Early Years Guides

Here’s why outdoor learning is great for children, and how anybody can make it work in early education. You’ll get plenty of practical tips and activity ideas, plus big-idea interviews with experts like Nilda Cosco of the Natural Learning Initiative.

We break down the EYFS for 2021 into easily understandable sections, and tackle curriculum, planning, assessment, and ofsted. We also sought advice from Early Years experts, like Sue Allingham and Julian Grenier.

Inside you’ll find 50 unique activities designed with the new EYFS Framework (2021) in mind - with everything from water play and composting, to LEGO towers and giant bubbles. All the activities are categorised by age, activity length, and EYFS area, with every single part of the EYFS covered for all ages.

We’ve got advice on what's changed when it comes to Early Years hiring, how to advertise your vacancy, and a list of more than 30 interview questions. There’s also three job description templates, advice on how to retain your staff, and ideas on how to choose between temporary or permanent staff.

We cover how to help children begin to understand and process their emotions, and inspiration on self-regulation spaces. We’ve got expert advice from Dr Mine Conkayir and Ursula Krystek-Walton, as well as Siren Films director Katrina McEvoy, on the best foundations and support we should be giving to nurture children’s emotional development.

Having proper airflow is vital to stopping the spread of coronavirus, this guide combines expert advice and helpful tips to ensure your setting can better protect the staff and children.

We all have to be extra vigilant when it comes to keeping clean and safe these days, check out this useful guide for tips.

49 pages of pure outstanding practice ideas. It features quotes, advice, and ideas you can put into practice today in order to feel better prepared for your next inspection.

This guide includes a compiled list of tips and tricks for how you can take your setting's promotional efforts to the next level to get your message out there and boost occupancy.

Expert advice from 26 leading early years figures on everything from leadership to Leuven Scales. You’ll learn how to better approach the 101 different tasks you work with in the early years including ways to forge stronger parent partnerships, promote your setting, and improve child development.

Early years child behaviour expert Sue Cowley writes about self-regulation, self-reflective practice, and how to deal with extreme child behaviour. You'll also read about how Leuven Scales can help from our interview with Dr. Sue Allingham.

You'll hear from the experts behind popular approaches, and get lots of real advice that can help inspire your own early years pedagogy.

We've got expert advice from pediatric dietitian Lindsay Gilbert, tips on how to improve your mealtime environment, and 10 easy recipes you can cook with the kids. All in a simple, easy-easy-to implement format.

We'll explain why sustainability and the environment matters, before giving you ideas on how to be more eco-friendly from expert Vanessa Warn from Little Green Rascals and the team at The Curiosity Approach.

There's activities for SEN children, how to hire the right SENCO and even ideas to engage and learn from parents. We've got the setting, the teaching and even some activities for you to try out.

We cover nine different skills, walking through some examples as we go, before presenting a few ideas for you to introduce at your own setting. There's also expert articles from Niki Buchan and James at Nursery Nook on leadership in the early years.

We’ve researched trips run by nurseries across the UK and handpicked the very best. There’s everything from small, everyday trips that you can do at a moment’s notice, right up to full day trips to make those truly special memories.