Search

'More Great Childcare': Schools to be able to take children from two

Monday, January 28, 2013

| Nursery World

Primary schools will be encouraged to take children from the age of two, under new plans announced by the Government in its response to the Nutbrown Review.

Steiner Waldorf schools win victory on EYFS exemptions

News

Friday, January 25, 2013

| Nursery World

Steiner kindergartens have been successful in achieving exemptions from those aspects of the Early Learning Goals in the EYFS that do not fit with the Steiner educational philosophy and ethos. The ruling applies to all Steiner settings.

Booktrust campaign to raise 2m to get 12,000 disadvantaged children reading

News

Thursday, January 17, 2013

| Nursery World

The charity Booktrust has launched a new fundraising drive to help the UK's most vulnerable children through the power of stories and reading.

Parents win deferred school entry for daughter

News

Friday, January 11, 2013

| Nursery World

Parents of an August-born child have won a two-and-a-half year fight to defer her school entry until after her fifth birthday.

EYFS Profile Handbook and exemplification materials now online

News

Thursday, December 20, 2012

| Nursery World

The EYFS Profile Handbook and the EYFS Profile exemplification materials have been published by the Department for Education.

Montessori offers grants and free primary training

News

Friday, December 7, 2012

| Nursery World

A Montessori specialist could be trained in every primary school in England, in plans to widen access to Maria Montessori's philosophy to all children.

The Big Picture: Early language skills in action

News

Friday, December 7, 2012

| Nursery World

The minister for children and families, Edward Timpson MP, visited Stonegrove Children's Centre in Edgware, Barnet to celebrate the progress made by children and their families through the Early Language Development Programme (ELDP).

Ofsted report marks down childminders

News

Tuesday, November 27, 2012

| Nursery World

The best early years provision overall is found in group settings, Ofsted's annual report on early years has found.

A new international manifesto for early childhood

News

Friday, November 23, 2012

| Nursery World

Early years practitioners need to take a principled stand against political power that is not in the best interests of children, argue Marie Charlton and Richard House of Early Childhood Action

Call for new framework for babies and toddlers

News

Friday, November 23, 2012

| Nursery World

A children's charity is lobbying for a new early years framework to cater specifically for babies and toddlers under three, amid concerns that children do not receive the right care in nurseries to form attachments with key workers.

Campaigners launch 'alternative' EYFS

News

Friday, October 26, 2012

| Nursery World

A group of academics and early years practitioners has published an 'alternative' EYFS.

Call for volunteers to join the 'play army'

News

Thursday, October 18, 2012

| Nursery World

Do you have a favourite children's play area?

Children's EYFS Profile scores rise again, as gender gap narrows slightly

News

Wednesday, October 17, 2012

| Nursery World

Five-year-olds in England continue to improve their scores in assessments at the end of Reception, the latest Government statistics show.

Private schools will be able to opt out of the EYFS

News

Wednesday, October 3, 2012

| Nursery World

Independent schools will be able to opt out of the EYFS from the end of this month.

Nearly half of all six-year-olds fail phonics reading check

News

Thursday, September 27, 2012

| Nursery World

Just under six out of ten six-year-olds met the standard required by the new phonics reading check, the results of the first year of the test show.

The big picture: Country living in East London

News

Friday, September 14, 2012

| Nursery World

Around 3,000 primary school children in London will experience and discover the wonders of the countryside this month at the Countryside Live festival at Waterworks, Leyton on 26 and 27 September.

Teachers call for end to 'pointless' reading check for six-year-olds

News

Monday, September 3, 2012

| Nursery World

More than eight in ten Year 1 teachers in primary schools believe that the phonics check for six-year-olds should be scrapped, according to a survey by teaching unions.

The big picture: Nursery school digs for gold

News

Friday, August 17, 2012

| Nursery World

Welton Free Rangers Forest Nursery School in Somerset has won gold in the Royal Forestry Society (RFS) Excellence Awards with a project that allowed children and young people to enjoy the natural environment in a non-damaging way.

'Reading for pleasure' key to turning boys into readers

News

Monday, July 9, 2012

| Nursery World

Male reading volunteers in schools and parenting programmes that focus on fathers are among the recommendations of a major report into how to tackle the gap between boys and girls in reading.

The big picture: Netmums gives silver award to Piccolo Music

News

Friday, July 6, 2012

| Nursery World

Piccolo Music, which runs music sessions for young children and their families, has won silver in the Netmums awards for best pre-school activity in Newcastle.

Teaching unions protest over phonics reading check

News

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.

Primary curriculum is 'fatally flawed', Gove adviser says

News

Tuesday, June 12, 2012

| Nursery World

A leading academic who advised the education secretary on plans to revise the primary curriculum has slammed the Government's proposals.

Primary curriculum overhaul for maths, science and English

News

Monday, June 11, 2012

| Nursery World

Children will be given a set list of words that they will be expected to spell by the end of primary school in plans set out to reform the teaching of English, maths and science.

Re-discovered research says early school starting age 'harms children'

News

Tuesday, May 15, 2012

| Nursery World

A leading education campaigner and child psychologist is calling on the Prime Minister to intervene in the ongoing debate about the age at which children should start school.

Heads threaten to boycott phonics reading check

News

Tuesday, May 8, 2012

| Nursery World

Head teachers have threatened to put an end to the phonics reading check for all six-year-olds, if it is seen to be politically motivated and used as a weapon to attack teachers.

Search Results

'More Great Childcare': Schools to be able to take children from two

Steiner Waldorf schools win victory on EYFS exemptions

Booktrust campaign to raise 2m to get 12,000 disadvantaged children reading

Parents win deferred school entry for daughter

EYFS Profile Handbook and exemplification materials now online

Montessori offers grants and free primary training

The Big Picture: Early language skills in action

Ofsted report marks down childminders

A new international manifesto for early childhood

Call for new framework for babies and toddlers

Campaigners launch 'alternative' EYFS

Call for volunteers to join the 'play army'

Children's EYFS Profile scores rise again, as gender gap narrows slightly

Private schools will be able to opt out of the EYFS

Nearly half of all six-year-olds fail phonics reading check

The big picture: Country living in East London

Teachers call for end to 'pointless' reading check for six-year-olds

The big picture: Nursery school digs for gold

'Reading for pleasure' key to turning boys into readers

The big picture: Netmums gives silver award to Piccolo Music

Teaching unions protest over phonics reading check

Primary curriculum is 'fatally flawed', Gove adviser says

Primary curriculum overhaul for maths, science and English

Re-discovered research says early school starting age 'harms children'

Heads threaten to boycott phonics reading check

Current filters

Filter by

Journals

Article Types

Tags