by Richard Duddy | 4 June, 2015 | Childcare |
As many as one in ten children in the UK have speech, language and communication needs. We asked Christina Upjohn, Special Educational Coordinator at the Rainbow Smiles nursery, how practitioners can encourage the development of language in a child with delayed...
by Richard Duddy | 26 May, 2015 | Business, Childcare, Nursery management |
Following Heather’s recent post on the benefits of carrying out a research project in an early years setting, I asked her to put together some more tips to help you get started. Heather wanted to make it clear that quality is an on-going process and that by the...
by Heather Stallard | 19 May, 2015 | Childcare, Nursery management |
One of the more fun parts of a childcare-related MA degree is the research, especially when it involves a nursery setting that you work in. The focus of my latest study has been reflective practice. It’s a subject I have discussed before and it’s something that I...
by Heather Stallard | 23 April, 2015 | Childcare, Nursery management |
Although we work in a primarily play-based environment, sometimes our activities and our days can lack lustre and excitement. You can feel it when your team has almost run out of enthusiasm and you can see some of the same ideas being reworked. Recently, I’ve been...
by Richard Duddy | 16 April, 2015 | Business, Childcare, Nursery management |
When you get excited, you sometimes do things without thinking about the consequences. It’s quite possible that such a scenario led to David Cameron’s surprise pledge to increase free childcare hours for three to four-year-olds. We are, after all, in the midst of...
by Heather Stallard | 2 April, 2015 | Business, Childcare, Nursery management |
The current hot topic on the Government’s agenda is the Early Years Pupil Premium (EYPP): an additional amount of money that is intended to support our most “at risk” 3–4 year olds. At first glance, it appears that the Government have finally listened to the outcry of...
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