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Supporting our Youngest Learners in Developing an Understanding of Global Competence and International Mindedness

Global Competence and International Mindedness for Early Years Settings

Hybrid Learning with Healthy Habits - Apple Green School

Learn how Apple Green School managed switching between online and in-person learning with the International Early Years Curriculum.

The ICA sets out to answer a question – “How well do we identify the impact of improved learning on the learners themselves?”

The focus on improving learning has been the DNA of the International Primary Curriculum (IPC) since it began some twenty-one years ago. That same focus flows through the veins of the International Early Years Curriculum (IEYC) and International Middle Years Curriculum (IMYC) and it now provides the genetic architecture of the ICA Recognition and Accreditation Framework. But the ICA sets out to answer a question – “How well do we identify the impact of improved learning on the learners themselves?”

Guest Blog: What inspired a new IEYC Unit focused on outside play

Something magical happens when children go outside. That moment the door opens to the playground and a stampede forms itself out of the door with children yelling ‘yeeeeeeaaaaaaahhh’ with their hands up in the air.

Guest Blog: Looking back, looking forward with the IEYC

It feels like only yesterday I was sitting down with Janice Ireland, the creator of the IEYC curriculum. It was 2016 and I was at the Fieldwork Offices in London – and over much coffee and plenty of cake, we were planning out the very first of the IEYC units.

Guest Blog: IEYC - What difference has it made to our School?

When I was invited to write for this blog I thought I’d like to focus on what has been remarkable since we started working with IEYC. Snapshots of our children and their parents enjoying the Entry and Exit Points, teachers discussing the best use of our environment to support children's learning instantly came to mind.

Guest Blog: Implementing Virtual Learning in Kindergarten

Kindergarten at Apple Green School aims to be engaging and supportive of our families by creating a calm and secure learning environment.

Implementing the International Early Years Curriculum on an Island

Implementing the International Early Years Curriculum in a school requires strategic planning and support, but what happens when a new school is opened on a small island in the Indian Ocean, where the first language is French and only local staff are available to implement a programme they haven’t heard of?

Being Bored - Allow Genius in Early Years

IEYC at the International Curriculum Conference Singapore 2019

IEYC Guest Blog: Learning Through Play – Sounds Like Fun!

Takeaways from the Bett and Education Show in London

Early Years Training Hub Launch

IT Robot – Learning Tool Or Babysitter?

While the older generation might be little fearful of new technology, children’s natural curiosity has always embraced it.

Guest Blog: How I’m implementing the International Early Years Curriculum in Hanoi, Vietnam

Surviving and Thriving in Tokyo

Here I was in Tokyo, Japan ready to attend the ACE 2018 Conference “Surviving and Thriving” Education in Times of Change.

Old School – A Day Off From Child Centred Play

Moderation In All Things

Read the latest blog from our Head of IMYC, Verity Welch

The Mother of invention

A special Mothers Day blog from our Head of IEYC

Target Practice - it's Swings and Roundabouts

Healthy Eating - Fit For Life!

Verity Welch, our Head of International Early Years Curriculum talks about developing a healthy eating ethos

Messy Play – It’s Not Rocket Science!

Children are curious, keen to learn and as early years practitioners we should spend their time enhancing these natural lines of enquiry.

The Gender Divide

Enabling an environment that supports learning for both boys and girls