Froebel Trust
@froebeltrust.bsky.social
Froebel Trust is a charity which supports early education and funds research into children’s learning from birth to eight years. Find out more at froebel.org.uk
To mark the launch of our latest pamphlet, Singing with Young Children, by Paula Lester, we’re hosting a FREE webinar – and you’re invited! 🎉
Join us on Tuesday 2nd December at 7pm GMT with Paula as she explores practice examples of how singing can be used to inspire and teach young children. 🎶
Join us on Tuesday 2nd December at 7pm GMT with Paula as she explores practice examples of how singing can be used to inspire and teach young children. 🎶
November 10, 2025 at 7:00 PM
To mark the launch of our latest pamphlet, Singing with Young Children, by Paula Lester, we’re hosting a FREE webinar – and you’re invited! 🎉
Join us on Tuesday 2nd December at 7pm GMT with Paula as she explores practice examples of how singing can be used to inspire and teach young children. 🎶
Join us on Tuesday 2nd December at 7pm GMT with Paula as she explores practice examples of how singing can be used to inspire and teach young children. 🎶
We’re looking forward to learning more about all things Froebel at today’s Gifts for Our Future 14: Being and Belonging conference! 🌿
This sold-out event will feature a series of keynote speakers and workshops with leading Froebelian educators.
This sold-out event will feature a series of keynote speakers and workshops with leading Froebelian educators.
November 8, 2025 at 9:30 AM
We’re looking forward to learning more about all things Froebel at today’s Gifts for Our Future 14: Being and Belonging conference! 🌿
This sold-out event will feature a series of keynote speakers and workshops with leading Froebelian educators.
This sold-out event will feature a series of keynote speakers and workshops with leading Froebelian educators.
Last month over 650 people across the globe joined our Autumn Lecture to hear our guest speaker, Jane Clarke, who explored the legacy of City and Country School in New York and its founder, Caroline Pratt. 🤩
November 7, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Last month over 650 people across the globe joined our Autumn Lecture to hear our guest speaker, Jane Clarke, who explored the legacy of City and Country School in New York and its founder, Caroline Pratt. 🤩
New resource! 🚨 The latest title in our Froebel Trust pamphlet series, Singing with Young Children is out now!
The new edition by Paula Lester, explores how children can be supported in their learning and development in early years settings and in the home, with the use of songs and rhymes. 🎶
The new edition by Paula Lester, explores how children can be supported in their learning and development in early years settings and in the home, with the use of songs and rhymes. 🎶
November 6, 2025 at 11:45 AM
New resource! 🚨 The latest title in our Froebel Trust pamphlet series, Singing with Young Children is out now!
The new edition by Paula Lester, explores how children can be supported in their learning and development in early years settings and in the home, with the use of songs and rhymes. 🎶
The new edition by Paula Lester, explores how children can be supported in their learning and development in early years settings and in the home, with the use of songs and rhymes. 🎶
Calling all educators in the early years sector, your insight is needed! 📣
The Early Years Coalition is wanting you to share your views to shape the new edition of Birth to 5 Matters. They want to know…
👶 How Birth to 5 Matters is being used in practice
👍 What works well
💡 What could be improved
The Early Years Coalition is wanting you to share your views to shape the new edition of Birth to 5 Matters. They want to know…
👶 How Birth to 5 Matters is being used in practice
👍 What works well
💡 What could be improved
November 4, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Calling all educators in the early years sector, your insight is needed! 📣
The Early Years Coalition is wanting you to share your views to shape the new edition of Birth to 5 Matters. They want to know…
👶 How Birth to 5 Matters is being used in practice
👍 What works well
💡 What could be improved
The Early Years Coalition is wanting you to share your views to shape the new edition of Birth to 5 Matters. They want to know…
👶 How Birth to 5 Matters is being used in practice
👍 What works well
💡 What could be improved
Celebrate and learn at the Block Play Today event, hosted by the Cornwall Froebel Network as they mark the launch of the network. 🤩
📅 Monday 3 November
📍 Truro Nursery School, Cornwall
🕔 4pm to 5.15pm
📅 Monday 3 November
📍 Truro Nursery School, Cornwall
🕔 4pm to 5.15pm
October 29, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Celebrate and learn at the Block Play Today event, hosted by the Cornwall Froebel Network as they mark the launch of the network. 🤩
📅 Monday 3 November
📍 Truro Nursery School, Cornwall
🕔 4pm to 5.15pm
📅 Monday 3 November
📍 Truro Nursery School, Cornwall
🕔 4pm to 5.15pm
Calling all Froebel Trust Alumni Network members! A free online event, especially for you is coming soon 📣
On Monday 10 November at 7pm, @froebelpartnership.bsky.social will be presenting their Reflection with Guidance toolkit – a Froebel Trust funded professional development package for educators.
