STORY DOUGH 19.9.24 AT 8PM
£30.00
STORY DOUGH!
THURSDAY 19.9.24
8-9PM
Welcome to the massive joy of Story Dough!, the wonderfully simple yet powerful way to immerse children in the worlds of story dreaming, chat, mark making and finger strength.
Created as a precursor to Drawing Club, Story Dough! is a ten minute pop-up for adults and small groups of children to invent, wonder and bring imagination to life using a great big clod of playdough. And just like Drawing Club, you can take Story Dough! on an adventure with your children - the possibilities are endless as is the potential joy...
Story Dough! can be explored with 2+ year olds and there is scope to use it with any age children who you feel need to grow confidence in finger strength, imagination, mark making and chat.
Why do I need Story Dough!
Story Dough! is offering you the chance to 'book snuggle' with small groups of children, to spend quality time with them exploring stories, showing them the joy of manipulating play dough, sprinkling vocabulary, connecting mark making with positive emotion and above all going on an adventure with them into imagination and make-believe - all the things that childhood is looking for and the perfect opportunity to bring skills to life...
What does my Story Dough! purchase include?
You are effectively buying The Story Dough! e-book, a step by step guide to the 'how' of Story Dough! along with a free online walkthrough of the concept with Greg.
How do I get the Story Dough! e-book?
The link in the Word document you're purchasing is like a key. Use it on the date and time specified and Greg will be waiting for you on Zoom with a free 45 minutes long walkthrough and your copy of the e-book at the end.
Why is the e-pack only available in this way?
By joining Greg online, you will also be joining other interested educators, giving Story Dough! momentum and energy, plus you'll get the free walkthrough with Greg to inspire you to get started and bring your own energy to the concept!
PLEASE READ BEFORE PURCHASING!!
If you are paying for yourself and wanting to reclaim the cost from your setting or school, please enter your name and address in the Billing Information section and their name and address in the 'Customer Information' section of the purchase form.
AN ORDER CONFIRMATION WILL BE AUTOMATICALLY EMAILED TO THE EMAIL ADDRESS ENTERED AT POINT OF PURCHASE.
THE TITLE OF THIS EMAIL IS 'YOUR DOWNLOAD IS READY'.
IN THE EMAIL, CLICK ON THE LINK UNDER 'DOWNLOADS INFORMATION' TO ACCESS A WORD DOCUMENT. THIS CONTAINS YOUR MEETING LINK.
THE ORDER CONFIRMATION ALSO INCLUDES A VAT RECEIPT. PLEASE MAKE SURE THAT THIS IS FORWARDED TO WHOEVER NEEDS THE PROOF OF PURCHASE. I HAVE ADDED PHOTOS IN THIS ITEM DESCRIPTION TO SHOW YOU WHERE TO LOOK :)
The finer points:
- The cost of £30 is per person
- The pack acts as a licence for Story Dough! to be used in your setting only
- The pack and all other resources will be released in the online session
DRAWING CLUB 30.9.24 1-2.30PM
£37.50
DRAWING CLUB
MONDAY 30.9.24
1-2.30PM UK Time
What is Drawing Club?
If you are looking to show children the magic world of story, if you want to discover a way of sharing skills including fine motor, maths, early writing and vocabulary and if you believe that young children deserve a book-snuggle within their day, then Drawing Club is for you!
Drawing Club can be truly transformative both within your Reception practice and as a bridge into KS1 - its magic is extraordinary because Drawing Club is an adventure into the world of story itself.
What does my Drawing Club purchase include?
The Drawing Club e-Pack includes over 40 weeks of suggested planning, a starter guidebook and even a link to a free online community of educators already exploring Drawing Club.
How do I get the Drawing Club e-pack?
The link in the Word document you're purchasing is like a key. Use it on the date and time specified and Greg will be waiting for you on Zoom with a FREE hour-long walkthrough and your copy of the Drawing Club e-Pack.
Why is the e-pack only available in this way?
By coming to the Zoom, you will be joining other interested educators, giving Drawing Club momentum and energy, plus you'll get the FREE walkthrough with Greg to inspire you to get started and bring your own energy to the concept!
PLEASE READ BEFORE PURCHASING!!
