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Learning & Development: Communication, Part 3 - Parent talk

Tuesday, March 8, 2011

| Nursery World

A child's communication begins at home, and early years practitioners need to promote it there and in partnership with the nursery, as Helen Moylett explains.

Book scheme goes on with reduced funds

News

Tuesday, March 1, 2011

| Nursery World

The Department for Education has reaffirmed its commitment to providing free books for babies and children and announced a new scheme to be targeted through children's centres.

Opportunity knocks for babycare lesson

News

Tuesday, March 1, 2011

| Nursery World

Staff got a shock when a woman gave birth in their nursery car park - and may have recruited a new nursery member.

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.

Study indicates early counting development

News

Tuesday, February 22, 2011

| Nursery World

Babies understand the concept of numbers and counting from as early as 18 months, according to new research.

Enabling Environments: Gardening Indoors: Part 2 - The life of plants

Features

Tuesday, February 22, 2011

| Nursery World

Indoor gardening activities can be excellent for learning about our natural world, says Mary Whiting.

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.

Learning & Development: Boxes - It's not a box!

Features

Tuesday, February 15, 2011

| Nursery World

When is a box not a box? When it's a bus, a train, a boat or a bed. Michael Jones describes one innovative nursery project using both child-initiated and adult-led activities.

Pre-school boosts literacy in teen years

News

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.

Experts demand end to phonics test plans

News

Tuesday, February 15, 2011

| Nursery World

A group of early years experts, including academics and practitioners, have launched a petition calling on the Government to abandon plans to introduce a phonics-based reading test for all six-year-olds.

Editor's View - The EYFS review may be at odds with other educational policies

Features

Tuesday, February 8, 2011

| Nursery World

The early years sector seems to be feeling positive about Dame Clare Tickell's Early Years Foundation Stage review, with messages filtering out that there will be no wholesale change and that more emphasis will be put on personal, social and emotional development and speech and language skills.

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.

No EYFS Profile league tables

News

Tuesday, February 8, 2011

| Nursery World

The Government has gone back on a proposal to publish Early Years Foundation Stage Profile league tables at school level.

Teachers benefit from creativity scheme

News

Tuesday, February 8, 2011

| Nursery World

The Creative Partnerships programme boosts teachers' skills and career progression, according to independent research carried out by the National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER).