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The Reception Year: Best practice and the latest reforms

The battle for Reception? Is this most crucial of years about curriculum or about skills/child development? In this Best Practice Focus, we consider the latest on the controversial Reception year reforms while exploring what best practice looks like for Reception year provision.

Coronavirus: Dismay as early years staff told they won't be sent testing kits

    News
  • Thursday, January 14, 2021
  • | Nursery World
Nursery workers and childminders will have to travel to test centres to access asymptomatic testing for Covid-19, unlike those working in nursery classes and maintained nurseries, who will be sent home testing kits – a decision branded as  ‘unfair’ and ‘insulting’ by the sector.

New early years guidance for settings planning for wider opening

    News
  • Tuesday, May 26, 2020
  • | Nursery World
Childcare providers have been told by the Government to ‘use their professional judgement’ and ‘follow alternative approaches’ if they choose as they plan to reopen to all children, in new guidance for early years settings.

Staff Physical Health - Physical change

    Features
  • Tuesday, April 7, 2020
  • | Nursery World
Following last month’s article about mental well-being, Hopscotch Early Years Consultancy’s Laura Hoyland looks at managing the physical side of the job

Staff - With feeling

    Features
  • Monday, April 1, 2019
  • | Nursery World
A chance comment about ‘compassion fatigue’ led Angela Hodgkins, senior lecturer at the University of Worcester, to research the emotional impact of working in the early years. Here she sets out her findings

Staff - Good to talk

    Features
  • Monday, March 4, 2019
  • | Nursery World
Mental health in the early years has been pushed up the agenda. One nursery group is now paying for regular counselling for its staff. Meredith Jones Russell reports

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