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Enabling Environments: Collections - All in hand

Features

Monday, May 4, 2015

| Nursery World

How can settings support the development of small hand movements? Nicole Weinstein advises.

EYFS Best Practice: All about ... supporting schemas

Features

Tuesday, March 1, 2011

| Nursery World

Schemas - patterns of repeated behaviour - are key to how young children learn and early years practitioners must respond to them, says Stella Louis.

In My View - Why it's worth checking

Features

Tuesday, April 5, 2011

| Nursery World

Dame Clare Tickell's recommendations in the EYFS review are welcome, particularly the ones relating to universal early years checks.

Physical reality

Opinion

Monday, October 3, 2016

| Nursery World

The experiences of a child in early years are critical for their future, says Jan Dubiel

Enabling Environments: Climbing - Up the wall

Features

Tuesday, October 12, 2010

| Nursery World

The challenges of climbing boosts young children's well-being, learning and language as well as physical strength, as Ruth Thomson hears.

Arts campaigners condemn school cuts

News

Tuesday, January 11, 2011

| Nursery World

The abolition of a flagship programme designed to foster creativity in children has been condemned by teachers and ambassadors of the arts as threatening the education of the most vulnerable children.

A Unique Child: Inclusion - Shine on

Features

Friday, January 11, 2013

| Nursery World

A Bedford-based nursery's strategy for developing children's communication skills has won it a major award.

EYFS Profile and new Reception baseline included in primary assessment consultation

News

Thursday, March 30, 2017

| Nursery World

The Government is consulting on introducing a new reception baseline in addition to keeping and improving the Early Years Foundation Stage Profile.

Early years theatre receives £100,000 funding boost

News

Tuesday, January 24, 2017

| Nursery World

A pioneering regional early years theatre project aims to give more than 3,500 pre-school children the chance to develop their own theatre shows.

'Pre-school PISA': sad story of a wasted opportunity

Opinion

Monday, July 10, 2017

| Nursery World

Professor Peter Moss explains why he thinks England's participation in the 'pre-school PISA' is a wrong move.

A Unique Child: Child Development - Face to face

Features

Friday, December 7, 2012

| Nursery World

In this extract from her new Practical EYFS Handbook, Penny Tassoni outlines ways of building confidence and self-awareness in children aged 0-11 months.

Practitioners need help with nature

News

Tuesday, August 24, 2010

| Nursery World

Teachers and early years practitioners need sustained training programmes to understand the importance of children engaging with the natural world, according to school grounds charity Learning through Landscapes.

Enabling Environments: Well-being - Top security

Features

Tuesday, May 3, 2011

| Nursery World

Early years practitioners need to think about how children feel in the environment that we give them and how it affects their ability to learn and grow, says Maria Robinson.

A Parent's guide to ... Physical development

Features

Friday, July 6, 2012

| Nursery World

Hear 'physical development' and you'll probably think of the health benefits that a good diet and lots of running around can bring your child. In fact, physical development is fundamental to every aspect of your child's life.

Learning & Development: Play - Master minds

Features

Monday, May 29, 2017

| Nursery World

An artist’s residency at one setting led to loose-parts play, and to practitioners questioning their role and the meaning of early education. By Annette Rawstrone

Teachers putting three-year-olds into ability groups

News

Friday, December 1, 2017

| Nursery World

Children as young as three are being put into ability groups for phonics, raising grave concerns about the impact on their self-esteem, and widening gaps in attainment, teachers warn today.

EYFS: Nursery group reassesses approach to learning and development in run-up to EYFS

News

Friday, April 27, 2012

| Nursery World

Karen Walker, head of children's services at the London Early Years Foundation, spoke to Nursery World about how the group's nurseries are preparing for the new framework.

Scotland aims to boost role of outdoor learning for nursery-age children

News

Friday, March 2, 2018

| Nursery World

The Scottish Government has pledged more than £860,000 to boost outdoor learning in the early years.

Learning & Development: First-hand experiences - 'N' is for Nel Noddings

Features

Tuesday, September 2, 2008

| Nursery World

What matters to children in their learning is spelled out in a new A to Z guide compiled by Diane Rich, Mary Jane Drummond and Cathy Myer.

International - Child at Street 11

Features

Monday, October 28, 2019

| Nursery World

‘The people that society wants for tomorrow are in Child at Street 11 today’ – Anne O’Connor went to meet them and learn about this Singapore centre’s ‘pedagogy of possibilities’

Enabling Environments: All about ... Creating a wildlife area

Features

Tuesday, June 3, 2008

| Nursery World

The best way to get children to think about our disappearing wildlife is to have them take an active part in its resurrection - and it's really simple to do, says Mary Whiting.

Phonics check branded 'a waste of money'

News

Tuesday, May 21, 2013

| Nursery World

The largest teaching union has slammed the phonics reading check for six-year-olds as a 'waste of money', after Government research found that the majority of teachers found it had 'little or no impact' on children's reading and writing.

Children continue to achieve a good level of development at the end of Reception

News

Friday, October 19, 2018

| Nursery World

The number of children achieving a good level of development at the end of the EYFS has risen again, while the gender gap between boys and girls has fallen for the fifth year running.

Enabling Environments: Let's explore ... Wet and dry

Features

Tuesday, October 21, 2008

| Nursery World

Contrasts, and cause and effect, are just some of the concepts within the learning to be found in an investigation of 'wet' and 'dry' by Carole Skinner, Fran Mosley and Sheila Ebbutt.