We look at the qualifications and training opportunities that are helping practitioners to reach their full career potential.
Children using more than one language may have advantages in learning, but practitioners must ensure they can readily access the curriculum, say Tricia Carroll and Anne O'Connor.
To mark the publication of new guidance document Musical Development Matters, its author Nicola Burke explains its content and what she hopes it will achieve
Continuing our series on preparing for Ofsted inspections, Laura Henry advises on how to help children to enjoy and achieve The third of the five outcomes by which Ofsted will inspect early years...
Nursery owner and University of Warwick lecturer Caroline Jones has seen a raft of changes to early years legislation and inspection since she set up her first nursery at her home in 1989. Here, she...
Tyres are perfect open-ended resources and link well to children's schemas, as Anne O'Connor observes.
<P> For young children, 'history' will only mean the sequence of changes in their own lifetimes, says Jane Drake </P>
Mathematical learning need not be a dull or daunting prospect, thanks to the ability of well-equipped outside spaces to let children immerse themselves in complex ideas while at play.
The role of creativity in all areas of young children's learning is being recognised in education policy This is an excellent time to be talking and thinking about creativity. For many years it seemed...