Trisha is the founder of Make Believe Arts Charity- she has a wealth of knowledge around children's learning and the benefits of storytelling. She worked alongside the wonderful Vivian Gussin Paley - researching storytelling and acting. We discover how from this friendship and collaboration Helicopter stories were created. Helicopter stories can boost children's communication skills through storytelling & poetry. The most educationally, connected powerful way to w...

Here the Beckies chats with Leanne and Lydia the co-founders of Flosst all about wellbeing and looking after ourselves. We delve into why babies, children’s and adults’ wellbeing and oral health is so crucial. We discover the benefits of mouth care for our whole body. We learn top tips and helpful information that enables busy people to really look after themselves in a few easy ways. This fits in so well with everyone's wellness journey. Small consistent dail...

Here we chat with two amazing forest school Mumma’s and discover what it feels like to join a session, what they thought it would be like and what benefits they believe being outside has brought to theirs and their children’s lives. We also have a very special guest ‘Kit’ who you can hear and who has been at our forest play sessions from 10 days old. We discover what helped them to choose forest school? Why being outside in another space other than your garden can help you b...

Here Becky and Mindy chat all about the benefits of being outside when pregnant can help you to thrive. These benefits also help all adults and children so it is well worth a 10 minute listen. What helps to lower cortisol so this is at a lower level? We discover what helps to boost serotonin and helps baby and mumma to connect. How does this relate to outside and being in nature? Are green spaces the best places to be in and why? Why do we need to be in nat...

Becky is delighted to be joined by Mindy as they chat all about what Mumma's might need to help them and their children to thrive in the early days of parenting. We find out about both their experiences from being pregnant to having a young baby. We discover what helped us and what we could of had in place that would of really made a difference to our journey into motherhood. It turns out for us some of the very simple things in life like snuggling up at a friends house, getting ...

Jo has a wealth of knowledge in early years and primary education, she is now using her expertise to specialise in sustainability. Jo designs and creates the most useful, curriculum and bespoke based resources from repurposed, recycled and natural objects. Personally, we are delighted to use Jo's resources in schools and settings we work with and in our own forest play approach sessions. Jo also holds monthly 'creating resources evenings', where you and your team can visit her at ...

The Beckies are delighted to be joined by Dr Janet Rose, Emotion Coaching Co-Founder and Principle of Norland College. We discuss shaping children’s brains and the importance of our communications as educators and teachers upon children’s lives, not only in practice now, but for their futures. Janet explains how the way we talk and communicate with children shapes brains. She shares the latest research that is needed for practice. She enlightens us about the way children process t...

Here The Beckie's chat together about what children really need from the adults in their lives, we explore what it means to be an advocate for children and why this really matters. Why do children need advocates? What is the role of all educators for children of all ages? What does this look like in everyday practice, how are children seen and heard ? We discover how to really observe and understand what the children are communicating. Open communications are based on ...

Sarah talks to the Beckies about the outdoor environment. Sarah explores ‘risky play’ and prompts us to consider is this ‘risky’ or is this how children play? She explains to us how she uses the term ‘productive uncertainty’ and has applied this to how children learn and explore through play. Sarah’s extensive and varied experiences working with settings have resulted in her belief that you can make some ‘wildness’ in even the smallest of outside spaces and we really delve into the role of th...

Here we chat with Natalie Scarlett founder of simple social word songs. Natalie shares with us her experience of seeing the power of music and songs in creating connections with children to enable their speech and language to develop. She has created songs which provide accessible repartition of social words that help children to engage with their peers and adults around them. Natalie is an early years teacher with a wealth of experience in her field. You can discover more about t...