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Learning & Development: Communication & Language - Play with words

Monday, June 29, 2015

| Nursery World

Sharing stories and rhymes with children right from the earliest years will help them develop vital communication skills. Judith Stevens explores the opportunities and benefits across the age groups.

EYFS Best Practice: All about ... movement and music

Features

Tuesday, December 1, 2009

| Nursery World

The foundation for learning is the physical readiness nurtured by carers in the years before a child starts school, writes Sally Goddard Blythe.

Sector urges re-think on plans for 'harmful' baseline assessment

News

Monday, November 3, 2014

| Nursery World

The early years sector is calling on the childcare and education minister to reconsider plans for a baseline assessment for reception pupils.

Figures show wider gap in attainment for five-year-olds with SEN

News

Thursday, November 20, 2014

| Nursery World

A more detailed breakdown of the EYFS Profile statistics, published today, shows that the gap has widened between children with special educational needs and their peers.

Learning & Development: Bird Watching - Wing it!

Features

Monday, December 1, 2014

| Nursery World

Following children's interests sparked a project to build an eco-friendly bird hide at a setting in Liverpool. Marianne Sargent explains.

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.

Early Years Science: Air

Features

Wednesday, June 14, 2006

| Nursery World

Our science series by Linda Thornton and Pat Brunton considers how air can be moved by natural or manmade forces, and ways for young children to investigate this

Learning and Development: Revised EYFS - Positive moves

Features

Friday, June 8, 2012

| Nursery World

Engaging with the revised EYFS: the Pen Green team explain why this is a curriculum framework that they can work with.

Online resource promoting writing focuses on boys

News

Tuesday, March 23, 2010

| Nursery World

A new online resource bank brings together guidance on writing in the early years with new material to support the needs of boys.

Management Focus - Jumpstart for resources

Features

Tuesday, February 1, 2011

| Nursery World

Early years practice is getting a big boost from local authority resources that can be shared with parents. Karen Faux reports.

EYFS boosts rise in quality provision, says Ofsted report

News

Tuesday, February 8, 2011

| Nursery World

The number of nurseries and childminders judged good or outstanding has risen significantly since the introduction of the EYFS, according to a report by Ofsted on its impact.

Art in the Early Years: Part 2 - The creative learning environment

Features

Tuesday, February 22, 2011

| Nursery World

The essential provision for a creative art environment takes account of the space and materials made available and the display of children's finished works.

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.

Enabling Environments: Composting - Wasting time

Features

Tuesday, March 8, 2011

| Nursery World

Children learned from a TV gardener about a vital stage in plant life and an environmentally useful practice when growing their own food. Annette Rawstrone hears all about it.

Learning & Development: Best Practice - Follow me

Features

Tuesday, March 8, 2011

| Nursery World

The writing's on the wall with a simple, fun game from a new book by Penny Tassoni helping children to develop their numbers and letters.

Enabling Environments: Birds - Hatching out

Features

Tuesday, March 22, 2011

| Nursery World

See how easy it is to learn about birds, as children at Peter Pan Pre-school Nursery in Woking, Surrey, did when they put a camera in a box on their grounds and observed a pair of nesting blue tits. Nursery owner Sue Lewis describes the learning experiences.

All about the role of ... Music practitioner

Features

Tuesday, March 29, 2011

| Nursery World

A three-year project, funded by Youth Music, studied the effect of music-making on more than 400 under-fives attending early years settings.

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.

Free care offered to two-year-olds

News

Wednesday, October 12, 2005

| Nursery World

Free part-time, high-quality childcare for two-year-olds is to be the centrepiece of a 46m initiative for children aged nought to three unveiled in the Welsh Assembly government's budget last week.

Art in the Early Years: Part 4: Painting

Features

Tuesday, April 19, 2011

| Nursery World

Painting offers young children a world of opportunities for experimentation and expression, so early years settings should equip them with ample materials and varied techniques.