Are you enjoying the World Cup? We decided we couldn’t let it pass by without allowing Contemplating Childhoods to comment on it. We are sure if you are working with young children then some of them will have been discussing it with you; you may even have chosen to acknowledge it through activities you have …

Continue reading Football crazy: What’s the World Cup got to do with Early Years?

Last Sunday was Father’s Day, and it got us thinking about what we know about the role of fathers in modern Britain.

Practitioners will define passion in different ways depending on the context they are working within but certainly it is a word that practitioners often use

Last week Amanda Spielman, Ofsted’s Chief Inspector, gave a speech at the 2018 Pre-school Learning Alliance conference.

At the start of May we both attended the 9thBaby Room Conference

Home Start is a brilliant charity because it helps families with children under the age of five who maybe facing difficulties of some kind.

This week we are thinking about how practitioners can help young children in their language development.

Last month the Sutton Trust published a report that updates us on the status of children’s centres in England. The findings are concerning.

We like to talk in binary, essentialist ways as humans don’t we?  Man/Woman, More able/low ability, North/South.  It helps us categorise, make sense of and organise our world.

I was really excited about Lord Professor Robert Winston’s talk and became quite star struck when he came into the theatre.