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The Big Picture - Worlds of the imagination

News

Friday, February 8, 2013

| Nursery World

The National Gallery is holding the Imaginary Worlds Family Festival during half term.

Enabling Environments: Let's explore ... Hands and feet

Features

Friday, February 8, 2013

| Nursery World

Play involving hands and feet can help develop observation and thinking skills beyond simple recognition of size, shape and pattern. Marianne Sargent suggests some ideas.

Enabling Environments: Forest schools - Snow or shine

Features

Friday, February 8, 2013

| Nursery World

There is much to feel and discover in the woods whatever the weather, says Caroline Watts, Forest School leader with St George's Primary School, Wrotham.

New early years development resource for parents of disabled children

News

Monday, February 4, 2013

| Nursery World

The NCB has launched a new free early support resource to support families with disabled children and help them to track and record their child's early development.

'More Great Childcare': a guide to the key points

News

Monday, January 28, 2013

| Nursery World

The long-awaited Government response to Professor Cathy Nutbrown's review of early education and childcare qualifications goes further than responses to her recommendations.

'More Great Childcare': Schools to be able to take children from two

News

Monday, January 28, 2013

| Nursery World

Primary schools will be encouraged to take children from the age of two, under new plans announced by the Government in its response to the Nutbrown Review.

Enabling Environments: Let's explore ... What is a reflection?

Features

Friday, January 25, 2013

| Nursery World

Exploring reflections opens up opportunities for creative thinking and cross-curricular learning, as explained in this extract from the Cornerstones Curriculum.

Steiner Waldorf schools win victory on EYFS exemptions

News

Friday, January 25, 2013

| Nursery World

Steiner kindergartens have been successful in achieving exemptions from those aspects of the Early Learning Goals in the EYFS that do not fit with the Steiner educational philosophy and ethos. The ruling applies to all Steiner settings.

Enabling Environments: Outdoors - After dark

Features

Friday, January 25, 2013

| Nursery World

Playing outdoors after dark can be exciting and challenging. Julie Mountain advises on making the most of outside spaces all day.

To the Point - Do you read me?

Opinion

Friday, January 25, 2013

| Nursery World

I often get into heated discussions with people about reading. I find that one of the reasons for the heat is that, as we get deep into the discussion, I discover that we are using the word 'read' in different ways.

Booktrust campaign to raise 2m to get 12,000 disadvantaged children reading

News

Thursday, January 17, 2013

| Nursery World

The charity Booktrust has launched a new fundraising drive to help the UK's most vulnerable children through the power of stories and reading.

A Unique Child: Inclusion - Shine on

Features

Friday, January 11, 2013

| Nursery World

A Bedford-based nursery's strategy for developing children's communication skills has won it a major award.

Enabling Environments: Making Spaces...Sand & Water Play

Features

Friday, January 11, 2013

| Nursery World

A shortage of sand and water for play can cause squabbles. Anne O'Connor advises on creative ways of providing this popular resource.

Parents win deferred school entry for daughter

News

Friday, January 11, 2013

| Nursery World

Parents of an August-born child have won a two-and-a-half year fight to defer her school entry until after her fifth birthday.

Learning & Development: Data Handling - In the charts

Features

Friday, January 11, 2013

| Nursery World

Involving children in collecting and presenting data for graphs, charts or pictograms helps them to understand the information.

Enabling Environments: Forest schools - In full swing

Features

Friday, January 11, 2013

| Nursery World

Building a swing in the woods was a model of child-led learning, says Caroline Watts, Forest School leader with St George's Primary School, Wrotham.

Learning & Development: Physical Development - Different movements

Features

Friday, January 11, 2013

| Nursery World

Lala Manners explains the principles behind the many approaches to physical development and the training available for practitioners.

EYFS Profile Handbook and exemplification materials now online

News

Thursday, December 20, 2012

| Nursery World

The EYFS Profile Handbook and the EYFS Profile exemplification materials have been published by the Department for Education.

Montessori offers grants and free primary training

News

Friday, December 7, 2012

| Nursery World

A Montessori specialist could be trained in every primary school in England, in plans to widen access to Maria Montessori's philosophy to all children.

The Big Picture: Early language skills in action

News

Friday, December 7, 2012

| Nursery World

The minister for children and families, Edward Timpson MP, visited Stonegrove Children's Centre in Edgware, Barnet to celebrate the progress made by children and their families through the Early Language Development Programme (ELDP).