Best practice features:
- Award-winning journalist Gabriella Jozwiak brings us an exclusive report from Ukraine on how the war is affecting young children and early years provision where it is still open (with a longer version online)
- Hot on the heels of the ratios debate, UCL Emeritus professor Peter Moss asks if we can really compare the UK’s childcare market to that of Sweden’s
- What is the legacy of the pandemic? Julian Grenier examines a recent report and its practical implications
- We examine how Covid-19 has affected parents’ expectations about routines and how this plays out in early years settings
- Jan White’s series on outdoors provision looks at how to harness the uniqueness of outdoor play
- How to apply the philosophy of Maria Montessori through resources
- Health and nutrition: An accreditation programme in Birmingham is delivering results when it comes to supporting children to eat healthily and do more exercise
Activities:
In our Outdoor Calendar of activities, Julie Mountain looks at ways of rejigging your setting over the summer… in her SEND series Georgina Durrant looks at ways to ease transitions.…we look at a project which took children to dragon school for the day… Shardi Vaziri looks at some of the more unusual applications for loose-parts play such as water, Boogie Mites share tips on making music outdoors
Special report:
Management:
- Do early years settings really need to protect themselves from cyber attacks? Yes, finds Annette Rawstrone
- In part three of a series on integrating nurseries into a group, Charlotte Goddard looks at how to reassure parents after a takeover
- Childcare counsel: dealing with long Covid
- Manager’s problem page: How to get reluctant staff to enjoy being outside
Analysis:
Our exclusive report on a move from 70 nurseries to take legal action over failure of insurers to pay out due to Covid closures, with plans to take broker Pound Gates to court
Opinion:
Sarah Mackenzie on honesty and Julian Grenier on dealing with heat
Interview: Nursery World talks to Sue Egersdorrf and Liz Ludden about their role in the setting up of a fully integrated nursery in the new Belong Care Village, in Chester.
Poster:
In the final part of our ‘people who help us’ series, the theme is housing. Next month: a new series on light