On Monday 10 November at 7pm, @froebelpartnership.bsky.social will be presenting their Reflection with Guidance toolkit – a Froebel Trust funded professional development package for educators.
October 27, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Calling all Froebel Trust Alumni Network members! A free online event, especially for you is coming soon 📣
On Monday 10 November at 7pm, @froebelpartnership.bsky.social will be presenting their Reflection with Guidance toolkit – a Froebel Trust funded professional development package for educators.
On Monday 10 November at 7pm, @froebelpartnership.bsky.social will be presenting their Reflection with Guidance toolkit – a Froebel Trust funded professional development package for educators.
We’re hiring! 🎉
Right now, we’re looking to fill three fixed-termed research positions to support the creation of themed research insight publications and the evaluation of the Froebel Trust courses. We’re seeking to hire…
Right now, we’re looking to fill three fixed-termed research positions to support the creation of themed research insight publications and the evaluation of the Froebel Trust courses. We’re seeking to hire…
October 20, 2025 at 11:00 AM
We’re hiring! 🎉
Right now, we’re looking to fill three fixed-termed research positions to support the creation of themed research insight publications and the evaluation of the Froebel Trust courses. We’re seeking to hire…
Right now, we’re looking to fill three fixed-termed research positions to support the creation of themed research insight publications and the evaluation of the Froebel Trust courses. We’re seeking to hire…
The countdown is on for the Gifts for Our Future 14: Being and Belonging conference!
On the day we’ll be joined by many speakers, including Simon Bateson who will be delivering a powerful workshop that looks at anti-racism and decolonisation through a Froebelian lens.
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On the day we’ll be joined by many speakers, including Simon Bateson who will be delivering a powerful workshop that looks at anti-racism and decolonisation through a Froebelian lens.
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October 17, 2025 at 9:03 AM
The countdown is on for the Gifts for Our Future 14: Being and Belonging conference!
On the day we’ll be joined by many speakers, including Simon Bateson who will be delivering a powerful workshop that looks at anti-racism and decolonisation through a Froebelian lens.
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On the day we’ll be joined by many speakers, including Simon Bateson who will be delivering a powerful workshop that looks at anti-racism and decolonisation through a Froebelian lens.
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Our Autumn Lecture, Block by Block: Building confidence, resilience and a sense of responsibility in young children with Jane Clarke is now available online! 🎉
View the recording and hear from our guest speaker, Jane who has over 40 years' experience in early childhood teaching.
View the recording and hear from our guest speaker, Jane who has over 40 years' experience in early childhood teaching.
October 16, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Our Autumn Lecture, Block by Block: Building confidence, resilience and a sense of responsibility in young children with Jane Clarke is now available online! 🎉
View the recording and hear from our guest speaker, Jane who has over 40 years' experience in early childhood teaching.
View the recording and hear from our guest speaker, Jane who has over 40 years' experience in early childhood teaching.
🔎 Resource spotlight: Nurturing relationships in nursery settings 🧒
As educators we know the importance of building emotional attachments, but what does that mean in practice?
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As educators we know the importance of building emotional attachments, but what does that mean in practice?
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October 13, 2025 at 8:15 AM
🔎 Resource spotlight: Nurturing relationships in nursery settings 🧒
As educators we know the importance of building emotional attachments, but what does that mean in practice?
(1/3)
As educators we know the importance of building emotional attachments, but what does that mean in practice?
(1/3)
Foundation Years, the digital resource for everything early years in England, has featured Froebel among its key resources for educators. 🤩
Froebel Trust Short Courses Director, Dr Stella Louis wrote a blog, A Foundation for Play-based Learning.
Froebel Trust Short Courses Director, Dr Stella Louis wrote a blog, A Foundation for Play-based Learning.
October 10, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Foundation Years, the digital resource for everything early years in England, has featured Froebel among its key resources for educators. 🤩
Froebel Trust Short Courses Director, Dr Stella Louis wrote a blog, A Foundation for Play-based Learning.
