Adventures With Alice
Hello I am delighted to welcome you to our Adventures. Over the last 30 years, being a teacher, lecturer, author, designer and consultant has filled my head with so many ideas, pieces of knowledge and scientific facts, theories and thinking I had to package it all and share it. I love learning, I love developing ideas and thinking around all things early years. By listening to specialists, reading wise words, exploring scientific knowledge and being excited by passionate players my Adventures have been shaped. We all want what’s best for our children. We all hope that our practice and pedagogy makes a positive impact when laying the foundations of playful learning.
When you join the Adventures programme, you will have access to inspiring films bringing early learning to life. You will have a series of magazines bursting with thinking and theory, sharing the latest on child development and learning as well as a collection of amazing practical play ideas on our inspiring provocation cards. Each Adventure includes Alice sharing theory, thinking and practice through films, magazines, poster activity cards and reflective tasks.
Each adventure has roughly an hour of film training on it's subject, that's six hours per volume! But don't worry they're broken into small 5-10 minute sections to make them easy to get through.
Each adventure comes with a series of 9 poster cards, packed full of provocations to make you think. A quick and easy way to immediately find ideas for practical play possibilities.
Echoing and extending the themes brought to life in the films. Each magazine focuses on one subject and offers opportunities for you on your own, or with your team to reflect, question and improve your setting.
Our journey into how we lead a child to learn is vital to ensure we lay the foundation stones for all other learning! What do we need to surround them with for them to be excited and intrigued to engage and involve themselves in Play? Each of our Adventures in Volume One sees us introduce our Six Golden Threads. Curiosity, Connection, Communication, Critical Thinking, Creativity and Wellbeing.
The six adventures in volume two are all about enrichment of play. We continue with films, little nuggets, bursts of thinking around our provision of play. Each page within the magazines have little ‘tasks’, ‘missions’ for you to carry out and consider. Although they are not compulsory, they are incredibly helpful for producing data and evidence. They also encourage pedagogical conversations too! And more cards cascading ideas to enhance every day in play.
Take the bold step into leading pedagogy and play to enhance quality practice. Take time to create your own palette of pedagogy for each individual setting. Move forward confidently and intrinsically weaving together knowledge, theory, skills and practice. Your team will be inspired to co-create a magical place to learn with children.