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Session 5: Best Practice

Congratulations, you are storytelling superheroes!Time to look back at all you've achieved. In this session, we'll reflect on your experience. This is where using the Big Book can come in handy as a way of looking back on how both you and the children have developed. Don't forget to download your certificates!

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Hello, welcome back to the final session of Tales Toolkit.

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You've been introduced to the three principles, which are

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safe, space, child led, and fun.

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You know how to use all of the resources

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and you've been creating

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and recording lots

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of imaginative stories with your children.

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Today's session is time to reflect, to look back at

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how you've been doing, think of some next steps,

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and also to give yourself a great big pat on the back

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for all the fantastic creative storytelling

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you've been doing with your children.

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Teaching is a tough job

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and you don't celebrate the achievements enough.

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You are doing an amazing job.

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So the theme of today's session is, look how great we are.

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I'm not going to be talking as much today.

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Instead, you are going to have time to reflect on

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how it's been going with Tell's Toolkit.

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And at the end of the session, all

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of the notes can be collected to create one report with lots

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of information about the fantastic job you're doing.

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But before we get going,

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let's have a quick talk about progress you've been using.

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Tell's toolkit across your provision,

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collaboratively telling stories,

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but also setting children up using the tell's toolkit

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structure independently to create stories

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and solve real life problems.

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Through that interest of these particular children

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playing in boxes, being pirates, they would then say, right,

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okay, well there's a problem,

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there's a problem, what can we do?

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And the other little ones would say, well,

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let's find a solution.

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They never had this concept before of through a problem.

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There would always be a solution,

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and that that was through Tale Toolkit.

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So that was amazing to see

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that they're getting a concept now of no matter

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what you face in life or,

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or what problems are ahead, let's find something

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to let's find a solution.

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Let's find out how we can help this out.

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You want to show off the big picture

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for people visiting your school

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and let others see your children as creative problem solvers

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and independent thinkers.

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This shouldn't add to your workload

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because you've already got lots of tools

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to assess and show progress.

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It dovetailed really nicely with how,

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with our conflict resolution strategy, with the,

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the helicopter technique that, you know,

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I was already passionate about.

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So the story scribing, things like that.

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Um, but it's sort of like an extra, an extra level.

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On top of that, as

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A school, you are already assessing lots of areas

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of learning and your school data gives

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you a lot of information.

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You know, the areas of learning that have been impacted

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through using Tale's Toolkit, which areas

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of learning are shown most progress?

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Can this be attributed to Tale's Toolkit? Um,

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Lots of the children that we teach have really,

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really low language levels when they first come into school.

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Um, and I've seen a huge improvement in their language

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and their expressive language

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and obviously their receptive language.

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Um, through the the sessions.

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Are there particular groups of children

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who were responding to Tell's Toolkit better than others?

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And can this be seen in your data?

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Can you use Tell's Toolkit to help develop any areas

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that need improving?

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And I have a separate sheet that has questions for you

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to think about when looking at your school data,

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but it's also important to collect the stories

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behind the data to really bring the numbers to life with

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what this looks like for the children in your class.

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And you already doing this observations

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and writing samples that you add

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to children's books over time will create a picture

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of what's been going on

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and you've been using the Tells Toolkit, big book

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to record stories

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and learning, noting down all those fantastic moments.

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It could be the first time a pro-social element is used

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or the first time a child contributes to a group story.

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See, we have Learning Journey books

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very keep observations.

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We keep children's work samples,

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photographs, children's comments.

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Parents also contribute that in in the home.

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And we use those. We, we look at all that information.

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It gives us very rich information about the children's

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learning and different points of the year.

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We'll make a judgment on

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where we think they sit within there, looking at their age,

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what and what we'd expect for their age,

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which developmental bands

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that we think that they're working in.

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Um, so Tales, toolkit, compliments what we already do.

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Um, the writing samples, the stories that they've told us,

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the drawings that they do with the stories, uh,

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go across a number of areas of learning, uh,

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and you can see really, really clear progress, um,

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throughout the year from their very simple stories, just

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with real detail and at length

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and the drawings that go with them and the mark making

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and the emergent writing that happens as well.

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So it it compliments our assessment procedure

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In the Tells toolkit.

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Big book, you'll also have lots of examples

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of scribed stories.

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Scribing children's stories is a great way

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of showing progress when you use the kit

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and record the child's story exactly as they say it,

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then you'll take a snapshot of the child's language

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and vocab creativity and understanding of story.

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And over time you'll be able

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to see development in the stories.

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Yes, for Rahima, um, her first story was two words.

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Um, and her final story is just amazing.

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It's really long. Um, lots of ideas linked together.

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Um, and she's one of the children who was, I mean,

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I never had any concerns about her language

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because I could see that the understanding

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and the listening intention was fine.

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Um, it was just that confidence.

