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We've explored… gardening

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  • Friday, June 2, 2023
  • | Nursery World
After reading a story about a green-fingered young gardener, nursery school children were inspired to design a plot of their own. By Annette Rawstrone

Outdoors: Natural adventures

    Features
  • Wednesday, August 2, 2023
  • | Nursery World
How do settings with the best outdoor spaces embed high-quality teaching and learning? Julie Mountain visited some high-quality award-winners to find out

We've explored… zip lines

    Features
  • Wednesday, April 26, 2023
  • | Nursery World
A story book inspired the children at one setting to make a zip line as part of their Forest School activities and turn it into a pulley system. By Annette Rawstrone

An A to Z of enhancements M is for Mud

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  • Tuesday, August 29, 2023
  • | Nursery World
Give children new opportunities to develop descriptive language and find new purposes for the malleable mud that they enjoy exploring and playing with so much, says Amy Jackson

How children learn: part 1

    Features
  • Tuesday, October 24, 2023
  • | Nursery World
In the first of a three-part series, Jan Dubiel sets out 12 key ‘Learning Behaviours’ that should underpin education in the early years

Share your thoughts on two-year-old ratios

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  • Thursday, February 1, 2024
  • | Nursery World
Researchers from the Institute of Education at Nottingham University are asking for early years professionals and nursery managers and leaders to share their experiences of the recent changes to ratios for staff and two-year-olds in the EYFS.

Positive Relationships: Working With Parents - Day by day

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  • Monday, July 24, 2017
  • | Nursery World
Parents and Children Together (PACT), a new parent-delivered teaching programme, has led to gains in children’s early language and reading skills. Kelly Burgoyne, Rachel Gardner, Helen Whiteley and Charles Hulme report on the project

Learning & Development: Music - In concert

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  • Tuesday, November 30, 2010
  • | Nursery World
Children aged five and under were the select audience for a series of concerts and workshops, with training for practitioners, as described by Stuart Bruce and Matt Carwardine-Palmer of Orchestras Live.

To the Point - Today's nursery rhymes

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  • Tuesday, January 4, 2011
  • | Nursery World
Last time I wrote that I cannot sing for toffee, I was politely rebuked by one or two people who quite rightly say that everyone should feel confident about taking part in musical activities.

Mathematics in the EYFS: Space - Up and down

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  • Tuesday, October 16, 2007
  • | Nursery World
Where is it? Develop children's mathematical thinking by giving them plenty of opportunities to talk about positioning with resources and activities around the setting, suggested by Sheila Ebbutt and Carole Skinner.

EYFS Best Practice: All about ... UW: People & Communities

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  • Monday, June 16, 2014
  • | Nursery World
Has the slimmed-down Understanding the World impacted on teaching and learning? And what can we do to ensure we inspire children's interests and consolidate their knowledge? Lena Engel writes the first of a two-part series looking at UW and the aspect People and Communities

Pre-school boosts literacy in teen years

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  • Tuesday, February 15, 2011
  • | Nursery World
Children who attend pre-school education before they start school are much better readers at age 15 than those who do not, according to an international study.

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