{"title":"Attending early education during the pandemic provided sustained benefits for toddlers' development","authors":"Catherine Davies","doi":"10.12968/eyed.2024.24.7.20","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12968/eyed.2024.24.7.20","url":null,"abstract":"New research shows that attending early childhood education and care (ECEC) during the pandemic boosted preschoolers' learning and preparedness for school, with greater gains made by children from less advantaged backgrounds. With further support, ECEC can play a critical role in developing skills in children born during the pandemic and levelling socioeconomic inequalities. Catherine Davies, professor of Language Development at the University of Leeds, explains more.","PeriodicalId":470447,"journal":{"name":"Early Years Educator","volume":"83 24","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139683565","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"How will I know if my children are learning anything?","authors":"Sue Allingham","doi":"10.12968/eyed.2024.24.7.10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12968/eyed.2024.24.7.10","url":null,"abstract":"Sue Allingham, author, trainer and consultant, discusses some of the latest articles published across the sector, and encourages practitioners to reflect on how they know if children are learning what staff have been attempting to teach them.","PeriodicalId":470447,"journal":{"name":"Early Years Educator","volume":"18 7","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139683692","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Tracing Friedrich Froebel's visit to Switzerland and his revolutionary ideas","authors":"Richard Willis","doi":"10.12968/eyed.2024.24.7.36","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12968/eyed.2024.24.7.36","url":null,"abstract":"Richard Willis, visiting professor at the University of South Wales, traces Froebel's visit to Switzerland between 1831 and 1836 where his educational ideas and theories developed, and discusses their impact on early years education today.","PeriodicalId":470447,"journal":{"name":"Early Years Educator","volume":"17 10","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139683693","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Issues of our time","authors":"Elly Roberts","doi":"10.12968/eyed.2024.24.7.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12968/eyed.2024.24.7.5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":470447,"journal":{"name":"Early Years Educator","volume":"60 8","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139683725","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Passion, possibilities and purpose","authors":"Casey Allen, Ana Gonzalez Quintero","doi":"10.12968/eyed.2024.24.7.s7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12968/eyed.2024.24.7.s7","url":null,"abstract":"Ana Gonzalez Quintero and Casey Allen are two of the newest qualified team members at Hinxton Crocus Early Years Centre. In 2023, the duo both completed their journeys on the Bright Horizons Apprenticeship Programme and are now enjoying their roles as Level 3 Early Years Educator practitioners. Here they share their journey into the sector and experiences of the programme.","PeriodicalId":470447,"journal":{"name":"Early Years Educator","volume":"3 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139683304","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"‘The proposed changes do absolutely nothing to address the challenges facing our sector.’","authors":"Claire Kenyon","doi":"10.12968/eyed.2024.24.7.6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12968/eyed.2024.24.7.6","url":null,"abstract":"The Government published its response at the end of October 2023 to its own consultation on the proposed changes to requirements in the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS), which ran from May to July 2023. Claire Kenyon, co-founder of Early Years Equality and director of Busy Lizzie's Nursery in Chichester, shares her opinion about what has been proposed.","PeriodicalId":470447,"journal":{"name":"Early Years Educator","volume":"86 20","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139683522","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Maximising the procurement process to protect both cost and quality","authors":"Sarah Hardwell","doi":"10.12968/eyed.2024.24.7.29","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12968/eyed.2024.24.7.29","url":null,"abstract":"The cost of living crisis is continuing to squeeze everyone's budgets. Sarah Hardwell, nursery director for Little Peanuts Day Nursery and Forest School in York, discusses all things procurement when setting up her nursery, and shares tips for how settings can make the most of this process to maximise savings without compromising on quality.","PeriodicalId":470447,"journal":{"name":"Early Years Educator","volume":"15 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139683398","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ofsted and mental health","authors":"S. Cowley","doi":"10.12968/eyed.2024.24.7.14","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12968/eyed.2024.24.7.14","url":null,"abstract":"As her tenure at Ofsted came to an end in December 2023, HMCI Amanda Spielman published her final annual report, covering the academic year 2022-23. In the report, Spielman examines some of the key challenges currently facing the sector, as well as identifying some potential reasons for optimism. Sue Cowley discusses the report alongside the Minds Still Matter report from the Early Years Alliance and the ruling from the inquest into the tragic death of primary headteacher Ruth Perry, following an Ofsted inspection at her school.","PeriodicalId":470447,"journal":{"name":"Early Years Educator","volume":"9 9","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139683475","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ofsted: Time for urgent reform and a better system","authors":"Helen Osgood","doi":"10.12968/eyed.2024.24.7.7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12968/eyed.2024.24.7.7","url":null,"abstract":"Helen Osgood, national officer for Education and Early Years at Community union, responds to the ruling from the inquest into Ruth Perry's tragic death that the Ofsted inspection at her school had been a contributing factor in her subsequent suicide a year ago. Helen shares her thoughts on ways Ofsted could be reformed to create a better system for education settings and children.","PeriodicalId":470447,"journal":{"name":"Early Years Educator","volume":"70 18","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139683572","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Nature and nurture are at the heart of exceptional play and learning","authors":"Sharon Parnell, Michele Mackridge","doi":"10.12968/eyed.2024.24.7.s4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12968/eyed.2024.24.7.s4","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":470447,"journal":{"name":"Early Years Educator","volume":"42 7","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139683635","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}