Mary Briggs Livres

Focusing on play-based learning, this textbook serves as a vital resource for students in primary initial teacher education courses. Authored by a respected team, it explores innovative strategies and theories that enhance teaching practices, emphasizing the importance of play in early education. The book is designed to equip future educators with the knowledge and skills needed to create engaging learning environments that foster children's development and creativity.

This essential guide for primary trainee teachers offers a clear overview of various assessment types and their purposes. It includes practical tasks for developing assessment skills and reflects on planning and observation. The updated second edition emphasizes peer assessment, personalized learning, and includes new content on Early Years observation.

Essential reading for all those teaching or training to teach Early Years mathematics, providing comprehensive subject and pedagogic knowledge for those responsible for the youngest children in school and their vital first experiences of learning mathematics.

In 1840s Britain, the Industrial Revolution has brought advances in technology and manufacturing. For the gentry, it means bigger chimneys on their houses. For poor, young boys, it sometimes means becoming a soot merchant's climbing boy. Jack is one such climbing boy. Born into a life of unlimited wealth and opportunities but through a cruel twist of fate he is abandoned and eventually taken on as a climbing boy by the village chimney sweep. Like many other poor young climbing boys, Jack sadly contracts what is known as soot wart, a disease that eventually takes his life. Although his life is a short one, it is in the last few months of his life that he comes to learn what it means to have a family and to be loved. A love that continues beyond his death.

"A novel in twelve chapters and seven vignettes of the famous cemetery."

This is a book of poems about grief and how it changes people. Written from Mary's first-hand experience of losing her son when he was only sixteen years old.

This book provides early years teacher educators with critical guidance to explore the enduring philosophies and principles of early years' pedagogy and to creatively interpret and communicate these to those they are training to be teachers and professionals.

Ensures you have all the necessary knowledge at your finger tips to be an effective school governor.