LEYF Early Years News & CEO Blog by June O’Sullivan OBE

Read the latest news and updates from our CEO and the wider LEYF team.

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Christmas Advent Blog – December 23rd

June OSullivan

Continuing with the Christmas Advent tradition, on day twenty-three of Christmas Advent 2019 let’s reflect on multi-generational approaches to community engagement… https://leyf.org.uk/using-a-multi-generational-approach-to-reach-into-our-communities/ What do we mean by multigenerational practice? …

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Christmas Advent Blog – December 21st

June OSullivan

Continuing with the Christmas Advent tradition, on day twenty-one of Christmas Advent 2019 let’s reflect on loneliness and taking a multi-generational approach to combat it… https://leyf.org.uk/can-early-years-be-the-bridge-to-helping-combat-loneliness-and-isolation-in-local-communities/ Here’s a video…

Small Changes Big Impact

Christmas Advent Blog – December 20th

June OSullivan

Continuing with the Christmas Advent tradition, on day twenty of Christmas Advent 2019 let’s reflect on the EYFS… https://leyf.org.uk/donts-dump-the-eyfs-just-tweak-it/ About a year ago, the Government suggested that it might…

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Christmas Advent Blog – December 16th

June OSullivan

Continuing with the Christmas Advent tradition, on day Sixteen of Christmas Advent 2019 let’s reflect on Social Enterprise childcare, should there be more? https://leyf.org.uk/should-there-be-more-social-enterprises-in-childcare/ We were asked to explore…

Christmas Advent Blog – December 15th

June OSullivan

Continuing with the Christmas Advent tradition, on day fifteen of Christmas Advent 2019 let’s reflect on the FIRST EVER early years chef academy!!!… https://leyf.org.uk/the-launch-of-the-first-early-years-chef-academy/ We are so proud of…

Christmas Advent Blog – December 14th

June OSullivan

Continuing with the Christmas Advent tradition, on day fourteen of Christmas Advent 2019 let’s reflect on child poverty… https://leyf.org.uk/child-poverty-affects-us-all-and-that-means-you/ The UK is the 5th richest economy in the world…

Keep Calm It's Arrived

Christmas Advent Blog – December 13th

June OSullivan

Continuing with the Christmas Advent tradition, on day thirteen of Christmas Advent 2019 let’s reflect on the new Education Inspection Framework (EIF)… https://leyf.org.uk/ready-steady-the-new-education-inspection-framework-has-arrived/ It was the longest and largest…

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Christmas Advent Blog – December 12th

June OSullivan

Continuing with the Christmas Advent tradition, on day twelve of Christmas Advent 2019 let’s reflect on whatever happened to life long learning?… https://leyf.org.uk/whatever-happened-to-lifelong-learning/ What do I mean by lifelong…