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Learning & Development: Nature's way

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Tuesday, April 1, 2008

| Nursery World

Playing with sounds promotes young children's acquisition of language, says Steve Grocott

'Children are accomplished sand writers, before moving on to pencils and paper'

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Friday, January 11, 2013

| Nursery World

Maria Neal is the early years co-ordinator at Barlborough Hall School in Derbyshire, which is linked with Makumbi Primary School in Zimbabwe. Maria recently visited the school and saw first-hand how children's writing skills develop from mark-making in the sand.

Learning & Development: ICT - Screen play

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Monday, October 17, 2011

| Nursery World

Have a fresh think about how you can ensure that all the children in your setting enjoy equal access to your ICT equipment and gain from the experience, with advice from Amy Stancer.

Learning & Development: Communication & Language - On Platform 3

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Monday, November 30, 2015

| Nursery World

A pilot online training programme building nursery practitioner confidence with children’s language needs is being extended to childminders. Sue Owen looks at what it offers

Let's go to… The Whitworth, Manchester

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Tuesday, June 27, 2023

| Nursery World

Today we are exploring things which roll, says Lucy Turner, producer for the Early Years and Families programme at The Whitworth arts gallery

Outdoors: key 6 - The right stuff!

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Tuesday, May 31, 2022

| Nursery World

Continuing her series on harnessing the potential of the outdoors environment, Professor Jan White considers what materials and resources to provide for outside play

Learning & Development: Early Education - A new beginning

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Monday, May 1, 2017

| Nursery World

In the fifth part of our series marking the tenth decades of Nursery World and Early Education, Aline-Wendy Dunlop reflects on the early years tradition, and its current state, in Scotland

Nursery Equipment: Creativity - Space and time

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Wednesday, May 20, 2015

| Nursery World

In Scotland, creativity is now at the heart of early years education. Annette Rawstrone assesses its capacity to foster a love of learning.

Learning & Development: Maths - Try for size

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Monday, June 29, 2015

| Nursery World

The foundations for mathematics should be laid early, but what is an appropriate approach for supporting the under-threes? Judith Stevens looks at creating enabling maths-rich environments

Learning & Development: Mathematics: Part 1 - That figures

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Monday, January 25, 2016

| Nursery World

Supporting babies’ maths development is the focus of this first part in a new series by Judith Dancer

Learning & Development: Risk - Playing safe?

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Monday, July 25, 2011

| Nursery World

Are practitioners' attitudes to risk finally changing for the better? Annette Rawstrone investigates.

Enabling Environments: Mixed-age groups - Free range

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Monday, October 20, 2014

| Nursery World

Cowgate Under 5s has opened up its spaces so that children of different age groups can move freely around the setting - with significant benefits. The nursery's June Graham explains why it works.

Speech & Language: Part 2 - To the letter

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Monday, June 11, 2018

| Nursery World

In order to spot speech problems, practitioners need to know what children should be able to say for their age group, explain Penny Tassoni and Anne-Marie Tassoni

Learning and Development: Activities - Tens and teens

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Tuesday, April 6, 2010

| Nursery World

Help children get their heads around numbers over ten, with fun rhymes and games from Opal Dunn.

Early Years Pioneers: Urie Bronfenbrenner

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Wednesday, May 17, 2006

| Nursery World

The interaction of children's development with larger aspects of society was the focus of Urie Bronfenbrenner's research and theory, writes Professor Tricia David

Learning & Development: Estimating: Part 2 - Can you guess?

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Monday, March 10, 2014

| Nursery World

Structured games designed to encourage children to estimate numbers can improve their mathematical abilities later on in life. Dr Jo Van Herwegen explains how the approach works.

Learning & Development: Physical Development - Winning out?

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Monday, April 21, 2014

| Nursery World

What impact do male practitioners have on the design and delivery of Physical Development? Dr Lala Manners shares the findings from a series of interviews with early years practitioners.

Speech & Language: Part 8 - Speaking out

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Monday, November 26, 2018

| Nursery World

Two- to three-year-olds’ expressive language is at a crucial stage. Anne-Marie Tassoni and Penny Tassoni explain what to expect and when you should be concerned

Learning & Development: Language Skills - Talk back

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Tuesday, June 16, 2009

| Nursery World

The first wave of Every Child A Talker is already producing noticeable benefits for children and families, say Michael Jones and Sue Thomas.

EYFS best practice - All about ... problem-solving

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Tuesday, July 7, 2009

| Nursery World

Responding to challenges and finding solutions is not confined to mathematics but arises in all areas of learning, says Sheila Ebbutt.

Learning and development: Planning to follow children's interests

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Wednesday, October 29, 2008

| Nursery World

Observant practitioners explored how they could follow children's interests to extend their thinking and learning in the Early Years Foundation Stage, as Di Chilvers shows.

Learning and Development: Jack and the beanstalk activity - Full of beans

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Tuesday, November 4, 2008

| Nursery World

Kate Hart Dyke used a favourite story to take her children on a nutritious learning journey.

Learning & Development activities: Our bright idea - Special things we do at home

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Tuesday, August 25, 2009

| Nursery World

Nursery children boxed up their interests and experiences for an activity that also produced a captivating display, as Jean Evans hears.

Learning & Development: Traditional Tales - Where's granny?

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Monday, June 2, 2014

| Nursery World

One nursery has immersed children in traditional fairy tales by doing much more than simply reading the stories to them, reports Meredith Jones Russell.

Learning & Development: Innovation - Free ways

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Tuesday, September 1, 2009

| Nursery World

While Britain's early years practice benefits from investment and research, truly innovative thinking may be at risk of being stifled by rigid government-imposed frameworks, warns Wendy Ellyatt.

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Learning & Development: Nature's way

'Children are accomplished sand writers, before moving on to pencils and paper'

Learning & Development: ICT - Screen play

Learning & Development: Communication & Language - On Platform 3

Let's go to… The Whitworth, Manchester

Outdoors: key 6 - The right stuff!

Learning & Development: Early Education - A new beginning

Nursery Equipment: Creativity - Space and time

Learning & Development: Maths - Try for size

Learning & Development: Mathematics: Part 1 - That figures

Learning & Development: Risk - Playing safe?

Enabling Environments: Mixed-age groups - Free range

Speech & Language: Part 2 - To the letter

Learning and Development: Activities - Tens and teens

Early Years Pioneers: Urie Bronfenbrenner

Learning & Development: Estimating: Part 2 - Can you guess?

Learning & Development: Physical Development - Winning out?

Speech & Language: Part 8 - Speaking out

Learning & Development: Language Skills - Talk back

EYFS best practice - All about ... problem-solving

Learning and development: Planning to follow children's interests

Learning and Development: Jack and the beanstalk activity - Full of beans

Learning & Development activities: Our bright idea - Special things we do at home

Learning & Development: Traditional Tales - Where's granny?

Learning & Development: Innovation - Free ways

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