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Book 2 - School and the Magic of Children

£19.00

Greg Bottrill's long awaited second book is now published!

We have another 50 copies of this book available as one of the very first stockists before launch. Be one of the first to own the book, and have it signed by Greg too! Plus UK delivery is free....

'School and the Magic of Children' is a follow up to Greg's hugely successful debut book 'Can I Go and Play Now'.

Discover just what it is that children need from education and why it’s so important for Early Years practice to echo upwards throughout their school journey. 

‘School And The Magic of Children’ is an exploration of the very soul of childhood, leading us on an adventure into the world of Story via Drawing Club and then into a new lens to look through at play itself with the concept of Play Projects. 

Both are highly impactful and creative ways to bring learning to life based on the view that children are capable, creative and need agency in their education so that they are authentic learners and we can be authentic educators.

If you are desperate and passionate for play to live and breathe in Reception and beyond, and if you truly love children and all that they are, if you believe they deserve A Gold Afternoon Fix of childhood, then ‘School And The Magic of Children’ is the book for you. It’s time for the 'Adult World' to wake from the sleepwalk and give our children something special...

• This listing is for a signed copy of 'School & the Magic of Children'. Please give us the address you would like it sent to when you order.

• Royal Mail Deliveries may be delayed due to COVID-19 however we will keep you updated. Currently we are only available to deliver in the UK.

• With your book delivery, you will also receive a discount code for our online resources shop as a thank you.

• UK Delivery is Free, International delivery costs will be calculated at checkout

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Adventure Island - BUNDLE

£30.00

Adventure Island awaits and there’s no better way of getting there than using the Adventure Island Bundle, a step-by-step immersive guide to all the joy and rich possibilities that it can bring to your setting.

The Adventure Island Bundle includes a 1.5 hour video tutorial, the Adventure Island Guidebook and a Starter Pack, all three combining to give you the confidence and understanding to undertake those first exciting steps with your team, your children and their parents.

The video tutorial has been designed for you to pause and reflect on as you watch, making it ideal for team training and in it Greg shares the pedagogy behind the concept as well as ways in which to bring Adventure Island to life in your setting. The companion 25-page Guidebook summarises the video and expands on its themes giving you a clear map of how to make the magic happen.

The Starter Pack is the final piece of the puzzle, enabling you to sketch out your own ideas for your own children, consider the skills that you will be sprinkling over Adventure Island as you explore, as well as giving you a template letter to share with parents who you will absolutely want to bring on the journey with you. Within the starter pack I've also given an example of 'breathing life' into an Adventure Island character, to show you exactly how it can be done for your setting.

Suitable for Nurseries, Reception, KS1 and dare I say it KS2!

• Breathe new life into outdoor play and children’s imaginations
• Co-play with confidence and create a new and exciting world to explore
• Engage parents in play and learning with real authenticity and participation
• Flexible and adaptable to your timetable
• Live a story, be a story – the possibilities are endless!

When you buy the bundle you will receive 3 x downloadable files -

• Video Tutorial
• Guidebook
• Starter Pack

Purchasing this bundle entitles you to use Adventure Island solely in your setting, and cannot be shared or sold. Copyright for Adventure Island belongs to Can I Go and Play Now.

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The Adventure Island Guidebook

£20.00

Want to bring creativity back to life in your teaching? Looking for ways to inject some extra magic into your practice and immerse children in a world of wonder where anything can happen and often does?

Adventure Island is an innovative approach to outdoor play, with huge potential for language development, social skills, creativity, storytelling - in fact its potential is unlimited. Based around the concept of co-playing, Adventure Island can go in any direction and the guidebook will be with you every step of the way...

Created by Greg Bottrill, author of the bestselling education book 'Can I Go And Play Now?', Adventure Island is your ticket into imagination and beyond...

The Adventure Island guidebook is a PDF download and a licence for use in one setting only.

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To The Message Centre! Tutorial

£29.99 £20.00

Do you find engaging boys in mark making a real challenge?

Do you find yourself having to get children to write?

Does ‘writing’ give you a data headache??

Based around the concept of secret symbols, the Message Centre is the perfect way to add energy and joy to early writing and reading... Once you start messaging, you'll find there's no turning back!!

Writing is always a tricky ‘target’ - often we feel we need to ‘get’ children to do it but the Message Centre can transform all that: writing becomes something they want to do not have to do... 

In this exclusive 40 minute tutorial video, Greg Bottrill author of the bestselling Early Years book ‘Can I Go And Play Now?’ introduces the Message Centre as a key part of continuous provision and talks you through the key principles to success...

