Exciting Activity Ideas for Early Years Mark Making

Discover engaging activity ideas to enhance fine motor skills, promote early writing, and foster a love for learning. Let the glow captivate young learners and make their educational journey shine bright. Building Foundations In the early years, fostering a love for learning and building the foundations is crucial. One exciting resource that can light up the…

ByAna Smith4 August 20230Comments

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How Imaginative Play Contributes to Language Development by Hayley Winter

When children engage in imaginative play, they create scenarios, characters, and stories, which helps them to develop their language skills in several ways. In this blog, I share 5 ways that imaginative play contributes to language development in the Early Years and why this type of play is so integral. Improves Vocabulary Firstly, imaginative play allows…

ByAna Smith4 August 20230Comments

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Ways to Use Pebbles in Play

The Power of Pebbles in Play: Unearthing the Magic and Learning in the Everyday Why are we Fascinated with Pebbles? Ever since we were cave dwellers, humans, especially children, have been fascinated with stones and pebbles. Ever been on a walk with a child to find their pockets rattling and full of stones and pebbles…

ByAna Smith4 August 20230Comments

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Build a World – A Healing World!

A view into the inner world of a child Sometimes you see something and it really fires the imagination! When I first saw Alice Sharp’s Eco Build a World, the teacher in me saw many exciting and endless ways for children to create all kinds of locations, constructions, sculptures and pathways but the therapist in me…

ByAna Smith4 August 20230Comments

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Recordable Talking Panel by Andrew Whitehouse

Every now and then I come across a resource which absolutely screams multi use at me. The TTS Recordable Talking Panel is just one of those resources. Ironically, it has been around for years, I just had not spotted it! It is such a simple concept. Six little panels in a row on a board, each…

ByAna Smith18 July 20230Comments

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Introducing Loti-Bot

Inspire learning and discovery of 21st century skills through cross-curricular coding experiences with our NEW block-based programmable robot, Loti-Bot. The latest addition to the TTS bot family Loti-Bot is the newest member of the TTS bot family, featuring programmable movement, highly accurate drawing capabilities and a variety of inputs and outputs. Using a Bluetooth connected tablet and…

Bycsteele28 June 20230Comments

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Exploring STEAM in the Early Years

STEAM stands for Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Maths. You might be more used to the term STEM, but Arts is often added to recognise the role of creativity and design in STEM fields. Including Arts makes these subjects more early years friendly too. STEAM learning is becoming increasingly common in the years before formal school…

Bycsteele20 June 20230Comments

Early Years Innovation

NEW EDITION: The Learning Atlas

TTS is delighted to bring you the second edition of The Learning Atlas: Inspiring Beginnings, Empowering Futures! At TTS, we’re passionate about sharing learning experiences and best practice from around the world to inform and inspire and help you support your customers. In this edition of The Learning Atlas, we aim to…

Bycsteele19 June 20230Comments

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Introducing the Early Years Immersive Projector

Create immersive, enchanting environments that support the development of key skills through the wonder of light. Bright light into learning Using light as a catalyst for learning, our all-new Early Years Immersive Projector transforms the everyday into the extraordinary! This exciting new resource brings a new dimension to developing communication, creativity, collaboration, and critical thinking…

Byjhandley5 January 20230Comments

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Who is Oti-Bot?

The future of cross-curricular learning: We are excited to introduce you to Oti-Bot, our most advanced, cross-curricular, programmable robot to date, designed to support the future of robotics. Oti-Bot supports a wide range of computer science and coding skills, aligned to 21st-century skills development and integration of STEAM into your teaching, with advanced functions…

Byjhandley24 August 20220Comments

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