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Learning & Development: Data Handling - In the charts

Friday, January 11, 2013

| Nursery World

Involving children in collecting and presenting data for graphs, charts or pictograms helps them to understand the information.

Learning & Development: Physical Development - Different movements

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Friday, January 11, 2013

| Nursery World

Lala Manners explains the principles behind the many approaches to physical development and the training available for practitioners.

A Parent's Guide to ... Mathematics

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Friday, December 7, 2012

| Nursery World

Many parents may think they left mathematics at the school gate but, of course, it permeates every aspect of our day-to-day life, from cooking and checking bills to working out how long it will take us to reach home.

EYFS best practice: Be Specific ... Mathematics

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Friday, December 7, 2012

| Nursery World

Views of what counts as maths are changing. Linda Pound examines whether revisions to this area of learning and development match up.

Learning & Development: Two-Year-Olds - Are you ready for me?

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Friday, November 23, 2012

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Help is at hand for settings preparing to offer funded places for two-year-olds in 'Are you ready for me -now I'm 2?'. Its authors, the Cheshire East Early Years and Childcare Team, explain how it supports best practice.

A Parent's Guide to ... Expressive Arts and Design

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Friday, November 23, 2012

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Have you ever watched your child playing with mud and wondered what it is that so enthrals them? Their enthusiasm almost certainly lies in a desire to explore and be creative, and such explorations start at a very early age.

Learning & Development: Christmas - The big day

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Friday, November 9, 2012

| Nursery World

Lucy and Tom's Christmas offers useful ideas for exploring Christmas traditions and encouraging learning at the same time, says Marianne Sergeant.

All in a day's work - happy with our planning

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Friday, November 9, 2012

| Nursery World

It's time to make the planning work for us, say Nicola Bushell and Hayley Cannell, joint managers of Oakey Dokeys Pre-School in Essex.

EYFS Best Practice: Be Specific ... Expressive Arts and Design

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Friday, November 9, 2012

| Nursery World

The name change from Creative Development to Expressive Arts and Design gives practitioners the chance to rethink how they support creativity within early learning, says Di Chilvers, advisory consultant in early childhood.

Learning & Development EAL: Dual purpose

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Friday, October 12, 2012

| Nursery World

A training project to help early years practitioners assess the development of children with English as an additional language has proved highly effective. Julie Cigman explains

EYFS best practice: Be Specific ... Understanding the World

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Friday, October 12, 2012

| Nursery World

The focus of this area of learning is now on understanding people and communities, the natural and built environment, and everyday objects with functions created by technology.

Learning & Development: ICT - On the map

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Friday, September 28, 2012

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Exploration of the world in the early years can be supported with an interactive map of your local area. Marianne Sargent offers some guidance on making one.

EYFS Best practice: Be Specific ... Literacy

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Friday, September 14, 2012

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Controversy over when reading and writing should be taught could persist under the revised framework.Jan Dubiel, national development manager for Early Excellence, reviews the essential principles.

EYFS Best Practice: Prime time - Under threes ... Communication and Language

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Friday, August 31, 2012

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To create a communication rich environment for their charges, Norland Nursery staff studied their own communication patterns. By Clare Crowther

Learning & Development: Literacy - Dear Zoo

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Friday, August 17, 2012

| Nursery World

Viv Hampshire recreates the setting of picture book Dear Zoo in a local park so a group of children can learn about animals and their habitats.

Eyfs best practice: Prime time ... Communication and Language

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Friday, August 17, 2012

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Ability to communicate and use language is recognised as the foundation for children's development across other learning areas. By Nancy Stewart

EYFS Best Practice: Prime time - Under threes ... Personal, Social and Emotional Development

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Friday, August 3, 2012

| Nursery World

In promoting PSED, Norland Nursery chose to focus on the elements in isolation as well as how they weave together. Clare Crowther explains.

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 and Development: Creativity - Little Big Bang

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Friday, July 20, 2012

| Nursery World

In a bid to improve creative opportunities for the under-fives and their families in Somerset, four artists were placed in nine children's centres. Louise Monks reports on the project's progress.

Learning & Development: Play - Get hooked

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Friday, July 6, 2012

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In this extract from the guide Playing to Learn, author Di Chilvers points out that, in order to teach children, we need to tune into their existing world of play.

EYFS Best Practice: Prime time ... Physical Development

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Friday, June 22, 2012

| Nursery World

The inclusion of physical development as a Prime area of the revised EYFS will have a powerful impact on a child's emotional well-being and later learning, says Anne O'Connor.

Learning and Development: Revised EYFS - Positive moves

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Friday, June 8, 2012

| Nursery World

Engaging with the revised EYFS: the Pen Green team explain why this is a curriculum framework that they can work with.

EYFS Best Practice: Birth to Three Matters - Back to basics

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Friday, June 8, 2012

| Nursery World

Ann Langston, who contributed to the development of Birth to Three Matters, explains its format, history and importance and tells us why it should be dusted down and put back on the shelf as recommended reading for practitioners as they get ready to implement the revised EYFS.

EYFS Best Practice: All about ... Woodwork

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Friday, May 11, 2012

| Nursery World

Woodworking in early years settings fosters creativity and problem solving, says professional sculptor and public artist Pete Moorhouse.

EYFS: Development Matters -Take the stage

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Friday, April 27, 2012

| Nursery World

Designed to be used in everyday practice, the revised developmental grids give guidance on planning and 'how' children learn, says Helen Moylett, principal consultant, Early Learning Consultancy

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Learning & Development: Data Handling - In the charts

Learning & Development: Physical Development - Different movements

A Parent's Guide to ... Mathematics

EYFS best practice: Be Specific ... Mathematics

Learning & Development: Two-Year-Olds - Are you ready for me?

A Parent's Guide to ... Expressive Arts and Design

Learning & Development: Christmas - The big day

All in a day's work - happy with our planning

EYFS Best Practice: Be Specific ... Expressive Arts and Design

Learning & Development EAL: Dual purpose

EYFS best practice: Be Specific ... Understanding the World

Learning & Development: ICT - On the map

EYFS Best practice: Be Specific ... Literacy

EYFS Best Practice: Prime time - Under threes ... Communication and Language

Learning & Development: Literacy - Dear Zoo

Eyfs best practice: Prime time ... Communication and Language

EYFS Best Practice: Prime time - Under threes ... Personal, Social and Emotional Development

Enabling Environments: Play and the revised EYFS

Learning and Development: Creativity - Little Big Bang

Learning & Development: Play - Get hooked

EYFS Best Practice: Prime time ... Physical Development

Learning and Development: Revised EYFS - Positive moves

EYFS Best Practice: Birth to Three Matters - Back to basics

EYFS Best Practice: All about ... Woodwork

EYFS: Development Matters -Take the stage

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