Froebel Trust Short Courses Director, Dr Stella Louis wrote a blog, A Foundation for Play-based Learning.
This month, the @newyorker.com shared this fantastic front cover featuring free play! 🤩
“Play is the highest expression of human development in childhood for it alone is the free expression of what is in a child’s soul,” – Friedrich Froebel
“Play is the highest expression of human development in childhood for it alone is the free expression of what is in a child’s soul,” – Friedrich Froebel
October 9, 2025 at 12:15 PM
This month, the @newyorker.com shared this fantastic front cover featuring free play! 🤩
“Play is the highest expression of human development in childhood for it alone is the free expression of what is in a child’s soul,” – Friedrich Froebel
“Play is the highest expression of human development in childhood for it alone is the free expression of what is in a child’s soul,” – Friedrich Froebel
Want to learn more about slow pedagogy? Join the Edinburgh Froebel Network and Froebel Trust at the Gifts for Our Future 14: Being and Belonging conference.
📅 Saturday 8 November
📍 John McIntyre Centre, Edinburgh
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📅 Saturday 8 November
📍 John McIntyre Centre, Edinburgh
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October 8, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Want to learn more about slow pedagogy? Join the Edinburgh Froebel Network and Froebel Trust at the Gifts for Our Future 14: Being and Belonging conference.
📅 Saturday 8 November
📍 John McIntyre Centre, Edinburgh
(1/3)
📅 Saturday 8 November
📍 John McIntyre Centre, Edinburgh
(1/3)
Thank you to everyone who attended our Annual Lecture this evening! If you’re feeling inspired by Jane Clarke’s speech and want to introduce block play and Froebelian principles into your setting, download our free pamphlet Froebel’s gifts and block play today!
October 7, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Thank you to everyone who attended our Annual Lecture this evening! If you’re feeling inspired by Jane Clarke’s speech and want to introduce block play and Froebelian principles into your setting, download our free pamphlet Froebel’s gifts and block play today!
It was fantastic to see the importance of teaching woodwork in schools throughout history highlighted in our autumn lecture this evening.
October 7, 2025 at 6:45 PM
It was fantastic to see the importance of teaching woodwork in schools throughout history highlighted in our autumn lecture this evening.
Check out this wonderful image from the City and Country School archive showing children engaging in uninterrupted play through the use of blocks from 1951. Next to it is a more contemporary image of a 4 year old at the woodwork bench.
October 7, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Check out this wonderful image from the City and Country School archive showing children engaging in uninterrupted play through the use of blocks from 1951. Next to it is a more contemporary image of a 4 year old at the woodwork bench.
We’re looking forward to seeing everyone at our Annual Lecture tonight with guest speaker, Jane Clarke – a progressive educator with over 40 years’ experience of specialising in early childhood teaching. 🤩
Let us know what you’re most looking forward to ⬇️
#FroebelianPrinciples #FroebelianEducation
Let us know what you’re most looking forward to ⬇️
#FroebelianPrinciples #FroebelianEducation
October 7, 2025 at 9:15 AM
We’re looking forward to seeing everyone at our Annual Lecture tonight with guest speaker, Jane Clarke – a progressive educator with over 40 years’ experience of specialising in early childhood teaching. 🤩
Let us know what you’re most looking forward to ⬇️
#FroebelianPrinciples #FroebelianEducation
Let us know what you’re most looking forward to ⬇️
#FroebelianPrinciples #FroebelianEducation
Time is running out to get your tickets to the Froebel Trust annual lecture on block play! 💥
It will be presented by guest speaker Jane Clarke, former head of early years at the City and Country School in New York - the birthplace of Unit Blocks, invented by the school's founder, Caroline Pratt.
It will be presented by guest speaker Jane Clarke, former head of early years at the City and Country School in New York - the birthplace of Unit Blocks, invented by the school's founder, Caroline Pratt.
October 3, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Time is running out to get your tickets to the Froebel Trust annual lecture on block play! 💥
It will be presented by guest speaker Jane Clarke, former head of early years at the City and Country School in New York - the birthplace of Unit Blocks, invented by the school's founder, Caroline Pratt.
It will be presented by guest speaker Jane Clarke, former head of early years at the City and Country School in New York - the birthplace of Unit Blocks, invented by the school's founder, Caroline Pratt.
