Emma Turner

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Mind the Gap: Making Education Work Across the Globe · Where the Magic Happens: Inside an Exceptional EYFS Classroom with Dixie-Louise Dexter, Mind the Gap, Ep.123 (S6,E21) · 29 May 2026 podcast

There it is. Although it's play centred, it's so knowledge rich in there. The children know so much as a result of the interactions with the adults, a really well planned curriculum and the opportunity to meet that curriculum in ways that are appropriate for their developmental stage. And then that means that the knowledge that you want to stick and the skills that you'd want to develop,

do because they meet at exactly the right point. And when you do talk to the children in provision there, the things that they come out with are absolutely phenomenal. The things that they know from the curriculum. But again, you could just look at that and see lots of children playing. But when you get into the

depth and the granular aspects of the curriculum, it's landing because of the fact that the children are meeting it in the most appropriate way.

Yeah, it's one of those things that it's a bit like a swan. When you see it working seamlessly, it looks really easy, but there are so many moving parts underneath. But I think to go back to what Dixie was saying at the beginning about the confidence to do the right thing.

unless you've spent time developing characteristics of effective learning with those children, and unless you know the children on entry, know what they're going to be excited by, interested in what might be a barrier to their learning, unless you know them, all of that deep work needs to happen first before you start worrying about the

granular content of a taught curriculum because all of that has to sit on top of this and and that in itself needs teaching the routines the norms the characteristics of effective learning how to move around the space how to interact with other children and all of that is really

I think it is difficult, but it's it's a lot of work to start with before you even get to the curriculum. So I think one of the things that I always find exciting about the work that Dixie does is that is that kind of holding the line with that of the confidence to say this needs to happen first.

before we get but once we've done all of this once we've got this going the curriculum you can go through it so much more quickly and with so much more success because you've done that spade work and you've done that groundwork but i would whenever i work with any school it's like don't try and skip over this bit don't try and through this bit this because this is the absolutely fundamental part to making everything else work that's amazing well i mean

Thank you for listening to Mind the Gap. I'm Emma Turner and I've been presented with my co-host Tom Sherrington. If you enjoyed this episode, please leave us a review, share on social media and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. Find us on our YouTube channel, search Mind the Gap with Tom and Emma or head over to Spotify for an audio version. This podcast was produced in association with Haringey Education Partnership and our producer for today's episode was Luke Kemper.

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