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What are the options for the baseline assessment?

    News
  • Monday, February 23, 2015
    • | Nursery World
Following confirmation of the Reception baseline providers earlier this month, schools that want to use the baseline during the pilot year from this September have until April to sign up.

Enabling Environments: Collections - Make it count

    Features
  • Monday, February 23, 2015
    • | Nursery World
Well-chosen activities, heuristic play resources and a number-rich environment can help practitioners to support children's understanding of numbers and counting. Nicole Weinstein looks at some useful approaches and suggests some ways to aid learning.

Top tips for using tablets

    Other
  • Friday, February 20, 2015
    • | Nursery World
Dot Reeves, chief speech and language therapist at Insane Logic, explores how tablets can be used by early years practitioners in settings to support children’s speech and language and their ability to learn and join in.

Learning & Development: ICT - Switched on

    Features
  • Monday, February 9, 2015
    • | Nursery World
If approached thoughtfully, ICT tools such as iPads can enhance learning in the Early Years Foundation Stage. Adrian Hickman shares his experience and offers some pointers.

Re-examine the baseline

    Opinion
  • Monday, January 26, 2015
    • | Nursery World
How, why and when we should assess young children's learning is once more a matter for debate in English policy.

EYFS Best Practice: A short history of ... Early education

    Features
  • Monday, January 26, 2015
    • | Nursery World
Consultant Wendy Scott OBE was one of the leading figures within the early years sector to be recognised in the New Years Honours List for services to education. Here, she provides a brief history of nursery education in the UK as a celebration of the principled reflection, determined action and thoughtful provision that has led to innovative early years care and education across the nation and which has been acknowledged worldwide.

Experts call for withdrawal of baseline check

    News
  • Thursday, January 15, 2015
    • | Nursery World
Campaigners are calling on the Government to scrap the new baseline check, which all children will be required to take in the first few weeks of starting Reception.

All about ... children's values

    Features
  • Monday, December 1, 2014
    • | Nursery World
The values nurtured in the early years shape how children approach the wider world later in life. But which values are beneficial and how do we balance different interests? By Marion Dowling

Learning & Development: Observation - See here

    Features
  • Monday, December 1, 2014
    • | Nursery World
History, and the Child Study Movement in particular, can provide some important learning about observation and record keeping. Tina Bruce, Stella Louis and Georgie McCall offer some clarity on the main issues.

EYFS Profile is flawed

    Opinion
  • Monday, November 17, 2014
    • | Nursery World
It's time to have proper assessment of young children, says early years consultant Penny Tassoni

Enabling Environments: Gardening - Home grown

    Features
  • Monday, November 3, 2014
    • | Nursery World
A group of children in West London has gone from small beginnings at nursery to transforming front gardens on their road into fertile food-growing sites. Artist-in-residence Rosie Potter explains.

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