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Programme boosts children's early literacy

Thursday, September 25, 2014

| Nursery World

An evaluation of the first year of the Making it REAL programme, published today, has found it has been successful in considerably improving children’s early literacy development.

Tristram Hunt urges parents to play more with their children

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Tuesday, May 5, 2015

| Nursery World

Children are starting school unable to speak properly because their parents are not playing with them enough, Labour’s shadow education secretary has claimed.

Charities unite to call for action on children's SLCN

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Thursday, March 7, 2019

| Nursery World

Sixty charities and organisations have joined forces to urge the Prime Minister to do more to improve support for the 1.4 million children with speech, language and communication needs.

Cheltenham early years centre wins Shine a Light Award

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Wednesday, March 27, 2019

| Nursery World

Battledown Centre for Children and Families in Cheltenham has been awarded Early Years Setting of the year at the seventh annual Shine a Light awards.

DfE funds £6.5m plan to tackle early language gap

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Tuesday, April 9, 2019

| Nursery World

Under-fives living in disadvantaged areas are to benefit from additional help with their early speech and communication skills, as part of a £6.5m investment from the DfE.

MPs call for joint children's centre and health budgets to protect services

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Monday, July 15, 2013

| Nursery World

Children's centre budgets should be pooled with those for midwives and health visitors, a cross-party committee of MPs has argued.

Children need time to be bored, ex-head says

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Friday, January 10, 2014

| Nursery World

Boredom can be more beneficial for children’s development than participation in clubs and extra-curricular activities, a leader of prep schools has said.

Children's communication problems must be tackled in the early years

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Monday, March 4, 2013

| Nursery World

Children from low-income families should have more support in the early years to tackle their speech, language and communication needs says a cross-party group of MPs and peers.

Call for major overhaul of ELGs with early years experts

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Thursday, July 5, 2018

| Nursery World

Early Education says that the Government’s revision of the Early Learning Goals has far wider implications and is in effect a re-write of the whole EYFS 'by the back door'.

Call for early years student researchers

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Friday, December 7, 2018

| Nursery World

The Early Childhood Studies Degree Network (ECSDN) has issued an open call for papers for its research conference.

Links shown between neuromotor skills and academic performance

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Friday, November 9, 2012

| Nursery World

The first study of its kind to measure foundation stage children's neuromotor skills against their performance at school has found that children who struggle to sit still or hold a pencil may not have fully completed steps in their neurophysiological development as babies.

EYFS REVIEW: Early years sector gives EYFS review a warm welcome

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Wednesday, March 30, 2011

| Nursery World

The early years sector has given an overwhelmingly positive response to recommendations made by Dame Clare Tickell in her review of the EYFS.

Teaching unions protest over phonics reading check

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Monday, June 18, 2012

| Nursery World

Teaching unions have joined forces to protest against the phonics screening check, which all six-year-olds will have to take in the next few weeks.

Poorer pupils could lose out in unproven teaching strategies

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Friday, August 3, 2012

| Nursery World

There is a risk that the 1.25 billion allocated through the pupil premium may not be spent on the best strategies for boosting the achievement of disadvantaged children, the education charity the Sutton Trust has warned.

Funding boost for community childminding

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Tuesday, August 28, 2012

| Nursery World

The Scottish Childminding Association has secured additional funding from the Early Years Early Action Fund that aims to support vulnerable families early on.

Children's communication needs as important as fight against obesity

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Thursday, March 29, 2018

| Nursery World

There is 'a wave of interest in early language', says Jean Gross, chair of Bercow: Ten Years On.

Interview - Dr Lynne McKenna and Dr Joan Goss

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Friday, March 8, 2013

| Nursery World

Dr Lynne McKenna, principal lecturer and Dr Joan Goss, senior lecturer at Northumbria University.

Link found between unplanned babies from poor families and language delay

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Wednesday, July 27, 2011

| Nursery World

Children born as a result of an unplanned pregnancy and into disadvantage are more likely to have limited vocabulary and spatial abilities compared to those who are planned, according to a new study.

Call for early years teachers to lead nurseries in poorer areas

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Thursday, September 7, 2017

| Nursery World

Nursery groups in deprived areas should be led by an early years teacher or equivalent by 2020, a new report by a coalition of more than 80 organisations recommends.

Secret to instilling a love of fruit and veg in young children revealed

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Wednesday, January 11, 2012

| Nursery World

Children are more likely to eat the food on their plate if there are seven different items and six different colours, finds a new study.

Training to help staff support parents to manage children's weight

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Thursday, April 26, 2012

| Nursery World

Children's centre staff in Wandsworth and Lewisham will be taught how to raise the issue of tackling childhood obesity with families, as part of a new programme commissioned by the NHS.

Study finds iPads benefit children's learning

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Thursday, May 25, 2017

| Nursery World

New research suggests that using iPads in the classroom can have a positive impact on young children’s literacy, numeracy and communication skills.

More parents want later start for summer-borns

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Monday, May 21, 2018

| Nursery World

There has been a significant rise in the number of parents asking for their summer-born children to delay starting school.

Carly Budd: Strategies for increasing the amount of tummy time in your setting

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Wednesday, April 19, 2023

| Nursery World

The specialist paediatric occupational therapist says that tummy time enables us to interact with babies in a different way, and gives babies the chance to discover their environment from a new perspective.

Young children's understanding of language nearly back to pre-pandemic levels

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Friday, December 1, 2023

| Nursery World

A new study suggests that young children’s understanding of language is nearly back to pre-pandemic norms, despite ‘added pressures on today’s families’.

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Programme boosts children's early literacy

Tristram Hunt urges parents to play more with their children

Charities unite to call for action on children's SLCN

Cheltenham early years centre wins Shine a Light Award

DfE funds £6.5m plan to tackle early language gap

MPs call for joint children's centre and health budgets to protect services

Children need time to be bored, ex-head says

Children's communication problems must be tackled in the early years

Call for major overhaul of ELGs with early years experts

Call for early years student researchers

Links shown between neuromotor skills and academic performance

EYFS REVIEW: Early years sector gives EYFS review a warm welcome

Teaching unions protest over phonics reading check

Poorer pupils could lose out in unproven teaching strategies

Funding boost for community childminding

Children's communication needs as important as fight against obesity

Interview - Dr Lynne McKenna and Dr Joan Goss

Link found between unplanned babies from poor families and language delay

Call for early years teachers to lead nurseries in poorer areas

Secret to instilling a love of fruit and veg in young children revealed

Training to help staff support parents to manage children's weight

Study finds iPads benefit children's learning

More parents want later start for summer-borns

Carly Budd: Strategies for increasing the amount of tummy time in your setting

Young children's understanding of language nearly back to pre-pandemic levels

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