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Joint winner, Houghton Community Nursery School, Houghton le Spring
A round-up of new products to boost children's skills and enjoyment, compiled by Ruth Thomson.
Musical instruments can help children develop the sound recognition skills essential for reading, spelling and writing. Early years settings call the tune as they try out a few for Nicole Weinstein.
Imagination is the most valuable resource for creating spaces where children love to talk, says Elizabeth Jarman.
Resources for productive role play, and the best practice for organising and offering them, are outlined by Jane Drake in our series on continuous provision in an early years setting.
Childcare vouchers will retain tax relief, thanks to widespread protests.
Children's interests and developmental needs, in particular schemas, were key starting points for planning continuous provision within the toddler room created by the Warwickshire team.
Enclosed spaces can foster friendship and heighten young children's concentration and involvement in their play, says Annette Rawstrone.
A nursery in Wiltshire used a local garden in an old churchyard, and a visual artist, to put together a Making Memories project. Annette Rawstrone explains
* We have five copies of Images of Violence - Responding to Children's Representations of the Violence They See by Sian Adams and Janet Moyles (Featherstone Education, 14.49) to give away to Nursery...