Early years blog

Top tips: Kindness every day

World Kindness Day is a brilliant way to help nurture empathy, friendship and positive behaviour in your nursery. Keep it simple, model it clearly and make kindness visible to children every day. Here are some top tips to support you.

Early years activity: Kindness potion

In the kindness potion lab, children mix ingredients for helping, sharing and other kind acts. This sensory, PSED focussed activity helps build language for feelings, turn taking and kind, gentle words.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Supporting 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.

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.