Nursery World - A change for the better?

Our new regular columnist looks at the inevitability of change and asks if we should try to use it in the early years as an opportunity

Sarah Mackenzie

There is something about the start of September, the beginning of a new academic year, that has always made me feel like I’m being given a nudge to press the reset button.

After months of pandemic and ‘pingdemic’, that reset button had an extra special appeal this year.

I don’t doubt that we have all had different starts to this new term, different challenges, different joy, but the one thing I am sure we have all experienced is the impact of change. Changes to the EYFS framework, changes to the children, families and teams we are working with, changes in isolation rules.

I could let myself feel like I hadn’t pressed the reset button, that I’m just reacting to change. I could say the rest of term will have less change in it, but I’m not sure that is true. In fact, the only thing we can guarantee about the term ahead is that there is bound to be some change within it. Whether that comes in the form of changes around us – Boris is busy making changes over at the Department for Education, after all – or changes within our own worlds.

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