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One of the great pleasures of our Action for Sustainability Community of Practice is that it brings together educators, researchers and leaders from across the world who are asking…
Quality in Early Years education is a term used constantly by policymakers, inspectors, leaders and teachers. But what does quality actually mean for children, families and educators?…
In 2007 three of the LEYF nurseries were involved in the Edgeware Road bombings. I still remember it but the strongest memories that stay with me were of the kindness…
And so here we are at another International Women’s Day. I awoke to a card from South Bermondsey nursery wishing me a happy International Women’s Day. Well, didn’t this wake…
Last week, I spent a morning with staff from two nurseries talking about pedagogy. Kindness and what it means was central to the discussion on social and emotional well-being. It’s…
I recently read a piece about the growth of artificial intelligence and the impact it will have on existing jobs, whether the driverless car or the extension of computer controlled…
It’s hard to get a feel of what is going on with the Government at the moment. Communication is muffled and it feels like we are watching a foreign psychological…
We began the year of 2017 with the sad news of the second untimely death of another of our much loved young staff members. Telling the organisation about his death…
Many of you have broken up this weekend (or broken down!) and the rest of us continue to work flat out until Christmas Eve (another reason to support nurseries designed to…
Last week, I began the week with a challenge to the security at City Hall. Arriving for a meeting with the Mayor’s Education Advisor, I popped my bag onto the…
Last week the US electorate put two fingers up to the neoliberal establishment and voted in Donald Trump to be the next president of the USA. While I, along with…
Every year during the November Global Enterprise Fortnight we host the Margaret Horn Debate to celebrate Social Enterprise Day. Margaret Horn was the first director of the charity that in…
Dear Colleagues It’s time for the next London OBC, please come. It’s long overdue. We had planned the next one around our invitation to the new Chair…
Are you a feminist from the 1970s? Did you look forward to reading the monthly Spare Rib? Was your diary the Spare Rib diary?…
