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In looking to ease the transition to nursery, settings can also find ways to engage with the children currently in their care. Alison Anderson shares her experience devising a programme with this goal...
Using these historic creatures to inspire games and activities can help to build curiousity and imagination, advises Marianne Sargent.
In providing resources for playful learning we need to remember the process in which they will be used, not just the outcome at the end, says Anne O'Connor.
More and more studies are showing the importance to health of access to natural green environments, reports Annette Rawstrone
We’re going to the beach this July, with cover feature on beach schools, plus babies mental health, a new sustainability framework, and the concept of curriculum in the early years (ahead of our...
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...
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...
Identifying children's relationships with the adults in their home is no longer a matter of Bob's your uncle, says Mary Evans Family life in Britain today is often much more complicated than the...
A shortage of sand and water for play can cause squabbles. Anne O'Connor advises on creative ways of providing this popular resource.