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Enabling Environments: Post-walking skills - On the hop

Monday, August 11, 2014

| Nursery World

Hopping and skipping are challenging skills to master. Here, Dr Lala Manners looks at how they emerge and offers ideas for supporting their development.

Your outdoor calendar: June

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Tuesday, June 1, 2021

| Nursery World

Activities and tasks to help get your children outside this month. By Julie Mountain

EYFS Activities - Education for Sustainability: Powering ahead

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Tuesday, June 29, 2021

| Nursery World

Continuing her series on introducing the Sustainable Development Goals, Dr Diane Boyd explores the importance of green energy sources

EYFS activities - Education for Sustainability: All life long

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Tuesday, March 30, 2021

| Nursery World

Continuing her series on the Sustainable Development Goals, Dr Diane Boyd examines how to provide a ‘life-long’ learning environment that takes in the whole locality

EYFS Activities - Education for Sustainability: Nice work!

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Tuesday, August 3, 2021

| Nursery World

Sustainable economics and employment might be a weighty subject, but young children can still be introduced to it in meaningful ways, explains Dr Diane Boyd

Book extract - Falling into line

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Wednesday, September 1, 2021

| Nursery World

In extracts taken from her new book, Di Chilvers considers how children’s mathematical development unfolds through play and exploration from birth

Expressive Arts and Design: 3D Structures: Shaping up

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Tuesday, November 23, 2021

| Nursery World

What are the developmental benefits of using 3D objects in play and making activities, and how can early years settings best resource for this? Penny Tassoni explains

EYFS Activities - An A to Z of Learning: V & W are for Visits, Values & Watermelons

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Tuesday, January 4, 2022

| Nursery World

What do visiting local shops, promoting the setting’s values and exploring a really big watermelon entail? By the Rachel Keeling Nursery School team

Essential Resources: Pioneers & Influencers - Natural curiosity

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Thursday, April 28, 2022

| Nursery World

In a new series celebrating the pioneers and influencers of early years education, Nicole Weinstein looks at what resources best fit their pedagogies, starting with Robert Owen

Outdoors: key 7 - Cause and effect

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Tuesday, June 28, 2022

| Nursery World

As part of a series on 12 keys to unlocking learning outdoors, Professor Jan White considers what makes a good-quality outdoor learning environment

EYFS activities – Making music outdoors

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Monday, August 1, 2022

| Nursery World

Boogie Mites’ Sue Newman on what the opportunities for music-making are outdoors

Learning and Development: Supporting role

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Tuesday, October 26, 2010

| Nursery World

A traditional story from Diwali became an opportunity for role play, narrative and creative expression that was eagerly grasped by a whole class, as teacher Tessa Fenoughty explains.

Learning & Development: ICT - Switching on

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Tuesday, June 1, 2010

| Nursery World

Enthusiastic practitioners, well-chosen equipment, and curious children were the perfect ingredients for a county-wide ICT project. Amy Stancer describes the outcomes.

Our bright idea - Magic potions

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Tuesday, June 8, 2010

| Nursery World

Getting children to make potions at the nursery and at home helped engage parents, says Laura Wayman

Learning & Development: Reading - Willing and able?

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Tuesday, July 6, 2010

| Nursery World

'The earlier the better' when applied to young children learning to read is an orthodoxy that needs to be challenged, says Dr Sebastian Suggate.

EYFS Activities: We’ve explored… butterflies

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Monday, November 12, 2018

| Nursery World

Children at one setting learned about the lifecycle of butterflies by caring for a disabled one, explains Annette Rawstrone

EYFS Best Practice - Learning from Froebel… the Gifts

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Monday, January 23, 2017

| Nursery World

In part one of their new series, Professor Tina Bruce explores ‘the Gifts’ and the theory behind them, while Jane Dyke reveals how this is being absorbed into the practice at her group, Yellow Dot Nurseries

Learning & Development: Communication & Language - Mark my words

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Monday, May 30, 2016

| Nursery World

Delay in language development can negatively impact emotional well-being and relationship-building. Jo Parkes discovers how one nursery school is helping children to overcome it

Learning & Development: ICT - Sound and vision

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Tuesday, December 8, 2009

| Nursery World

Digital storybooks add a fascinating new element to using narratives. Marianne Sargent provides a step-by-step guide to creating them.

Enabling Environments: Visits and Visitors, part 2 - Set in stone

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Tuesday, January 12, 2010

| Nursery World

Going on a fossil hunt showed children a new aspect of their local area and was a rich opportunity for exploring the outdoors, says Tessa Fenoughty.

A Unique Child: Inclusion - Come into play

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Monday, November 30, 2015

| Nursery World

Play can be an useful tool in fostering social and emotional development in children. In an extract from her new book, Penny Tassoni looks at what practitioners need to think about

EYFS Best Practice: All about ... Place-based learning

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Tuesday, October 5, 2010

| Nursery World

Going out of the classroom and getting involved in their local environment is the best way for children to become members of society, says Will Coleman.

Learning & Development: Activities - Our bright idea - Wedding bells

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Tuesday, August 17, 2010

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Anticipation of a real event gave the opportunity for the young children at Busy Bees nursery in Durham City to play and learn via a pretend nuptials.