Nursery World - My Best course

Every practitioner knows that reflecting on observations of
children is important, but one course helped give practitioner Jill
Smart a musical revelation.

St Paul's Nursery School & Children's Centre in Bristol decided it wanted to deepen reflective practice, to provide more stimulating practice, avoid repetition, and go beyond seeing children's interests as primarily important for planning which resources to buy. Following a two-year research project with Bath Spa University, the teaching school came up with a programme on 'reflective noticing', which involved using up-to-date research on connecting schemas with emotional patterns and emotional intelligence, and recognising the innate prejudices and assumptions of practitioners. As a result, the setting now uses a 'reflective wheel' to model responsive planning and is offering this training to other settings.

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