{"id":394,"date":"2020-11-04T10:29:48","date_gmt":"2020-11-04T10:29:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/tapteamwebsitemain2019\/?p=394"},"modified":"2020-11-04T10:29:48","modified_gmt":"2020-11-04T10:29:48","slug":"celebrating-the-work-of-the-staff-team-at-greenmill-ecc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/tapteamwebsitemain2019\/2020\/11\/04\/celebrating-the-work-of-the-staff-team-at-greenmill-ecc\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating the work of the staff team at Greenmill ECC"},"content":{"rendered":"
Our TAP teacher Carol has been working at Greenmill ECC . Today we want to celebrate the work of the whole staff team before they move into their new ECC ‘Cherrytrees’ with a blog on how they used a balance of child led and adult initiated\u00a0experiences at Halloween.\u00a0<\/strong><\/h5>\n

Finding a balance of scaffolding learning, stepping back and letting children take the lead and introducing provocations requires judgement, really ‘tuning in’ to children’s thinking. \u00a0Halloween provided an interesting context for staff to use as a starting point to offer a range of experiences.<\/p>\n

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Exploring and counting gruesome ingredients to make spooky potions with Karen.\"\"<\/p>\n

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Children were very good at identifying the correct number of items to make their spells. This game promoted some excellent conversations and language from some of the children.<\/p>\n

The staff were able to use this experience to offer targeted support to encourage the development of \u00a0children’s speech and language skills.<\/p>\n

A lot of pumpkins were brought in to investigate \u2013 this led to some designing faces and carving them on pumpkins with Lynsey.<\/p>\n

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The children had great fun using their senses to explore! \u201cPumpkins stink!\u201d \u201cLook at the seeds\u201d \u201cCan you eat the skin?\u201d \u201cI think pumpkin might be yucky to eat!\u201d<\/p>\n

Children designed and created their own scary pumpkins and some cut out their pumpkins and told some of their own ghoulish tales.<\/p>\n

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Children then listened to chilling ghostly tales with Donna. The real pumpkins and spooky spiders \u00a0helped make this experience even more relevant and exciting for the children.<\/p>\n

Margaret used pumpkin and spider provocations to promote independent artistic creations. The children were very creative and enjoyed self-selecting resources.<\/p>\n

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Evelyn spoke to the children about Halloween, read them a spooky spider story…<\/p>\n

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…then they went on a ghoulish Halloween Hunt.\u00a0 The children worked together to identify and count spooky items.<\/p>\n

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They also made pumpkin orange play dough with Julie, following instructions and exploring weight and estimation. <\/span><\/p>\n

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They then \u2018warily\u2019 selected some creepy loose parts to play with it. <\/span><\/p>\n

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While investigating the pumpkins the children decided to have pumpkin races which resulted in some brilliant mathematical language.<\/p>\n

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\u201cMine is the biggest\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cMy pumpkin is the fastest\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt rolls because it is round\u201d.<\/p>\n

Staff used the children’s interest to encourage their mathematical thinking and language. The evidence was used to inform tracking of children’s progress.<\/p>\n

They ended their week with a Halloween costume party where they went \u2018scooping for apples\u2019 (keeping Covid aware) using nets and buckets.<\/span><\/h6>\n
What a great week was had by all \u2013 no tricks just treats all round!<\/span><\/h6>\n

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