You are invited to spend the day exploring how young children need to feel three things when they write and mark make: JOY, PURPOSE and MAGIC with our keynote speaker, bestselling author Greg Bottrill.

Greg is the author of the bestselling ’Can I Go And Play Now?’, ‘School of the Magic of Children’ and ‘Love Letters To Play’. A passionate advocate of childhood and education done with children not to them, he is also the creator of Drawing Club, The Message Centre, Play Projects and Adventure Island. His work and thinking is deeply embedded in joy, adventure, marvel and play, four things that he believes are equally as important for adults.

Join Greg as he explores the abundant scope of co-playing with children and shares a range of ideas and toolkits for you to take away and add to your adventure into childhood. He’ll look at interactions, the Learning Landscape and the Magic Mirror.

*All participants will get a FREE copy of the Co-play Planning Pack and a bonus copy of ‘100 Steps to Joy’ a collection of nonsense games to play with children.*

Afternoon Workshops

All delegates will attend
Getting Ready to Write, with Jess Squires, TLC for PE
Join Jess Squires as she introduces a treasure trove of practical activities to explore the key learning within physical development as children develop handwriting skills. Focus on how practitioners can plan suitable activities that develop gross and fine motor skills through adult focused activities and continuous and enhanced provision outdoors and practically explore a range of activities for physical development.

Choose either workshop:

The Message Centre, with Greg Bottrill
The Message Centre is a vibrant way to show children the playfulness of mark making and is a simple yet impactful approach to adding to the magic of your play.

Drawing Club, with Greg Bottrill
Drawing Club is Greg’s hugely effective approach for showing the children the magic world of story and he created it to liberate teachers and bring them back to the joy of who they are.

** Please indicate your chosen workshop with Greg in the 'special requirements' field on your online booking form.

Magic Makers – We shall be showcasing a large range of exhibitors in our marketplace who will be there to provide you with the latest products and services that will help you create the magic!

Come join the magic.

**NOTE - You can use your PE and sport premium funding to pay for this course.