Nursery World Awards 2017: the results (and photos) are in

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Arriving at the Brewery

Host Anna Williamson

OK Worldwide entertain

Editor Liz Roberts gives the welcome

Charity partner Home-Start

NURSERY OF THE YEAR

Winner

• Dandelion Education, Norfolk with chief judge Wendy Scott (sponsored by childcare.co.uk)

Highly commended

• Dukes and Duchesses Nursery and Forest School, Liverpool
• Little Forest Folk, London

Finalists

• Little Green Rascals Organic Day Nursery, York
• Little Jungle Nursery, London

PRE-SCHOOL OF THE YEAR

Winner

• Nature to Nurture, Liverpool , with sponsor Chris Marston, The Consortium early years

Highly commended

• Little Marlow Pre-School, Marlow

Finalists

• Kings Preschool, Byfleet
• Noah’s Ark Playgroup, Northampton

NURSERY GROUP OF THE YEAR

Winner

• Kids Allowed, with sponsor Courteney Donaldson of Christie & Co

Highly commended

• The Cheshire Day Nursery Group 

Finalists

• Cranley Nurseries
• Happy Days Nurseries
• Kids Planet Day Nurseries
• Mon Ami Children’s Nurseries

NURSERY MANAGER OF THE YEAR

Joint Winners

• Anjali Deb-Mukherjee, LEYF House of Commons Nursery with Purnima Tanuku of NDNA

• Karen Duff, Tiny Toez@Cannock Chase

Highly commended

• Joan Jobe, Kings Park Nursery, Portico Nursery Group

Finalists

• Amy Devine, Holyrood Astley, Bertram Nursery Group
• Rachael Richards, The Cheshire Day Nursery@Winwick

NURSERY OPERATIONS/REGIONAL MANAGER OF THE YEAR

Winner

• Sarah Fillingham, Portico Nursery Group, with Dr Jo Verrill of Ceeda

Finalists

• Nicola Hood, Children’s Corner Childcare
• Gemma Hughes, Just Childcare
• Kristina Johnson, Mon Ami Children’s Nurseries

EARLY YEARS TEACHER OF THE YEAR

Winner

• Katie Walmsley, The Poppins Family, Blackburn, with sponsor Steve Thomas of Prospect Union
  

Finalist

• Alexandra Chiorando, Elmscot Group, Timperley

NURSERY PRACTITIONER OF THE YEAR

Winner

• Lucy Jakeways, Busy Bees Nursery, Kettering, with Sue Robb of Action for Children

Highly commended

• Ami Mahon, Elmscot Day Nursery, Timperley

Finalists

• Nicole Kingston, Dizzy Ducks Day Nurseries, Essex
• Chris Withington, Kiddi Caru Day Nursery, Torquay

NEWCOMER OF THE YEAR

Winner

• Kate Morris, Dukes and Duchesses, Liverpool, with Catriona Nason of NEyTCO

Highly commended

• Abbie Hendry, Rainbow Corner Nursery School, Southsea

Finalists

• Liam Bartlett, Little Forest Folk, London
• David Trillo, Little Forest Folk, London

TRAINER OF THE YEAR

Winner

• Marie Richardson, Experiential Play, with sponsor Julie Hyde of CACHE

Highly commended

• Rebecca Martland and Alison Featherbe, Minding the Gap
• Sue Nichols, Professional Training Solutions 

CHILDMINDER OF THE YEAR

Winner

• Jane Fisher, Jane Fisher Childminding, South Woodham Ferrers, with Jane Comeau of PACEY (sponsored by childcare.co.uk)

OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTION

Winner

• Janet Ward, Holmsdale Manor Nursery, Ibstock, with Penny Tassoni

Highly commended

• Elaine Mercer, St Albans Pre-School 

WORKING WITH PARENTS

Winner

• Midlothian Sure Start, with Dr Jools Page

Finalists

• #Get Balsall Heath Reading, St Paul’s Community Development Trust
• Time 2 Engage, Marner Primary School

