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Help children to sharpen their minds while they strengthen their bodies - and have fun in the process - with these activity ideas from Miranda Walker Are you on the look out for new, fun ways to...
I was startled by the Government's announcement that childminders would be allowed to smoke while supervising their charges (News, 14 December and 21/28 December). Surely there is a mountain of...
The new chief inspector of schools in England has committed himself to visiting schools each week to see how they are getting on. David Bell, who succeeded Mike Tomlinson as head of Ofsted on 1 April,...
Leading early years specialists have strongly criticised the Government over its approach to the early years, pointing out how the sector is suffering from 'policy overload' and that rather than being...
It's easy, when there are so many computer games available, to forget about board games all together, but board games have a socialising influence and can encourage concepts of fair play and...
Kicking off a new series exploring the revised Development Matters guidance, Dr Julian Grenier looks at the first two key features of effective practice within the document: ‘The best for every child’...
Even very young children can recognise signs and labels and nurseries can build on this 'real life' reading. Jane Drake suggests ideas for developing early literacy skills. We may settle down to read...
A Swedish woman of 104 received a letter, addressed to her 'guardian', inviting her to apply for nursery school in the Autumn. Authorities had assumed Lisa Heuren was born in 2002 and not 1902,...