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Here's Your Guide To Everything New On The PLAYlist This March!
Welcome to March on The PLAYlist.
Welcome to March!
Spring feels very nearly here, and weâre even beginning to get some sunny days in the UK. Iâve already had too many hot-cross buns.
Itâs also an exciting month on The PLAYlist with absolutely LOADS of great, new content available for you to listen to, watch, and download, whether youâre a free subscriber or a paid PLAYlister.
Find the list of all of Marchâs content below, including information on this monthâs Live ABC Q&A (all about writing).
Hopefully see you there!
Alistair
Free subscriber content for March:
This month, free subscribers are getting a taster of what paid subscribers normally get for ÂŁ6 per month (or ÂŁ60 per year)
My ABC article - CLICK HERE
The Writing Framework: Protect Play, Respect Development!
This is me unpacking the writing framework through an Early Years lens. Itâs a clear look at how you can interpret it, use it, and still protect what matters most, play, development and a sensible view of progression.
Online training Staffroom Session- How to teach children to write their name - CLICK HERE
This is a staffroom training session you can watch and then talk through with your team. It is about what needs to happen first, what to notice, what to practise, and what to stop doing when name writing has turned into tracing and copying rather than genuine skill building.
Access to ABC Does Online Surgery - CLICK HERE
Free subscribers can join Surgery this month. I will send you all of the details about how to do it (it is really easy!).
Itâll be on Wednesday 18th March from 7pm - 8pm.
Guest interview, Professor Sam Wass and Gemma Goldenberg - CLICK HERE
How children learn to concentrate, focus and behave.
This was a great conversation. It pulls apart a lot of the myths around attention and self regulation, and it speaks directly to the realities of settings, children who shout out, children who canât wait, children who are constantly moving, and adults who are being told that the solution is simply more sitting and more compliance.
Ten practitioner-created Phonics activities - CLICK HERE
These are practical, ready-to-use ideas created by practitioners Rachel and James. Developmentally appropriate activities that build the foundations for phonics.
Outdoor Maths Ezine - CLICK HERE
A resource you can use, share with the team. Itâs about making maths meaningful - measure, comparison, estimation, pattern, problem solving, and all the good stuff that happens when maths lives in play.
Guest article, Bryony Rust, Speech and Language Therapist (available soon)
âWhen the Words Donât Comeâ.
Discount Code - 33% off ALL online training!
This discount runs from 1st to 31st March and gives you 33% off ALL of our online training which you can find by clicking the button below.
Code: PLMARCH33
New Paid Subscriber Content:
Guest interview, Bryony Rust - CLICK HERE
Bryony and I sit down for a chat that builds on the article. We go further into what silence can mean, what it can look like, what it can mask, and how provision and adult approach can either help children feel safe enough to communicate, or accidentally push them further back into themselves.
5 Activities (and an article) all about Superhero and Weapon Play - CLICK HERE
In my article I explore what gun play can represent, why it appears, how to respond professionally, and how to widen the play so it doesnât get stuck in one repetitive loop.
Alongside that you get five brilliant activity ideas from James to extend, challenge and redirect in ways that keep children engaged without adults becoming the play police!
Online training, Staffroom Session - Objective Led Planning - CLICK HERE
This monthâs staffroom session is all about objective led planning. What it is, how it works and answers to some of the common questions that I get asked about making it work.
ABC Does Online Surgery - CLICK HERE
Paid subscribers have access to the monthly Surgery as part of membership, and March is no exception. If you have never been to one, it is a relaxed, practical session where I answer questions and talk through provision.
Discount Code - 33% off ALL online training!
This discount runs from 1st to 31st March and gives you 33% off ALL of our online training which you can find by clicking the button below.
Code: PLMARCH33
Really hope you enjoy this bumper March edition. Any thoughts, comments or questions - just let me know!
Alistair
