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EYFS boosts rise in quality provision, says Ofsted report

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.

In My View - On holistic learning

Features

Tuesday, May 10, 2011

| Nursery World

Melian Mansfield, chair of the Early Childhood Forum, based at NCB

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

EYFS Activities: We’ve explored… dots

Features

Monday, January 23, 2017

| Nursery World

Story The Dot has inspired children in Burnley to become little artists, writes Annette Rawstrone

Early Years in School: Literacy - Flexible friends?

Features

Monday, January 25, 2016

| Nursery World

Tablets and iPads can help to support the development of willing and able readers. Dr Natalia Kucirkova offers some tips and strategies

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.

Sector responds to free places for poorest two-year-olds

News

Tuesday, October 19, 2010

| Nursery World

All the most disadvantaged two-year-olds are to be offered free part-time nursery places as part of a 'fairness premium', deputy prime minister Nick Clegg announced last Friday.

The Adult Role, Part 3 - Rise to the occasion

Features

Monday, July 23, 2018

| Nursery World

Confront the challenges posed by supporting adult-led and child-led learning appropriately, and be the supportive practitioner that the learner – and the context – demand, says author and adviser Julie Fisher

Learning & Development: Baking - Aprons on!

Features

Tuesday, November 9, 2010

| Nursery World

Rewards across all areas of learning will be the result when you get young children together in a baking activity, says Judit Horvath.

Learning & development dance: Feel the beat

Features

Tuesday, October 2, 2007

| Nursery World

Dance is the universal language being used at one school to help young children interact as a group and learn something they're proud to show off at home, as Annette Rawstrone 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.