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Mud kitchens are a popular and beneficial addition to any outdoor learning space, but it’s important to be aware and remember that a ‘mud kitchen’ doesn’t have to be a pre-made, professionally built piece of equipment. 

Think Feel Do – the NEW wellbeing handbook for Early Years staff, written by June O’Sullivan and Lala Manners, explores how practitioners can use the nursery environment and the activities of an average nursery day to strengthen ten key elements of wellbeing – all of which should sit at the very heart of policy and…

With the COP26 summit last year – which saw leaders from across the globe gather in Glasgow to discuss climate change and environmental strategy – and the UK’s Environment Bill having passed to become law, there’s a huge focus on the future of our planet, and rightly so. But what about the topic of sustainability and circularity…

As practitioners in the Early Years sector, we spend so much of our time focusing on what the children are doing, learning and the goals they are working towards in their play and learning, that it can be easy to forget how important it is to focus on how and why – the how and why of children’s learning and development is just as important, if not more than what they are doing. 

Sustainability and a sense of environmental responsibility is something that has always been important for us as individuals, and so it is only right and felt natural to make this awareness part of our pedagogy and curriculum and support our children in recognising the way in which they could be more environmentally aware and introduce small actions that would make a huge impact on our planet for the long term. 

At the recent Childcare and Education Expo event, we interviewed Tim Stowe of Almas Industries. Tim explains why is it essential for childcare settings to get the fundamentals of their security right and what else can they do to ensure their setting is super secure.

Connect Childcare – Staff spotlight Here at Connect Childcare, each and every one of us is passionate about the Early Years (EY) sector and about developing management software that improves the lives of children, globally. In order to shine the spotlight on our wonderful team, we’ve created an employee Q&A series, enabling our readers to…

Connect Childcare chats to Next Steps Nursery With over 3,400 nurseries in our portfolio, we’ve decided to shine the spotlight on a different one each month, to get to know them a little better! So, as part of our new, regular Q&A series, it’s over to Lisa Wills, nursery manager at Next Steps Nursery, to…