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So, uh, yeah, this really gave her the confidence to,

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to speak, um, her ideas and her thoughts

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and the feelings as well,

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but also bringing in her knowledge of stories too.

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She's one of the, the first who started

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to bring in the Gingerbread Man and Little Red Riding Hood

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and the Wolf and things like that.

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So, um, yeah, it was just amazing for her.

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Absolutely amazing.

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The Tells Toolkit. Big book could also be renamed the look

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how great we Are, book being all together in one place.

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It's easy to see storytelling progress over time.

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Tell's Toolkit, big book shows

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how the children have been developing their confidence,

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language, creativity, and building independence.

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It models consistency in use across the classes

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and the school, and it also shows all

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of the thoughts going into the props provided

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and gives an idea of your role as facilitator.

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There are two parts to the rest of today's training.

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Part One Reflection.

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I have a tool to help you reflect,

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celebrate what's been going well,

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and think about some next steps to improve your practice.

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Part two, communication.

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I have a tool that will help you to communicate with others

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and to make links with offstage requirements.

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I created these tools using a number of different documents

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and assessment sources, including Echos, the Stew Scales,

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Ofsted framework, and lots more to create activities

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that are useful linking with Tell's Toolkit.

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So let's get going with Part One reflection.

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In this section, I want us to spend some time reflecting on

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what good practice looks like.

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Think about the things

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that you're doing well decide on some next steps

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to improve your practice using Tell's toolkit.

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Be difficult at the very beginning, not

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to tell my own story, um, and not to lead the children.

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Um, I think I still have to hold myself back now,

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especially when I'm trying to role play with the characters

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to take it off in that I don't take it off

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in a different direction.

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Um, so that was the, the trickiest thing is to hold back

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and actually listen to the children.

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Um, but I can tell that that I have started to do that

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because the children are independent

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in telling their stories. So it's not

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Coming from me, it's actually coming, coming from them.

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The exercise for this is based around the Three Tales,

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toolkit, principles, safe Space,

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child led, and Fun.

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I've created a tool for reflection

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and included a some elements of best practice

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to show the kind

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of things you should be doing when using Tells Toolkit.

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And there are some questions for you to reflect on

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if the tells Toolkit facilitator

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can split you up into groups

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and give each group one of the principles to reflect on.

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I want you to think about what you do well

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and how you can improve.

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And just before I bring you back together,

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I'll give you a few minutes to decide on one action

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that you're going to set

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to improve your tells Toolkit practice.

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Okay, you've got two minutes left.

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Decide on one action to improve your tells toolkit practice,

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make it achievable, who's going to do it and by when.

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So would you like to share with the group

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one thing you do well and your action for improvement

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And learn from each other.

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Planning time for peer observations.

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Tell big group tells toolkit stories together.

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Share resources that work well and learn from others.

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That use tells toolkit by joining the forum.

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So we've talked about impact, thought about good practice

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and created some next steps.

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Part two is all about communicating how

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to best tell others about what you're doing.

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Talking to senior leadership team of Stu Inspectors

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borough advisors can often be really scary,

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but use this as an opportunity

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to show off about the fantastic work that you're doing,

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really brag about the great work that's happening

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and say, look how great we are.

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Often the difference between a good

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and outstanding setting is the confidence

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of the senior leadership team

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and teachers that they're doing the best for their children

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and their ability to be able to talk about it.

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You need to be really confident that

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what you are doing is best

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and the right thing for the children

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and that you need to remember that officer said have no set,

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um, guidance on what pedagogy and your practices should be.

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When you look at the teaching

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and learning section of the TED framework,

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it compliments everything we do.

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It talks about modeling and scaffolding,

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children's learning, and it absolutely compliments

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and what we're doing in the nursery, you need

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to have a really be, um, strong about what you're doing,

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have your evidence of why it's making a difference, have

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that impact the so what

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whatever we do, we have to ask ourselves.

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So what, so what difference has it made to the children,

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to their learning, to their development?

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We justify that.

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Um, and you need to feel it, just that feeling confident

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and, um, are sometimes arguing your case

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and being persistent

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and showing of said what that looks like in practice

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and triangulating everything.

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So you show them your assessments,

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you show them the children's learning book

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and you go children's Learning Journey books.

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Then you go and look at what the children are doing

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and if all that information matches, then you are

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Fine in, in terms of the way Ofsted inspects early years.

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The, these are some of the things we'd

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encourage teachers to think.

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The the first thing is

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that you're doing now and how that develops the skills

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that children need to do well throughout life,

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communication, creativity, and collaboration.

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and creativity you're developing.

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I want you to think about how you communicate with others,

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how you communicate so they can see all

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of the great work that you're doing.

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I've created a tool for reflecting in the top box,

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what this looks like using Tail's toolkit

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in the bottom left box, I want you to make a note of

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what does this look like in your setting?