“I just don’t think you can do your job as an educator if you don’t spend the time to get to know the children, because that’s where you’re teaching from,” - Rachna Joshi
October 1, 2025 at 8:31 AM
“I just don’t think you can do your job as an educator if you don’t spend the time to get to know the children, because that’s where you’re teaching from,” - Rachna Joshi
Join Rachna Joshi, Early Years Educator and Writer at the Gifts for Our Future 14: Being and Belonging this November!
📅 Saturday 8 November
🕘 9.30am - 4pm
📍 John McIntyre Centre
Rachna will talk about identity, relationships and the wider world through a Froebelian frame.
📅 Saturday 8 November
🕘 9.30am - 4pm
📍 John McIntyre Centre
Rachna will talk about identity, relationships and the wider world through a Froebelian frame.
September 25, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Join Rachna Joshi, Early Years Educator and Writer at the Gifts for Our Future 14: Being and Belonging this November!
📅 Saturday 8 November
🕘 9.30am - 4pm
📍 John McIntyre Centre
Rachna will talk about identity, relationships and the wider world through a Froebelian frame.
📅 Saturday 8 November
🕘 9.30am - 4pm
📍 John McIntyre Centre
Rachna will talk about identity, relationships and the wider world through a Froebelian frame.
“You have to really know your families in order to be able to connect with them in any way whatsoever. It has to be real. It has to be meaningful,” – Holli Williams
September 22, 2025 at 11:11 AM
“You have to really know your families in order to be able to connect with them in any way whatsoever. It has to be real. It has to be meaningful,” – Holli Williams
Froebel meets Ofsted: what makes an Outstanding nursery? 💡
At our 2023 conference, Susana Castro-Kemp shared her Froebel Trust funded study, ‘What makes a nursery Outstanding?’
The study explores whether Ofsted inspectors value Froebelian principles and making a case for inspection guidelines.1/2
At our 2023 conference, Susana Castro-Kemp shared her Froebel Trust funded study, ‘What makes a nursery Outstanding?’
The study explores whether Ofsted inspectors value Froebelian principles and making a case for inspection guidelines.1/2
September 22, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Froebel meets Ofsted: what makes an Outstanding nursery? 💡
At our 2023 conference, Susana Castro-Kemp shared her Froebel Trust funded study, ‘What makes a nursery Outstanding?’
The study explores whether Ofsted inspectors value Froebelian principles and making a case for inspection guidelines.1/2
At our 2023 conference, Susana Castro-Kemp shared her Froebel Trust funded study, ‘What makes a nursery Outstanding?’
The study explores whether Ofsted inspectors value Froebelian principles and making a case for inspection guidelines.1/2
Could you help with a Doctoral research project? 🧐
A PhD student based at the University of Cambridge is looking to interview Froebel trained nursery teachers who completed their studies at Froebel College between 1945 to 1999 as part of their Doctoral research. ✨ (1/2)
A PhD student based at the University of Cambridge is looking to interview Froebel trained nursery teachers who completed their studies at Froebel College between 1945 to 1999 as part of their Doctoral research. ✨ (1/2)
September 17, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Could you help with a Doctoral research project? 🧐
A PhD student based at the University of Cambridge is looking to interview Froebel trained nursery teachers who completed their studies at Froebel College between 1945 to 1999 as part of their Doctoral research. ✨ (1/2)
A PhD student based at the University of Cambridge is looking to interview Froebel trained nursery teachers who completed their studies at Froebel College between 1945 to 1999 as part of their Doctoral research. ✨ (1/2)
Enjoy a powerful exploration of inclusion and belonging through a Froebelian lens with Catriona Gill!
As our settings become increasingly diverse and the needs of our children increase, here is your chance to learn how a Froebelian approach can help us to deeply see each child for who they are.
As our settings become increasingly diverse and the needs of our children increase, here is your chance to learn how a Froebelian approach can help us to deeply see each child for who they are.
September 11, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Enjoy a powerful exploration of inclusion and belonging through a Froebelian lens with Catriona Gill!
As our settings become increasingly diverse and the needs of our children increase, here is your chance to learn how a Froebelian approach can help us to deeply see each child for who they are.
As our settings become increasingly diverse and the needs of our children increase, here is your chance to learn how a Froebelian approach can help us to deeply see each child for who they are.