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A forest school that mixes Reggio and Montessori approaches will
receive 45 visitors from settings across the world this year. Hannah
Crown reports on the benefits of an international approach.

High House Day Nursery near Bishop's Stortford has made a virtue of being an international 'hub'. The 'oustanding' nursery receives regular visits from academics and education professionals in other countries, and has set up regular exchanges with education professionals in Germany, Greece, and the Instituto Principe Felipe in Madrid. Later this year, it will send two of its staff to a Portugal nursery setting, Colegio S Goncalo, as part of an Erasmus-funded exchange.

The driving force behind this is nursery director and former primary school teacher Vanessa Callan. She says, 'It started in 2009 when a group of 20 professors from Taiwan visited as part of an international tour.

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