‘A little more conversation’

I’m not sure that my five years manning the coffee machine and running around with three-year-olds hanging off my back at Hertfordshire’s premier indoor soft play centre ‘Big Space’ qualifies me as particularly pedagogically rigorous. I have, at the very least, come into the early years from the ‘outside’. However, I do miss the chorus that would greet me when I held up my size 9 shoes and asked –  ‘so, who hasn’t got their shoes on yet?’. The other adults in Famly HQ these days don’t find it quite so funny.

Still, I am passionate about early childhood. Six years since starting here at software company Famly, (now) the UK’s biggest early childhood platform,
I’ve been blown away by the collaboration in our sector. And all in the name of helping children during their most important phase of their education. Educators supporting one another. Nursery leaders happily handing out ideas that may well help their ‘competitors’ businesses. Key sector voices giving up their time to help improve the conditions of the sector. Now, six years on, we want to start a conversation about what we can do to make that collaboration even better.