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Interactive dance show on tour

    News
  • Tuesday, August 31, 2010
    • | Nursery World
An interactive dance show for young children about a Native American jingle dress is touring schools and theatres this autumn.

BBC lobbied on children's radio

    News
  • Tuesday, August 31, 2010
    • | Nursery World
A radio network for pre-school and primary age children that would help improve their listening and language skills should replace the BBC Asian Network, according to campaigners.

To the Point - Making the wheels turn

    Features
  • Tuesday, August 31, 2010
    • | Nursery World
Occasionally, an encounter between two people plus a chance observation can change the world. It is no exaggeration to make this claim for what happened when the psychologist Jean Piaget met Susan Isaacs in the 1920s.

New early years social networking site

    News
  • Tuesday, August 24, 2010
    • | Nursery World
A social networking website called the Unique Child Network has been launched by early years specialist Wendy Ellyatt, who said it focuses on 'the vital importance of the early years and the need to protect the rights of each child as a joyful and uniquely predisposed learner'.

Summer-born children at risk of ADHD misdiagnosis

    News
  • Tuesday, August 24, 2010
    • | Nursery World
Summer-born children are more likely to be diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), a study has warned, raising fears that the condition is routinely being misdiagnosed.

Practitioners need help with nature

    News
  • Tuesday, August 24, 2010
    • | Nursery World
Teachers and early years practitioners need sustained training programmes to understand the importance of children engaging with the natural world, according to school grounds charity Learning through Landscapes.

More schools get help from reading dogs

    News
  • Tuesday, August 24, 2010
    • | Nursery World
Reading dogs are stretching their influence to schools in Kent with the expansion of a unique project to encourage children who are reluctant to read out loud.

Only children don't have fewer friends

    News
  • Tuesday, August 17, 2010
    • | Nursery World
Growing up without siblings does not mean that a child will have poor social skills later in life, said researchers from Ohio State University who told the American Sociological Association's annual meeting that 'only' children had as many friends as their peers who had brothers or sisters.

Speech year is in jeopardy

    News
  • Tuesday, August 17, 2010
    • | Nursery World
Concerns have been raised that the National Year of Speech, Language and Communication, which is due to take place in 2011, could be axed after the Government refused to make a commitment to funding the initiative.

Lack of breakfast linked with childhood obesity

    News
  • Tuesday, August 17, 2010
    • | Nursery World
Children who regularly skip breakfast before going to school are nearly twice as likely to be obese compared with those who eat something before they leave home, according to a new study.

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