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Self-care is an essential life skill, but it can also help children grow in confidence. Nicole Weinstein suggests some supporting resources.
You don't need a high-tech sensory room to stimulate children's senses. Early years settings test some of the latest resources for sensory play and tell Nicole Weinstein what they think of them.
If the Government wants to play Santa Claus to the UK's working parents, it could start with the incentives to expand employer-supported childcare that chancellor Gordon Brown alluded to in his...
Mirrors provide such fascination and so many learning opportunities for children that they could become part of a setting's basic provision. Nicole Weinstein samples a few.
Rain continued to be a source of fascination, says Caroline Watts, forest school leader, Reflections Nursery & Forest School, Worthing, West Sussex
Mills Hill in Oldham, one of the first schools to be made a National Teaching School, focuses on co-operative learning from the Foundation Stage onwards, finds Marianne Sargent
Local community collaboratives are a great way to ease children's transition to school, says Rebecca Fisk
The outdoors offers opportunities to get creative with role play. Nicole Weinstein suggests how practitioners might provide resources to support, and build on, children's natural interests.
By Caroline Eaton (Early Education, £12.50)
Make the most of water play by offering the best experiences and stocking the essential resources, as suggested by Jane Drake