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Picturebooks 3 - Rhyme time

Monday, March 2, 2020

| Nursery World

Poetry has great developmental importance for children, and rhyming picturebooks are a great way to introduce it, finds Andy McCormack

Revised Development Matters to begin trial

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Monday, March 2, 2020

| Nursery World

‘Road-testing’ of early drafts of the updated Development Matters is about to get under way as nurseries, childminders and Reception classes start to trial the materials in the next few weeks. They will be available to use from September.

Reception baseline: 'children scared of getting it wrong', say teachers

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Wednesday, February 26, 2020

| Nursery World

Teachers have reiterated a call for the Reception baseline to be scrapped, after a survey found that many believe it harms children and is not an accurate assessment.

Reception baseline provides 'accurate' assessment for children's progress

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Wednesday, February 26, 2020

| Nursery World

The Department for Education has released new research claiming the Reception Baseline Assessment provides an accurate starting point for measuring children’s progress.

EYFS Activities: Sharing books… Hairy Maclary’s Rumpus at the Vet

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Monday, February 17, 2020

| Nursery World

Hairy Maclary is the star of a series of rhyming books about a shaggy Scottish terrier. In this book, he is at the vet’s surgery, where the busy waiting room is full of different animals – dogs, kittens, mice and a cockatoo called Cassie.

EYFS Activities - We’ve explored… our neighbourhood

Features

Monday, February 17, 2020

| Nursery World

An exhibition in south London is showing off children’s photographs of their explorations of the world outside their nursery, explains resident artist Rosie Potter

Around the Nursery, Part 6 - A rich palette?

Features

Monday, February 17, 2020

| Nursery World

Painting, collage and junk modelling have many benefits for children beyond self-expression and creativity, finds Penny Tassoni

Partnerships in early years music: Working together

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Tuesday, February 4, 2020

| Nursery World

Two large-scale partnership projects in London and Birmingham have recently shown what an ambitious agenda for excellence in early years music education can look like. Project leader Nicola Burke takes us on a whistle-stop tour of the work

Playing and learning

Opinion

Monday, February 3, 2020

| Nursery World

Practitioners must protect play’s central role in early years learning and development, and watch out for bad policy and practice, says early years expert Marjorie Ouvry