Early years activity: Make your own safety clothing
This activity helps children explore how the use of bright and reflective materials improve visibility in the dark.
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Top tips: Staying safe outside in the dark
As the evenings grow darker, it’s important to stay extra vigilant when children are outdoors especially in low light or bad weather.
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Early years activity: Bonfire Night
This is a fun personal, social and emotional activity that helps children recognise shared qualities and build a sense of belonging. Through mirrors, games and a group drawing, children explore how similarities connect them while celebrating their uniqueness.
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Top tips: Fire Safety
Creating an inclusive nursery ensures every child feels valued, respected and supported. By embracing diversity, challenging biases and addressing ableism, nurseries can foster a welcoming environment where all children thrive. Here are some top tips to ensure your setting is inclusive for all children.
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Top tips: Ensuring inclusion
Creating an inclusive nursery ensures every child feels valued, respected and supported. By embracing diversity, challenging biases and addressing ableism, nurseries can foster a welcoming environment where all children thrive. Here are some top tips to ensure your setting is inclusive for all children.
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Early years activity: What makes us the same?
This is a fun personal, social and emotional activity that helps children recognise shared qualities and build a sense of belonging. Through mirrors, games and a group drawing, children explore how similarities connect them while celebrating their uniqueness.
Read moreSupporting young children with English as an Additional Language (EAL) in early years settings.
In early years settings, children with EAL arrive with a wide range of backgrounds and experiences. Some may have already begun learning English before joining, while others are encountering it for the very first time. Their home environments also vary; for some, English is used regularly outside the nursery, while for others, it may be rarely heard.
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Early years activity: Picture Perfect
World Animal Day is focussed on raising awareness and appreciation of the importance of animals for the planet. Take part in this year’s World Animal Day by using this activity to get children to share their appreciation of their favourite animals.
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Top tips: Nursery Pets – Health and Safety
Considering the needs of others is one of the building blocks of empathy and pets in a nursery setting can enable children to learn about caring for others while helping them to talk about their feelings and emotions. Pets in a setting are a big responsibility and providers should carefully consider all the extra responsibilities prior to bringing a pet into their environment.
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Top tips: Building belonging through resources
Creating a truly inclusive environment means making sure every child feels seen, valued, and celebrated. The resources we select play a big role in shaping children’s understanding of themselves and others. By offering diverse, authentic, and accessible materials you can help children build respect, empathy, and a sense of belonging from the beginning of their journey with you.
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