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EYFS Best Practice: Prime time - Under threes ... Personal, Social and Emotional Development

Friday, August 3, 2012

| Nursery World

In promoting PSED, Norland Nursery chose to focus on the elements in isolation as well as how they weave together. Clare Crowther explains.

Enabling Environments: Forest school diary - glorious mud

Features

Friday, August 3, 2012

| Nursery World

Rain continued to be a source of fascination, says Caroline Watts, forest school leader, Reflections Nursery & Forest School, Worthing, West Sussex

A Parent's Guide to ... Personal, Social and Emotional Development

Features

Friday, August 3, 2012

| Nursery World

Ann Langston explains the main aspects of Personal, Social and Emotional Development and offers advice on how parents can support their children

Enabling Environments: Play and the revised EYFS

Features

Friday, July 20, 2012

| Nursery World

Community Playthings' new resource 'Play and the Revised EYFS' has advice on how to create enabling environments

Learning and Development: Creativity - Little Big Bang

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Friday, July 20, 2012

| Nursery World

In a bid to improve creative opportunities for the under-fives and their families in Somerset, four artists were placed in nine children's centres. Louise Monks reports on the project's progress.

'Reading for pleasure' key to turning boys into readers

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Monday, July 9, 2012

| Nursery World

Male reading volunteers in schools and parenting programmes that focus on fathers are among the recommendations of a major report into how to tackle the gap between boys and girls in reading.

Learning & Development: Play - Get hooked

Features

Friday, July 6, 2012

| Nursery World

In this extract from the guide Playing to Learn, author Di Chilvers points out that, in order to teach children, we need to tune into their existing world of play.

Enabling Environments: Pets - Four-legged friends

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Friday, July 6, 2012

| Nursery World

A menagerie of pets is bringing joy and learning benefits to the children of St Edward's C of E School in Rochdale, says head teacher Lynne Coxell.

The big picture: Netmums gives silver award to Piccolo Music

News

Friday, July 6, 2012

| Nursery World

Piccolo Music, which runs music sessions for young children and their families, has won silver in the Netmums awards for best pre-school activity in Newcastle.

A Parent's guide to ... Physical development

Features

Friday, July 6, 2012

| Nursery World

Hear 'physical development' and you'll probably think of the health benefits that a good diet and lots of running around can bring your child. In fact, physical development is fundamental to every aspect of your child's life.

Enabling Environments: Forest school diary - puddles and snails

Features

Friday, July 6, 2012

| Nursery World

On this week's visit to the woodland, nettles and orchids, a snail shell and a puddle all caught the children's attention, says Caroline Watts, forest school leader, Reflections Nursery & Forest School, Worthing, West Sussex

EYFS Best Practice: Prime time ... Physical Development

Features

Friday, June 22, 2012

| Nursery World

The inclusion of physical development as a Prime area of the revised EYFS will have a powerful impact on a child's emotional well-being and later learning, says Anne O'Connor.

Enabling Environments: Outdoors - Out of the wood

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Friday, June 22, 2012

| Nursery World

Sue Ball, of Setting Sail Day Nursery, Harrogate, describes the development of her Forest School and the benefits for the children.

Teaching unions protest over phonics reading check

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Monday, June 18, 2012

| Nursery World

Teaching unions have joined forces to protest against the phonics screening check, which all six-year-olds will have to take in the next few weeks.

Primary curriculum is 'fatally flawed', Gove adviser says

News

Tuesday, June 12, 2012

| Nursery World

A leading academic who advised the education secretary on plans to revise the primary curriculum has slammed the Government's proposals.

Primary curriculum overhaul for maths, science and English

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Monday, June 11, 2012

| Nursery World

Children will be given a set list of words that they will be expected to spell by the end of primary school in plans set out to reform the teaching of English, maths and science.

Learning and Development: Revised EYFS - Positive moves

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Friday, June 8, 2012

| Nursery World

Engaging with the revised EYFS: the Pen Green team explain why this is a curriculum framework that they can work with.

Enabling Environments: Making Spaces...Block play

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Friday, June 8, 2012

| Nursery World

Children pass through different developmental stages in their style of block play. Anne O'Connor offers advice on making the most of this activity for two-year-olds.

EYFS Best Practice: Birth to Three Matters - Back to basics

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Friday, June 8, 2012

| Nursery World

Ann Langston, who contributed to the development of Birth to Three Matters, explains its format, history and importance and tells us why it should be dusted down and put back on the shelf as recommended reading for practitioners as they get ready to implement the revised EYFS.

Enabling Environments: Mud - A right mess

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Friday, June 8, 2012

| Nursery World

The play and learning opportunities that one mud hole can provide are extensive. Julie Mountain describes the creativity and experimentation encouraged by playing dirty.