As Montessori celebrates 100 years of training in the UK, Nursery World meets Leonor Stjepic, CEO of Montessori St Nicholas
What are the competencies needed for safeguarding in today's climate? By Rachel Buckler, a trainer and consultant specialising in safeguarding practices and procedures.
With fierce competition in the sector, settings need to publicise their business. Rosie Pressland shows how to aim sky-high The childcare sector has never known such growth, and with that...
Don't stop at dolls, but supply all the equipment that babies need in an essential collection of role-play resources, says Nicole Weinstein.
Have you ever watched your child playing with mud and wondered what it is that so enthrals them? Their enthusiasm almost certainly lies in a desire to explore and be creative, and such explorations...
Playing with toy farm animals and the resources that support their use broadens children's understanding of the world, says Nicole Weinstein.
Observation is central to assessment for the new Progress Check at Two and the revised EYFS Profile, says Jan Dubiel, national development co-ordinator for Early Excellence.
The child-centred, informal atmosphere that should exist throughout the day in an early years setting should also continue at mealtimes. Although dinner time (especially) necessarily involves adult...
By Jane Drake, a partnership advisory teacher in Leeds and author of Planning Children's Play and Learning in the Foundation Stage and Organising Play in the Early Years (David Fulton) Effective...
What childcare training involves under the Steiner Waldorf approach. By Jill Tina Taplin