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What is meant by continuous provision, and what does it require of early years practitioners? Anne O'Connor explains the key elements.
Is it time to reassess our view of the enabling environment? Turning the term on its head, an environment that enables is more than the adult and more than the child – it becomes a context for intent,...
Family fortunes: the new politics of childhood Edited by Patrick Diamond, Sunder Katwala and Meg Munn
In part three of her series on the 7Cs approach to planning outdoor spaces for young children, Julie Mountain explains the importance of incorporating 'clarity' and 'challenge'.
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...
Children gain an immense sense of achievement from creating something beautiful from a few simple sticks, says Julie Mountain.
Are you a mud-lover, a mug-hugger or somewhere in between? Annie Davy explains why being an early years practitioner today is an outdoor job.
A new climbing area is offering impressive challenge and variety, says King's Meadow Primary School's Sarah Obinna.
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.
Understanding both physical and psychological environments is key when creating areas for two-year-olds. Julia Manning-Morton explains how settings' management of this impacts on children's...