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Did you know that Nobel Prize winning scientists also happen to be 17 times more likely to be painters than the average Joe? They are four times mo...

At at time where screen-time is at record levels, reading with children is sometimes being forced into the backseat (1). In this article we identif...

Don’t let small scientists slide back this summer! Yes, summer is a time for fun, but it can be a time for learning too. In fact, that’s the attitu...

Children can struggle with emotional, impulse control because their prefrontal cortex, the brain's control centre, is relatively small in early childhood. It is still developing decision-making, critical thinking, emotion regulation, thought organisation and empathy. In contrast, your adult brain is fully developed. Therefore, nurture and strengthen your child's brain by modelling regulation, decision-making, critical thinking and problem-solving skills.

Emotional regulation is at the heart of growing up. How children learn to handle and show their feelings is key to getting along with others, bounc...

Learn how to write your name in braille, a different way of writing the alphabet for the blind and visually impaired who rely on touch as a means o...

In today's early years learning landscape, children have access to multiple devices and vast amounts of content. This can enable multi-...

The wood wide web, coined and discovered by Dr. Suzanne Simard in 1990, is the intricate process of how trees talk and help each other. More specifically, it is a complex underground web of roots and mycorrhizal fungi that connect trees and other plants to one another.

Ada Lovelace is widely known as the world's first computer programmer. In the 1840s, she wrote the world’s first machine algorithm for an early computing machine that existed only on paper. 

The world as it is now is changing and our society will change with it, leading to many new future jobs 2040 and beyond. But what sort of jobs will our children have in this future? In an age of innovation, the only limit is our imagination but here is a short list of STEAM related jobs that are likely to be vital in the near future.

Bees are in serious decline in the UK and globally. Learning how to help bees is more important than ever. We have already lost ...

Bees are intelligent, and like other intelligent creatures they communicate with one another. Different creatures communicate differently, for inst...