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The Forest Schools experience has brought many benefits to children at a setting in Scotland. AnnMarie Cunningham describes the process.
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.
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'.
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.
Making the move from nursery to primary school can throw up challenges for everyone involved, but settings can take steps to make the process easier. Rebecca Fisk suggests some methods.
Children gain an immense sense of achievement from creating something beautiful from a few simple sticks, says Julie Mountain.
A new climbing area is offering impressive challenge and variety, says King's Meadow Primary School's Sarah Obinna.
The nursery group Imagine Co-operative Childcare is changing its name to The Co-operative Childcare to reinforce its commitment to the co-operative movement and its ethics and values.
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...
Early years settings' work with families can take a new dimension when everybody gets outdoors together, says Annie Davy, early years advisor at Learning through Landscapes.