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Looking after Mental Health in Early Years
PurpleBee celebrates Mental Health Week – Linda Baston-Pitt identifies 5 top tips to help encourage wellbeing in Early Years
Lever those assets!
Linda Baston-Pitt affirms the need for the sector to pull together and calls for more brainstorming events like the Early Years Workforce Roundtable, hosted by CEEDA.
The PurpleBee and the PANCo
Find out how Linda, CEO PurpleBee has also developed the PANCo role ( Physical Activity and Nutrition co-ordinator) which recently scooped the Nursery World Health and Wellbeing award.
Making Communication SOAR
Really effective communication is what makes a nursery business stand out, says Linda Baston Pitt.
Children First!
Linda, CEO PurpleBee, urges settings to support the new campaign, led by Children First, for a Secretary of State for Children.
Leading the way online
Lisa Weston and Gemma Hobson ( OSHN and PurpleBee) introduce the online mentoring training programme they devised and piloted, which helped win the Training category of the NMT Nursery Awards 2017!
Are your staff happy?
Our sector now appreciates the importance of child wellbeing as an integral part of the curriculum, but we need to ensure that our staff are also on board if we want them and our nurseries to truly flourish.
Mindfulness Masterclass
PurpleBee delivers a Mindfulness masterclass in Cambridge. We had a fun filled day with lots of time to practice mindfulness and to explore how we could embed it into our daily practice and lives.
Who am I?
We often fail to identify or make best use of our people’s strengths. Linda Baston-Pitt suggests a fun way of turning this round and building your team’s self-awareness and confidence.
Motivation through learning
Do you want to create a motivating environment? Then we need to think hard about how we can work harmoniously together learning in the workflow.
Maintaining Excellence
Linda Baston-Pitt congratulates the sector for its enthusiasm and dedication despite the challenges, and urges the government to support this excellence in real terms.
Play to your strengths
We all like to think we have a great deal to offer the people we work with but we are not always good at articulating just what our strong points are or how we use them.
Active Movement – A behavioural programme for health
Health and wellbeing are top of the political agenda. This article looks at how a programme developed for business is impacting on the lives of young children.