This week, there's a wonderful eight-page pull-out guide to children's spirituality, a much-neglected subject, written by renowned early years expert Marion Dowling. The pace and style of modern life mean that aspects such as spirituality do not get the attention they deserve. Marion shows why and how this should be fostered (pages 17-24).
There's more emotional and physical nourishment on display as we go down to the woods to visit one playgroup's forest school. It was pouring down with rain when the photographs were taken, but they show just how much young children enjoy this kind of experience in any weather ('Woodland ways', pages 14-15).
England's children's commissioner Al Aynsley-Green has just taken up his new post, and he tells Nursery World about why he has taken on the job and his priorities for making children's voices heard (Special Report, pages 10-11).
All this, plus a free poster and a great reader offer, makes Nursery World, this week and every week, unmissable for early years and childcare professionals.
Liz Roberts, editor