Welcome to Inspired EC

With an attitude of growth, fun and connection, Inspired EC has evolved into an organisation that works closely with educators and services around Australia and internationally, providing training, resources, consultancy services and much more.

The Inspired EC Blog

  • It's raining, it's pouring... but we're going outside anyway!

    by Nicole Halton

    "I hate rainy days when we get stuck inside and the children go wild." 

    I have lost count of the number of times over my two decades in early childhood, that I have heard some version of this sentiment. For the first couple of years, I said it myself - many times. 

    Posted in joy, mud, nature, outdoors, pedagogy, play, reflective practice, weather

  • How to Embrace Rainy Day Play

    by Nicole Halton
    Yesterday morning I sat at my desk watching the kookaburras and the magpies forage in the grass - the incessant rain having bought worms to the surface. And then I spotted her. A child of about three stepped across the soggy grass, her gumboots squelching, toward the birds.
    Posted in nature, outdoors, pedagogy, play, weather