15 Water Play Activity Set Ups
Water play is a fantastic way of supporting children’s development and learning that is fun, exciting, and engaging for children. It also does not have to be elaborate and can be done on a budget. This blog post contains 15 simple water play activities that are easy to set-up in an early years setting or even at home.
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…
Building on children’s curiosity of all things creepy crawly
National Insect Week 2023 is a fantastic week to celebrate in early years settings. Children are often curious, mystified and very interested in our creepy crawlies that we can find outside in our outdoor provisions. There are many ways that we can support and build upon children’s interests in everything insect related.
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…
5 Ways to Celebrate World Art Day
World art day is a celebration of art around the world, which is inclusive, powerful and diverse. Art is a form of expression in all shapes and forms that is important to who we are…
INK Festival Sunday Funday
We are so excited as a company that we have been commissioned by the INK Festival to run the kids zone. This will involve 4 interactive sessions for different age groups, throughout the day. Working alongside some other amazing stalls, children’s entertainment and family fun!
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 is Yoga Storytelling All About?
Yoga can be defined as much more than an exercise program, but it is a practice rooted in thousands of years of tradition that is about connecting your mind, body, spirit, and health together. As well as learning to tune into our bodies and minds in a busy world (Harper 2013)….
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…