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Nursery Equipment: Proprioception - A clean sweep

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Monday, May 28, 2012

| Nursery World

Everything from household chores to tumbling heightens body awareness, explains Anne O'Connor.

Positive Relationships: Working with Families - A visual journey

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Monday, December 12, 2011

| Nursery World

Photographs taken by parents gave practitioners new insight into how children experience ways to communicate at home, says Elizabeth Jarman.

Enabling Environments: Well-being - Top security

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Tuesday, May 3, 2011

| Nursery World

Early years practitioners need to think about how children feel in the environment that we give them and how it affects their ability to learn and grow, says Maria Robinson.

Enabling Environments: All about ... Creating a wildlife area

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Tuesday, June 3, 2008

| Nursery World

The best way to get children to think about our disappearing wildlife is to have them take an active part in its resurrection - and it's really simple to do, says Mary Whiting.

Enabling Environments: Let's explore ... Wet and dry

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Tuesday, October 21, 2008

| Nursery World

Contrasts, and cause and effect, are just some of the concepts within the learning to be found in an investigation of 'wet' and 'dry' by Carole Skinner, Fran Mosley and Sheila Ebbutt.

Enabling environments: Around the Nursery - Water Area - Splash out

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Tuesday, April 1, 2008

| Nursery World

Make the most of water play by offering the best experiences and stocking the essential resources, as suggested by Jane Drake

Enabling Environments: music and language outdoors

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Tuesday, October 21, 2008

| Nursery World

Practitioners put their ears to the ground when thinking how to promote language development, as Nicola Hutton and Laura Leddy explain.

Enabling Environments: Collections - A fine time

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Friday, September 20, 2013

| Nursery World

In the second of a two-part series on developing fine motor control, Nicole Weinstein looks at resources for children aged three to five years.

Enabling environments: Continuous provision, part 4 - The right stuff

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Tuesday, December 16, 2008

| Nursery World

In providing resources for playful learning we need to remember the process in which they will be used, not just the outcome at the end, says Anne O'Connor.

EYFS Best practice: All about ... Forest schools

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Tuesday, May 4, 2010

| Nursery World

Explore the forest school movement in England with a study of local projects and a trip to the country where the movement started, as practitioners reflect on what they have learned.

Enabling Environments: Collections - Carry on

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Monday, November 17, 2014

| Nursery World

The transportation schema allows practitioners to witness the advance of learning. Nicole Weinstein shares her advice on supporting it.

Nursery Equipment: Construction - Work it out

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Monday, May 28, 2012

| Nursery World

Construction play is ideal for developing both gross and fine motor skills. Ruth Thomson provides a round-up of the building sets on offer.

Nursery Equipment: Community - All together

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Tuesday, May 3, 2011

| Nursery World

Nurseries should echo society's diversity and combat biased attitudes. Mary Evans explains how.

Nursery Equipment: Independence - Pick and choose

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Tuesday, May 3, 2011

| Nursery World

Equipping and furnishing a setting to provide free choice will help children become confident, resourceful learners who are happy to make their own decisions about their play, says Annette Rawstrone.

Enabling Environments: Outdoors - Adventures in Italy

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Wednesday, October 29, 2008

| Nursery World

Nursery school children in Verona, Italy, take part in challenging outdoor trips to develop their confidence and all-round skills.

Communication and Language: Discover talking places

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Tuesday, June 27, 2023

| Nursery World

What are the elements of a good environment for developing speech and language skills? Dr Tanya Richardson at the University of Northampton has codified them

Enabling Environments: Hand-eye co-ordination - Take your pick

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Friday, July 26, 2013

| Nursery World

Outdoor environments can offer good opportunities for children to build and develop hand-eye co-ordination, if the right interventions are made. Julie Mountain considers the best approaches.

Enabling Environments: Post-walking physical skills - Run for it!

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Monday, July 28, 2014

| Nursery World

Walking and running are both challenging locomotor skills for children to master. But the right approach can maximise opportunities for learning, says Lala Manners.

Enabling Environments: Collections - Fine by me!

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Friday, August 23, 2013

| Nursery World

This first in a two-part series looking at resources for developing children's fine motor control starts with the under-threes. Nicole Weinstein reports.

Resilience Outdoors - En route

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Monday, February 18, 2019

| Nursery World

Being outdoors offers unique and plentiful opportunities to build our own and children’s resilience, explains Annie Davy

Enabling environments resources for under-threes: Pick and mix

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Tuesday, December 9, 2008

| Nursery World

Try treasure baskets and discovery boxes for babies to become engrossed in self-directed play, in the second part of a series from Claire Stevenson, Donna Luck and Veronica Lawrence.

Nursery Equipment: Dispositions and attitudes - Switch on

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Tuesday, May 3, 2011

| Nursery World

Camcorders, whiteboards, digital microscopes and metal detectors are helping to build positive attitudes to learning at a Fife nursery school. Nicole Weinstein reports.

Nursery Equipment: Fine Motor Skills - Helping hands

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Monday, May 28, 2012

| Nursery World

Fine motor skills, including how to hold a pencil, are all now within the goal 'Moving and handling'. Jan White suggests experiences to help children become increasingly dextrous.

Enabling environments: Tried and tested - Puppets, Hand in glove

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Wednesday, March 19, 2008

| Nursery World

Puppets come in all shapes and sizes and are indispensable in most settings. Early years professionals put their hands up and give their verdicts on the following selection to Sue Hubberstey.