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As with the other age groups, the developmental needs and interests of the child provided the starting points for planning the room for two-year-olds.
What is meant by continuous provision, and what does it require of early years practitioners? Anne O'Connor explains the key elements.
In looking to ease the transition to nursery, settings can also find ways to engage with the children currently in their care. Alison Anderson shares her experience devising a programme with this goal...
Children gain an immense sense of achievement from creating something beautiful from a few simple sticks, says Julie Mountain.
A new climbing area is offering impressive challenge and variety, says King's Meadow Primary School's Sarah Obinna.
Musical instruments can help children develop the sound recognition skills essential for reading, spelling and writing. Early years settings call the tune as they try out a few for Nicole Weinstein.
Family fortunes: the new politics of childhood Edited by Patrick Diamond, Sunder Katwala and Meg Munn
The importance of making spaces in which children and their carers can have freedom to think, talk and create was stressed at a major early years conference at Nottingham University earlier this...
With all their good intentions, children's centres may still let down their users through design faults that can be altered reasonably easily. Manager Colette Tait shows how.
From seeing the sky in puddles to finding the symmetry in faces, there are lots of ways to mirror all areas of the curriculum, say Carole Skinner, Fran Mosley and Sheila Ebbutt.