Last year I asked the staff which one thing they would change at nursery if they could. There were varied answers, but one intrigued me - to have a staff training day. My initial reaction was 'that will never happen'. We are a private setting, offering a service for a fee and enabling our parents to work. They wouldn't accept nursery being closed for a training day.
Then I was faced with the challenge of implementing the EYFS. I wanted this to be a positive process in the nursery, with everyone feeling confident about their roles and responsibilities under the framework. The more I thought about what I wanted to do with the EYFS, the more I realised that there were some fundamental concepts that we needed to ensure were embedded in our care as a staff group.
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