We know it can be difficult for parents to make the decision to enrol their child at a nursery. Rest assured, we’re here to help you widen your understanding of how incredible early years education can be for children under five.
Nurseries can be pivotal in laying the strong foundations for learning and evidence shows that high-quality early education is one of the most decisive interventions for tackling slower pre-school attainment.
Early years practitioners provide thought-provoking experiences, stimulating environments and deep and challenging conversations, all of which enable children to take thought through risks. Essentially, they help to teach your child to learn!
Whilst your child plays, they are finding out about themselves and their high quality early years environment is allowing them to develop lifelong skills in cooperation, language, problem-solving, relationships, teamwork and much more.
We know choosing a nursery can feel like a big decision.
Nursery can support your child to build a foundation of positive, trusting relationships that give them an internal, central core of security within themselves and the confidence to explore life without fear.
Using your funded childcare hours could help to widen the number of new, exciting experiences with peers, supporting your child to feel comfortable with and accept a wide range of new situations, people and communities. Choosing a nursery can feel like an overwhelming, scary and big decision.
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Looking for the Welsh version of our video? Find it here.
Early years resources for parents and carers
NDNA’s parent guides and resources are designed to support you and your child to embark upon an exciting early years journey.
Our resources cover the important decision of finding a nursery, preparing for nursery, supporting your child to transition to school from nursery and if you are an eligible working parent, our guides will take you through the steps needed to obtain your code for funded childcare.
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We need you to help share the messaging so together, we can reach more people, change as many perceptions and encourage others to consider a career in our amazing sector.
Sharing the graphics on your social media channels is a great way to encourage others to understand the value of early years and our hard working workforce.
Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn are social media platforms which help spread the word to large audiences quickly. Simply create a post and attach a graphic with the hashtag #firstfiveyearscount. Don’t forget to tag NDNA!
Facebook: National Day Nurseries Association (NDNA)
Twitter: @NDNAtalk
Instagram: @ndnatalk
Linkedin: National Day Nurseries Association (NDNA)
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