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Arriving at the Brewery
Host Anna Williamson
OK Worldwide entertain
Editor Liz Roberts gives the welcome
Charity partner Home-Start
NURSERY OF THE YEAR
Winner
- Dandelion Education, Norfolk with chief judge Wendy Scott (sponsored by childcare.co.uk)
Highly commended
- Dukes and Duchesses Nursery and Forest School, Liverpool
- Little Forest Folk, London
Finalists
- Little Green Rascals Organic Day Nursery, York
- Little Jungle Nursery, London
PRE-SCHOOL OF THE YEAR
Winner
- Nature to Nurture, Liverpool , with sponsor Chris Marston, The Consortium early years
Highly commended
- Little Marlow Pre-School, Marlow
Finalists
- Kings Preschool, Byfleet
- Noah’s Ark Playgroup, Northampton
NURSERY GROUP OF THE YEAR
Winner
- Kids Allowed, with sponsor Courteney Donaldson of Christie & Co
Highly commended
- The Cheshire Day Nursery Group
Finalists
- Cranley Nurseries
- Happy Days Nurseries
- Kids Planet Day Nurseries
- Mon Ami Children’s Nurseries
NURSERY MANAGER OF THE YEAR
Joint Winners
- Anjali Deb-Mukherjee, LEYF House of Commons Nursery with Purnima Tanuku of NDNA
- Karen Duff, Tiny Toez@Cannock Chase
Highly commended
- Joan Jobe, Kings Park Nursery, Portico Nursery Group
Finalists
- Amy Devine, Holyrood Astley, Bertram Nursery Group
- Rachael Richards, The Cheshire Day Nursery@Winwick
NURSERY OPERATIONS/REGIONAL MANAGER OF THE YEAR
Winner
- Sarah Fillingham, Portico Nursery Group, with Dr Jo Verrill of Ceeda
Finalists
- Nicola Hood, Children’s Corner Childcare
- Gemma Hughes, Just Childcare
- Kristina Johnson, Mon Ami Children’s Nurseries
EARLY YEARS TEACHER OF THE YEAR
Winner
- Katie Walmsley, The Poppins Family, Blackburn, with sponsor Steve Thomas of Prospect Union
Finalist
- Alexandra Chiorando, Elmscot Group, Timperley
NURSERY PRACTITIONER OF THE YEAR
Winner
- Lucy Jakeways, Busy Bees Nursery, Kettering, with Sue Robb of Action for Children
Highly commended
- Ami Mahon, Elmscot Day Nursery, Timperley
Finalists
- Nicole Kingston, Dizzy Ducks Day Nurseries, Essex
- Chris Withington, Kiddi Caru Day Nursery, Torquay
NEWCOMER OF THE YEAR
Winner
- Kate Morris, Dukes and Duchesses, Liverpool, with Catriona Nason of NEyTCO
Highly commended
- Abbie Hendry, Rainbow Corner Nursery School, Southsea
Finalists
- Liam Bartlett, Little Forest Folk, London
- David Trillo, Little Forest Folk, London
TRAINER OF THE YEAR
Winner
- Marie Richardson, Experiential Play, with sponsor Julie Hyde of CACHE
Highly commended
- Rebecca Martland and Alison Featherbe, Minding the Gap
- Sue Nichols, Professional Training Solutions
CHILDMINDER OF THE YEAR
Winner
- Jane Fisher, Jane Fisher Childminding, South Woodham Ferrers, with Jane Comeau of PACEY (sponsored by childcare.co.uk)
OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTION
Winner
- Janet Ward, Holmsdale Manor Nursery, Ibstock, with Penny Tassoni
Highly commended
- Elaine Mercer, St Albans Pre-School
WORKING WITH PARENTS
Winner
- Midlothian Sure Start, with Dr Jools Page
Finalists
- #Get Balsall Heath Reading, St Paul’s Community Development Trust
- Time 2 Engage, Marner Primary School
INCLUSIVE PRACTICE
Winner
- Elmscot Day Nursery, Timperley, with sponsor Dr Adam Boddison of nasen
Finalist
- Unique. Special. Me, South Hills Nursery Group
TEAM DEVELOPMENT
Winner
- Cranley Nursery, 3 Becomes 4, Edinburgh
Highly commended
- Honey Pot Nurseries, Liverpool
Finalists
