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Early Years Peer Review: The Home Learning Environment The - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Early Years Peer Review: The Home Learning Environment The - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Early Years Peer Review: The Home Learning Environment The Foundation Years Trust Who are we? The Foundation Years Trust Around 80% of the difference in how well children do at school depends on what happens outside the school gates. Rasbash
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Around 80% of the difference in how well children do at school depends on what happens outside the school gates. Rasbash et al, 2010
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Definition of Home Learning Environment
…refers to the learning environment children experience at home in the context of their family and community. Parents who engage in meaningful activities that encourage thinking and talking to stretch a child’s mind as part of everyday life can enhance their childs development significantly.
Home Matters
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Based on evidence, the activities that have the biggest impact are:
Reading, sharing books and going to the library Going out on visits Playing with print (letters and numbers) Singing songs and nursery rhymes Drawing and painting (making meaningful marks) and Playing with friends
HLE index, developed by Sylva & Melhuish, EPPE, 2004
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So where’s the evidence? Desforges 2003 Sylva et al 2004 Gutman and Feinstein 2007 Evangelou et al 2008 Washbrook and Waldfogel 2010 Melhuish 2010 Save the Children 2013 Melhuish et al 2015
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There is a gap, between common beliefs – that the aim of parental involvement is to get parents into school – and the findings in the literature – that the aim should be to increase engagement in the home. Goodall, 2018 Involvement vs Engagement
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Using Bronfenbrenner’s Ecological System to show how we aim to embed the HLE as part of the whole environment affecting a child’s development
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Child
Microsystem Mesosystem Exosystem Macrosystem Chronosystem
Child
Working with families & health and nursery staff Strengthening Relationships Engaging wider community stakeholders Influencing Policy Shifting the early years paradigm and culture
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Where does the Home Learning Environment fit in an early years system?
- Whose business is it?
- Nursery staff
- Midwives
- Health visitors
- SALT
- Social workers, Family support workers, GPs etc…
- Parents, families and communities
- Information dissemination
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Barriers to embedding the Home Learning Environment
- Resources
- Competing priorities
- Lack of shared understanding and a shared vision
- Ability/willingness to engage with parents
- Preconceptions about what parents think
- Lack of partnership culture in early years
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Evidencing the impact of HLE interventions
- What evidence would you expect to see?
- What we have learned in Wirral
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Parent reporting questionnaires: 2016 - 2018
Average initial score Average final score
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“I encourage my child to express himself while playing, reading, art, choosing food whilst out and
- about. I have a much better
understanding of how he learns.” Parent
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“I attended one social care meeting and Dad said: ‘can I just say what you are doing in groups has transformed the relationship between [mum and daughter]– they talk all the time at home now’. Mum suffers from severe mental
- health. Now she talks about her feelings
and explains herself to her daughter. She keeps coming to the groups.” Teacher
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