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Dandelion Education Ltd is a place where children grow and flourish, through exploring their natural environment under the skilled guidance and support of a team led by founders Hayley Room and Emma Harwood.
The seed of the idea came to Emma and Hayley as they sat drinking tea under a flowering magnolia tree, dreaming of a perfect learning environment for children.
This seed became Dandelion Education Ltd.
Dandelion
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Dandelion Education presents
Promoting Positive Behaviour Bundle
Dandelion’s child-centered approach supports the development of emotional literacy, self-regulation, and emotional intelligence; it provides adults with a behaviour toolbox, supporting them to empower children with skills that form the foundations for life, and that work to nurture a child’s potential and independence.
This knowledge and expertise has been condensed into a concise and accessible tutorial, easy to implement, and includes:
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40 minute tutorial & links to a 10 minute TedxNorwich talk by Dandelion co-founder, Emma Harwood
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A pack of Dandelion Dialogue cards to support the development of emotional literacy
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Dandelion behaviour scripts and top-tips
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Visual time table and now-next-then templates
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PDF download of now-next-then template image size guide
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Grounding game and my calm space template
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My family rules template and rule of rules guide and more!
Outstanding in all areas by Ofsted 2022
Dandelion Education has been awarded
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OUR APPROACH
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PHILOSOPHY FOR CHILDREN
Philosophy for Children develops a myriad of skills vital for all humans; this includes communication and language, creative and critical thinking, problem solving, executive functioning and more!
It nurtures and develops tolerance and respect; a sense and understanding of 'self'; an understanding of others and of the world around...
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AN EDUCATION
REFORMATION
Age 4-5 is too young for children to begin formalised learning. At Dandelion, we advocate deferring your child’s entry into school by spending at least their reception year with us. We also advocate flexi-educating children, whether this is for their Reception year or beyond. This year more than 20% of our children deferred and 17% have chosen to flexi-educate...
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"I can’t put into words how incredible Dandelion is. R has flourished and is almost unrecognisable from the shy anxious child he was when he started. I can’t thank you enough, you are just so wonderful. I am amazed at how much he has learnt in such a short time.
Phonics is one of his favourite things at Dandelion"