We have a Christmas cracker of a December issue, with a look at innovative community-focused alternatives to nativity, a special report on early years education in Lebanon and an exclusive profile of Gruffalo author and former laureate Julia Donaldson.
Practice features include:
- How forward thinking settings are choosing nature and community over commercialisation this Christmas
- Julia Donaldson on her writing demons and how the Gruffalo came to life
- The harsh realities facing the early years sector in Lebanon, whose Government aims to offer early years education to all children including refugees
- Doing gardening well with children from Nursery World award winner The Children’s Kitchen
- How to equip for principles devised by modern pioneer David Sobel in outdoor play
- How children’s knowledge of the world was enhanced through a project to exchange cards with children in Ukraine
- Professor Jan White considers having a clear vision and how to get there in the last instalment of her series on the outdoors
- A special report on SENCOs
Our activities section highlights:
- Julie Mountain’s outdoor calendar includes temporary canvases and activities with evergreens
- Our enhancements series looks at winning ways with displays
- How a setting made ‘virtual visits’ in order to investigate farm life and food production
- Using chairs for physical development
- The final instalment of Boogie Mites’ series on music, with a community engagement focus
Management
- The final part of our leadership qualifications series looks at tailored CPD
- Will proposed changes to the funding formula do anything to resolve the funding crisis?
- Managers panel: what can managers cdo to support a member of staff who is on antidepressants?
Analysis
Welcome nurseries debts revealed in documents published by their administrators
Opinion
- Professor David J Ball on risk management
- Regular columnist Sarah Mackenzie on Christmas on a shoestring
And there's an A2 activity poster in our series on festive lights, marking the end of our series on exploring light. Next month’s poster: a calendar of the outdoors for 2023
All the content in the December issue is available online and fully accessible to subscribers.
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