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Magic Acorns Report 2023 – 24!
Sophie Fox
Our CIC report looking back over 23-24 is out now! You can download a PDF version below or flick through a digital version here It’s…
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THE NEST EP
Chris Dowding
“How do songs emerge from the early years process? Who is involved? Who is the composer of a riff born in a workshop context surrounded…
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Memories from First Light Festival with Suffolk Artlink
Sue Parr
Image Credits to Suffolk Artlink and Lewis Wickwar. A beautiful sunny day! Me and Natalie Willis met at Stonecutters Way and filled our cars with…
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Research
The Thesis What I Wrote – ‘More-than-Words: reconceptualising two-year-old children’s onto-epistemologies through Improvisation and the Temporal Arts’
Dr Charlotte Arculus
I will unpick the title of my PhD thesis a little. Onto-epistemology is a hyphenation of epistemology meaning a system of knowing or way of…
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Rethinking my connection to movement and music
Nat Whitney
Hello I’m Nat and I’m an audio-visual participatory artist and between September 2023 and March 2024 I was a trainee early years music facilitator with…
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Connecting my silliness
Aphra Mcsherry Birley
Between April last year to March 2024, I took part in Magic Acorns traineeship and development program. Through play days, play mornings, mentoring and reflection…
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Creative training
Magic Online – More Than Adults-in-Waiting
Sophie Fox
What very young children might tell us about time, music and philosophy if we started asking better questions? Charlotte Arculus is a bag lady, an…
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Interactions with the sand, sea, stones and grasses
Sue Parr
Reflections on some of my learning whilst taking part in Magic Acorns’ – The Nest – 28th September- 12th October 2023 This aims of The…
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I could only hum but others were singing
Sue Parr
On the 14th and 15th of July last Summer I took part in Early Years Incubate. This was a two day professional development opportunity with…
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