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Welcome to the ÎÞÂëÌìÌà blog, where you’ll find expert advice, best practice tips and ideas, thoughtful opinion pieces and successful case studies. For everyone who is passionate about the importance of Early Years.

National Week of Play — Nature's Treasure Baskets

Using resources from nature provides a more eco-sustainable approach to supporting our children’s learning and development, while at the same time connecting them with the amazing natural world we live in.Read more

National Week of Play: Creating socially responsible children

Social responsibility values motivate children to help others and contribute positively to society from the earliest years.  Read more

National Week of Play — Working in partnership with parents

Researchers in environmental psychology have shown that parental pro-environmental behaviour has a strong influence in determining how their children behave, when it comes to things like conserving energy and recycling.Read more

National Week of Play: Play and nature

The natural world offers a rich sensory, ever-changing environment, full of exciting features to explore and investigate and to learn through active enquiry, play and talk.Read more

Welcome to our National Week of Play 2022: Protecting the planet through play

This year the ÎÞÂëÌìÌÃ's National Week of Play takes as its focus eco-sustainability in early years and explores how we can support children’s understanding and involvement with protecting our beautiful and fragile planet Earth for future generations.Read more

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