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EYFS Best Practice: All about... Self-regulation

Monday, May 19, 2014

| Nursery World

The ability to control emotional and physical impulses should be developed in the early years to help ensure children embrace learning and grow into self-regulating adults.

EYFS Best Practice: All about ... sleep

Features

Monday, April 21, 2014

| Nursery World

Getting enough sleep - and the right sort of sleep - is a crucial component for development. Natasha Kirkham explains why, and considers what advice practitioners can give to parents

A Unique Child: Child Development - Being 'me'

Features

Monday, April 7, 2014

| Nursery World

Self-awareness is not something we are born with, but an understanding that grows over time. Crucially, says Maria Robinson, it relies on a baby's experience of interacting with others

A Unique Child: Inclusion - A shift in thinking

Features

Monday, March 24, 2014

| Nursery World

A study on alcohol and pregnancy has implications for both mothers and those working with affected children.

Two-year-olds: Relationships - Safe and secure

Features

Friday, June 28, 2013

| Nursery World

Settling in and building relationships are key challenges for settings involved in the two-year-old programme, and nurseries can find ways to smooth the process, says Penny Tassoni.

Two-year-olds: Child Behaviour - Tune in

Features

Friday, June 28, 2013

| Nursery World

Mindful carers are needed to ensure that children with different needs get the right amount of stimulation. Anne O'Connor explains.

A Unique Child: Child Development - First love

Features

Friday, April 5, 2013

| Nursery World

The economic incentives offered to encourage mothers to return to work ignore the parent's crucial role in the early years, Sally Goddard Blythe believes

A Unique Child: Health - Early movers

Features

Friday, February 22, 2013

| Nursery World

Help is at hand for those seeking to organise physically active play environments.

A Unique Child: Child Development - Move on

Features

Friday, February 22, 2013

| Nursery World

Children at two are not 'ready' for reading, says Sally Goddard Blythe. They don't have the physical equipment for learning formal skills.

A Unique Child: Inclusion - Shine on

Features

Friday, January 11, 2013

| Nursery World

A Bedford-based nursery's strategy for developing children's communication skills has won it a major award.

A Unique Child: Child Development - Face to face

Features

Friday, December 7, 2012

| Nursery World

In this extract from her new Practical EYFS Handbook, Penny Tassoni outlines ways of building confidence and self-awareness in children aged 0-11 months.

A Unique Child: Progress check at two - Decision time

Features

Friday, November 9, 2012

| Nursery World

'I am a Unique Child. I am Two. What I can do' is a Wokingham-wide assessment tool developed in response to settings' anxieties over the Progress Check at Two. The success of the new resources lie in a joint working party, explains the Council's early years team.

EYFS: Progress Check at two - Step two

Features

Friday, April 27, 2012

| Nursery World

The 'Know How' guide will see you through the progress check at two, says Susan Soar, development officer, National Children's Bureau.

EYFS: Development Matters -Take the stage

Features

Friday, April 27, 2012

| Nursery World

Designed to be used in everyday practice, the revised developmental grids give guidance on planning and 'how' children learn, says Helen Moylett, principal consultant, Early Learning Consultancy

EYFS: English as an Additional Language - Second best?

Features

Friday, April 27, 2012

| Nursery World

The EAL requirements reveal a lack of knowledge about how language is learned, say early years consultants Tricia Carroll and Anne O'Connor.

A Unique Child: Practice in pictures - separation

Features

Monday, November 28, 2011

| Nursery World

Practitioners should acknowledge the feelings that separation can trigger in a young child, a parent and themselves, says Anne O'Connor.

A Unique Child: Practice in pictures - At a crawl

Features

Monday, October 3, 2011

| Nursery World

Crawling is an important physical stage in its own right which enables babies to break away from their carers for the first time, says Anne O'Connor.

A great new practice guide on boys' learning and development

News

Tuesday, September 13, 2011

| Nursery World

An exclusive online resource for Nursery World subscribers focuses on supporting young boys

A Unique Child: Cognitive Development - First reading

Features

Monday, September 5, 2011

| Nursery World

Ways that nurseries can identify and promote children's readiness for reading are highlighted in studies considered by Kyra Karmiloff and Annette Karmiloff-Smith.