Dr Julian Grenier CBE
Work on early years at EEF. Previously led Sure Start Children’s Centres 20+ yrs. Views personal.
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- Reposted by Dr Julian Grenier CBE🚨 NEW POST 🚨 ‘Learning by hand’ “If exams go fully digital, handwriting instruction could quickly be marginalised, and note-taking by hand be swapped out for a digital device with AI aids by pragmatic teachers and tech-loving students.” alexquigley.co.uk/learning-by-...
- 𝗢𝘂𝘁 𝗻𝗼𝘄: 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗶𝘀𝘀𝘂𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗺𝘆 𝗻𝗲𝘄𝘀𝗹𝗲𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗘𝗮𝗿𝗹𝘆 𝗬𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘀 𝗛𝗶𝗴𝗵 𝟱📬 5 quick reads on: • Screen time at age 2 • Growth in school based early education • Inclusive leadership • Diet and activity programme shows no impact • OECD insights on inclusion www.linkedin.com/pulse/early-...
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- Reposted by Dr Julian Grenier CBE"The EYFS shapes children’s earliest learning experiences... Despite this, it is still common for children in the early years to receive lower levels of funding and support than older children. We need to reverse that," writes @juliangrenier.bsky.social.
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- Reposted by Dr Julian Grenier CBEIn all the talk of early intervention for SEND, there hasn't been the next assumption made that an uptick in funding and structure forEYFS should be a significant part of any reforms. That's a huge issue if we want to fix the system, says @juliangrenier.bsky.social www.tes.com/magazine/tea...
- Reposted by Dr Julian Grenier CBEIf the government wants to fix the SEND crisis, it needs to start by looking at the early years, writes DfE inclusion adviser @juliangrenier.bsky.social, who recommends three ways to improve practice
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- Started reading this in a bookshop and couldn’t put it down. A brilliantly written, skilful mix of memoir and criticism. Urgent yet humorous and humane. Thank you @clairedederer.bsky.social
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- A brilliant performance by Claire Foy and a (to me) terrifying up-front encounter with Mabel the Hawk made this film a brilliant watch. I felt the sadness, power and messiness of grief alongside the savagery of the hawk and the uplift of a wonderful eulogy
- @damsoned.bsky.social I hope your January challenge is going well through the grey wet weather. Good luck with the final week.
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- Cranbrook Estate in Bethnal Green. The estate consists of 6 towers + smaller scale elements including sheltered housing for older people with the powerful The Blind Beggar and his Dog sculpture. Built in 1963. Architects: Francis Skinner, Douglas Bailey and Russian émigré Berthold Lubetkin.
- Moon over St John on Bethnal Green - one of Sir John Soane’s London churches.
- Issue 18 of my monthly newsletter is live - for everyone passionate about early childhood education. Topics include: babies and toddlers using tech, early years highlights from Ofsted's annual report and proposals to tackle early years challenges in Wales. #edusky www.linkedin.com/pulse/early-...
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- Walthamstow Marshes in London today … beautiful winter sun
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- Reposted by Dr Julian Grenier CBEI have not been well for the past year or so. Macmillian Cancer Support have been an amazing source of support for me and my family. So, now I am trying to help them. socialsync.app/fundraiser/c...
- Reposted by Dr Julian Grenier CBEFree Webinar: 🧠 "Working Smarter - Bringing Research into Early Years" with @juliangrenier.bsky.social. Previously head of a prestigious nursery, now working with @theeef.bsky.social Find out more: loom.ly/ph8KmjQ
- Final film in the Tower Hamlets Resisting the Far Right series - The Great Dictator. I’ve never seen Chaplin’s masterpiece before - what a film! And incredible to watch it at the Genesis cinema, once the site of a musical venue Chaplin performed in.
- New EEF blog about using Concept Cat in early years - fun, simple sessions that made a real difference: Key findings: 📈 +2 months’ additional progress in conceptual vocabulary 📈 +3 months for EYPP-eligible pupils 📈 +2 months in early numeracy educationendowmentfoundation.org.uk/news/concept...
- Fourth film in the powerful Resisting the Far Right festival at Genesis cinema in Tower Hamlets. This evening it’s The Confirmist.
- London looks so beautiful on December evenings
- GOOGLE MAPS: We removed your post because it contains explicit content ME: 👀
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- How can we create a collaborative 'third space' where research and practice inform each other? My new blog with Prof Lynn Ang @ucl.ac.uk explains the back-and-forward moves which led to developing the ShREC approach to support children's early education. juliangrenier.blogspot.com/2025/12/brid...
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- Getting Christmassy 🌲
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- Loved Blue Moon. Ethan Hawke is great … and Margaret Qualley simply extraordinary. Moving, slow-burning and brilliantly done.
- My LinkedIn newsletter is out: 5 big early years research stories 📌 Babies’ screen time 📌 Boys: starting behind, staying behind? 📌 Progress toward the government’s early years target 📌 Do interactive e-books help comprehension? 📌 Bonuses didn’t fix staff shortages www.linkedin.com/newsletters/...
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- Love librarians! Fabulous Christmas Tree of books at Bethnal Green Library.
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- 'Are EHCPs really driving the SEND crisis?' Excellent, thoughtful piece from Margaret Mulholland in TES @tesmagazine.bsky.social www.tes.com/magazine/ana...
