As a mother of 4 boys, I remember vividly the dread I felt when taking my children out en masse, as they would inevitably argue, physically fight, be noisy, could not sit still for 5 minutes and drive me to distraction! I can recall being quite jealous of my friends who had girls whose day […]
Last week we had a look at the benefits of training from the point of view of a nursery owner or manager. Today I’m taking a look at why practitioners should be a lot more excited about their next training course than they think (maybe). As a practitioner it can feel like you get sent […]
Having wandered around Childcare Expo Midlands 2018 something hit me: there is a lot of different things to spend our small amount of money on in Early Years. Which got me thinking, why should we expect you to spend your money on training? Because it’s the best option of course! But don’t take my word […]
I promised that in my next blog (here and then here for the previous two) I would start to give some suggestions of how I would incorporate STEM subjects into Early Years. I’ve not quite finished that off yet, and something exciting came along that makes an exciting interlude. I was lucky enough to be invited […]
Not that long ago, I wrote a brief blog explaining what STEM meant, you can find it here. Today I’m going to list the reasons why I think it is an important area to work on in Early Years. I’m going to make a special effort not to waffle on for ages, so I’m going […]