LEYF News and CEO Blog

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…

Continuing with the Christmas Advent tradition, on day nineteen of Christmas Advent 2019 let’s reflect on volunteering and why it is good for social purpose… https://leyf.org.uk/volunteering-is-good-for-our-social-purpose/ I am always…

Dear Prime Minister Welcome, and I wish good fortune as you build the right team around you to deliver your election promises. While I realise there are big issues that…

Continuing with the Christmas Advent tradition, on day Seventeen of Christmas Advent 2019 let’s reflect on how important it is for all of us in the Early Years sector to…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Continuing with the Christmas Advent tradition, on day eleven of Christmas Advent 2019 let’s reflect on what the pedagogy looks like in practice? Read my recent post reflecting on pedagogy…

Continuing with the Christmas Advent tradition, on day ten of Christmas Advent 2019 let’s reflect on what is cultural capital? Now that Ofsted has introduced the concept into the…

Last week I went on a Pedajolly to Birmingham to the Nursery World Conference with two colleagues. Ben who leads the LEYF Training Academy and Jean who manages a…