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Dr Kay Aaronricks
@drkayaaronricks.bsky.social
✨ Let's explore the journey from sand trays to graduation gowns!
👉 Follow me for research-driven insights, playful learning inspiration, and bridging the gap between early years and higher education.
#actionresearch #childminding #ECEC
🍓 📚 Eat Better Start Better
A voluntary guide to help early years settings and families provide balanced meals for children? It includes:

🫐 Portion sizes
🫐 Food groups
🫐 How to read food labels
🫐 Example menus
🫐 And much much more....

#NOFEssexEY #HealthyEating #EarlyYears #EatBetterStartBetter
January 4, 2025 at 9:02 AM
🍊 🍏 🍓 What colours are on your plate? 🫑 🍉 🍋

👀 Have you noticed that healthy food often comes in a rainbow of vibrant colours.

👎 Brown or beige food is often less nutritious, processed, and bland in more ways than one.

#NOFEssexEY #HealthyEating #LunchboxIdeas #EarlyYearsEducation #EarlyYears
January 3, 2025 at 8:57 AM
🍎 Do you feel passionately about children's access to healthy food?
🍎 Do you believe in food education?
🍎 Do you work with children under 5 in an early years setting in Essex?

🍊 Complete the survey to share your views - closes Friday 10th January - forms.office.com/e/XPAJPqQvAr

#NOFEssexEY
January 2, 2025 at 9:00 AM
🍎 Happy New Year! The Nourishing Our Future project team at Anglia Ruskin University and Essex County Council are entering the final countdown for the NOF project! #NOFEssexEY Follow to keep up to date! #HealthyEating #EarlyYearsEducation
January 1, 2025 at 11:13 AM
🎄 Food is more than just food it’s memories culture, and connection. Through the Nourishing Our Future project we’ve seen how emotional food is.

👏 Thank you to all the settings involved in the project! We can’t wait to share recommendations and celebrate at the closing conference.

#NOF #EarlyYears
December 22, 2024 at 10:05 AM
While the other half is at work I got the nails and the hammer out 🔨🔨 💡 💡 wonder if he’ll notice #xmaslights 🎄
December 15, 2024 at 1:01 PM
We are half way through a timely, insightful, vital project that explores food provision in early years settings in Essex. Some early insights... #NOFEssexEY

❗ Survey closes on 10th January 2025.
December 10, 2024 at 10:29 AM
Christmas meal at the fabulous 🎄German Gymnasium 🎄 Exceptional food and even better company 💙💛 #lovemyjob #ARUEducation @jennyfog.bsky.social @leannegray.bsky.social @rachelminett.bsky.social
December 7, 2024 at 8:04 AM
I work with the best people 💙💛 They make me think, question and realise why that thing is different than I thought it might be. Importantly they care, we have vision and they enrich our work #ARUProud @jennyfog.bsky.social
December 7, 2024 at 6:42 AM
Time to connect, relax and laugh as a team is especially important when working in a fast-paced demanding sector like Education. It was wonderful to be with the #ARUearlyyears team yesterday doing just that. #worklifebalance #ARUEducation
December 5, 2024 at 5:26 AM