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because they're engaged by the fun props based

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how you would evidence this.

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Is it shown in your school data?

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Big book Or is

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that evidence in the children's learning journey?

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Books work in your groups.

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of the principles to look at

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how did that go?

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and decide how you will use these tools.

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perhaps three times a year to review practice

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how great we are to show that you're doing great things,

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but also that you are reflecting

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You are making a difference

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to children at the most vital stage in their school life,

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right at the beginning.

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how important it is to provide children

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with quality interactions while they're young.

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immediate benefits.

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Tell's toolkit has been developed based on research

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to make sure that children will do well

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all the way through life.

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story itself is a really powerful tool,

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particularly when children experiment

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with creating their own stories around a clear structure.

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Tell others about the brain development

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that happens through story.

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what you are doing now is setting children

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to further research.

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and created a few next steps so you can continue to improve

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and you've thought about how you can communicate

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with others, thinking about what you might discuss.

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by saying a big well done on getting this far Tells toolkit

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is really adaptable.

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with new creative ways of using the kit

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and improving your practice.

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shout about the great things that you're doing.

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Say, look how great we are.

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Sometimes with all of the stresses of teaching

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what an amazing job you're doing.

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We have no idea what the future holds for your children,

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but we do know that children

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who are creative problem solvers have good communication

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skills and high levels of wellbeing are going

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to fare far better in an ever-changing world.

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that Tales toolkit has to really make a difference,

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Taps into every area of, of development with the language,

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with the listening, the communicating, the personal social

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It taps into pretty much every area of development and it,

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with their, their favorite character you can go with.

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It really is about your individual unique child

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and play.

Nursery Group Story

Kate leads a group story with this nursery setting. As well as modelling for the children, Kate is also incorporating a variety of creative approaches. Using songs, actions and phonic sounds.

Under 3s Group Story

This group story with the littlest of people shows how they quickly grasp the story structure. This practitioner takes her time embedding the use of the symbols while keeping the children really engaged with voices, songs and actions.

Watch without activities

This video has the same content as the core training video but we've removed the timed activity sections for speedier viewing. This is designed to help practitioners refresh their knowledge.

If you are doing the training for the first time, we recommend watching the full length video together with your team. Team learning means you'll get the most out of the training experience - and it's more fun!

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Hello, welcome back to the final session of Tales Toolkit.

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You've been introduced to the three principles, which are

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safe, space, child led, and fun.

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You know how to use all of the resources

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of imaginative stories with your children.

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Today's session is time to reflect, to look back at

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how you've been doing, think of some next steps,

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and also to give yourself a great big pat on the back

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for all the fantastic creative storytelling

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you've been doing with your children.

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Teaching is a tough job

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and you don't celebrate the achievements enough.

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You are doing an amazing job.

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So the theme of today's session is, look how great we are.

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I'm not going to be talking as much today.

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how it's been going with Tell's Toolkit.

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of the notes can be collected to create one report with lots

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of information about the fantastic job you're doing.

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let's have a quick talk about progress you've been using.

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Tell's toolkit across your provision,

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collaboratively telling stories,

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but also setting children up using the tell's toolkit

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structure independently to create stories

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that they're getting a concept now of no matter

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what you face in life or,

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Part One Reflection.

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I have a tool to help you reflect,

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I have a tool that will help you to communicate with others

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what good practice looks like.

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that you're doing well decide on some next steps

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Be difficult at the very beginning, not

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to tell my own story, um, and not to lead the children.

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I want you to think about what you do well

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Talking to senior leadership team, Ofsted inspectors,

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what you are doing is best

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children's learning, and it absolutely compliments

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how they're helping children who face disadvantage

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communication, creativity, and collaboration.

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with higher chances of achievement and secure relationships.

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that evidence in the Children's learning journey?

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to make sure that children will do well

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what you are doing now is setting children up

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A lot of today's session comes back to one thing,

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shout about the great things that you're doing.

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Say, look how great we are.

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Sometimes with all of the stresses of teaching

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and all the paperwork involved, you can forget

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what an amazing job you're doing.

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And I want to end by bringing you back

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to something I said in Session One.

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We have no idea what the future holds for your children,

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but we do know that children

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who are creative problem solvers have good communication

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skills and high levels of wellbeing are going

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to fare far better in an ever changing world.

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And I'm sure by now you'll have realized the potential

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that Tale's Toolkit has to really make a difference,

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Taps into every area of development with the language,

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with the listening, the communicating, the personal social

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and emotional development.

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Maths comes into play

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because you've got positional language, you've got counting,

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you've got it.

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It taps into pretty much every other area of development

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and it, and it's really,

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you can make your own resources up.

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You can add, you could go with a child's interest, go

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with their, their favorite character you can go with.

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It really is about your individual unique child

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and just having fun through storytelling and play.