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November 27, 2025
Joanne Hall (Staff)
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Reflecting on What Children Need: How Simple, Responsive Days Are Shaping Our Practice

Looking Inwards at Our Practice. Over recent months, we have been reflecting deeply on what our children truly need in this post-Covid landscape. Like many early years settings, we...

November 2, 2025
Joanne Hall (Staff)
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Soup, Curiosity, and the Power of Responsive Teaching

Soup, Curiosity, and the Power of Responsive Teaching At Little Explorers, our curriculum grows from meaningful, real-world experiences that respond to what children say, do, and notice in...

October 30, 2025
Joanne Hall (Staff)
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Coffee, Curiosity, and Connected Learning.

At Little Explorers, our curriculum grows from genuine curiosity and meaningful, real-world experiences. Rather than creating activities that simply look impressive, we focus on what makes a real difference...

October 2, 2025
Joanne Hall (Staff)
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Critically Examining Literature: Beyond Tokenism

What Children Learn From the Stories We Tell. At Little Explorers, our curriculum is designed so children grow up seeing difference as normal, valued, and part of everyday life....

September 18, 2025
Joanne Hall (Staff)
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Air, Water, Sun and Earth: A Day of Discovery at Kew

Today our little explorers visited the Children’s Garden at Kew. The garden is designed around the four things plants need to grow: air, water, sun and earth. It gave...

September 17, 2025
Joanne Hall (Staff)
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Maths at Little Explorers: Intent, Implementation and Impact in Action

At Little Explorers, maths is not something that sits apart from play, it runs through the whole day. We see it when babies notice that one basket has more...

September 5, 2025
Joanne Hall (Staff)
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Autumn Reflections: Minimalism, Impact, and Rethinking Evidence 🍂✨

Over the summer holidays we, like many others in the early years sector, took time to reflect on our practice and consider how we could improve. Part of that...

August 11, 2025
Joanne Hall (Staff)
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Sunflowers, Shadows, and Child-Led Learning.

At Little Explorers, we are committed to reflective practice, considering how spontaneous interests can grow into meaningful learning opportunities. Last term, a single child’s fascination with shadows...

August 9, 2024
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Little Explorers Summer Shutdown

Please note that we will be shut from 4:00 p.m. on Friday 9th of August, reopening 7:30 a.m. on the 26th of August. Could we please request that any...

August 7, 2024
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Celebrating a Year of Adventures and Learning

As we come to the end of another academic year, it’s time to reflect on the wonderful experiences our little explorers have had. We followed a teaching style that...