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Retirement is a time of enormous change for you and your life as you’ve known it, and has the opportunity to affect your physical and mental health in both positive and negative ways. The loss of daily structure, routine, and interpersonal relationships and interactions is something best prepared for. Here, I want to explore how this can affect your mental […]

Hello, everyone! Well, it has been a LONG time since we gathered here. Actually a YEAR!!! Life has been busy and going off in all sorts of directions. Travelling We have continued to have our #littleadventures which have taken us across the UK. Some have been connected to Nick’s football team Gillingham which has moved down into a different league. […]

The Early Years workforce is experiencing several challenges, including practitioner wellbeing concerns, staff recruitment, and retention as well as a lack of funding across the sector. Join a panel of experts including names such as June O’Sullivan, MBE, and Purnima Tanuku, OBE as they identify what opportunities there are to redefine the future of childcare. Industry-leading educational supplier, TTS (part […]

With the summer holidays beginning, children will inevitably have more access to screen time, especially in the form of the internet. Internet safety has become an increasingly worrying problem amongst parents, however, internet expert Allison Troutner from VPNOverview.com has listed the best ways to keep your child safe online.   1. Consider a family ‘tech agreement’ One way to set ground […]

GB Olympic medallists Becky Adlington, Steve Parry and Beth Tweddle have launched a national campaign, including an investment of £3m, to drive forward the recruitment of children’s swimming and gymnastic teachers. Crisis in swimming The Olympians have warned that there is a staffing crisis, in swimming in particular. There was a shortage of trained swimming teachers pre-Covid but the pandemic […]