plan together. Each of the four sessions has a section to discuss and design how the content will impact, change and modify practice. For details of the content please click the link below. NavigatingOurFuture-Conference-April24 To book 8+ places please email us directly at info@alicesharp.co.uk

Curriculum can be seen as a central 'guide', the frame, essential for learning and teaching.  It's the 'what'. Play is our 'how'. This training session will look at goals and outcomes for early learning and highlight how playful engagements can drive the learning into deep and impactful experiences. We will

• Consider play, what it should look like for the Alpha Generation
• Explore curriculum, the principles, the values and the purpose
• Develop a deeper understanding of the Golden Threads of learning
• Expand our thinking around learning intentions, goals, developmental milestones and intelligent materials
• We will use a number of practical play ideas to call attention to the skills and concepts being shared.

  This webinar will broadcast live and will be recorded for replay. Perfect for team training or individual learning.

Understanding how maths is used in the real world and being able to apply the concepts in play is vitally important. Our aim should be that children have a deep understanding of the concepts and are confident to use them. Using Construction Play as the context allows us to bring the learning to life and totally immerse children in a mountain of learning intentions. We will

• Reconsider and reshape our understanding of construction materials and how they can support maths concepts.
• Investigate a range of materials, perhaps not obvious as loose parts and supportive of learning.
• Explore how child led play can be shaped, scaffolded and extended by the adult.
• Examine Constructivism in the past, today and looking to the future.
• This training session will share over ten types of construction materials to encourage the adults shaping the play to fully explore the principles of counting the how and what of counting and the beginning of Number Sense.

This session is perfect for individual or team training. All sessions will be live on the date and will be recorded for replay.

Voice, Speech and Language, the tools for verbal communication. Oracy is the literacy of the spoken word. Do our play experiences help each child develop the skills of how to speak and express themselves when sharing their thoughts, ideas and knowledge? We will

• Consider a range of play experiences offered such as painting, snack, group time, a walk, experiments and observe, reflect and evaluate the speaking opportunities they offer.
• Examine the pyramid of language, development processes of voice, speech and language.
• Delve into a range of poems, rhymes and stories and discuss methods of engagement using them.

This training will be shaped to explore the foundation skills of oracy. Vocabulary development tonal variation, clarity or pronunciation and turn taking will all be investigated to improve the opportunities we share. This training will be delivered live and will be recorded for replay. Perfect for individual or team training.