I have been the person being inspected.
Over 25 years teaching and leading Early Years in UK and international schools, and a Master's in Early Childhood Education from UCL. I have built the environments, led the teams, written the self-evaluation and sat on the other side of the inspection.
That is why the audit is built the way it is. It is mapped to the EYFS, the BSO standards and ISI, and written in language your board already speaks.
Play Practitioners is led by Tricia Mohamed.
Master's in Early Childhood Education, UCL
Over 25 years teaching and leading Early Years in UK and international schools. I have been the person being inspected.
Built on the real standards
Mapped to the EYFS, the BSO standards and ISI.
Known in this sector
Keynote speaker, ACAMIS Early Childhood Conference. Also Kinderly, The Voice of Early Childhood, IPA USA, OMEP and Blended Families.
How I work
Why the audit is built the way it is
Most Early Years advice is written for the person delivering it. This is written for the person accountable for it.
I spent years being the one asked to evidence a phase upward, in a language that was never built for play. That is a translation problem rather than a practice problem, and it is the thing an independent review fixes fastest.
So the report goes to your board, not your staffroom. It rates readiness against the seven graded areas an inspector judges. It tells you what to do first and what can wait.
It does not pretend to be an inspection. I do not act for any inspectorate and I cannot promise you a grade. What I can do is show you what they will see.
Principles
Three things that do not change
The child's experience is the test
I sit at the height of a four year old and ask what the room feels like from there. Every judgement I make starts from what a child is actually experiencing, not from what the plan says should be happening.
The environment is the third teacher
A room teaches before an adult speaks. What is within reach, what is protected, what is possible outdoors. When I walk in, the environment tells me most of what I need to know.
Theory has to work on a Tuesday morning
Research matters, and so does whether it survives a busy room with real children, real budgets and real time pressure. I keep reading, and I keep testing what I read against what actually happens.
If Early Years is on your improvement plan this year, let us find out where it stands.
Twenty minutes on a call will tell us both whether the audit fits your school.
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