Nursery World

Ofsted focus: Nursery World reveals the findings of its exclusive survey into how inspections need to change and digs deep for insights into current challenges.
What do settings with good outdoor spaces have in common? Outdoor guru Julie Mountain visits past champions of the Nursery World Awards to find out…
and as the weather begins to warm up we provide a guide to keeping children safe in the sun. How do individual children’s learning styles differ and how can they be best supported? Helen Garnett explains ‘conation’ and how this is key to understanding intrinsic motivation, while Mine Conkbayir explores the ‘upstairs and downstairs brain’. With the Government’s pledge for more support for SEND in early years, we unpick what its SEND Improvement Plan means for the sector. Our activities section includes a fantastic project on zip wires, enhancements based on ‘intrigue’, and essential resources to support making friends. Part two of our safeguarding series explains how to identify vulnerable children and a new training model for professional development is also explored.