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Enabling Environments: Collections - Come rain or shine

Friday, March 16, 2012

| Nursery World

Rain, sun and fog are elements children can have fun exploring with suggestions in part two of our weather feature by Nicole Weinstein.

The big picture: Calling the tune on the road for families

News

Friday, March 16, 2012

| Nursery World

Musicians from the Royal Scottish National Orchestra visited the PlayTalkRead bus for an interactive music session to encourage mothers and fathers to have more fun with their children and encourage a life-long appreciation of music.

Learning & development: The knight and his lady

Features

Friday, March 16, 2012

| Nursery World

The interests of children at one nursery came to life when a special visitor called. Nursery practitioner Lindsey Noble tells the tale.

Learning & Development: Museums - Past performance

Features

Friday, March 16, 2012

| Nursery World

The EYFS served as a guide for developing museum visits for under-fives visits. Ruth Gillan tells how.

Nutbrown review: interim report spells out key messages for qualifications reform

News

Tuesday, March 13, 2012

| Nursery World

Improving literacy and numeracy skills for early years practitioners and bringing in a new licensing system are key issues that Professor Cathy Nutbrown highlights in her interim report published today.

Pre-School Learning Alliance deal offers free training to thousands of early years staff

News

Wednesday, March 7, 2012

| Nursery World

The Alliance is offering free training to all its 14,000 member day nurseries, pre-schools and parent and toddler groups in a partnership with training provider EduCare.

Local authorities to pilot payment-by-results in children's centres

News

Tuesday, March 6, 2012

| Nursery World

Children's centres will be paid according to the take-up of free nursery education among disadvantaged two and three-year-olds, in plans unveiled by children's minister Sarah Teather.

Learning and development: Then I'll begin...

Features

Monday, March 5, 2012

| Nursery World

Story time is one of the most important parts of the day. Books open up a world of excitement and enjoyment. But group story times can be a challenge.

Parents believe nursery has more influence on children's reading than they do, survey suggests

News

Friday, March 2, 2012

| Nursery World

Many parents consider early years settings to be more important than the home environment when it comes to children's communication and literacy skills, according to research published by the charity National Literacy Trust (NLT).

Learning & Development: How Children Learn: Part 2 - Active duty

Features

Friday, March 2, 2012

| Nursery World

The defining elements of active learning, the second characteristic of effective learning and teaching identified in the Early Years Foundation Stage review, are set out by Jan Dubiel, national development manager of training and resource centre Early Excellence.

Learning and Development: Creativity - Shelter from the storm

Features

Friday, March 2, 2012

| Nursery World

An art project by a London children's centre aims to send reassurance to children in Japan. Lead artist Rosie Potter explains how it evolved.

Enabling Environments: Outdoors - Come out to play

Features

Friday, March 2, 2012

| Nursery World

Boys were encouraged to discover new ways to play, learn and practise independence outdoors in a project described by Julie Mountain.

Learning & Development: Put phonics in its place

Features

Wednesday, February 29, 2012

| Nursery World

Phonics is only one essential element in teaching children to read and write, says early years trainer and consultant Anna Lucas

Puzzle play supports children's early maths development

News

Friday, February 24, 2012

| Nursery World

Playing with puzzles can help children develop better spatial awareness and may even improve their maths skills, according to a new study.

Countdown to the new EYFS

News

Friday, February 17, 2012

| Nursery World

The countdown to the revised EYFS has begun, with the start of weekly updates on the Foundation Years website to help early years practitioners prepare for the new framework.

Learning & Development:: Back to basics

Features

Friday, February 17, 2012

| Nursery World

Ideas on how to use bicarbonate of soda and other basic cleaning products in sensory play are now available at www.dri-pak.co.uk/kidsfun.html.

Enabling Environments: Collections - It's a breeze

Features

Friday, February 17, 2012

| Nursery World

Nothing beats being outdoors to experience weather but many resources can support learning about it, says Nicole Weinstein in the first of a two-part focus.

Interview - Sue Palmer, literacy specialist

News

Friday, February 17, 2012

| Nursery World

Sue Palmer talks about Early Childhood Action, a new campaign group made up of academics and practitioners, who last week announced plans to draft an alternative to the EYFS.

Nursery quality affects attainment at age 14

News

Friday, February 17, 2012

| Nursery World

The quality of the nursery that children attend still makes a difference to how well they do at school at the age of 14, EPPSE research shows.

Learning & Development: Creative Play - Making a museum

Features

Friday, February 17, 2012

| Nursery World

Working in partnership with museum staff to create a Communication Museum has helped children become more confident and competent communicators, as reception class teacher Tessa Fenoughty explains.

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