Most of the seminars at the Exhibition on 14 and 15 September were fully booked. Highlights included Kevin Kelman, the acting depute headteacher of a primary school in south Lanark-shire, and Scottish Independent Nurseries' Association (SINA) early years executive Alice Sharp, discussing play and learning for the under-threes. Their seminar offered resource ideas, including 'smelly socks' - children's socks with sweetly-perfumed contents - and boxes of goodies to go with various songs, rhymes or pictures.
The exhibitors presented plenty of ideas for nursery activities, including the Deep Sea World stand at which passers-by gathered to watch a hermit crab scuttling round a slowly somersaulting starfish. Organisations were well represented, with Unison Scotland collecting signatures for its petition calling for improved pay and conditions for nursery nurses. Meanwhile, stalls selling toys, books and equipment carried on a brisk trade.
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