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'Learning to learn' boosts children's development

Friday, April 27, 2018

| Nursery World

Children as young as three can benefit from developing ‘learning to learn’ skills, which can boost children’s attainment by seven months, according to new research.

Children spend 100 million minutes reading in a month

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Wednesday, April 25, 2018

| Nursery World

Children and young people across the UK have read for more than a 100,000,000 minutes as part of a month-long reading competition.

New website resources to support children's communication

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Wednesday, April 25, 2018

| Nursery World

The Communication Trust has launched a new national initiative to help early years settings enhance their communication provision.

Language lessons bridge the generations

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Thursday, April 19, 2018

| Nursery World

A new intergenerational scheme has launched, helping young children and elderly people to learn languages together.

Early years group calls for smacking ban

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Wednesday, April 18, 2018

| Nursery World

Early years training organisation NEyTCO has launched a social media awareness campaign in support of banning smacking.

Call for young children's dental care to be prioritised

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Tuesday, April 10, 2018

| Nursery World

Parents struggle to access free oral health care and are unaware of dental checks for one-year-olds, according to a new survey.

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.

Awards celebrate children's speech and language

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Tuesday, March 27, 2018

| Nursery World

Children’s House Nursery School in Tower Hamlets has been named early years setting of the year at the 2018 Shine a Light Awards.

Bercow: 10 years on parents face 'postcode lottery' of support

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Tuesday, March 20, 2018

| Nursery World

Parents across the country are struggling to find the help they need for children with speech and language problems, according to a wide-ranging new report, which updates the landmark Bercow Review 10 years after it was first published.

'Play and joy' in the snow

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Monday, March 5, 2018

| Nursery World

A strong emphasis on the outdoors and a later start to formal learning are key in Scandinavia, Catherine Gaunt discovered on Nursery World’s study tour to Finland and Sweden last month

Ofsted says settings are 'not physical enough'

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Monday, March 5, 2018

| Nursery World

Ofsted is planning a new focus on physical development in early years settings, with deputy director of early education Gill Jones claiming that nurseries and pre-schools are not adequately physically challenging.