Rachel MacBeth: 'I used to be really bad at delegating, but I'm better at that now'
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‘I’ve been manager of Beatle Woods for six years now and love it. The whole outdoor nursery idea came about by accident after I lost my dad in 2016. At the time, I was the manager of a pack-away nursery, and I really enjoyed working there, but it just seemed like the right time to do something different. I just happened to drive by this piece of land and thought it could make a great learning environment. I really wanted to get children outside to experience the natural world and explore through unstructured play, to support my vision of what an early years environment should look like – uninterrupted and unrushed.
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