Free teacher classroom resource.
These Class Clips are suitable for use with children at Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) in England, Wales and Northern Ireland and Scotland.
Early Years Teaching Resources
Oxford Brain Story (for professionals)
The Brain Story has several different types of resources to help professionals understand the science of how experiences shape our brains and the long-term implications for mental and physical health.
The Story aims to articulate the intergenerational cycle of adversity within families and how we can use our scientific understanding to improve outcomes for children and adults in the future.
This free online course is for professionals seeking a deeper understanding of brain development and its consequences for resilience and lifelong health.
Click Here for more information
Early years resources for learning at home
The BBC have been working hard to make home schooling just a little bit easier.
While the website focuses on learning resources for school-aged children, there is also material for pre-school children to benefit from educational fun at home.
Not a teacher? Not to worry - it's all made in collaboration with learning experts to make learning with at home with children as simple and engaging as possible.
For more inspiration, download the CBeebies Go Explore app to access games and videos featuring CBeebies favourites, from phonics with the Alphablocks to shapes with Hey Duggee.
www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize
Connecting Health & Learning Part One: The Science
New Podcast Episode!
The environments we create and the experiences we provide for young children and their families affect not just the developing brain and early learning, but also many other physiological systems and lifelong health. How do all these systems work together to respond to chronic stress? What do these responses mean for early learning and lifelong health? And what can we do to stop early adversity and stressors from leading to long-term consequences?
Derived from the science in our most recent working paper, the newest episode of The Brain Architects podcast addresses all of these questions by explaining how early childhood development and lifelong health are intertwined.
Using Science to Improve Outcomes
Accelerating Our Impact: Experimenting with an Innovation Mindset
In a new blog post for Capita, Hannah Barber, Project Manager at the Centre on the Developing Child, challenges us to be innovative and adaptive to solve pressing problems in the early childhood development field.
"Child development does not stop in a crisis. The foundations of lifelong learning, health, and behaviour are being laid now, in the narrow window that begins prenatally and continues particularly through ages two and three. These foundations will be as strong—or as weak—as the environment of relationships and experiences that young children find themselves in during this time. Waiting for the pandemic to be over to get back to work simply is not in the cards. Now is our time to do things differently."