Practitioners need to have a deep understanding of child development, pedagogy and curriculum design in order for them to decide how to help each child in their care to make progress. While always important, it is perhaps even more so as staff plan how to reintegrate children into nursery settings following the coronavirus lockdown.
Pennie Akehurst, managing director of Early Years Fundamentals (EYF), says this time is an opportunity for practitioners to reflect on how best to meet the physical, emotional and learning needs of their children when they return to nursery, but managers ought to be mirroring this process for their staff.
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