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Building the Ambition is a document which provides national practice guidance to support staff in providing high quality early learning and childcare.
Published in August 2014, it includes case studies and reflective questions designed to promote discussion and support improvement by helping those involved in early learning and childcare put theory into practice.
These materials are intended to help practitioners at all levels engage more deeply with the guidance.
Section 2: What we know from policy and research
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Training materials
Word file: BtA training session - GIRFEC (41 KB)
Section 3: What makes the difference for children and families?
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Word file: BtA training session - The image of the child (1.2 MB)
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Section 4: What do we mean by play and learning?
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Section 5: Understanding attachment
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Articles
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Section 6: Early learning and childcare – what do children need?
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Word file: BtA training session - The question of developmental stages (39 KB)
Practice exemplars
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Section 7: Putting pedagogy into practice
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Word file: BtA training session - Wellbeing - The baby (395 KB)
Word file: BtA training session - Wellbeing - The toddler (132 KB)
Word file: BtA training session - Wellbeing - The young child (6.96 MB)
Word file: BtA training session - Curiosity, inquiry and creativity - The baby (500 KB)
Word file: BtA training session - Curiosity, inquiry and creativity - The toddler (44 KB)
Word file: BtA training session - Curiosity, inquiry and creativity - The toddler - 2 (1.56 MB)
Word file: BtA training session - Curiosity, inquiry and creativity - The young child (1.07 MB)
Word file: BtA training session - Communication - The toddler (50 KB)
Word file: BtA training session - Communication - The young child (1.10 MB)
Practice exemplars
- Development of creativity through play at Ballogie Nursery
- Planning learning at Auchlone Nature Kindergarten
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Section 8: What are the key elements of quality in a setting?
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Word file: BtA training session - Thinking about quality (664 KB)
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Word file: Pre-Birth to Three: Partnership Working
Word file: Pre-Birth to Three: Environments
Word file: Pre-Birth to Three: Doctor Maria Robinson - Play
Word file: Pre-Birth to Three: Play
Word file: Pre-Birth to Three: Doctor Rosemary Roberts: Companionable relationships
Word file: Pre-Birth to Three: Attachments
Word file: Pre-Birth to Three: Doctor Maria Robinson: Attunement
Word file: Pre-Birth to Three: Transitions
Word file: Pre-Birth to Three: Professor Aline-Wendy Dunlop - Transitions
Word file: Pre-Birth to Three: Observation, Assessment and Planning
Word file: Pre-Birth to Three: Environments
Word file: Pre-Birth to Three: Doctor Rosemary Roberts - Schemas
Word file: Pre-Birth to Three: Health and Wellbeing
Word file: Pre-Birth to Three: Literacy and Numeracy
Word file: Pre-Birth to Three: Doctor Maria Robinson: Language development
Word file: Pre-Birth to Three: Professor Colwyn Trevarthen: Language development
Word file: Pre-Birth to Three: Professor Colwyn Trevarthen - Musicality of language
Word file: Pre-Birth to Three: Role of Staff
Word file: Pre-Birth to Three: Doctor Maria Robinson: Role of staff
Word file: Pre-Birth to Three: Professor Aline Wendy Dunlop: Role of Staff