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Art in the Early Years: Part 6 -Collage

Monday, June 27, 2011

| Nursery World

Opening up the creative potential of collage to young children requires knowledge of the basic skills involved and ready access to a wide variety of natural and made materials.

Art in the Early Years: Part 7: Textiles

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Monday, July 25, 2011

| Nursery World

Explore the surprisingly wide variety of woven materials and their artistic possibilities, with the Suffolk Early Years and Childcare Service (Suffolk County Council)

Enabling Environments: Display - Love it!

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Monday, August 8, 2011

| Nursery World

A display helped children at Yarm School nursery to explore the meaning of love, as Victoria Harrison explains.

Enabling Environments: Making Spaces...Block play

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Friday, June 8, 2012

| Nursery World

Children pass through different developmental stages in their style of block play. Anne O'Connor offers advice on making the most of this activity for two-year-olds.

Enabling Environments: Play and the revised EYFS

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Friday, July 20, 2012

| Nursery World

Community Playthings' new resource 'Play and the Revised EYFS' has advice on how to create enabling environments

Learning & Development: ICT - Byte back

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Tuesday, December 14, 2010

| Nursery World

We should take the precautionary principle in exposing young children to ICT before we know the long-term effects, argues Dr Richard House.

Enabling Environments: City Farms - Field days

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Friday, August 31, 2012

| Nursery World

Children can learn far more from stroking a cow than looking at one in a book. Vesela Gladicheva describes what's on offer at urban farms.

Learning & Development: How Children Learn: Part 1 - In the process

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Friday, February 3, 2012

| Nursery World

In the first of a new series, Jan Dubiel considers the meaning of the characteristics of effective teaching and learning, highlighted in the Early Years Foundation Stage review

Enabling Environments: Collections - It's a breeze

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Friday, February 17, 2012

| Nursery World

Nothing beats being outdoors to experience weather but many resources can support learning about it, says Nicole Weinstein in the first of a two-part focus.

Mini Topic: Laundry tablet bags

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Wednesday, February 14, 2001

| Nursery World

Who would have thought that the common laundry tablet bag would prove so versatile? Jean Evans provides plenty of activity ideas

A Unique Child: Grow your own - Time to dig in

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Monday, January 11, 2016

| Nursery World

Now is the time to start planning your vegetable plot for a bumper crop

Enabling Environments: Outdoors - Thrilling!

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Monday, October 31, 2016

| Nursery World

Julie Mountain continues her series on Newham’s Outdoors and Active programme by looking at its approach to open spaces, surfaces and level changes, climbing, large objects and storage

Learning & Development: Our bright idea - Dora's adventure

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Wednesday, October 10, 2007

| Nursery World

Communication was the key to searching for treasure in an activity devised by Emma Austin and Sue Milburn.

Learning and Development: Homes - Brick work

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Tuesday, October 16, 2007

| Nursery World

A project on houses came close to home when nursery children got to make their own real bricks. Teacher Judith Cowley describes how.

Enabling Environments: Gardening Indoors, Part 1 - Green fingers

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Tuesday, January 18, 2011

| Nursery World

Winter indoor gardening can make a good foundation for outdoor gardening later on, says Mary Whiting in the first of two articles

EYFS Activities: Birth to two… Treasure basket play

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Monday, August 22, 2016

| Nursery World

Assemble a selection of natural materials for engagement and learning, says Penny Tassoni

Enabling Environments: Collections - Ready to go

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Monday, September 19, 2011

| Nursery World

There is an important balance to be struck between child-initiated and adult-chosen activities in a setting's choice of equipment, says Julian Grenier, in a feature introducing a new series.