Get set for the Nursery World Show

With 80-plus suppliers and some exciting new features, we’re expecting the exhibition floor to be buzzing.

If you need advice on any aspect of best practice, look no further than our Best Practice Clinic, which we’ve created in partnership with the Early Years Alliance, NDNA and PACEY. No need to book an appointment – just drop in and have a chat with one of the experts who will be there to listen carefully and respond with practical suggestions.

You can also check out the latest in outdoor play equipment in our 100 square meter PlayZone. Representatives from TTS and the School Renovation Company will be on hand to talk you through the bits of kit and what they offer, especially when it comes to providing children with challenge outdoors.

Sign up for a seminar
There’s still time to sign up for an accredited CPD seminar in wide-ranging programme.

One of the most popular so far is proving to be ‘Forest School: the natural way to healthy development’, presented by Marina Robb and Jon Cree. Drawing on their co-authored book, The Essential Guide to Forest School and Nature Pedagogy, Jon and Marina will be providing a host of new ideas for creating transformative learning in a forest school environment.

Other areas covered by our seminars include supporting children’s wellbeing, ICT’s place in the EYFS, enquiry based learning, role play and building children’s confidence.

With Ofsted inspecting under the new Education Inspection Framework and in line with the revised EYFS, there are lots of reasons to attend HMI Wendy Ratcliff’s seminar, ‘The Ofsted inspection framework: an update’.  You can find out how settings have experienced inspections so far under the new regime and what Ofsted has to say about its gradings. This is an opportunity to gain information to ensure your setting is well prepared when Ofsted next comes knocking.

Masterclass and Big Debate
Friday’s Masterclass, ‘Supporting the communication and language needs of all children’, brings together sector experts including Dr Julian Grenier and Penny Tassoni to discuss how practitioners can identify and support children’s communication and language development. This is a must for practitioners seeking to rebalance the impact of lockdowns on children’s speech and language and to meet the renewed focus on this area of development in the revised EYFS. 

On Saturday, ‘The power of play’ is the subject of this year’s Big Debate. Chaired by Nursery World’s editor-in-chief, Liz Roberts, there promises to be a lively discussion around the subject of what constitutes play, how it benefits children and how it should be supported, with Dr Pete King of Swansea University, early years expert Dr Stella Louis and Forest School leader and lecturer, Sarah Watkins.

Find out more about this and the whole of the Nursery World Show here