Make the most of this enjoyable time of year – with Nursery World’s guidance on outdoor practice, health and nutrition, inclusion and diversity, sustainability and more.
Meanwhile our in-depth management coverage addresses issues such as recruitment, what the latest data says about Ofsted inspections and an in-depth report on current mergers and acquisitions.
Best practice features:
- Keys to outdoors part 5: This month it is all about creating accessible and organised storage as a way to fuel children’s independence as they learn and explore outside.
- Discover ways in which Persona Dolls can be used as part of every day practice to support inclusion and diversity, explained by expert Vicky Hutchin in our All about...
- Why do children like to challenge rules and is this good for their development? Caroline Vollans explores child behaviour and what lies behind it.
- Essential resources: Start collecting our new series which links resources and equipment to early years pioneers and their pedagogies – starting with Robert Owen.
- Health and nutrition: We report on the food insecurity that many families are continuing to experience and what can be done to help.
- Eating well – more advice from the Early Years Nutrition Partnership, this time on how to talk about food in a positive way.
- Education for sustainability: Take a trip to Western Australia to gain insights into how pedagogical leader Kylie Ridder uses recycled materials to expand children’s schema play.
- In the moment planning: Dawn Rigby explains how one setting introduced this to ensure that children feel valued and their play is not interrupted.
Activities
This month’s project explores a red double-decker and how it serves its local community; Spring at last – try Julie Mountain’s creative ideas for making the most of it with this month’s Outdoor Calendar; understand why working memory is so important and how children with SEND can be supported to build it; Early Years on a Shoestring – thrifty ideas for loose parts.
Nursery World Business Summit: OakNorth Bank Q&A
OakNorth answers questions about sector financing and the lending landscape.
Special report
Buying and selling – Nicole Weinstein takes a look at the trends and market drivers.
Management
- Business Challenges: Part two of our series investigates strategies to tackle the current staffing crisis.
- Ofsted inspections under the Education Inspection Framework.
Pennie Akehurst at consultancy Early Years Fundamentals takes a look at what the data says so far about how settings are being graded under the new regime. - Manager’s problem page: What can you do when a member of staff is consistently late? Our expert panel provides some answers.
Analysis:
Nursery World survey – what providers say about their experience of recent inspections. Katy Morton explores the feedback which suggests inspections have been rushed and ill-informed, resulting in many settings being downgraded.
Poster:
Collect the third poster in our series People who help us – to be fed
