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Enabling Environments: Transitions - In pictures

In looking to ease the transition to nursery, settings can also find ways to engage with the children currently in their care. Alison Anderson shares her experience devising a programme with this goal in mind.

Starting nursery is a difficult time for any child but all the more problematic at my nursery set within a college of further education. With many parents arriving at the start of term, the usual settling-in procedures of home visits and staggered entries are impossible. To ease the transition to nursery, I have devised an electronic 'welcome' pack, which has benefited all our children and brought new insights into our practice.

The pack, comprising mainly of photographs, is emailed to families in July, giving them the summer to share the information and so start to familiarise themselves with the nursery ahead of the start of term.

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