5 Ways to Enhance Your Mud Kitchen this Autumn
Autumn is a wonderful season, full of so many learning opportunities for children as they connect with nature. This blog posts explores 5 ways you can easily enhance your mud kitchen this autumn to make the most of the season. Autumn provides us with many treasures that can make it fun as we explore, play and learn in the mud kitchen.
10 Top Tips for Helping Children to Settle into a New Academic Year
With September just around the corner and the summer nearly over, we thought we would share our top ten tips for helping children to settle into their new class or room this September.
Raising a Generation that is Emotionally Literate
“He is sad, because the happy one hit him. And there are sad clouds above him! Cos that is what sad feels like! Grey clouds above you!” John Aged 4 years.
International Tiger Day
International Tiger Day happens on the 29th July 2023. It is a chance to celebrate Tigers, and educate around conservation and natural habitats. This blog post explores ways early years settings can get involved in this day.
School Readiness Report - June 2023
We would like to say a massive thank you to everyone who participated in our school readiness survey, we could not have written and published our first ever official report from Growing Together Developing Early Years…
5 Top Tips for Parents: To help their child be ready to start school.
As a parent or carer, we can often feel a lot of pressure around getting our children ‘school ready’. We might have well intentioned parents, grandparents’ friends, who start conversations with “When so-so started school they were writing their name!”…
School Readiness Series: How Can We Support Children to be School Ready?
So, the big question is what does this look like in reality? What is the support we give our children, so that we help them to be ready with the very best start through our early year’s provisions. We are going to break down the understanding of school readiness into areas, allowing us to discuss practical examples for each one.
School Readiness Series: What is School Readiness?
With last week being the day that expectant parents across the UK find out what primary school their children had been accepted into the term ‘school readiness’ has come back into focus. ..
Ideas of ways your nursery can support Earth Day
Earth day is a day that gets celebrated around the world every year, and it is a great time for reflection and education about climate changes, environmental issues and looking after the planet that we live on…
Opportunities for scientific learning through cooking
Our third blog in our series for British Science Week 2023 is looking at how we can support scientific learning through participating in cooking and baking activities with children in the early years. Cooking with children is a great way of support scientific learning, from making observations, working collaboratively and developing their language skills…
What is high scope educational approach? And how to use it to support children’s learning?
High scope educational approach is an educational approach form the US and part of the approach is the daily routine off plan, do and review. It can be very beneficial to scientific learning and development and may be an approach that you want to consider introducing as part of your Science, Technical, Engineering and Maths (STEM) or early years curriculum.
British Science Week 2023
As a director of the company I passionately believe that every child has a scientist within them. And it is our job to nurture children’s natural curiosity about the world around them….
What are your goals as a company for 2023?
The other day someone asked me, “What are you goals for your business for 2023?”. So, naturally I have been thinking about this huge question…
Numeracy November 2022
Today is the launch of our very first ever Numeracy November. Numeracy skills are the basic skills or knowledge to apply mathematical knowledge practically in everyday life experiences…
Our Ofsted Experience Hitchin House Day Nursery
I recently caught up with the wonderful Zoe Wright, Operations Director for Hitchin House Day Nursery. They have recently had an Ofsted inspection and she wanted to share their experience. And how her and her team managed the inspection on the day…
Supporting Storytelling Through Block Play in the Early Years
Children will go through different stages as they begin to use props to make up stories and add dialogue to their play…
Guest Blog: Love-Based Management Approach
Having your staff team all following the same ethos can be challenging but is essential for the learning outcomes of the children to be delivered. I follow the ‘love-based’ management approach….
Block Play and Mathematical Development in the Early Years
A classic early year’s example, often children explore building towers often setting the challenge to see who can build a tower taller than themselves. This instantly lends itself to some discussions about size…