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Analysis: Why early intervention needs to be a priority

Tuesday, May 25, 2010

| Nursery World

Even before the General Election, politicians from different parties were uniting in calls for investment in early intervention that could reduce society's ills and costs over the long term. Laura Marcus looks at the possibilities for making it happen.

EYFS Best Practice: All about…Pikler

Features

Monday, March 6, 2017

| Nursery World

How Emmi Pikler’s approach to care-giving for the under-threes can be incorporated into modern best practice at settings and at home. By Dorothy Marlen

News Analysis: In numbers

News

Friday, February 3, 2012

| Nursery World

Activity and obesity

Physical activity: some lessons from Finland

Opinion

Monday, April 3, 2017

| Nursery World

It may sound strange, but we know very little about children’s physical activity (PA) in daycare and nurseries. How physically active are children really? What instigates PA?

Learning & Development: Physical Development - Take your position

Features

Friday, May 11, 2012

| Nursery World

Understanding proprioception leaves settings better placed to meet the physical developmental needs of young children, says Anne O'Connor.

Girls 'believe they're better' than boys from early age

News

Tuesday, September 7, 2010

| Nursery World

Girls believe they are cleverer and better behaved than boys from the age of four, according to new research by the University of Kent.

Invest more in early years to improve primary results, say teachers

News

Friday, November 20, 2015

| Nursery World

Eight in ten teachers think investing more in the quality of early years education would improve primary school results, finds a new survey.

Children's centres improve parenting for poor families

News

Friday, December 18, 2015

| Nursery World

Children’s centres in poor areas help disadvantaged families to develop parenting skills, improve mothers’ mental health and children's learning at home, research shows.

Learning & Development: Babywatching - Hello, baby!

Features

Monday, October 3, 2016

| Nursery World

The increasingly popular BASE Babywatching programme aims to boost children’s empathy in order to tackle violence in schools and beyond. Griselda Kellie-Smith and Andrea Perry explain how it works

Learning & Development: Gender - Oh, boy!

Features

Monday, April 18, 2016

| Nursery World

Thinking in a more challenging way about gender in early childhood can be daunting but is vital to real understanding, say Kath Tayler and Deborah Price

EYFS Best Practice - All about…: Calm

Features

Monday, April 4, 2016

| Nursery World

Children need to be stimulated, but over-stimulation can lead to problems. A calm child is better able to focus, reflect and self-regulate, explains Linda Pound

A third of children not 'school-ready' for Reception

News

Monday, May 9, 2016

| Nursery World

Nearly a third of children are not arriving ‘school-ready' for their first days at reception class and some are not even toilet trained, a survey suggests.

A Unique Child: Wrestling - Roll with it

Features

Tuesday, January 4, 2011

| Nursery World

Young boys seem to have a natural urge to wrestle with each other, so what stance should childcarers take? asks Annette Rawstrone.

Summer holiday services failing children with learning disabilities

News

Thursday, August 25, 2016

| Nursery World

Local government cuts have stranded children with learning disabilities without effective access to services during the school holidays, according to a survey by charity Mencap.

EYFS review prioritises how children learn

News

Tuesday, April 5, 2011

| Nursery World

How, rather than what, children learn should be given greater emphasis under a revised early years framework, the EYFS review has recommended.

How to support children to be confident about the way they look

Opinion

Tuesday, September 6, 2016

| Nursery World

We need to challenge young children's anxieties about body image, says nursery manager Kayleigh Hollingsworth

In My View - Let them learn from risk

Features

Tuesday, April 12, 2011

| Nursery World

'Nervous' nursery schools could be harming the development of young children.

Testing 'killing the joy of reading', top author claims

News

Wednesday, September 21, 2016

| Nursery World

Testing in schools is creating an ‘apartheid system’ in the young that is ‘killing the joy of reading’ according to a leading children’s author.

'School readiness' is only part of transition

Opinion

Tuesday, September 27, 2016

| Nursery World

Dr Karen Wickett, lecturer in early childhood studies at Plymouth Institute of Education, says that children's need to adjust to school should not be forgotten