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Learning & Development: Scotland - Early days

Tuesday, April 5, 2011

| Nursery World

The different aspects of a new early years guidance document for Scotland are weighed up by consultant and trainer Ann Langston.

EYFS Best Practice: All about ... Friedrich Froebel

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Tuesday, April 5, 2011

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The principles and practice of one of the most influential thinkers on early childhood are outlined by Froebel scholar and early years writer Tina Bruce.

Art in the Early Years: Part 3: Drawing

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Tuesday, March 22, 2011

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Children have an early and natural urge to draw, but practitioners need to offer them ample resources and encourage them to think about and discuss their efforts afterwards.

Dance and exercise - Wake-up call

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Tuesday, March 15, 2011

| Nursery World

Children call the tune in daily music and exercise workouts that offer lots of added learning and development, says Karen Faux.

Learning & Development: Bookstart - Turning the page

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Tuesday, March 15, 2011

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The national bookgifting scheme has been preserved in reduced form. Viv Hampshire looks at the benefits it still offers children.

Learning & Development: Best Practice - Follow me

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Tuesday, March 8, 2011

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The writing's on the wall with a simple, fun game from a new book by Penny Tassoni helping children to develop their numbers and letters.

Learning & Development: Communication, Part 3 - Parent talk

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Tuesday, March 8, 2011

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A child's communication begins at home, and early years practitioners need to promote it there and in partnership with the nursery, as Helen Moylett explains.

EYFS Best Practice: All about ... supporting schemas

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Tuesday, March 1, 2011

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Schemas - patterns of repeated behaviour - are key to how young children learn and early years practitioners must respond to them, says Stella Louis.

Art in the Early Years: Part 2 - The creative learning environment

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Tuesday, February 22, 2011

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The essential provision for a creative art environment takes account of the space and materials made available and the display of children's finished works.

Learning & Development: Boxes - It's not a box!

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Tuesday, February 15, 2011

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When is a box not a box? When it's a bus, a train, a boat or a bed. Michael Jones describes one innovative nursery project using both child-initiated and adult-led activities.

Learning & Development, Communication: Part 2 - Friendly places

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Tuesday, February 8, 2011

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The whole learning environment in which young children spend their time needs to offer quality language provision, says Helen Moylett.

EYFS Best Practice: All about ... Listening to children

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Tuesday, February 1, 2011

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The value of seeking children's opinions and some ways practitioners can initiate it in an early years setting are described by Pat Gordon-Smith.

Learning & Development: Chinese New Year - On a plate

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Tuesday, January 25, 2011

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A Nativity play led on naturally to puppet making and a puppet show for Chinese New Year. Tessa Fenoughty describes how.

Learning & Development: Symbolic Thought - See the signs

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Tuesday, January 18, 2011

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Observe the great leap in development when young children learn how to use one thing to represent another, with a demonstration of symbolic thought from Pamela May.

Learning & Development: Communication: Part 1 - Time to talk

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Tuesday, January 11, 2011

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A new series on communication skills and good early years practice is launched by Helen Moylett.

Learning & Development: Activities - Home from home

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Tuesday, January 4, 2011

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Chldren's eagerness to help out with the domestic chores provides the perfect link between home and nursery, as Kim Ritson explains.

Learning & Development: ICT - Byte back

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Tuesday, December 14, 2010

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

Learning & Development: Stories - Back to front

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Tuesday, December 14, 2010

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Do the activities first and tell the story later - Michael Jones describes an approach that engages children who may be harder to involve.

Learning & development: a new approach to your Nativity play

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Tuesday, December 7, 2010

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Characterisation and improvisation played a large part in this year's Christmas production, as children took the lead in developing their own version of the Nativity, says Tessa Fenoughty

Learning & Development: Music, Part 4 - Let them move!

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Tuesday, December 7, 2010

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Endless opportunities for children's expression, development and learning across all curriculum areas are provided by music and movement activities suggested by Margareta Burrell

Learning & Development: Music - In concert

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Tuesday, November 30, 2010

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Children aged five and under were the select audience for a series of concerts and workshops, with training for practitioners, as described by Stuart Bruce and Matt Carwardine-Palmer of Orchestras Live.

Learning & Development: Down on the farm

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Tuesday, November 30, 2010

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A nursery farming project yielded a surprising amount of learning and enjoyment for children and their families. Laura Marcus reports.

Studying Early Childhood: Part 3: Visits, observations, placements and dissertations

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Tuesday, November 23, 2010

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Most early childhood degrees include 'real-world' experiences in early years settings and a related final-year project or dissertation. Make the most of these learning opportunities by bringing your critical thinking skills with you on the placement.

Learning and Development: Flight - Up, up and away!

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Tuesday, November 16, 2010

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A dual lesson in science and creativity arose from one children's centre's project in making and flying a balloon, as Annette Rawstrone hears.

Learning & Development: Imaginative Play - Our world, our story

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Tuesday, November 16, 2010

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Children enjoy acting out and putting themselves in a story even better than hearing one. Michael Jones describes an exciting role-play project.

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Learning & Development: Scotland - Early days

EYFS Best Practice: All about ... Friedrich Froebel

Art in the Early Years: Part 3: Drawing

Dance and exercise - Wake-up call

Learning & Development: Bookstart - Turning the page

Learning & Development: Best Practice - Follow me

Learning & Development: Communication, Part 3 - Parent talk

EYFS Best Practice: All about ... supporting schemas

Art in the Early Years: Part 2 - The creative learning environment

Learning & Development: Boxes - It's not a box!

Learning & Development, Communication: Part 2 - Friendly places

EYFS Best Practice: All about ... Listening to children

Learning & Development: Chinese New Year - On a plate

Learning & Development: Symbolic Thought - See the signs

Learning & Development: Communication: Part 1 - Time to talk

Learning & Development: Activities - Home from home

Learning & Development: ICT - Byte back

Learning & Development: Stories - Back to front

Learning & development: a new approach to your Nativity play

Learning & Development: Music, Part 4 - Let them move!

Learning & Development: Music - In concert

Learning & Development: Down on the farm

Studying Early Childhood: Part 3: Visits, observations, placements and dissertations

Learning and Development: Flight - Up, up and away!

Learning & Development: Imaginative Play - Our world, our story

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