Deputy Head of a maintained nursery school, Early Years MA, Early Years associate lecturer, teacher, mum to two brilliant human children and one cat.
Northamptonshire
Joined September 2019
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Kate Smith retweeted
Oh, the kindness of strangers! I just cannot comprehend how many people have sent (literally and metaphorically) gestures of love to my one little boy in the midlands of England. Thank you @rosieclarke and your lovely daughter for the joy this has brought us.
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The mum of an autistic boy from England @KateEYT has captivated the social media with her creativity. Kate's son constantly collects things and brings them into the house: from buttons to fragments of ceramic tiles.
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This is a wonderful thread, but when @KateEYT said “What’s acceptance without celebration? It’s just tolerance really” it hit me hard. Yes!!!
Who’s ready for some Special Interest Spam? Buckle up! My #actuallyautistic son has been collecting stuff for years. His collection has been stuffed into the drawers under his bed or getting dusty on the top of his wardrobe. Until today!
Kate Smith retweeted
What a beautiful display, each cubbyhole filled with love- every item significant and carefully chosen. To save them and display them with such respect- what an example of exemplary parenting. @KateEYT
Who’s ready for some Special Interest Spam? Buckle up! My #actuallyautistic son has been collecting stuff for years. His collection has been stuffed into the drawers under his bed or getting dusty on the top of his wardrobe. Until today!
Kate Smith retweeted
#FaustianFriday “Taught from their infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, & roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
🎨Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Veronica Veronese
Kate Smith retweeted
I read this book to my nursery class yesterday. A little girl, who normally fidgets and needs a lot of adult support during carpet session sat for the entirety. When I’d finished she shouted ‘that’s my hair” #RepresentationMatters
Kate Smith retweeted
BUDGET RESPONSE 💰
The government's new childcare policy will prevent many families from accessing much-needed extra support.
By expanding the offering without fixing the big issues with eligibility in the existing system, the poorest families will miss out 🧵👇 #BudgetDay2023
Kate Smith retweeted
School leaders should be humble, inquiring, and empathetic rather than seeking attention or attempting to be heroes.
They must listen and comprehend the problem, as well as value each individual.
This week, be brave and magnificent.
Kate Smith retweeted
One of my favourite things to do at the play-dough table is to just mess around.
I watch what the children are doing and respond to scaffold the play - if they are busy playing then I will quietly roll + do things that is a little different than what they are doing - quietly -
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Kate Smith retweeted
Parents of autistic children get told No alot,a hell of lot,no to assessment,no to help after assessment,no to education & further education,no to blue badges & parking bays,no to transport no to social care,In over 20 years I can count the people that have said yes on one hand.
Kate Smith retweeted
In this keynote talk, @drjoolspage argues that education starts with care. She claims that policy makers must shift educational priorities to refocus attention on the wellbeing of young children if they are to avert a mental health crisis for the next generation.
#BECERA2023
Kate Smith retweeted
But what exactly are ‘language rich’ and ‘high quality’ interactions? Who gets to decide? And what kinds of privileged norms are those based on? The inevitable consequence of subjective categories like this is that certain ways of using language get marked as deficient.
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Kate Smith retweeted
‘Early years practitioners do one of the most important jobs in the country. But far too often you are unseen and your work is unrecognised’
@helenhayes_
#NewhamEY23 – at Walthamstow, London
Kate Smith retweeted
Why would the DfE shrink the number of ITE providers, when there's a crisis in recruitment onto courses, leading to a lack of teachers? Is it ideology or incompetence? Or part of a plan to use unqualified teachers to 'deliver' a scripted curriculum? 🤷♀️
Kate Smith retweeted
I keep seeing examples of the need for consistency misinterpreted as a need for rigidity. It's like some people have forgotten that children are also people and people require flexibility.
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Kate Smith retweeted
September is an odd time, especially for families, with too much change in the air.
