Log in to 'My Profile'

Accessibility | Click to Skip Navigation | Site Map | Set as Homepage | Report Problem

 

Moving into Writing: Developing a supportive environment for young children

« Back

Target Group:
Those working within the Early Years Foundation Stage with children aged between 3-5/6 years old. This includes Reception class based staff and practitioners in day care settings.

Course Aims:

Delegates will have opportunities to:

• Develop greater understanding of current ideas about young children as thinkers and learners
• Consider the relationship between mark making, drawing and writing within a continuum of symbolic systems that emerge as part of movement and play.
• Increase their understanding of playful drawing as one of a range of modes of making meaning used by the young child to support thinking and understanding and support emotional well being
• Recognise key factors that support and constrain young children’s use of drawing as a tool for expressing and thinking in foundation stage settings

Throughout the day Kathy will draw upon images and narratives taken from her research projects with early years practitioners.
The focus is not upon the formal teaching of writing, but on children's symbolic development and progression into writing and the kind of routines and provision needed to support this. 

Notes:
Lunch will be provided.

Course Trainer:
Kathy Ring - Early Education. Dr Kathy Ring is a Senior Lecturer in Education at York St John University, and is a former early years teacher. She is an expert in the field of early writing, and has particular experience in training on the links between mark making of all kinds and the progression into early writing. Her research involves her in working with local authorities and early years practitioners, investigating the practitioner's role in supporting multi-modal meaning making and the particular role drawing can play as a tool for thinking and representing meaning. Kathy has recently worked in partnership with Tower Hamlets developing an Early Years Arts Forum. She has been involved in writing 'Mark making matters' (DCSF, 2008) with the National Strategies Early Years team and with Angela Anning she is co-author of 'Making sense of children's drawings' (OUP/McGraw-Hill, 2004). Kathy has expertise in supporting early years practitioners in engaging in action research in their own settings. Her current focus is on their development of knowledge and understanding in relation to children's playful use of the expressive arts as tools for thinking and communication. She is particularly interested in children's movement across 3D and 2D modes of meaning making.

Date: 07 May 2013    Time: 9:30am - 3:30pm

Venue:
Hunnyhill Primary School, Forest Road, Newport, PO30 5SH

Numbers: Min: 14 Max: 24

Cost:
No further charges for subscribing organisations. Non subscribing organisations will be charged £220.