Blog: News & Views
Staff Health and Wellbeing: Getting active
How should settings encourage their practitioners to take up more physical exercise? Linda shares her thoughts and Kindred Nurseries PANCo’s reflect on how they support this within the setting.
Staff Health and Wellbeing: A weighty issue
What is being done nationally and at individual nursery level to tackle staff obesity? Linda shares her thoughts and Katie, a PurpleBee PANCo Pioneer explains how she has supported staff at her setting.
How digital learning is transforming the workplace
Linda discusses in her blog how digital learning is transforming the Early Years workplace and shares tips about what you should look for and expect from high quality online learning.
Health and Wellbeing: Taking root
The PurpleBee Start Life Well Wellbeing-in-action Toolkit and Award Scheme was born from our desire to create a wellbeing platform that helps all settings to solve and meet the real wellbeing challenges that they face with ease.
Where there is wellbeing there is a way!
Leaders and managers are constantly dealing with not just managing their nurseries but also the negative impact of the pandemic. In this blog, Linda details how to integrate wellbeing into leadership.
Ofsted: The focus is on child and staff wellbeing
Kirsty Mulvaney, Senior Ofsted Inspector for Early Years, has invited PurpleBee CEO Linda Baston-Pitt to speak about PANCo at the up and coming Ofsted team meeting in February.
What does the early years sector want for the coming year?
Read the excerpt from Linda Baston-Pitt as seen in the published Nursery World Article: ‘What does the early years sector want for the coming year?’
Leadership: Staff Well-Being
Staff well-being is more of a focus than ever under the new Education Inspection Framework. Annette Rawstrone from Nursery World reports. Read the excerpt from Linda Baston-Pitt, PurpleBee Learning here.
Start Life Well
Whether you’re a nursery, school, after school club or childminder our goal is to it make easier than ever for every setting to create a healthier environment for children, staff and parents using our NEW Start Life Well toolkit and Award Scheme.
Leading well through Covid
Over and above your settings essential health and safety assessments, there are some essential skills and abilities that you and your team need to possess that can help you to navigate your way through the crisis. Find out about the 3 ‘R’s’ of Early Years Leadership.