Talking Early Years: June O'Sullivan and Mona Sakr

Talking Early Years: June O'Sullivan and Bikeworks

Release Date: 10/27/2021

Description:  It was a chance conversation with Jim Blakemore that led to the beginning of what has now become a strong relationship between LEYF and Bikeworks and has encouraged two wider conversations between the two organsiations. Have a listen to June in conversation with the two founders of Bikeworks, Jim Blakemore and Zoe Portlock as they discuss the growth of Bikeworks, their response to COVID-19 and why access to bikes and cycling for children and families can help people build their inner confidence. https://leyf.org.uk/podcast-bikeworks

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Talking Early Years: June O'Sullivan and Sally Hogg

Release Date: 07/15/2024

Description: Baby, It’s Time  Do you think babies are a focus of care and education policy enough?  Do we have a baby policy blind spot?   We think so!  This is the subject of my conversation with Sally Hogg, Senior Policy Fellow at the Centre for Research on Playing Education, Development and Learning better known as PEDAL. Why has this issue become so important now?  Well, because of the speed of the childcare expansion. From September, babies from nine months will be able to access a nursery place. Getting it right from conception to two years is more crucial than at any other stage of learning. The brain development in babies is startling. Just imagine the baby brain as a firework of synaptic connections, fizzing across brains and forming strong cerebral pathways.   If you are interested in the Under 2's and what makes great practice, listen to my conversation with Sally Hogg and share it widely.  You know the  drill! 

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Talking Early Years: June O'Sullivan and Prue Leith

Release Date: 04/24/2024

Description: In this podcast with Prue Leith, we discover that Prue’s approach to life is summed up by her autobiography, “I'd Try Anything Once” and the more she talks the more you believe it! From posh white girl in South Africa  to judge on Bake Off,  food dominates Prue’s career. Her passion is undimmed as is her patience with the stupidity of politicians. She provides an entertaining but thoughtful summary of her efforts to put small children's health and access to food right at the centre of modern politics. We might even end up with a Masterchef for Nursery cuisine. Listen to Prue’s stimulating take on what we should do!

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Talking Early Years: June O'Sullivan and Matt Arnerich

Release Date: 01/24/2024

Description: My first Podcast of 2024 is an interview with the very delightful Matt Arnerich, Director of Brand & Comms at Famly – an Early Childhood Platform that bridges the collaboration gap between the grown-ups who raise young children. It supports around 6,000 Early Years providers and families to communicate, share information, run their business and learn new things. Whilst we don’t subscribe to Famly’s platform at LEYF, we are very supportive of its work. I wanted to talk to Matt about his international perspective of Early Years Education and Care (EYEC), what he thinks are the benefits of digitalisation for pedagogical practice and clarify the difference between digitalisation and digitisation (who knew?!). I was also keen to hear his take on AI in the Early Years, which is something I am very interested in understanding better.  As background, Matt’s international take on the Early Years began at home with his Mum working in the sector. His family heritage stems from New Zealand, Europe and a bit of Irish!  He has lived in Denmark for the past seven years, his partner is from Finland and he is working with Famly across the UK, Denmark, Norway, Germany and the US.  We started our international exploration in Denmark, a country that is often cited in a somewhat rose-tinted way by the press as a great example of providing access to affordable high quality EYEC. The Princess of Wales visit there in 2022, as part of her campaigning for The Royal Foundation Centre for Early Childhood, highlighted the emphasis the Danes place on the importance of childhood and playing freely away from panicky parents. Here, they actively want their children to enjoy being children and be able to play indoors and outdoors all day long. They start school aged six but nothing in their PISA scores suggests that this approach is failing them. In fact, they are much higher up the scale than the schoolified US and UK.  Matt quoted the great Sir Ken Robinson who reminded us that a 3-year-old is not half a 6-year-old, right? To hear about the other countries and discover the huge funding crisis in the US, the shift in Government expectations in Denmark and the sheer size of certain church groups in Germany which run the kindergartens, you will have to listen to the full podcast. Do you know the difference between digitalisation and digitisation?  It’s a subtle difference but it is  significant in terms of the outcome. We digitalise tasks to make them simpler like using programmes on iPads to capture observations with a Grammarly, checking to correct the write ups. Digitisation is taking something in the real world and making it digital for the sake of making it digital. Like trying to have a programme to record fridge temperatures which would be done ten times quicker by just writing it on a sheet of paper and pinning it to the fridge. The warning here is to understand the difference and don’t cause yourself more aggravation by complicating a task that is better on paper or using digitalisation to raise parents’ expectations. You end up a slave to your iPad, failing to see what’s happening around you because you are bent over the iPad writing up what has happened earlier! Finally, I asked Matt about AI (Artificial Intelligence) because I know he is exploring how to use it more efficiently and I am learning more and more about it so I can use it sensibly, and not be scared of it. I suggested he might consider developing some webinars about using Chat GPT which I think would be rather helpful. In a world that is now undeniably digital, with disruptive technologies arriving at breakneck speed and continually changing how we live and work, the need to stay connected and collaborative has never been greater. This not only makes us more productive and efficient when done correctly, it allows us the time to focus on what matters. 

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Early years with jess

Release Date: 08/29/2020

Authors: Jessie

Description: This is a podcast for the early morning motivation, the late night brain fuzz and the everything in between. Here you will find motivational sessions, new activity ideas and even interviews with some big early years people and practitioners!

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The Mix-Up

Release Date: 04/19/2021

Authors: Today FM

Description: The Mix-Up with Colm O'Sullivan

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Early Years Millennials

Release Date: 04/28/2021

Authors: Eymillennials

Description: Amy and Laura share all things early years in this podcast

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SMAP Early Years

Release Date: 05/03/2021

Authors: SHEILA MARIE PENA

Description: SMAP stands for Smart, Mindful, and Active Participants of the Learning Process. In This podcast we will be reading books that will help both children and grown-ups to be mindful and active participants of their learning process.

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Early Years Times

Release Date: 04/30/2021

Authors: Gemma Blyth

Description: The early years education in uk and in germany what children do and learn in nurseries and whats important in the early years not to prepare a child for school but to ensure a child is happy, and creates good mental health and friendships whilst being able to become independent and gain the skills to be a motivated learner

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Early Years Conversations

Release Date: 08/12/2020

Authors: KateMoxleyWellnessForAll

Description: New podcast weblog

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Yoseifs early years

Release Date: 09/04/2020

Authors: Ryan Helland

Description: Ryan and Gabe’s Yoseif project.

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The Early Years

Release Date: 09/09/2020

Authors: Gray Mdia

Description: The Early Years dives into the stories of influential early employees during the beginnings of successful companies. Each episode reveals stories you won't hear anywhere else from individuals that made those companies what they are today.

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Edinburgh Early Years

Release Date: 08/20/2020

Authors: Edinburgh Edinburgh Years

Description: Podcast by Edinburgh Edinburgh Years

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Made In Bermuda

Release Date: 04/20/2021

Authors: Galaxy

Description: Collection Releases June 8th 2015. Some have been added early, some are private for various reasons.

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The EasyPeasy Podcast

Release Date: 04/27/2021

Authors: EasyPeasy

Description: Meet Steph, our staff room warrior who is out on the road meeting with communities of Jedi practitioners, early years experts and progressive policymakers to bring you honest, straight-talking and down to earth conversations about the stuff that really matters to you. With a different sofa guest taking centre stage in each episode, we aim to bring you closer to the early years conversation. This podcast series is perfect for parents of children aged 0-5yrs, and early years / EYFS practitioners. Due to Covid-19, we're hosting our episodes via the magic of zoom!

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