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Charities unite to call for action on children's SLCN

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.

The Big Picture - on the buses

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Monday, March 4, 2019

| Nursery World

More families across Scotland will receive support with their children’s development following the expansion of the PlayTalkRead roadshow fleet.

Baseline pilot go-ahead sparks outcry

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Friday, March 1, 2019

| Nursery World

The move by the Department for Education (DfE) to press ahead with the Reception baseline and invite schools to take part in a trial of the assessment, starting in the autumn, has been met with frustration from the early years sector.

DfE promotes baseline assessment in new video

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Thursday, February 28, 2019

| Nursery World

The Department for Education has uploaded a new YouTube video on the Reception baseline assessment explaining how it will work.

Schools invited to pilot Reception baseline as opposition against it grows

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Wednesday, February 27, 2019

| Nursery World

Schools can sign up from Friday (1 March) to pilot the Reception baseline assessment, which starts this autumn.

Boys from poorer backgrounds gain most from not delaying school start

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Friday, February 22, 2019

| Nursery World

Disadvantaged boys benefit most from starting Reception in September, according to new research.

Gap likely to grow in social mobility 'coldspots'

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Thursday, February 21, 2019

| Nursery World

The Government’s shift in focus towards childcare as a means of getting parents back to work, away from good quality early years education, is affecting settings’ quality and impacting social mobility, a cross-government report warns.

Finland's early years curriculum grows across the globe

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Thursday, February 14, 2019

| Nursery World

An early years approach based on Finland’s educational system is expanding across the world

Campaigners ramp up pressure against the Baseline

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Thursday, January 31, 2019

| Nursery World

More than a Score launched the next stage of their campaign against the Reception Baseline at the Nursery World Show.

Shops and businesses to help children develop language skills

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Wednesday, January 30, 2019

| Nursery World

Clarks has pledged to train all 6,500 of its staff in developing children’s speech, language and communication skills and engaging with families in stores across the country.

New award champions books for babies and under-fives

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Wednesday, January 16, 2019

| Nursery World

A new book prize for the early years has been launched.

Children's early cognitive skills should be prioritised to close the disadvantage gap

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Wednesday, December 19, 2018

| Nursery World

Early years services must prioritise children’s cognitive development to combat income-related learning gaps, an early intervention charity has warned.

Gap between poor five-year-olds and their better-off peers has grown

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Wednesday, December 19, 2018

| Nursery World

The early learning gap between children in poverty and their peers has widened in half of areas across England, according to new analysis.

Big picture: National awards

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Sunday, December 9, 2018

| Nursery World

The Creative Learning Guild has launched the UK’s first National Creative Learning Awards to celebrate and champion inspirational innovators, educators and practitioners.

EYFS data highlights growing gap between disadvantaged children and their peers

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Thursday, November 29, 2018

| Nursery World

The gap between children on free school meals and their peers at the end of Reception has widened, updated data from the EYFS Profile shows.

Parents' reading project aims to boost three-year-olds' language

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Thursday, November 15, 2018

| Nursery World

A new study aims to find out whether 20 minutes a day of story activities can help parents boost their child’s language skills.

Changes to Early Learning Goals 'criminal' says early years expert

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Friday, November 9, 2018

| Nursery World

Children are being steered towards pleasing teachers over developing a genuine love of learning under proposed reforms to the Early Learning Goals, early years experts said yesterday.

Children continue to achieve a good level of development at the end of Reception

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Friday, October 19, 2018

| Nursery World

The number of children achieving a good level of development at the end of the EYFS has risen again, while the gender gap between boys and girls has fallen for the fifth year running.

Children join in re-design of V&A Museum of Childhood

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Monday, October 8, 2018

| Nursery World

Local primary school children are contributing ideas to the multi-million-pound revamp of the V&A Museum of Childhood in plans to make it the ‘world’s most joyful museum for children’.

The Big Picture - Look and Learn

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Monday, October 1, 2018

| Nursery World

BookTrust has launched its third annual Time to Read campaign, giving away more than 700,000 books to four- and five-year-olds.

New 'Ready for School' fund to close attainment gap

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Tuesday, September 4, 2018

| Nursery World

A‘Ready for School’ fund is being launched to test approaches to close the communication and language gap for disadvantaged children in the North of England.

Ofsted calls for early years experts

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Thursday, August 30, 2018

| Nursery World

Ofsted is calling for academics, researchers and practitioners to apply to take part in a new early years forum to debate early years teaching and practice.

Disadvantage gap will take 'more than 100 years' to close

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Wednesday, July 25, 2018

| Nursery World

Children must be given equal access to high quality early years provision to tackle educational inequality, a leading think-tank has said.

Schools win funding to help disadvantaged children

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Friday, July 20, 2018

| Nursery World

A teacher from Salford has won funding to develop young children's communication and language through storytelling, in the Let Teachers SHINE 2018 awards.

Early years maths programme boosts children's development

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Friday, July 20, 2018

| Nursery World

Three-year-olds who took part in a scheme to improve maths teaching in early years settings made the equivalent of two extra months’ progress on average compared to other children, research suggests.

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Charities unite to call for action on children's SLCN

The Big Picture - on the buses

Baseline pilot go-ahead sparks outcry

DfE promotes baseline assessment in new video

Schools invited to pilot Reception baseline as opposition against it grows

Boys from poorer backgrounds gain most from not delaying school start

Gap likely to grow in social mobility 'coldspots'

Finland's early years curriculum grows across the globe

Campaigners ramp up pressure against the Baseline

Shops and businesses to help children develop language skills

New award champions books for babies and under-fives

Children's early cognitive skills should be prioritised to close the disadvantage gap

Gap between poor five-year-olds and their better-off peers has grown

Big picture: National awards

EYFS data highlights growing gap between disadvantaged children and their peers

Parents' reading project aims to boost three-year-olds' language

Changes to Early Learning Goals 'criminal' says early years expert

Children continue to achieve a good level of development at the end of Reception

Children join in re-design of V&A Museum of Childhood

The Big Picture - Look and Learn

New 'Ready for School' fund to close attainment gap

Ofsted calls for early years experts

Disadvantage gap will take 'more than 100 years' to close

Schools win funding to help disadvantaged children

Early years maths programme boosts children's development

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