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Interview - Dr Colin MacAdam

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Friday, November 9, 2012

| Nursery World

Managing director of Playforce, a supplier of outdoor play and learning equipment for nurseries and primary schools.

Parents need to be told about baby talk, study shows

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Monday, November 1, 2010

| Nursery World

A research project carried out by Talk to Your Baby reveals that some parents feel silly or embarrassed talking to their babies, while many believe that communication is something that will happen of its own accord.

Children's art at the chalk face

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Friday, March 22, 2013

| Nursery World

Every year the Whitechapel Gallery in London invites a contemporary artist to create new work for the Children's Art Commission.

Schools 'bribed' to use phonics, MPs' report says

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Thursday, July 7, 2011

| Nursery World

A cross-party group of MPs has warned that the coalition Government's focus on phonics as the only way to teach children to read will lead to a decline in literacy.

SpongeBob blamed for harming children's concentration

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Tuesday, September 13, 2011

| Nursery World

Watching fast-paced cartoons such as Spongebob Squarepants may affect pre-school children's ability to concentrate and interact with others, according to new research.

Toddlers' bike wins 'dragons' backing

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Wednesday, September 14, 2011

| Nursery World

The creator of a bike for pre-school children that helps develop their balance is riding high, after judges on BBC's Dragons' Den agreed to invest 75,000 into his company.

Reading test for all six-year-olds given go-ahead

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Friday, September 16, 2011

| Nursery World

The DfE has confirmed that all six-year-olds will take a phonics reading test next June.

Singer Mollie King launches Dyslexia Awareness Week

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Monday, October 5, 2020

| Nursery World

Presenter and singer Mollie King and the British Dyslexia Association have joined forces to focus on this year’s Dyslexia Awareness Week’s theme: Dyslexia Creates.

Interview: Andrea Leadsom MP and Jo Churchill, public health minister

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Tuesday, November 24, 2020

| Nursery World

We talk to Andrea Leadsom and Jo Churchill about progress on the Early Years Healthy Development Review

Children’s online habits revealed in survey

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Thursday, February 4, 2021

| Nursery World

Children are spending an average of three hours a day online in their leisure time, on top of online learning, a report by Childwise, reveals.

Children may not be ‘physically’ ready to start school - study

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Wednesday, March 10, 2021

| Nursery World

Up to 60 per cent of children may be entering the school system without the key physical capabilities that lead to future academic success, a new study reveals.

Coronavirus: Nurseries and childminders report widening attainment gap among disadvantaged under-fives

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Friday, May 14, 2021

| Nursery World

Nearly half of early years providers believe the gap between disadvantaged under-fives and their peers has grown during the pandemic, a survey suggests, with the majority finding that fewer children across all backgrounds are reaching expected pre-Covid levels of attainment.

Outdoor play is 'every child's right'

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Thursday, November 25, 2021

| Nursery World

Every child has a right to spend time outdoors, said Professor Jan White, speaking at Nursery World’s outdoor play conference.

Funded places available for early years music-making course

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Monday, June 27, 2022

| Nursery World

Early years settings can apply for a chance to access fully-funded music therapy training with charity Music as Therapy International.

Survey seeks sector views on the twos scheme

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Sunday, June 15, 2014

| Nursery World

Early years practitioners are invited to have their say on the disadvantaged two-year-old programme via TACTYC’s new online survey.

Synthetic phonics 'damages' children's love of reading

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Tuesday, January 28, 2014

| Nursery World

The education secretary’s insistence that children should be taught to read using synthetic phonics is almost ‘a form of abuse’, a leading academic claims.

Have your say on literacy in the early years

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Wednesday, April 9, 2014

| Nursery World

The National Literacy Trust (NLT) is inviting early years practitioners to take part in its 2014 survey on early years literacy.

Lack of outdoor play in Year One limits children

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Thursday, April 11, 2013

| Nursery World

A sharp decline in outdoor learning as children move from the Foundation Stage to Year One may reduce opportunities for them to develop their creativity and social skills, finds a new study.

Almost half of children starting school are not 'developmentally ready'

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Thursday, January 26, 2023

| Nursery World

Over 1,000 teachers that were surveyed on behalf of education organisation Kindred2, reported that 46 per cent of children in their Reception classes were not developmentally 'school ready'.

Row breaks out between critics of the revised early years curriculum and DfE

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Wednesday, July 22, 2020

| Nursery World

The dispute between a group of early years experts and teachers and the Department for Education over the Government’s planned reforms to the Early Years Foundation Stage has ramped up this week.

Early years practitioners can make 'a positive' difference' to child health

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Tuesday, November 10, 2020

| Nursery World

Children’s health has been ‘neglected for far too long in the early years’, a leading expert told delegates at Nursery World’s online CPD conference on the EYFS.

Learn about the science of brain development

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Monday, December 14, 2020

| Nursery World

A free, online course about how babies’ brains develop has been launched by the University of Oxford.

Gender stereotyping causes ‘lifelong harm’ - study

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Wednesday, December 16, 2020

| Nursery World

Harmful gender stereotypes are significantly limiting children’s potential, warns a report from the Commission on Gender Stereotypes in Early Childhood.

Coronavirus: How to talk to children about the second wave

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Thursday, January 21, 2021

| Nursery World

The atmosphere in the country has changed with the second wave of COVID, but how has that affected the way practitioners are talking to children about the virus? And what approaches should they be taking? Gabriella Jozwiak finds out

Children starting Reception face 'the most challenging school start for generations'

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Wednesday, September 8, 2021

| Nursery World

The charity Nesta warns that children starting Reception this term will need more support due to the number of hours of early education they have missed in the coronavirus pandemic.

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Interview - Dr Colin MacAdam

Parents need to be told about baby talk, study shows

Children's art at the chalk face

Schools 'bribed' to use phonics, MPs' report says

SpongeBob blamed for harming children's concentration

Toddlers' bike wins 'dragons' backing

Reading test for all six-year-olds given go-ahead

Singer Mollie King launches Dyslexia Awareness Week

Interview: Andrea Leadsom MP and Jo Churchill, public health minister

Children’s online habits revealed in survey

Children may not be ‘physically’ ready to start school - study

Coronavirus: Nurseries and childminders report widening attainment gap among disadvantaged under-fives

Outdoor play is 'every child's right'

Funded places available for early years music-making course

Survey seeks sector views on the twos scheme

Synthetic phonics 'damages' children's love of reading

Have your say on literacy in the early years

Lack of outdoor play in Year One limits children

Almost half of children starting school are not 'developmentally ready'

Row breaks out between critics of the revised early years curriculum and DfE

Early years practitioners can make 'a positive' difference' to child health

Learn about the science of brain development

Gender stereotyping causes ‘lifelong harm’ - study

Coronavirus: How to talk to children about the second wave

Children starting Reception face 'the most challenging school start for generations'

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