• What does the evidence tell us about how the pandemic has affected children’s communication and language development?

    Maria Reraki (PhD) is a Senior Lecturer in Early Years Education at Edge Hill University, UK. She teaches across a number of early years programmes and supports students becoming qualified teachers in Early Years settings. Before undertaking this post, Maria was a lecturer on Special Needs at the University of Birmingham. Maria’s research and teaching…

  • Counting the emotional cost of Covid

    Written by Early Years Lecturer Ian Currie. Children returning to early childhood settings after a sudden and unplanned exposure to a less predictable world are noticeably different from those who left to enter lockdown almost three months ago. The settings they are returning to are also substantially changed. With human contact significantly reduced and, in…

  • A key worker’s perspective on lockdown Early Years education approaches.

    Written by student Mary Warsop who is studying for her BA (Hons) Early Years Practice at Holy Cross College, Bury. I am a Teaching Assistant, University student and parent to a toddler. I work in an inner-city primary school. Since the government’s announcement, to support the NHS and our critical workforce, I have been working…