Sunny days are on the way and our new edition is packed with seasonal activities and ideas for learning outdoors, along with best-practice guidance on changes to Literacy in the EYFS, a special training supplement and up-to-the-minute business and management advice.
Best practice features:
- EYFS reforms – Literacy
Phil Armstrong explores Literacy’s links with broader aspects of learning and child development, to ensure your teaching supports all children. - All about....pandemic play
Nicole Weinstein reports on a fascinating survey of how Covid has shaped children’s imaginative play. - EYFS in schools
An in-depth look at why creativity and the visual arts should be prioritised. - Health and nutrition – Field to fork
Find out how one nursery’s food ethos bagged it a Nursery World Award - Our regular activity section, with a project on the moon Julie Mountain's outdoor calendar for June; activities for sustainable education; physical development ideas for birth to threes; and the A to Z of learning
- Our series of posters on the theme of collections concludes with Teddy Bears.
Training Today:
Check out this special supplement with a special focus on qualifications, training and CPD
- New routes to achieving Level 3
- In-house CPD: Advice on designing training that meets the needs of all staff
- What two mental-health-themed qualifications recently been launched by CACHE have to offer
In our management section: - Staff health and wellbeing, part 2 – what influence do practitioners’ adverse childhood experiences have on their own wellbeing and the way they respond to children?
- Business: Staff are a business's most valuable asset – so what management support should be in place for your team?
- CPD Outdoors, final part 6: How to ensure staff embrace outdoor learning
News, analysis and opinion includes:
- Why the sector urgently needs 'catch-up' cash to alleviate Covid's impact
- The early years sector will play a key role in post-Covid recovery says Jennifer Tomlinson, professor of gender and employment relations, University of Leeds
- Families are the answer to boosting life chances says Education Secretary Gavin Williamson
- We interview Monika Jephcott and Sophia O'Neill of Play Therapy UK