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Objectives

Course participant will have the opportunity to:

• Understand the role of observation in relation to planning and environments indoors and out.
• Understand the importance of involving the child, family and staff team.
• Have the opportunity to see examples of observational practice, learning stories etc.
 

Target Audience

All Foundation Phase Practitioners

Course Provider Kathryn Solly

Kathryn Solly describes her career in education as “going up in the world.” She started life as a secondary school teacher on Voluntary Service Overseas in Papua New Guinea for two years. Since then she has taught across all the phases of education including a short time in an Albanian kindergarten. She realised that if she was to really make a difference she had to re-train to teach in the early years and has since achieved a special needs qualification and an M.A. in Early Education and Care. Her research focus was risk and challenge in the early years.
After two nursery school posts outside London, she has been the Head teacher of the historic Chelsea Open Air Nursery School for the last ten years.
Kathryn prides herself that first and foremost she is a learner, a teacher and team player in a school started by Susan Isaacs. The nursery is a small highly inclusive, cosmopolitan, and unique maintained school, which is growing to become a Children’s Centre in a building, which dates from 1587! The school is internationally recognised for the calibre of its ethos and focus on learning indoors and out.
She was awarded the Unilever Fellowship in 2003 to research aspects of Early Years Leadership and Management. This research was published in the London Leadership Centre’s journal “Leading Edge” and as a synopsis in Early Education’s journal. She has had several other articles published. She describes herself as “head learner”.