If you are paying for yourself and wanting to reclaim the cost from your setting or school, please enter your name and address in the Billing Information section and their name and address in the 'Customer Information' section of the purchase form.
AN ORDER CONFIRMATION WILL BE AUTOMATICALLY EMAILED TO THE EMAIL ADDRESS ENTERED AT POINT OF PURCHASE.
THE TITLE OF THIS EMAIL IS 'YOUR DOWNLOAD IS READY'.
IN THE EMAIL, CLICK ON THE LINK UNDER 'DOWNLOADS INFORMATION' TO ACCESS A WORD DOCUMENT. THIS CONTAINS YOUR MEETING LINK.
THE ORDER CONFIRMATION ALSO INCLUDES A VAT RECEIPT. PLEASE MAKE SURE THAT THIS IS FORWARDED TO WHOEVER NEEDS THE PROOF OF PURCHASE. I HAVE ADDED PHOTOS IN THIS ITEM DESCRIPTION TO SHOW YOU WHERE TO LOOK :)
The finer points:
- The ticket price is per person
- The pack acts as a licence for Drawing Club to be used in your setting only
- The pack and all other resources will be released in the online session
THE CURIOUS QUESTS: Y1 30.9.24 3.45PM
£37.50
THE CURIOUS QUESTS: YEAR ONE
MONDAY 30.9.24
3.45-5.15PM
BEFORE YOU BUY THIS E-PACK WITH ITS FREE WALKTHROUGH, YOU MUST READ THE BELOW...
THE PRICE OF £37.50 IS PER HEAD FOR YEAR ONE TEACHERS BUT IT ALSO ALLOWS 1 YEAR TWO TEACHER TO COME FOR EACH PLACE BOUGHT (THEY CANNOT COME ON DIFFERENT DATES).
THE YEAR 2 TEACHER NEEDS TO COME TO THE YEAR 1 WALKTHROUGH OTHERWISE THEY WILL HAVE NO IDEA FOR THEIR OWN 'CURIOUS QUESTS; YEAR 2' WALKTHROUGH THAT WILL BE AVAILABLE IN JULY 2024.
SO FOR A ONE FORM ENTRY SCHOOL YOU WILL NEED 1 PLACE
A TWO FORM ENTRY SCHOOL WILL NEED 2 PLACES AND SO ON
JOB SHARES WILL NEED A PLACE EACH
Created to begin in Autumn 2, The Curious Quests is an immersive adventure into story, poetry and make-believe, giving children a childhood that brims with endless possibilities to invent, imagine and story dream.
To go on the Curious Quests with your children you must have a full understanding of Drawing Club. If you don't know how to use it then you need to do an online session on that first or find out the 'how' from your Reception team. The Curious Quests session and resources will not make sense without the context of Drawing Club and the online session will assume that you are familiar with its 4 Mini Moments.
Ideally, you will be using Drawing Club already in Year 1 since this is a bridge from Reception for the children.
The Curious Quests combines short carpet sessions, group work and children exploring open-ended resources such as junk modelling, construction, playdough, role play and if possible, being outside. If you don't have 'continuous provision' like this then you can't go on the The Curious Quests.
You will have abundant opportunities to show children the joy of SPAG and apply their phonic understanding too, though The Curious Quests does not tell you what to teach and when - that is down to you and your knowledge of your children and the curriculum. The Curious Quests, just like Drawing Club is more like an open-ended landscape to adventure in.
You will also need to be committed to joy. And not just you, your school leaders too. The Curious Quests are not about the drudgery of writing text types that children care little about because this is not in the Year 1 Writing National Curriculum as an expectation - children become detached from writing when adults turn it into a task. You can explore text types with the children who are confident along the way, but it is not an expectation.
If you are a school that believes children should be made to write recounts and instructions and diary entries at the age of 5 and 6 then the Curious Quests may not be for you. You are more suited to a scheme that tells you what to do and when.
The Curious Quests wants to build on the liberation of Drawing Club that shows children that writing is for them and that the pen is a magic wand. They write for their own joy, not to meet the demands of the adults.
ONLY COME TO THE CURIOUS QUESTS IF YOU ARE WILLING TO BE CREATIVE AND NOT BE TOLD WHAT TO DO EVERY DAY...
