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With all their good intentions, children's centres may still let down their users through design faults that can be altered reasonably easily. Manager Colette Tait shows how.
What is meant by continuous provision, and what does it require of early years practitioners? Anne O'Connor explains the key elements.
In part three of her series on the 7Cs approach to planning outdoor spaces for young children, Julie Mountain explains the importance of incorporating 'clarity' and 'challenge'.
In looking to ease the transition to nursery, settings can also find ways to engage with the children currently in their care. Alison Anderson shares her experience devising a programme with this goal...
In providing resources for playful learning we need to remember the process in which they will be used, not just the outcome at the end, says Anne O'Connor.
In this true story, an experienced nanny tells Helen Kewley about how a false accusation blackened her reputation with employment agencies 'I couldn't believe what had just happened to me. As I sat in...
The importance of making spaces in which children and their carers can have freedom to think, talk and create was stressed at a major early years conference at Nottingham University earlier this...
Play involving hands and feet can help develop observation and thinking skills beyond simple recognition of size, shape and pattern. Marianne Sargent suggests some ideas.
In the first of a four-part series on planning your outdoor area,Julie Mountain introduces the '7Cs' approach for enabling high-quality play.