LEYF News and CEO Blog

If you have been frog marched through books, why would you ever read for pleasure? The award-winning author and screenwriter Frank Cotterell-Boyce is the 13th Children’s Laureate of…

Launching the Reading Rights Summit in Liverpool Last week, Booktrust (where I proudly serve as a Trustee) hosted the Reading Rights Summit. We were joined by special guests, the…

Slow Pedagogy  Slow pedagogy calls for compassion where we actively do something to address suffering. …

Baby, It’s Time   Do you think babies are a focus of care and education policy enough?  Do we have a baby policy blind spot?   We think…

We Are Famly! My first Podcast of 2024 is an interview with the very delightful Matt Arnerich, Director of Brand & Comms at Famly – an…

Ofsted has just published Report 2… …part of our series of subject-based curriculum research reviews.  Do you remember the first one Best Start? This second…

Never has the word ‘strategy’ been quite so exciting! That’s because it is THE Sustainability Strategy. A strategy is the plan, the road map or whatever cliché you want…

I have been using the word, ‘pedagogy’ for many years and am now beyond delighted that I can employ Pedagogy Coaches to support the nurseries understand how to embed…

It was an OBC with a difference. We didn’t have to find a room and a suitable time and lots of refreshments, we zoomed straight into everyone’s homes in nearly…

I am constantly being asked about how we have responded to COVID-19.  What are the problems, levels of anxieties, health and safety issues, business risks and leadership approach? Throughout, I…

Since I have been operating the LEYF business from home, I’ve increased my video conferencing to check-in everyday with the 15 nursery hubs that still remain open. We talk about…

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…