When we talk about what matters most in early childhood education, it’s easy to focus on curriculum goals, routines and developmental milestones. But at the heart of every child’s capacity to thrive is something much more human: relationships. Over recent years, a growing body of educators, researchers and practitioners has highlighted the power of relational practice ; the idea that behaviour is not simply something to be managed, but a form of communication rooted in a chil

Delivering high quality mixed-age provision for babies: Learning from Holbourn House Day Nursery We were recently interviewed for a blog piece by The Baby Room, an organisation that has been funded by the Nuffield Foundation to conduct research into  Achieving high-quality provision in the baby room of English nurseries . This project brings together evidence on what quality provision looks like in the baby rooms (for children aged 0-2 years) of English nurseries and we at Ho

A site of education since 1840 In the early 1840s the bell in the bell tower on top of the former Parish School of Dodford rang out across the village for the first time calling local children to lessons. Built in 1840, The Old School building (part of Peterborough Diocese), now the site of Holbourn House Day Nursery and Pre-School, started life as a single-roomed red-brick building with a pitched slate roof, and was created to serve the community, predominantly as a space fo