If The Curious Quests sounds like the 'literacy' you want to immerse your children in, then grab your place(s) - there is world of magic awaiting you. I shall see you there, Greg :)
PLEASE READ BEFORE PURCHASING!!
If you are paying for yourself and wanting to reclaim the cost from your setting or school, please enter your name and address in the Billing Information section and their name and address in the 'Customer Information' section of the purchase form.
AN ORDER CONFIRMATION WILL BE AUTOMATICALLY EMAILED TO THE EMAIL ADDRESS ENTERED AT POINT OF PURCHASE.
THE TITLE OF THIS EMAIL IS 'YOUR DOWNLOAD IS READY'.
IN THE EMAIL, CLICK ON THE LINK UNDER 'DOWNLOADS INFORMATION' TO ACCESS A WORD DOCUMENT. THIS CONTAINS YOUR MEETING LINK.
THE ORDER CONFIRMATION ALSO INCLUDES A VAT RECEIPT. PLEASE MAKE SURE THAT THIS IS FORWARDED TO WHOEVER NEEDS THE PROOF OF PURCHASE. I HAVE ADDED PHOTOS IN THIS ITEM DESCRIPTION TO SHOW YOU WHERE TO LOOK :)
The finer points:
- The pack acts as a licence for The Curious Quests to be used in your setting only
- The pack and all other resources will be released in the online walkthrough
DRAWING CLUB 30.9.24 8PM
£37.50
DRAWING CLUB
MONDAY 30.9.24
8-9.30PM UK TIME
What is Drawing Club?
If you are looking to show children the magic world of story, if you want to discover a way of sharing skills including fine motor, maths, early writing and vocabulary and if you believe that young children deserve a book-snuggle within their day, then Drawing Club is for you!
Drawing Club can be truly transformative both within your Reception practice and as a bridge into KS1 - its magic is extraordinary because Drawing Club is an adventure into the world of story itself.
What does my Drawing Club purchase include?
The Drawing Club e-Pack includes over 40 weeks of suggested planning, a starter guidebook and even a link to a free online community of educators already exploring Drawing Club.
How do I get the Drawing Club e-pack?
The link in the Word document you're purchasing is like a key. Use it on the date and time specified and Greg will be waiting for you on Zoom with a FREE hour-long walkthrough and your copy of the Drawing Club e-Pack.
Why is the e-pack only available in this way?
By coming to the Zoom, you will be joining other interested educators, giving Drawing Club momentum and energy, plus you'll get the FREE walkthrough with Greg to inspire you to get started and bring your own energy to the concept!
PLEASE READ BEFORE PURCHASING!!
If you are paying for yourself and wanting to reclaim the cost from your setting or school, please enter your name and address in the Billing Information section and their name and address in the 'Customer Information' section of the purchase form.
AN ORDER CONFIRMATION WILL BE AUTOMATICALLY EMAILED TO THE EMAIL ADDRESS ENTERED AT POINT OF PURCHASE.
THE TITLE OF THIS EMAIL IS 'YOUR DOWNLOAD IS READY'.
IN THE EMAIL, CLICK ON THE LINK UNDER 'DOWNLOADS INFORMATION' TO ACCESS A WORD DOCUMENT. THIS CONTAINS YOUR MEETING LINK.
THE ORDER CONFIRMATION ALSO INCLUDES A VAT RECEIPT. PLEASE MAKE SURE THAT THIS IS FORWARDED TO WHOEVER NEEDS THE PROOF OF PURCHASE. I HAVE ADDED PHOTOS IN THIS ITEM DESCRIPTION TO SHOW YOU WHERE TO LOOK :)
The finer points:
- The ticket price is per person
- The pack acts as a licence for Drawing Club to be used in your setting only
- The pack and all other resources will be released in the online session
STORY DOUGH - the pack with no free walkthrough
£30.00
STORY DOUGH!
You can now buy the Story Dough! pack without the free online walkthrough - your chance to get stuck into the magic if you are happy to go on adventure.
If you purchase this pack it won't give you access to a future online walkthrough, so please only buy it if you are confident to give it a go without Greg's walkthrough.
Welcome to the massive joy of Story Dough!, the wonderfully simple yet powerful way to immerse children in the worlds of story dreaming, chat, mark making and finger strength.