INCLUSIVE PRACTICE

Winner

• Elmscot Day Nursery, Timperley, with sponsor Dr Adam Boddison of nasen

Finalist

• Unique. Special. Me, South Hills Nursery Group

TEAM DEVELOPMENT

Winner

• Cranley Nursery, 3 Becomes 4, Edinburgh 

Highly commended

• Honey Pot Nurseries, Liverpool 

Finalists

• Kids Allowed, Ten out of Ten, Manchester
• Kids Planet Beamont

EARLY YEARS LAUNCH OF THE YEAR

Winner

• Fireflies Nursery, Smethwick, with Neil Leitch of the Pre-school Learning Alliance

Finalists

• Lime Tree Nursery, Rotherham
• Twinkles Oxford Place, Leeds

NURSERY FOOD

Winner

• The Mulberry Bush, Southampton, with judge Jane Harrison of Red Hen Day Nursery

Highly commended

• Kids Planet Greenbank Park, Liverpool

Finalists

• Coin Street Community Builders, London
• Honey Pot Nurseries, Liverpool

ENABLING ENVIRONMENTS

Winner

• Dandelion Education, Norfolk, with sponsor Paul Harris of Early Years Direct

Highly commended

• Gigglers Day Nursery, Bolton

Finalists

• The Cheshire Day Nursery Kindergarten@Latchford, Warrington
• Holyrood Astley, Bertram Nursery Group, Manchester
• South Hills Nursery, Wilton
• Stramongate Nursery, flood recovery garden, Kendal

ONLINE AND SOCIAL MEDIA

Winner

• Little Forest Folk, London with Ben Allen of Mark Allen Group

Finalists

• Mama Bear’s Day Nursery, Bristol
• Twinkles Nurseries, Knaresborough

COMMUNITY SUPPORT

Winner

• Norland College, Helping Hands, Supporting Families in Crisis, Bath, with Julie Mountain of Play Learning Life

Finalists

• The Co-operative Childcare, Walsall Wood, Warwick
• Eureka! Nursery, Halifax
• St George’s Community Children’s Project, Tunbridge Wells
  
  

HEALTH AND WELL-BEING

Joint Winners

• Little Forest Folk, London, with judge Stella Ram-Louis

• London Borough of Newham, Newham Outdoors and Active

Highly commended

• Dandelion Education, Feel well, Think well, Learn well, Norfolk

Finalists

• Bertram Nursery Group, Physical Development Stars Network
• George Perkins Day Nursery, Building Healthy Lives, Birmingham

BIRTH TO FIVES RESOURCES

Winner

• Outlast Cascade, Community Playthings, MA Education's RAvi Chandiramani

Finalists

• Cubetto, Primo Toys
• Hide & Seek Maths, Play to Z
• Play cards for the home environment, Pre-school Learning Alliance

STAFF RESOURCES

Winner

• Places to Play Every Day, Herts for Learning, with judge Linda Keats of Essex County Council

Finalists

• The Foodtalk Game, Focus Games
• SMARTpd, Pre-school Learning Alliance
• Will you be my friend?, Bloomsbury Education

ONLINE RESOURCES

Winner

• Flick e-learning subscription, with judge Francesca Thomas of Broussa Day Nursery

Finalists

• Blossom online learning journey platform, Blossom Educational
• Kinderly

PROFESSIONAL BOOKS

Winner

• The Nursery Year in Action by Anna Ephgrave, Routledge, with judge Nicole Weinstein

Highly commended

• Early Childhood and Neuroscience by Mine Conkbayir, Bloomsbury

Finalists

• Assessing Quality in Early Childhood Education and Care by Iram Siraj, Denise Kingston and Edward Melhuish, Trentham Books
• Developing School Readiness by Kathryn Peckham, Sage
• Successful Early Years Ofsted Inspections by Julian Grenier, Sage

Vicki Cardwell of Portico won the Community Playthings Outlast Cascade set in the charity prize draw, which raised nearly £2,000 for Home-Start.

Sponsors

Many thanks to all our sponsors, who make the awards possible

• CACHE
• childcare.co.uk
• Christie & Co
• Early Years Direct
• nasen
• Prospect
• The Consortium Early Years
• Route2Education
• The Consortium early years
• Community Playthings – charity raffle sponsor
• Home-Start – charity partner
• TTS - table gift sponsor

Read all the write ups below, at www.nurseryworld.co.uk/awards and in our Awards book out with the 2 October issue of Nursery World.