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Early years activity: Holi – the festival of colours

Holi is a vibrant Hindu festival that marks the arrival of spring and celebrates love and new beginnings. It is also known as the Festival of Colours.

Early years activity for Holi: colourful hands

Embedding other cultures in your setting

Discover practical tips for embedding other cultures in your setting. Create an inclusive nursery where all children feel valued, represented, and engaged.

Early years science: Floating and sinking activity

This hands-on early years science floating and sinking activity encourages children to experiment with sinking and floating by testing different objects in water.

Top tips: Cultural Capital in early years

Discover how you can nurture and celebrate Cultural Capital in early years helping children grow and thrive.

Cultural Capital in early years child with globe

Leading and managing nursery staff

Effective nursery leadership and management skills are crucial to running a successful early years settings. If a nursery is strong at leading and managing nursery staff, it will lead to a happy and high performing team, good inspection outcomes, and most importantly, better outcomes for the children.

nursery leadership and management - nursery manager

The importance of our early years: with Professor Dr Ger Graus OBE

Here we interview NDNA Conference 2025 keynote speaker Professor Dr Ger Graus OBE on the importance of our early years.

England nursery policy templates updates – January 2025

NDNA’s policies and procedures templates have been updated according to recent employment law updates and guidance, see what has changed.

Cyber security: What you need to know about protecting your organisation

Cyber security is essential for protecting your organisation against common online attacks such as malicious software and viruses.

Financial management systems for nurseries and early years settings

Here are some hints and tips on keeping accounting records and choosing a financial management system for nurseries and early years settings.

Nursery Management Systems - person using calculator

The story of Maths Champions: Boosting children’s early maths outcomes

Explore the story of Maths Champions and how it supports with boosting children’s early maths outcomes in nurseries.

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