- Kids Allowed, Ten out of Ten, Manchester
- Kids Planet Beamont
EARLY YEARS LAUNCH OF THE YEAR
Winner
- Fireflies Nursery, Smethwick, with Neil Leitch of the Pre-school Learning Alliance
Finalists
- Lime Tree Nursery, Rotherham
- Twinkles Oxford Place, Leeds
NURSERY FOOD
Winner
- The Mulberry Bush, Southampton, with judge Jane Harrison of Red Hen Day Nursery
Highly commended
- Kids Planet Greenbank Park, Liverpool
Finalists
- Coin Street Community Builders, London
- Honey Pot Nurseries, Liverpool
ENABLING ENVIRONMENTS
Winner
- Dandelion Education, Norfolk, with sponsor Paul Harris of Early Years Direct
Highly commended
- Gigglers Day Nursery, Bolton
Finalists
- The Cheshire Day Nursery Kindergarten@Latchford, Warrington
- Holyrood Astley, Bertram Nursery Group, Manchester
- South Hills Nursery, Wilton
- Stramongate Nursery, flood recovery garden, Kendal
ONLINE AND SOCIAL MEDIA
Winner
- Little Forest Folk, London with Ben Allen of Mark Allen Group
Finalists
- Mama Bear’s Day Nursery, Bristol
- Twinkles Nurseries, Knaresborough
COMMUNITY SUPPORT
Winner
- Norland College, Helping Hands, Supporting Families in Crisis, Bath, with Julie Mountain of Play Learning Life
Finalists
- The Co-operative Childcare, Walsall Wood, Warwick
- Eureka! Nursery, Halifax
- St George’s Community Children’s Project, Tunbridge Wells
HEALTH AND WELL-BEING
Joint Winners
- Little Forest Folk, London, with judge Stella Ram-Louis
- London Borough of Newham, Newham Outdoors and Active
Highly commended
- Dandelion Education, Feel well, Think well, Learn well, Norfolk
Finalists
- Bertram Nursery Group, Physical Development Stars Network
- George Perkins Day Nursery, Building Healthy Lives, Birmingham
BIRTH TO FIVES RESOURCES
Winner
- Outlast Cascade, Community Playthings, MA Education's RAvi Chandiramani
Finalists
- Cubetto, Primo Toys
- Hide & Seek Maths, Play to Z
- Play cards for the home environment, Pre-school Learning Alliance
STAFF RESOURCES
Winner
- Places to Play Every Day, Herts for Learning, with judge Linda Keats of Essex County Council
Finalists
- The Foodtalk Game, Focus Games
- SMARTpd, Pre-school Learning Alliance
- Will you be my friend?, Bloomsbury Education
ONLINE RESOURCES
Winner
- Flick e-learning subscription, with judge Francesca Thomas of Broussa Day Nursery
Finalists
- Blossom online learning journey platform, Blossom Educational
- Kinderly
PROFESSIONAL BOOKS
Winner
- The Nursery Year in Action by Anna Ephgrave, Routledge, with judge Nicole Weinstein
Highly commended
- Early Childhood and Neuroscience by Mine Conkbayir, Bloomsbury
Finalists
- Assessing Quality in Early Childhood Education and Care by Iram Siraj, Denise Kingston and Edward Melhuish, Trentham Books
- Developing School Readiness by Kathryn Peckham, Sage
- Successful Early Years Ofsted Inspections by Julian Grenier, Sage
Vicki Cardwell of Portico won the Community Playthings Outlast Cascade set in the charity prize draw, which raised nearly £2,000 for Home-Start.
Sponsors
Many thanks to all our sponsors, who make the awards possible
- CACHE
- childcare.co.uk
- Christie & Co
- Early Years Direct
- nasen
- Prospect
- The Consortium Early Years
- Route2Education
- The Consortium early years
- Community Playthings – charity raffle sponsor
- Home-Start – charity partner
- TTS - table gift sponsor
Read all the write ups below, at www.nurseryworld.co.uk/awards and in our Awards book out with the 2 October issue of Nursery World.