Planning and documenting with and for children can be complex and often overwhelming when trying to ensure it remains authentic, meaningful, and truly captures children’s voices. Learn from Dr Claire Warden, the originator of the Thinking and Talking Floorbooks approach, as she shares practical and inspiring strategies to make documentation more meaningful, manageable and inclusive of children’s thinking.

Claire will guide you through the rich possibilities of working with Floorbooks™, weaving together the principles of nature pedagogy and collaborative practices. Through real examples and practical insights, you will explore how to make children’s thinking visible, how to plan responsively, and how to create documentation that grows organically from children’s questions, ideas, and encounters with the world around them—while strengthening your planning through reflective, child-centred approaches.

What to expect:

• For Beginners: A welcoming introduction to the foundations of Thinking and Talking Floorbooks™, including key tools like PLODS™ and TALKING TUBS™
• For Experienced Users: Deeper insights into collaborative documentation, strengthening the child's voice and connection to the natural world.
• For Everyone: Real examples, practical tools, and a fresh approach to documentation that values curiosity, thinking, and shared inquiry.

Whether you are new to Floorbooks™ or looking to deepen your existing practice, you will gain clarity, practical tools and confidence to document learning in ways that honour children's voices—through a method now explicitly referenced in EYLF V2.0.

Walk away inspired to document with clarity and confidence—through the lens of nature, relationships and the original voice behind Floorbooks™ — where authentic collaboration takes centre stage.