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Sarah Mackenzie: Why schools should learn from early years
To tackle issues around attendance and behaviour, schools could learn a lot from how the early years...
To tackle issues around attendance and behaviour, schools could learn a lot from how the early years...
Ofsted has launched its Big Listen – but the inspectorate is asking the wrong questions, and thereby...
Instead of setting goals, we should increase the quality of provision by encouraging staff teams to...
In all aspects of early years work, settings and parents rely on trust, but this valuable commodity...
Sorry might be the hardest word to say these days, but we should show children how to make genuine...
Well-intended government policies do not always lead to a beneficial outcome for early years...
There has been a recent rise in negative commentary about large nursery chains – but let’s not...
The early years sector is the talk of the town, but the role of gender equity needs to be brought...
Children need rules, but they should also be able to question them if necessary – and, importantly,...
This winter, amid the cost-of-living crisis, our sector can do what it does best and take the spirit...
Big events such as the death of the Queen have more meaning for children than the symbolic objects,...
The saying goes that honesty is the best policy, and that is as true for early years professionals...
The return of the ratios debate highlights how the early years sector deserves a fresh approach to...
Doing less but better surely makes more sense than continuously adding things that have no real...
Ofsted’s quickly scrapped ‘Reporting significant events’ guidance shows why sector collaboration is...
The problems facing the early years sector are well known but seem far from being resolved – so...
Our new regular columnist looks at the inevitability of change and asks if we should try to use it...