If you had £500 to spend on resources to promote talking (ECAT) in your setting what would you spend it on?

Communication friendly spaces stuff from Elizabeth Jarman.

I met her she's an ace lady and has some very good (but quite expensive) resources I would love :D

storysacks? puppets?

They have some nice stuff on the tts website. I like the talking tubes and the phones where you listen to yourself talking. Also the recordable photo albums look good. :thumbsup: Wow, £500 I would really enjoy spending that, I just got the book 'a place to talk at my childminders' so going to sit and read it tonight for inspiration. :D

Some nice ideas here

http://www.tts-group.co.uk/shops/tts/Catalogue.aspx?nguid=1a7adfc8-651d-441e-9d34-db061330060b

Miffy xx

tent and soft mats for a good outdoor quite / story area, nice in summer for circle time outdoors and bring indoors for winter,

some new books, story sacks, small world play,

lucky you xxx

I'm very jealous - I did ECAT & we got the Elizabeth Jamrman book...that I already had!:rolleyes:

I've decided not to encourage any talking with future mindees, my lot are all too fluent with their speech:D Never get a quiet moment:laughing: :laughing:

When I did Ecat we were given tuff cams/microphones/talking photo albums/talking post cards/finger puppets+books :clapping: :clapping:

I have just spent a £300 grant on the Elizabeth Jarman site:thumbsup:

I've decided not to encourage any talking with future mindees, my lot are all too fluent with their speech:D Never get a quiet moment:laughing: :laughing:

:laughing: :laughing: :laughing: could we get away with that?????? Wonder what ofsted's view would be! :laughing: :laughing:

Communication friendly spaces stuff from Elizabeth Jarman.

I met her she's an ace lady and has some very good (but quite expensive) resources I would love :D

She's talking at my local childminding conference this year. :)