Busy lives, bustling environments and dwindling budgets can make it difficult to give children the individual time and attention they need. For this reason, we decided to use our pupil premium funding (PPF) to buy back time for our children – time to be listened to, time to talk, time to draw, time to be in the company of an adult who has no agenda, other than to be interested and available.
As a federation of three nursery schools in Barnet, north London – the Barnet Early Years Alliance (BEYA) – we combined our PPF to employ a skilled early years teacher to work two days a week across the three schools to carry out a ‘drawing and talking’ project.
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