Eyepet Excitement

Got a wee plot up my sleeve for a trial of eyepets in one of our standalone  nurseries. Looking forward to getting my hands on the eyepet when it arrives with the ps3s this weekend! Here’s a brief overview of our wee baby trial.

Aims

• To raise awareness of games based learning approaches
• To develop innovative contexts for an interdisciplinary focus
• To enhance consultation approaches with children, parents/carers and staff related to planning learning experiences
• To provide depth and breadth of learning in literacy, with a focus on emergent writing
• To further develop partnership with parents/carers which impacts positively on children’s learning
• To facilitate transition development work for pre-school children

 What we will do

• The early years staff and home school partnership worker involved will be trained in the use of PS3 Eyepet
• Consultation around a focus planner using Eyepet will be completed and documented (this will identify experiences related to literacy in particular emergent writing)
• Evaluations, observation, assessment will be documented as an exemplar for future development work
• Parent workshops will be organised by the home school partnership worker to look at the possibilities of games based learning in the home to enhance learning
• Parent prompts will be developed around a variety of games based learning programmes
• Early years advice and banks of ideas will be prepared to assist in future use of Eyepet
• A follow up transition programme will be developed with a link primary school, using the Eyepet to ensure enhanced bridging across the stages
• Dissemination of the project will take place at the area early years forum
• All EY Area establishments will be invited to a GBL awareness raising session March 2010 with consolarium input