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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.
To prepare young children for life spent increasingly online, parents and early years practitioners need to monitor their web use and lead by example, writes John Bolton
What today's unhealthy lifestyles are doing to children is outlined by Jonathan Doherty and Mary Whiting. Over the past 20 years the levels of obesity in children and adults in this country have...
Activities and tasks to help get your children outside this month. By Julie Mountain
Meeting the emotional and learning needs of the unique child
Embracing risky play gives children the chance to push themselves to their limits, with physical, emotional and educational benefits, explains Annette Rawstrone
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
Play-based practice is vital, says Annette Rawstrone, who discusses the pedagogy, principles and obstacles
Find some new ways round an old folk tale with activities that involve counting, making rhythms, using tools, learning about bridges and solving problems, as suggested by Lena Engel This is a good...
Britain should look at the development of early years services in other European countries to assess what it wants for its own, argues Professor Peter Moss