Your order notification contains an MP4 file which can only be downloaded twice, so please save to your device. The file is quite large and will take around 8 minutes to download. It will not download to an iPhone! 

The licence for the video is for one school or setting.

The price also includes membership of a private FB group to support you and hold your hand while implementing it into your setting - look for ‘To The Message Centre!’ answer the questions and join in the discussion :) 

The Message Centre is Greg’s brainchild based around his commitment to play and children’s rightful place at the heart of their learning.

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The Magic Of Children Planning Pack

£5.50

Based on the Next Steps planning approach and the Scale introduced in 'Can I Go And Play Now?', these sheets are the perfect way not only to record your children's progress but also give you and your team a clear pathway for skills progression within inputs, play and interventions.

Created in Word, these sheets can be amended or added to if you feel you want to be even more forensic. Simply record your children's names within the table and move them across as they develop the skills. The maths sheet is less linear so has a row for those who have embedded the skill and a row below for the children's names if they are still developing it. The Social Skills sheet is a condensed version of Development Matters - DM is not a ticklist after all! It enables you to see how is confident and how children are progressing in the Prime Areas without the need to take billions of observations.

It's a document that can do it all. And most importantly, it focuses on children's names rather than numbers or percentages... It's all about children after all :)

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Tales from the Story Cupboard - Storytelling Pack

£7.50

This downloadable pack has been designed to give you 12 traditional storytexts that are simple, easy to learn and have an index of possibility within them to explore wherever and however you may wish. All too often teachers are given schemes and pre-planned activity which disconnect them from their own skills growth, their inner passion and their ability to create something magic with children. If you want all the work done for you then this is not the pack for you. However, if you want a bank of traditional tales that contain catchy songs, simple language, have consistent structure from one story to the next and are short and easy to learn then these are definitely the stories for you!

The 12 stories are:

The Three Billy Goats Gruff

Jack and the Beanstalk

Little Red Hen

The Magic Porridge Pot

Little Red Riding Hood

Chicken Licken

Goldilocks and the Three Bears

The Gingerbread Man

The Three Little Pigs

Hansel & Gretel

White Hen and the Fox

The Enormous Turnip

To see a demo of storytelling in action please visit my Story Cupboard page here: http://www.canigoandplaynow.com/story-cupboard.html

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The Dinky Book of Early Years

£6.00

Dinky Books are the perfect introduction to continuous provision and Early Years practice. They explore getting the most out of the learning environment and ensuring that your children are making great progress because of it. 

This is a collection of 5 Dinky Books; 30 pages of making the most of play and continuous provision.

The 5 books are: Sand Play, Water Play, Getting Along, Fine Motor and Woodwork.

Each book reflects the Early Years approach from my book ‘Can I Go And Play Now?’ which, if you’ve not read it (yet), will take you on a journey to discover your own ‘why’ and how play is the greatest resource that lies before you should you just open your eyes and look. 

I didn’t write the Dinky Books to tell you ‘what’ to do. They were written to tell you ‘why’ to do it. Without a clear purpose, your practice risks being empty, and you will resort to doing things across each and every day because you are either told to do it or because you think that is what Early Years practice looks like. 

So, let’s enter into the world of Dinky Books and find out what on earth Early Years is, what it isn’t and above all, what it truly can become. 

*This product is an instant downloadable document to print and share with your team.

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Drawing Club - Manchester

£30.00

From the author of 'Can I Go and Play Now?' comes the inimitable Drawing Club. Developed by Greg during his Early Years practice, Drawing Club is featured in his second book 'School and the Magic of Children'. Join him in Manchester to discover the beauty of Drawing Club for yourself. Its capacity to reveal the magic of story is incredible but it also has huge potential for mathematics and fine motor. It's hard to think of an curriculum area that Drawing Club can't impact on...

Join Greg on Monday 4 May 2020 4-6pm at

Co-op Academy Broadhurst, Williams Road, Moston. Manchester. M40 0BX

Let's adventure into story!!

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The Message Centre and Adventure Island - Frimley Green

£30.00

Join Greg Bottrill bestselling author and creator of the Message Centre and Adventure Island, two incredible ways to sprinkle joy over your practice whether you work in a pre-school setting or a school.

Children deserve an adventure in their day, they deserve a childhood rich with imagination, one that builds their confidence, language and positive sense of self. Both the Message Centre and Adventure Island are capable of all this and more - once you discover the joy, then chances are you and your practice might change forever...

This special late night twilight is the perfect introduction to both and will give you the confidence to take the first steps on the adventure...

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