Created as a precursor to Drawing Club, Story Dough! is a ten minute pop-up for adults and small groups of children to invent, wonder and bring imagination to life using a great big clod of playdough. And just like Drawing Club, you can take Story Dough! on an adventure with your children - the possibilities are endless as is the potential joy...
Story Dough! can be explored with 2+ year olds and there is scope to use it with any age children who you feel need to grow confidence in finger strength, imagination, mark making and chat.
Why do I need Story Dough!
Story Dough! is offering you the chance to 'book snuggle' with small groups of children, to spend quality time with them exploring stories, showing them the joy of manipulating play dough, sprinkling vocabulary, connecting mark making with positive emotion and above all going on an adventure with them into imagination and make-believe - all the things that childhood is looking for and the perfect opportunity to bring skills to life...
What does my Story Dough! purchase include?
You are effectively buying The Story Dough! e-book, a step by step guide to the 'how' of Story Dough! - it does not include access to the free online walkthrough of the concept with Greg.
How do I get the Story Dough! e-book?
The link to the e-book is in your receipt that will go to the email address used at point of purchase.
PLEASE READ BEFORE PURCHASING!!
If you are paying for yourself and wanting to reclaim the cost from your setting or school, please enter your name and address in the Billing Information section and their name and address in the 'Customer Information' section of the purchase form.
AN ORDER CONFIRMATION WILL BE AUTOMATICALLY EMAILED TO THE EMAIL ADDRESS ENTERED AT POINT OF PURCHASE.
THE TITLE OF THIS EMAIL IS 'YOUR DOWNLOAD IS READY'.
IN THE EMAIL, CLICK ON THE LINK UNDER 'DOWNLOADS INFORMATION' TO ACCESS A WORD DOCUMENT. THIS CONTAINS YOUR E-BOOK.
THE ORDER CONFIRMATION ALSO INCLUDES A VAT RECEIPT. PLEASE MAKE SURE THAT THIS IS FORWARDED TO WHOEVER NEEDS THE PROOF OF PURCHASE. I HAVE ADDED PHOTOS IN THIS ITEM DESCRIPTION TO SHOW YOU WHERE TO LOOK :)
The finer points:
- The cost of £30 is per person
- The pack acts as a licence for Story Dough! to be used in your setting only
Scribble Club
£24.99
SCRIBBLE CLUB
Welcome to Scribble Club, an immersion in the joy of scribbling and its role within co-play!
Scribble Club is aimed at 2,3 and 4 year olds and is an exploration of scribbling, a way of delighting in its process, and is a way to show children the massive joy of mark mkaing within the hum and buzz of co-play. Scribble Club explores how to add an extra layer of joy to the day through scribbling's powerful link to invention, magic and story.
The concept is super simple and the pack will give you the confidence for you and your team to step into the world of scribbling in co-play
The download contains:
- The Scribble Club e-book - your guide to immersing in scribbling
- A link to 'Scribble, Scribble' - a story video featuring Scribble! She's trying to find her little dog, Jackson but on the way she meets various challenges that she somehow has to get past! The story has been created to enhance the magic of scribbling in your setting and at home
- A FREE Discord link to the online Scribble Club community enabling you to explore the joy of scribbling even further
- a PNG of Scribble should you want to use it as a character in your setting
- A FREE 50 minute recorded online chat about Scribble Club exploring the idea with me - the video is very informal as you'll discover - Bonnie my little dog really wanted to be heard...
The Co-Play Planning Pack
£15.00
Embedded in the pedagogy of co-play found in both of Greg's books 'Can I Go And Play Now?' and 'School and the Magic of Children' comes the Co-Play Planning Pack. Within this download you'll discover the documents that will support you and your team as you head onwards into your adventure into play. The whole pack is based around the principle that when we create a 'playkultur', we plan for what we as adults are going to do and not necessarily what the children are going to do, because when children play we don't know exactly what will unfold - that's the beauty of play and also arguably it's potential Achilles Heel since the Adult World looks for immediate understanding and evidence.
The Co-Play Planning Pack is designed to give you confidence in play, enabling you to work at the cusp of the children's confidence and yours, as well as enabling you to show understanding and evidence to the Adult World.
