READY STEADY PLAY TRAINING EVENT 22nd April 2021

Ready, Steady, Play!

A free online training event for early years and primary teachers, focusing on teaching English through stories and play-based methods.

Hosted by English Speaking Playschool of Oulu

ThurSDAY 22nd aPRIL 2021 | 14.00 - 17.00

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Encouraging children aged 4-8 years to use English in free play, through shared good practice and free resources from the Ready, Steady, Play! Erasmus+ funded project involving schools in Finland, Portugal and the Netherlands.

Event times are Finnish local time | GMT+3

• 14:00-14:45 Ready, Steady, Play! Project plenary

• 14:45-15:00 Comfort break

• 15:45-16:00 Comfort break

• 15:00-15:45 Outdoor learning in English

• 16:00-16:40 Erasmus+ presentation by the Finnish National Agency

• 16:40-17:00 Questions and conversation about the project

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OUTDOOR LEARNING IN ENGLISH Presented by the staff of the English Speaking Playschool of Oulu, a private bi-lingual day care and preschool with more than 20 years of experience teaching English to children aged 3-7 years, Outdoor Learning in English is a training and information session aimed at pre-primary and primary level teachers in Finland and abroad. This 45 minute session will be packed with practical examples of games and activities that you can implement in your setting to help encourage language learning outside with children of all ages. Linking closely with the 'Ready, Steady, Play!' focus of learning through play based methods and the idea of cross-curricular learning, we will also give specific examples of resources within the EU project that you can use both in conjunction with the project's stories or as stand alone activities and ideas.

PROJECT PLENARY Free play. Multisensory. Hands-on. Stories. Make believe. You can experience all of this in a talk by three language teachers from Portugal, Finland and the Netherlands, based on our international Erasmus+ projects, "Playing Ever After" and "Ready, Steady, Play!", aimed at 4- to 8 year olds. In the projects, we encourage children to use English in free play in English Learning Areas (ELAs), using our own stories and a bank of cross- curricular activities. In this way English is integrated in different areas such as PE/movement, expressive arts, knowledge of the world/social sciences and music (a sort of ‘CLIL’ for the youngest learners). You will take away lots of creative, practical ideas that you can adapt to your own context, since stories, songs, plays and resources are free to use on Dropbox. Fran Seftel (left), Jo Jackson (middle) and Yvonne Scherphof (right) Jo JacksonJo Jackson is a primary school teacher, who has been working at the English Speaking Playschool in Oulu, Finland since 2005. She is the International Coordinator of the Erasmus+ projects "Playing Ever After" and "Ready, Steady…Play!", both focusing on learning English through play.Yvonne ScherphofYvonne Scherphof is the Coordinator of the Such Fun programme for playful EFL learning at 12 primary schools in Den Bosch, The Netherlands. She’s also an experienced primary school teacher. In the last decade she has moved from general teaching to teaching English through play, music and drama. Fran SeftelOriginally from South Africa, Fran Seftel is an EFL / CLIL teacher at Colégio do Ave in Guimarães, Portugal. She has many years of experience at all levels, but her special interest at the moment is teaching children through a more holistic approach, integrating English in the children’s daily learning and play routines.