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Interview: Meet Professor Angelica Ronald

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  • Tuesday, February 27, 2024
    • | Nursery World
Angelica Ronald is professor of psychology and genetics at the University of Surrey and recently led a study on how pre-school children’s fine motor skills, including drawing, folding paper and block-building, may play an important role in their later education and behaviour.

Meet Nursery World Award winner David Heard

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  • Tuesday, October 24, 2023
    • | Nursery World
David Heard, senior practitioner at The Oaks Day Nursery in Birmingham, was named joint winner of the Nursery Practitioner of the Year Award 2023at the Nursery World Awards ceremony held at The Brewery in London last month.

Meet Dr Álvaro Bilbao, author of Understanding Your Child's Brain

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  • Wednesday, April 26, 2023
    • | Nursery World
Dr Bilbao has published Understanding Your Child's Brain, which recommends parents ration or not allow screen time for children under six. He says devices with screens should ‘find their way into the child's hands gradually’ once they have developed emotionally and intellectually.

Meet award winning apprentice, Declan Hoskins

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  • Tuesday, March 28, 2023
    • | Nursery World
Declan Hoskins, based at Robert Gordon University Campus in Aberdeen, won the Ambassador of the Year category at the Scottish Apprenticeship Awards. Organised by Scotland's skills agency, Skills Development Scotland, they took place during Scottish Apprenticeship Week on 6-10 March.

Interview: Meet Helen Donohoe, PACEY's new chief executive

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  • Tuesday, February 28, 2023
    • | Nursery World
Helen Donohoe, former policy advisor at the Professional Association for Childcare and Early Years, has replaced outgoing chief executive Liz Bayram. Before joining PACEY, Donohoe worked as a freelance researcher and policy advisor. She was also director of public policy at Action for Children for more than four years between 2009 and 2014.

Interview – best-selling children's author Julia Donaldson

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  • Tuesday, September 27, 2022
    • | Nursery World
The bestselling children’s author and poet of more than 200 books – includingThe Gruffalo, Room on the Broom andSuperworm – has had many of her lyrical, rhyming stories made into animations and regularly performs her books on tour at festivals and theatres, including recently at the Edinburgh Fringe. She was the Children’s Laureate between 2011 and 2013 and honoured with a CBE in 2018 for services to literature.

Interview - Iain Colledge, executive director of operations, Bright Horizons

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  • Tuesday, June 28, 2022
    • | Nursery World
Colledge was appointed to the role in March having worked predominantly in the school sector for more than 20 years across the UK, Europe, Middle East and Asia. He has also consulted on school improvement and growth, advised governments and private sector investors, been an early years project director for the British Council and worked as an Ofsted inspector.

Interview - Deborah Lawson, former general secretary of Voice Community

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  • Tuesday, May 31, 2022
    • | Nursery World
Lawson retired from the role earlier this year after 30 years in the early years sector. She previously worked for a local authority in various childcare roles before moving to Voice, then known as the union for education professionals, in 2012. In 2020, Voice joined the Community Union, with Lawson as assistant general secretary.

Interview - Andrea Leadsom

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  • Thursday, April 28, 2022
    • | Nursery World
A year since the publication of The Best Start for Life, the chair of the Early Years Review tells Nicole Weinstein about how the Government’s vision for family hubs is taking shape following the £500 million earmarked for families and early years support in the October 2021 budget and spending review

Interview - Diana Lawton, nursery MD and apprenticeship campaigner

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  • Tuesday, March 29, 2022
    • | Nursery World
Lawton, who is managing director of Our Monkey Club, was one of a number of people in the sector working on the Level 5 Early Years Lead Apprenticeship standard, which was approved for delivery in August 2021. The trailblazer group is now working on the Level 6 apprenticeship standard

Interview - James Alexandroff, founder of Perivoli Schools Trust

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  • Tuesday, February 1, 2022
    • | Nursery World
James is the founder of Perivoli Schools Trust, a UK registered charity that funds a nursery school teacher training programme in countries across Sub-Saharan Africa. In total, the trust has trained over 10,000 teachers since 2012, with a target of reaching 200,000 in the next ten years.

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