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Nursery Equipment: Dens - My space

Tuesday, April 28, 2009

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Whether they are fashioned from hedgerows or built for purpose from tents and playhouses, dens should be personal retreats for children and places that inspire their imagination and learning, says Diana Lawton.

Our bright idea - On the surface

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Tuesday, March 31, 2009

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Imagination and creativity went into the mix when Rainbow Nursery children made banners with Sarah Denham.

Positive Relationships: Let's talk about ... Food play

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Tuesday, March 24, 2009

| Nursery World

It may come as a surprise how many issues there are to consider in using an accessible and relatively cheap resource like food for play. Annette Rawstrone spoke to nursery managers.

Learning & Development: National Strategies series - part 6 - Creativity and critical thinking

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Tuesday, March 10, 2009

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In the sixth of our National Strategies features on the EYFS, regional advisor Di Chilvers reflects on what makes effective practice in supporting and extending children's creativity and critical thinking.

Learning & Development: Music for under-threes - Take note

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Tuesday, February 3, 2009

| Nursery World

Learning through play comes into its own when you provide musical experiences and activities for two- to three-year-olds, says Alice Sharp.

Our bright idea - Sensory hangings

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Wednesday, January 28, 2009

| Nursery World

A nursery resource that combines learning, creativity, decoration and physical enjoyment is described by Sharon Stapleton.

Enabling Environments: Let's explore ... Wrapping

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Tuesday, November 25, 2008

| Nursery World

Observe how absorbed the children can become in particular schemas when you provide resources and activities suggested by Diana Lawton.

Learning & development: Open-ended Play - I made a unicorn

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Tuesday, November 25, 2008

| Nursery World

The importance of leaving children to their own devices with imagination and the most basic materials is explored by Helen Huleatt of Community Playthings with Professor Tina Bruce, Lynn McNair and Sian Wyn Siencyn.

Learning & Development: Science - Discovery channels

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Tuesday, November 18, 2008

| Nursery World

One nursery combines learning through play with family involvement by making science boxes. Mary Evans finds out what it's all about.

Enabling environments: Let's explore ... Ourselves yesterday

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Tuesday, November 11, 2008

| Nursery World

Go back in time for children to get a sense of themselves and to explore concepts with activities across the early years curriculum suggested by Sheila Ebbutt.

A unique child inclusion: Creative thinking

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Wednesday, October 29, 2008

| Nursery World

An early years project aiming to promote inclusion through the creative arts challenged everyone's thinking. Louise Jackson explains how.

Enabling Environments: Let's explore ... Wet and dry

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Tuesday, October 21, 2008

| Nursery World

Contrasts, and cause and effect, are just some of the concepts within the learning to be found in an investigation of 'wet' and 'dry' by Carole Skinner, Fran Mosley and Sheila Ebbutt.

Enabling Environments: music and language outdoors

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Tuesday, October 21, 2008

| Nursery World

Practitioners put their ears to the ground when thinking how to promote language development, as Nicola Hutton and Laura Leddy explain.

Enabling Environments: Let's explore ... Autumn leaves

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Tuesday, October 7, 2008

| Nursery World

Now's the time to go out on a leaf hunt and discover how many areas for learning they can lead you to. Try starting with these ideas from Carole Skinner, Fran Mosley and Sheila Ebbutt.

Learning & Development: Creativity - At a stroke

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Tuesday, September 30, 2008

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Creativity underpins all the learning at Kingsland Nursery School. Head teacher Nicola Mulliner explains why, in the first of an occasional series featuring Stoke-on-Trent's outstanding nursery schools.

Learning and Development: All about ... Creativity and PSRN

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Tuesday, September 2, 2008

| Nursery World

Early years practitioners should be alert to the potential in all of their setting's creative provision for developing children's problem-solving, reasoning and numeracy (PSRN). Linda Pound shows where to find it.

Learning & Development: Music - Rhythm of life

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Tuesday, August 26, 2008

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Children's musical experiences at home and how practitioners can build on them in an early years setting are explored by Susan Young in an extract from her new book, Music 3-5.

Learning & Development: Our bright idea - Silk painting

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Wednesday, August 20, 2008

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Staff at Rainbow Nursery, Middlestone Moor, provide continuing opportunities for the children in the Rainbow Room to explore a wide range of creative media, both indoors and outdoors.

Learning & development our bright idea - Grounds for success

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Wednesday, July 23, 2008

| Nursery World

Bring your outdoors area in and show it off to parents with an interactive display, as Sheila Gardiner and Karen Crawford did.

Enabling environments: Around the nursery - Brush strokes

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Wednesday, July 23, 2008

| Nursery World

Think about what children can learn from using paint through the way your setting's provision is organised and what experiences are offered to them, says Jane Drake.

Learning and Development: Music for the Under-threes - Strike the right note

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Tuesday, July 1, 2008

| Nursery World

In the first of a new series on creative play with the under-threes, Alice Sharp offers satisfying ways to make music with children from birth to 12 months.

Enabling Environments: Around the Nursery - Music and sound - Beat it!

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Tuesday, July 1, 2008

| Nursery World

There are endless ways to incorporate music into your provision, says Jane Drake, and just as many things children can learn from it.

Learning & Development: Our bright idea - Paper work

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Tuesday, June 17, 2008

| Nursery World

Nursery children gained a wealth of knowledge and enjoyment from a project in making their own paper.

Enabling Environments: Let's explore ... Pirates!

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Tuesday, June 10, 2008

| Nursery World

Set sail for adventure, imagination and creative activities across all areas of the curriculum with a topic on these popular characters, outlined by Helen Bromley.

Enabling Environments: All about ... Creating a wildlife area

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Tuesday, June 3, 2008

| Nursery World

The best way to get children to think about our disappearing wildlife is to have them take an active part in its resurrection - and it's really simple to do, says Mary Whiting.

Search Results

Nursery Equipment: Dens - My space

Our bright idea - On the surface

Positive Relationships: Let's talk about ... Food play

Learning & Development: National Strategies series - part 6 - Creativity and critical thinking

Learning & Development: Music for under-threes - Take note

Our bright idea - Sensory hangings

Enabling Environments: Let's explore ... Wrapping

Learning & development: Open-ended Play - I made a unicorn

Learning & Development: Science - Discovery channels

Enabling environments: Let's explore ... Ourselves yesterday

A unique child inclusion: Creative thinking

Enabling Environments: Let's explore ... Wet and dry

Enabling Environments: music and language outdoors

Enabling Environments: Let's explore ... Autumn leaves

Learning & Development: Creativity - At a stroke

Learning and Development: All about ... Creativity and PSRN

Learning & Development: Music - Rhythm of life

Learning & Development: Our bright idea - Silk painting

Learning & development our bright idea - Grounds for success

Enabling environments: Around the nursery - Brush strokes

Learning and Development: Music for the Under-threes - Strike the right note

Enabling Environments: Around the Nursery - Music and sound - Beat it!

Learning & Development: Our bright idea - Paper work

Enabling Environments: Let's explore ... Pirates!

Enabling Environments: All about ... Creating a wildlife area

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