It includes:
- The Doughnut Planning tool - a really simple way to get dialogue started about children and usable in multiple ways to think about the minutiae of skills as well as the bigger picture stuff like imagination, social skills, independence - you name it, Doughnut Planning can help you hugely.
- The Next Steps Planning tool for Reading, Writing and Mathematics as well as for holistic skills so that when you are co-playing as well as Not-Playing, you are working at the cusp of confidence and beyond. This can have a significant impact on progress, as not a moment is wasted with children when you are with them. You confidently co-play because you know the children as learners as well as people.
- The Magic Mirror from 'School and the Magic of Children' - a telling way to see whether you have added to or eroded childhood. It can be a fantastic way to show that childhood is being honoured and valued across your day.
- The Journal of Joy for 3-4 Year Olds - a great way to move away from tickboxing and more towards co-researching play and looking for the joy in children. It looks at the big picture stuff in the same way as the Doughnut Planning, but brings it all together and is a really effective pre-cursor to the Next Steps Planning tool since it's a way to discover the joy in young children and what sparks them
- The Dinner Party Provision approach is a way of deciding on what should be in your continuous provision and why - you can apply it to inside and outside environments. Nothing escapes Dinner Party Provision and it is a great way to immerse your team into the purpose of what they are making available and how co-play can work so brilliantly if the environment has brought the right 'gifts' to the party!
- A 25 minute video walthrough of the Magic Mirror - the perfect length tutorial for whole staff training as well as self-reflection with a cup of tea. How are you adding to childhood or are you culpable in eroding it? The Magic Mirror can make you sit up straight when you begin to see that the building blocks of identity are integral to our practice - play isn't just 'fun'. It is a vital part of who we are...
- An hour long audio file, A Pocketful of Play exploring six areas of Early Childhood Education perfect to listen to with a cup of tea or two
- 100 Steps to Joy, a collection of 100 nonsense things to do in the companionship of children
The Co-Play Planning Pack has been pieced together to put the magic of children and the art of co-play at the very heart of your day. Co-play is the key to adventuring with children into play, where you are as much as part of it as they are and the environment around you...
This download features a PDF of the Co-Play Planning Pack and a separate Word document that has the link to the Magic Mirror video tutorial. It also includes the Dinky Book of Early Years giving you plenty to think about when it comes to continuous provision! Please remember that in purchasing, you are agreeing to a licence to use the downloads for your school or setting only :)
Let the adventures begin, and begin with confidence... Greg
Happy Talk
£30.00
WELCOME TO HAPPY TALK!
Happy Talk is a door into the playground of language, just right for 3-5 year olds.
Based on the magic of Adventure Island, the Happy Talk explores the joy of early language, echoing the aspects of Letters and Sounds in its treasure trove of 120 'Things To Find The Joy In' that combine both co-play and Time Together on the carpet, all in one brilliant e-book.
This rich resource of play-full ideas is further complimented by eight stories written by Greg that are immersed in the joy of early language - perfect for sharing with families as PDFs or as Listen-alongs to Greg reading them. Your download also includes a FREE link to the Happy Talk Discord online community, where you can share ideas, ask questions and take the magic even further into the future, and there's also a link to a mini welcome video - happy Happy Talk!!
BABBLEJAB!
£25.00
BABBLEJAB!
Welcome to the exciting world of BABBLEJAB! - a brilliant way to explore the playground of language, stimulate chat, develop inference and critical thinking as well as show children the hidden poetry of words.
Children can really benefit from regular open-ended opportunities for Time Together in which they can question, share thinking, discuss and imagine - it's all part of what I call 'the cross pollination of childhood', children teaching one another and being in solidarity together - and BABBLEJAB! has it in bucketloads.
Super simple, easy to immerse in, yet with huge potential right across school from Reception to Year 6, Babblejab! is an adventure into language and imagination.
The download includes a link to a 45 minute BABBLEJAB! walkthrough and two e-books of 198 slides to get you started. There is also a FREE link to the BABBLEJAB! Discord chat group where you can explore the concept within a growing community of BABBLJABBERS!
It's time for the simplicity of chat, the joy of language and the magic of BABBLEJAB!
To the get the very best out of BABBLEJAB! your setting should have an interactive wipeboard.
Enquiries: please email [email protected]
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