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Curious bits & bobs
The Curiosity Approach is more than just beautiful play spaces… So grab a cuppa, settle down and delve deeply inside our articles...
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Body painting, does it fill you with dread?
When one of our babies just loves covering themselves in any medium, pens, paint, food, drawing on their legs or rubbing yoghurt on their skin. Loving anything that makes marks on her body ...
Release Date: December 10, 2019
Last Updated: October 7, 2021
How to create a great Early Years staff meeting?
The Curiosity Approach is about inspiring the mind, body & heart! Too often it’s easy to forget the educators, practitioners. The adults within our settings! Remember that you are a family, a team...
Release Date: December 10, 2019
Last Updated: October 7, 2021
Are you Car Boot Crazy?
Have you seen all the posts about people making treks to car boots to kit out their nurseries? Why are they doing this? We are proud to say that following on from our car boot videos, hints and t...
Release Date: December 10, 2019
Last Updated: October 7, 2021
Tidy Up Time, what does it actually mean ?
What does it actually mean? A question was asked: “How do we ensure that children tidy up properly at the end of each session?” “How can we prevent boxes of resources becoming a mixed up arra...
Release Date: December 10, 2019
Last Updated: October 7, 2021
Get rid of the chairs! Why?
If you have ever been to one of our Curiosity Approach nurseries, one thing that is missing is CHAIRS! In fact, they are not missing, staff know exactly whe...
Release Date: December 10, 2019
Last Updated: October 7, 2021
But it might break?
At The Curiosity Approach, we believe in giving children responsibility to handle and play with breakable items. Ceramic tea pots and tea sets replace the bright plastic child sized ones that we al...
Release Date: December 10, 2019
Last Updated: October 7, 2021
Are you an Early Years Weather Warrior?
A new month is upon us. The British weather is notoriously wet & damp and our seasons have followed the same pattern year in & year out! Autumn brings no surprises for us, with colder damp morning...
Release Date: December 10, 2019
Last Updated: October 7, 2021
Are you a passionately curious educator?
Yesterday Lyndsey & I attended the Play Iceland Seminar in Northampton and it was wonderful to meet and hear so many passionate people. Lyndsey Hellyn and I are th...
Release Date: December 10, 2019
Last Updated: October 7, 2021
What does process over product mean?
At the Curiosity Approach, we promote curiosity, investigation and discovery. For children to be CURIOUS about the world around them, following their own uni...
Release Date: December 10, 2019
Last Updated: October 7, 2021
How to have a mindful Christmas?
A mindful Christmas At The Curiosity Approach, we encourage educators, parents to be mindful during their practice and daily lives. As Christmas fast approaches and the excitement builds, th...
Release Date: December 10, 2019
Last Updated: October 7, 2021