Your essential guides
Our essential guides offer valuable help and advice on key subjects, which are accompanied by a range of tools and templates that will enable you to put them into practice straight away.
Here are just a few of the guides you can choose from:
- Music and Movement - new!
- Pocket Guide to Number Activities - new!
- Pocket Guide to Shape, Space and Measure - new!
- Pocket Guide to Writing - new!
- Pocket Guide to Reading - new!
- Art of Expression and Creativity: help children to express their artistic and creative sides
- Brilliant Babies: form secure attachments with babies and give them the best start on their development journey
- Developing Literacy Superheroes: take your children’s reading and writing skills to superhero strength.
- Fun for All Seasons: ideas, songs and play activities to get children involved in learning.
- Inspiring your little Scientists: inspire children to learn about the world through scientific experimentation.
- Observations, Assessment and Planning: develop and refine your observation, assessment and planning processes
- Open-Ended Play Ideas: give children the freedom to explore and investigate independently using resources such as loose parts.
- Outdoor Play: improve your outdoor play area to encourage children’s learning
- SEND: Supporting Children with Special Educational Needs: a practical guide to identifying children with SEND and providing inclusive practice.
- Team Building: build your team into a strong, cohesive unit.
- Supporting your Mini Maths Explorers: enhance children’s mathematical development through fun activities.
- Art of Expression and Creativity: help children to express their artistic and creative sides
- Leadership and management: how to involve and motivate staff, training plans, managing budgets
- Recruitment and selection: sample job descriptions, application forms and interview questions
- Starting your nursery: how to research the market, costing, your premises and planning the nursery environment
- Supporting maths using rhymes: mathematical links to everyday nursery rhymes and songs, activities and ideas for nursery and at home
- The developing child: super skills for learning: understand and support the development of motor, sensory processing, visual perception and language skills
- Promoting positive behaviour: strategies for young children and advice for working with parents.
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