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In My View - Once in a lullaby

    Features
  • Tuesday, March 15, 2011
    • | Nursery World
There is something truly wonderful about the fact that children and carers today still love to sing 'Baa Baa Black Sheep'. The first written version of this song appeared in a book of nursery rhymes back in 1744. That makes it a very old sheep indeed. In a world where huge technological changes are occurring on an almost daily basis, it's comforting to know that some things last.

Book scheme goes on with reduced funds

    News
  • Tuesday, March 1, 2011
    • | Nursery World
The Department for Education has reaffirmed its commitment to providing free books for babies and children and announced a new scheme to be targeted through children's centres.

Pre-school boosts literacy in teen years

    News
  • Tuesday, February 15, 2011
    • | Nursery World
Children who attend pre-school education before they start school are much better readers at age 15 than those who do not, according to an international study.

Experts demand end to phonics test plans

    News
  • Tuesday, February 15, 2011
    • | Nursery World
A group of early years experts, including academics and practitioners, have launched a petition calling on the Government to abandon plans to introduce a phonics-based reading test for all six-year-olds.

Phonics urged as remedy for early literacy delay

    News
  • Tuesday, January 25, 2011
    • | Nursery World
Phonics should be taught by all early years providers and schools and children's progress in developing phonic knowledge and skills should be regularly assessed, according to a new report from Ofsted.

Gove makes partial U-turn over plan to axe Booktrust funding

    News
  • Tuesday, January 4, 2011
    • | Nursery World
Education secretary Michael Gove has partly reversed the Government's decision to axe the 13m grant for programmes which provide free books for babies and children, after the move was slammed by writers including the poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy and children's author Philip Pullman.

Talking Tents are a winner

    News
  • Tuesday, January 4, 2011
    • | Nursery World
Encouraging a love of language, stories and reading among pre-school children and their families has won a Norwich nursery a National Literacy Trust award.

Time to talk with your chatterboxes

    News
  • Tuesday, December 7, 2010
    • | Nursery World
Nurseries, playgroups and primary schools are being invited to register and get involved in the annual Chatterbox Challenge by I CAN, running early in 2011.

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