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- Loving this Japanese Christmas vibe even though it’s still November. A Santa Claus kokeshi doll with a very miniature Christmas tree
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- Autumn colours still so beautiful… looking onto the back of Young V&A in Bethnal Green East London
- Reposted by Dr Julian Grenier CBEProud of the wide support the Curriculum and Assessment Review has attracted from across the educational spectrum. Labour wants to set up our children for tomorrow. The work of @beckyfrancis.bsky.social and colleagues is an essential step forward in securing standards and opportunity.
- Reposted by Dr Julian Grenier CBEGreat to have Tim Oates' wisdom in the Telegraph www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/11...
- Miel is the best bakery and cafe. Heavenly little spot on Warren St in London’s west end.
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- Love the new V&A museum building in Stratford- can’t wait for it to open!
- Out now: Early Years High 5 1️⃣ Screentime & socioemotional difficulties in childhood 2️⃣ Motor skills in infancy predict child behavioural health 3️⃣ Baby rooms in nurseries 4️⃣ 290,000 disadvantaged young children miss free meals 5️⃣ Benefits of e-storybook reading www.linkedin.com/pulse/early-...
- 📣𝗘𝗮𝗿𝗹𝘆 𝗬𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘀 𝗛𝗶𝗴𝗵 𝟱: 𝗯𝗶𝗴 𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗮𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝟱 𝘀𝗵𝗼𝗿𝘁 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱𝘀 𝗘𝗱𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝟭𝟲 𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝘀𝗼𝗼𝗻 Please sign up to receive the next edition of my monthly newsletter on LinkedIn - and please share with anyone else who might be interested. lnkd.in/efvjQsVu
- Sturdy-looking fox crossing the path and trotting away in Kew Gardens
- Autumn colours still beautiful in Kew Gardens
- This is such a powerful, thoughtful and personal piece. But also manages to be practical about how we might respond to the rhetoric of high expectations. Please read it. It’s excellent alexquigley.co.uk/what-do-we-m...
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- Today’s essential read - @beckyfrancis.bsky.social reflects on the curriculum and assessment review ⤵️ www.tes.com/magazine/ana...
- Early years attendance sets the stage for lifelong learning and friendships. But the latest EPI data is worrying: absence is rising, espec for children from disadvantaged backgrounds. Find out how to make a difference in this new EEF blog: educationendowmentfoundation.org.uk/news/attenda...
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- Reposted by Dr Julian Grenier CBERead this thread if you are unsure what DLD (Developmental Language Disorder) is #DevLangDis
- #DLDday is coming, so I’m starting a thread over a few days. DLD (Developmental Language Disorder) is all about spoken language. Words and sentences are tricky for people with DLD. And people don’t grow out of it. #DevLangDis @radld.bsky.social
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- 🖥️𝗦𝘁𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗴𝗶𝗰 𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗹𝘆 𝘆𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝘀𝗰𝗵𝗼𝗼𝗹: 𝗘𝗘𝗙 𝘀𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗲𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 Thanks to everyone who's got in touch asking where they can watch the recording of the webinar which I delivered for EEF. It's on the DFE's YouTube channel ⤵️ 🔗https://youtu.be/sKsmj0VWG2U?si=VHTjO9aa5m8-8Jnl
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- Thought-provoking evening with Stephen Pinker and James Harding at @theobserveruk.bsky.social Concluding with Philip K Dick - ‘Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away’
- From @tesmagazine.bsky.social - the 10 boroughs with biggest falls in primary school numbers over last 5 years. This is hitting London really hard. www.tes.com/magazine/new...
- Spectacular Rustgill mushrooms in Epping Forest today
- My newsletter Early Years High 5 is out now 1 Half of children on FSM aren’t ‘school ready’ 2 Teaching assistants feel undervalued 3 Age matters in EYFS data 4 What can England learn from global SEND policy? 5 Where should the next 400 Family Hubs go? 📩 Read more: www.linkedin.com/newsletters/...
- Pleased, and a little surprised, that this book has been downloaded over 200,000 times as a free PDF. That's just a number. What matters is how colleagues are using these ideas to make a difference for children and families. Thank you for reading, sharing and discussing. development-matters.org.uk
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- It’s more than a worthy successor to the brilliant previous 3 volumes of diaries - definitely recommended reading.
- Leading in early years shapes everything: children's care, learning and outcomes. I'm running a free webinar for the DFE on Wednesday 24th September 4-5pm Strategic Leadership of the early years in school: EEF shares the evidence Sign up here: ⤵️ www.eventbrite.com/e/strategic-...
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- My companion on the Central Line across London, from Bethnal Green to White City. Like being in the company of an old friend: wise, sometimes provocative, always thoughtful and humane @chrismullinexmp.bsky.social
- Out in November: the comprehensively revised and updated 2nd edition of Putting the EYFS Curriculum into Practice uk.sagepub.com/en-gb/eur/pu...
- Thought provoking and insightful piece in today’s @tesmagazine.bsky.social - what can we learn from international comparisons around inclusion and SEND/Special Education? www.tes.com/magazine/tea...
- How it’s going? Slightly sad to see this in Boots ⤵️
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- 📣𝗘𝗮𝗿𝗹𝘆 𝘆𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘀 𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲: 𝗯𝗶𝗴 𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗮𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝟱 𝘀𝗵𝗼𝗿𝘁 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱𝘀 Check out the lastest edition of my free monthly newsletter on Linkedin www.linkedin.com/build-relati...
