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The Nursery and Early Years Community, part of the Talking Heads online community for headteachers, is developing discussion on a wide range of subjects. Discussions in small or large groups or open...
Traditional playground games allow children to burn off excess energy. Lynne Garner describes some modern variations we all played them when we were children, learning the rules from one another or...
Over the past 18 months, we have been pitched into a situation where we seem to constantly swim against a relentless tide of inappropriate policy ‘initiatives’.
A comprehensive and high-quality system of early years childcare and education is needed to improve children's life chances and enable women to participate equally in the workforce, says a new book...
Colleges and awarding bodies have been reacting to the decision by the Children's Workforce Development Council to extend the deadline for offering some early years and childcare qualifications until...
The new Level 2/3 awards replace more than 200 qualifications. Is it a dumbing down?
A cross-party committee of MPs has pleaded for Sure Start to be given more time to achieve its goals. Will it get it? Laura Marcus reports.
Is it time to reassess our view of the enabling environment? Turning the term on its head, an environment that enables is more than the adult and more than the child – it becomes a context for intent,...
Exploration and investigation The following topics to explore and investigate are interesting to most young children:
There are important differences in the adult role when supporting child-led, rather than adult-led, learning, as Julie Fisher demonstrates.